Experience

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  Accenture UK & Ireland

  • Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

  • Quantum Computing & AI Specialist

    • Feb 2024 - Present
    • Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

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  Objectivity | Part of Accenture

  • Coventry, England, United Kingdom

  • Quantum Computing Specialist

    • May 2022 - Feb 2024
    • Coventry, England, United Kingdom

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  Leamington Spa Baptist Church

  • Royal Leamington Spa

  • Minister

    • Nov 2020 - May 2022
    • Royal Leamington Spa

    Drove strategy, vision, finance, and budgeting together with the leadership team. Built volunteer teams across the organisation. Introduced live streaming, branding, a vision driven marketing strategy, and consistent messaging across all channels including digital and social media. Built a new website and expanded our social media presence.

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  Rugby Baptist

  • United Kingdom
  • Religious Institutions
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Acting Minister

    • Jul 2018 - Oct 2020

    Acting minister after the retirement of my senior colleague in 2018. Strategy, vision, finance, and budgeting together with the leadership team. Volunteer management in other teams across the church.

  • Associate Minister

    • Mar 2016 - Jul 2018

    Strategy, vision, volunteer management, working with the leadership team and other teams across the entire church.

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  QFI Consulting

  • Aldbury, Herts

  • Senior Software Engineer

    • Nov 2013 - Sep 2015
    • Aldbury, Herts

    Full stack bespoke development of statistical, simulation and analysis tools based on the Theory of Constraints in a small team from requirements and design to implementation. Agile project management. Domain driven design. Tech stack included functional programming (Clojure), front end programming (Javascript, ExtJS, AngularJS), database design and development (SQL Server).

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  The Well Christian Healing Centre

  • Leamington Spa

  • Volunteer

    • Aug 2013 - Nov 2013
    • Leamington Spa

    Business process, database, and requirements analysis. Locating potential new offices for this flourishing charity.

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  Church of England

  • United Kingdom
  • Religious Institutions
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Assistant Curate

    • Jan 2011 - Feb 2013

    My curacy was extended considering the concurrent departure of both the rector and the team minister in July 2012, which made me the team’s only fulltime pastor with wide leadership responsibilities.

  • Assistant Curate

    • Jun 2008 - Dec 2010

    Responsibilities included helping set up and manage missional small groups.

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  Wrox Press Ltd

  • Freelance Writer

    • Jan 2002 - Jan 2005

    Co-authored two books for Wrox, writing on the topics of Java security, cryptography, networking, and application architecture. Also acted as technical reviewer and editor for Addison-Wesley, Wiley and Osborne McGraw Hill publishers on a freelance basis.

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  Objectivity Ltd

  • Coventry

  • Principal Systems Engineer

    • Apr 1999 - Jan 2005
    • Coventry

    Project leader, technical lead and mentor of the Java software development team. With a number of blue chip customers and a wide range of often critical projects, working at Objectivity requires flexibility and a skillset that is both wide and deep. I became the public face of the company in the wider Java world (publications, conferences, JavaRanch moderator).Projects include J2EE work for AdsFab, Shell Finance, FA Premier League, and IPC Media. I was instrumental in introducing object oriented programming and agile development to the team.

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  Radboud University Nijmegen

  • Nijmegen, the Netherlands

  • Junior Systems Engineer

    • Mar 1997 - Mar 1999
    • Nijmegen, the Netherlands

    Design and development of the back-office system of NLnet, a Dutch internet service provider.