Paul S.
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Pinky Shetty
Paul introduced our team to working with Scrum, Agile and moreover working with Devops. Our first major project using this new methodology was a great success and allowed us to work in a much more planned and orderly way than we had been doing. Paul is forward thinking and open to new possibilities while also being pragmatic and structured in his approach to problem solving I hope to work with him again in the future.
Mark Wheatley
Paul is a very talented development manager whose focus on maintaining team wellbeing has allowed him to deliver quality projects in the most difficult and complex development environments. Paul has been involved deeply in most of our successful WOW / process-improvements over the past few years and carries with him a wealth of experience in improving agile engineering setups. His ability to hire the best people who also have the right cultural fit has enabled us to improve our organisational velocity in key areas. Strongly recommended!
Pinky Shetty
Paul introduced our team to working with Scrum, Agile and moreover working with Devops. Our first major project using this new methodology was a great success and allowed us to work in a much more planned and orderly way than we had been doing. Paul is forward thinking and open to new possibilities while also being pragmatic and structured in his approach to problem solving I hope to work with him again in the future.
Mark Wheatley
Paul is a very talented development manager whose focus on maintaining team wellbeing has allowed him to deliver quality projects in the most difficult and complex development environments. Paul has been involved deeply in most of our successful WOW / process-improvements over the past few years and carries with him a wealth of experience in improving agile engineering setups. His ability to hire the best people who also have the right cultural fit has enabled us to improve our organisational velocity in key areas. Strongly recommended!
Pinky Shetty
Paul introduced our team to working with Scrum, Agile and moreover working with Devops. Our first major project using this new methodology was a great success and allowed us to work in a much more planned and orderly way than we had been doing. Paul is forward thinking and open to new possibilities while also being pragmatic and structured in his approach to problem solving I hope to work with him again in the future.
Mark Wheatley
Paul is a very talented development manager whose focus on maintaining team wellbeing has allowed him to deliver quality projects in the most difficult and complex development environments. Paul has been involved deeply in most of our successful WOW / process-improvements over the past few years and carries with him a wealth of experience in improving agile engineering setups. His ability to hire the best people who also have the right cultural fit has enabled us to improve our organisational velocity in key areas. Strongly recommended!
Pinky Shetty
Paul introduced our team to working with Scrum, Agile and moreover working with Devops. Our first major project using this new methodology was a great success and allowed us to work in a much more planned and orderly way than we had been doing. Paul is forward thinking and open to new possibilities while also being pragmatic and structured in his approach to problem solving I hope to work with him again in the future.
Mark Wheatley
Paul is a very talented development manager whose focus on maintaining team wellbeing has allowed him to deliver quality projects in the most difficult and complex development environments. Paul has been involved deeply in most of our successful WOW / process-improvements over the past few years and carries with him a wealth of experience in improving agile engineering setups. His ability to hire the best people who also have the right cultural fit has enabled us to improve our organisational velocity in key areas. Strongly recommended!
Credentials
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Certified scrum master
Scrum Alliance
Experience
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Kaluza
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United Kingdom
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Utilities
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300 - 400 Employee
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Engineering Manager
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Nov 2021 - Present
Leading the “remote-first” Scala and TypeScript teams responsible for advancing and maintaining the core solutions driving Kaluza’s billing, statement generation and distribution along with all financial reporting.Main achievements- Inheriting and delivering a much delayed project to replace many core parts of the billing platform thus providing stability and ability to scale- Scaling up the team and splitting to focus around specific core value propositions- Introduction of much needed improvements in agile planning, execution and measurement of key feature and value delivery
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Candide
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United Kingdom
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Engineering Mananger
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Jul 2021 - Nov 2021
Leading the Bristol based full-stack JS / TypeScript team responsible for advancing the B2B and B2Cgardening focussed marketplace offering for Candide. As a maturing start-up, Candide had bigambitions and plans to grow and the Marketplace team was seen as pivotal to that.Main achievements- Implementing rigor, structure and consistency into a team suffering from growing painsthrough introduction of agile and engineering best practice- Quickly building reputation and relationship with key stakeholders and decision makers tohelp steer the strategic direction- Notable improvements in planning, execution and measurement of key feature and customer value delivery
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ADP
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United States
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Human Resources Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Development Manager
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Dec 2016 - Jun 2021
I was leading the Bristol based full-stack R&D teams working on the next generation of SaaS based HR solutions for ADP. These products are a key part of ADP's strategic growth within the EMEA and APAC regions and are being delivered across four international R&D sites.Main achievements- Regained control of a Next Gen UX project which had gone off the rails - this fully responsive mobile first AngularJS based solution has replaced the entire UI layer of the existing product(s) without having to rewrite the underlying business logic- Working across the wider software engineering team throughout UK, Europe and India to refine and reboot the agile software engineering processes and ways of working to allow for greater portfolio management, collaboration, consistency, predictability, best practice and focus on quality- Driving force behind the AWS hosted web services API architectural approach for the core platform which over the past couple of years has replaced major parts of the aging on-premise hosted legacy monolith- Instrumental in driving forward the “build it, own it, run it” ways of working to allow software engineering teams to become truly DevOps in nature and reduce the waste in delivering quality solutions to our clients
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REPL Group, Part of Accenture
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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200 - 300 Employee
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Development Manager
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Apr 2016 - Dec 2016
Leading a team of software engineers, QA testers and UX designers responsible for delivering the next generation of REPL Digital SaaS and mobile solutions for major retailers.Main achievements- Successfully set up a new development studio from scratch in 1 month - of which I became site lead- Lead project to refactor and vastly improve existing Xamarin based mobile solution for major multinational clients- Co-leadership with CTO on major rewrite / refactor of Azure hosted strategic SaaS product fronted by AngularJS and Xamarin clients- Introduced lightweight agile process change across the business to allow for greater collaboration, consistency, predictability, best practice and focus on quality- Key contributor to improvements in group HR processes including, career progression, performance reviews and talent pipeline creation
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Software Development Manager
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Mar 2015 - Apr 2016
Up until the shut-down of MixRadio I was leading and line managing the 30+ team responsible for building, delivering and supporting all consumer facing web and mobile clients for MixRadio. This team consisted of; Xamarin / C# engineers, JavaScript engineers, agile test engineers, localisation, translation, app publishing and consumer feedback coordination. I also controlled the budget for external development, localisation and testing resources (~$1.2M per annum)Main achievements- Successful delivery of a new ReactJS based MixRadio web experience, new mobile clients for iOS and Android platforms and new payment / subscription solution- Introduction of CD and DevOps based ways of working across the team- Streamlined the consumer feedback loop to help guide product decisions and direction- Implemented agile process change to allow for greater focus and speed of quality feature delivery
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Microsoft
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Development Manager
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Apr 2014 - Mar 2015
When Microsoft acquired the Nokia Music business I was leading the international team (Helsinki, Oslo, Beijing, London and Bristol) delivering MixRadio clients to the Nokia Asha and S40 devices business. When the Asha devices business was shut down I transitioned and lead the team to deliver various business development R&D projectsMain achievements- Building a highly effective development team by recruiting engineers from various parts of the Nokia mobile phones business- Managed the successful delivery of the MixRadio client with the highest consistent NPS score in Nokia's history- Managed to implement highly effective agile engineering ways of working within a very old-school waterfall driven device business
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Nokia
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Finland
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Development Manager
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May 2008 - Apr 2014
I joined Nokia in 2008 to lead the team responsible for financial reporting and analytics. In the years that followed I went on form and lead various other teams and projects including;- Managing the successful delivery of a new data warehouse solution for financial reporting and analytics- Recruiting and leading new open source development teams to build and support the new micro services based music service platform- Leading the teams responsible for business critical core components of the Nokia music platform with the aim to stabilise, scale and advance the solutions they delivered- Forming and leading the team responsible for implementing continuous delivery and DevOps tooling and ways of working throughout the Nokia music R&D team- Leading the team responsible for delivering the core components for the MixRadio and personalisation platform which became the bedrock of the MixRadio serviceMain achievements- Introduction of open source development teams and agile ways of working- Active involvement in the design and implementation of the new micro-services based entertainment platform- Successfully lead the implementation and adoption of continuous delivery and DevOps solutions, tools and ways of working- Influential role in the adoption of using metrics and data to help drive product decisions, development and delivery- Influential role in the adoption of and migration to cloud based service solutions (AWS and Azure)
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Screwfix
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United Kingdom
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Retail
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700 & Above Employee
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Projects Manager
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Nov 2006 - May 2008
The main remit of this role was that of a traditional project manager with the responsibilities this brings (planning, management of resource, avoidance of risks, control of issues, control of budget, etc.). In addition to this I helped rebuild the project delivery process through the introduction of agile ways of working alongside traditional waterfall style programme delivery.Main achievements- Successful delivery of a heavily delayed and out of control major system upgrade- Lead the project to cleanse and refresh customer data to optimise CRM capabilities, reduce churn, enable data driven decisions and refine targeted marketing- A major role in the introduction of Agile project management techniques and tooling into the project teams- Successful management and delivery of all of the IT deliverables (infrastructure, networking, software, etc.) for the new £60M distribution centre ahead of time
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S-cool
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United Kingdom
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E-Learning Providers
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1 - 100 Employee
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Projects Manager
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May 2004 - Nov 2006
This senior role within a small Bristol based start-up required me to take on many differing tasks and responsibilities. These included; overall management of project office, management and delivery of all strategic project / programme plans and product roadmaps, management of technical infrastructure and resources, solution delivery, service delivery, solution procurement, supplier / customer / stakeholder liaison, resource management and allocation.Main achievements- A proven track record of implementing all business projects on time and to plan- The successful implementation of project and programme management controls and practices within the business alongside the implementation of agile development methodologies- The successful introduction of business reengineering to focus key resource on specific business needs such as requirements gathering and business analysis- Implementation of analytics and reporting solutions
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Constellation Brands
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United States
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Food and Beverage Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Web systems manager
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May 2003 - Mar 2004
This role was created for me to allow the advancement and expansion of the web based and eBusiness offerings to the business and its customers / suppliers. I was responsible for all intranet, internet & web based technology, resource and projects (from B2B through to on-line marketing) for the European businesses as well the joint set up of the eBusiness centre of excellence resource for the global business.Main achievements- Successful delivery of the greenfield transactional on-line web portal solution - Scoping, sourcing and procurement of replacement transactional B2B gateway solution to allow future systems integration, increased level of available functionality/scalability and reduce overhead of previous solutions whilst self-financing the procurement and implementation through cost savings- Successful implementation of a transactional B2B solution alongside one of Constellations newest major customers. This solution was implemented in record time as a pre-requisite of a new business contract
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Matthew Clark
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United Kingdom
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Beverage Manufacturing
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300 - 400 Employee
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Projects Manager
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Jan 2001 - May 2003
This was a side step from the Head of development role. This allowed greater emphasis on implementing project management methodology to control the various projects within the business. The role also allowed me greater input to the strategic planning and decision process throughout the business (i.e. not just IT based projects).Main achievements- Introduction of formal project management methodologies into the IT dept- A major player in the investigation, and decision making process with regard to procurement and implementing of a global corporate transactional eBusiness solution- Instigation and implementation of far reaching data cleansing and analytics solutions to enable targeted CRM and reduce churn- Successful implementation - well within timescales and budget - of a major internal supply chain systems integration project
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Head of development
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Oct 1999 - Jan 2001
This promotion gave me the responsibility of; managing in-house development teams, managing software development budgets, coordinating and managing external technical resource, controlling entire development life cycle from concept to implementation, maintaining a close relationship with others (project managers, suppliers, external clients, other business resource, etc). I was also heavily involved with global IS functions of US parent company with regard future technical plans and strategies.Main achievements- Set up and recruitment of in-house development team- Introduction of formal solution delivery practices including; project management, engineering best practices, formal testing / QA / UA processes, issue management and source control - Reduction of the external software costs (from £0.5M to sub £100K) whilst increasing the quality and throughput.
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Senior Analyst/Programmer
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Nov 1997 - Oct 1999
The main focus of this role was to; analyse all technical aspects of Matthew Clark Wholesale system, develop / manage / implement bespoke in-house software solutions, put into place project and procurement processes / controls, set up and recruit in-house development team.Main achievements- Manage the acquisition of source code from external software house- Stabilising the unreliable core business system
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Microlise
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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500 - 600 Employee
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Senior Analyst/Programer
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Jun 1993 - Nov 1997
Various roles within a supply chain software house including; Senior R&D Analyst / Developer, Systems Administrator and Analyst / Developer (junior through to senior). As senior resource within the company, I was also heavily involved in the design and development of the core product and drawing up of development / design standards. Various roles within a supply chain software house including; Senior R&D Analyst / Developer, Systems Administrator and Analyst / Developer (junior through to senior). As senior resource within the company, I was also heavily involved in the design and development of the core product and drawing up of development / design standards.
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Thorn EMI
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Defense and Space Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Accounts Representative
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Apr 1987 - Jul 1992
Sales and account management for consumer and corporate customers of the various Thorn EMI Rental divisions Sales and account management for consumer and corporate customers of the various Thorn EMI Rental divisions
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Education
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Sir Frederic Osborn
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