Experience

isoshealth

• United Kingdom
• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer - Interim

  • Jun 2020 - Present

  London, England, United Kingdom



Commonplace

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Fractional Technology Consultant

  • Jul 2023 - Present

  London, England, United Kingdom


Pezzo
• Brazil
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Strategic Advisor

  • Jun 2023 - Present

Illusionary Terrain
• United Kingdom
• Arts & Crafts
• Co-founder

  • Jul 2020 - Present


Wave Talent

• United Kingdom
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Tech Advisor

  • Sep 2020 - Present

  London, England, United Kingdom



Anomalous Ltd

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Technology Consultant - Managing Director

  • May 2016 - Present

  Senior technology leadership contracting, consulting and mentoring.



101 Ways

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Practice Associate - Consultancy - Head Of Engineering / Coach

  • Jul 2019 - Aug 2023

  London, United Kingdom Client technology assessments, cloud architecture transformation, agile transformation, senior technology leadership and technical recruitment interviews. Clients include the Cats Protection charity, Marshall & McLennan, City Pantry and Abcam.



La Fosse Associates

• United Kingdom
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technology Delivery Director

  • Feb 2020 - Feb 2021

  London


Equal Experts
• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee
• Consultant

  • Feb 2020 - Feb 2021


Nell Health

• United Kingdom
• Wellness and Fitness Services

• Chief Technology Officer - Interim

  • Jun 2019 - Dec 2019

  London, United Kingdom Key technology preparation for new product release, improved security systems, data analytics pipelines, software architecture, software supplier management and fundraising readiness. Google Cloud & Firebase. Python & React.js.



MyTutor.co.uk

• United Kingdom
• E-Learning Providers
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chief Technology Officer - Interim

  • Nov 2018 - Oct 2019

  London, United Kingdom Bringing technology in-house, gaining company expertise in React, Java, QA automation, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure and Scrum. Improving the understanding of software development within the SLT. Providing transparency of delivery and highlighting the complexities of software delivery.



DAZN

• United Kingdom
• Spectator Sports
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head Of Development (via 101 Ways) - contract

  • Feb 2018 - Oct 2018

  Built and led four fullstack webapp React, Node, microservice, Lambda AWS-based consultancy teams made up of tech leads/devs/business analysts & scrum masters. Also a mixed client/consultancy data warehouse team with data engineers, agile coach and big data architect, as well as a TV device porting team.

• Head Of Development - contract

  • Mar 2017 - Oct 2018

  London, United Kingdom



Elsevier

• Netherlands
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Management Consultant (via 101 Ways) - contract

  • Mar 2017 - Feb 2018

  London, United Kingdom Mendeley Data team, building a shareable, versioned, archived dataset repository for science researchers. Additionally helping out the big data operations platform team. Grew from one onsite team to two onsite, 2 offshore. Java/Scala Microservices, React.js & Node.js. AWS



Argos

• Malta
• Banking

• Software Engineering Manager - contract

  • May 2016 - Feb 2017

  London, United Kingdom Architecture oversight, agile coaching and leadership for Argos' Checkout, Finance, Payments & Fraud teams. Successfully launch the payments microservice, which was Argos' first microservice.



Amazon Instant Video

• Software Development Manager

  • Aug 2015 - Nov 2015

  London, United Kingdom Leading two development teams, one in London and one in Bangalore to deliver the Amazon video app onto Roku digital TV devices. We successfully launched the Amazon player in the UK as well as a new software version that supports 4K/UHD streaming, while under some extremely tight deadlines. My role was split between operational reporting and improving and coaching a new team's use of Agile and Scrum. The development work was split between C++, Lua and Brightscript.



Gamesys

• Gambling Facilities and Casinos
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Senior Agile Development Manager

  • Jul 2013 - Aug 2015

  Piccadilly Circus, London Managing eight Agile teams of mixed Java, Javascript, iOS, Android, automation and manual QA and developers as well as two development managers with their own teams. Responsible for delivering Scrum and Lean training across multiple tech departments, and coaching them for success.



Rebel Technology

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder & Kickstarter manager

  • Apr 2013 - Apr 2014

  London, United Kingdom Rebel Technology is a small music tech start-up specialising in the design and manufacture of ARM-based electronic synthesizer devices. I joined to help crowdfund and Lean project manage the OWL effects pedal, a guitar pedal that can be programmed in C++. The project successfully funded within two days on Kickstarter and became the basis for several later products.



Vibrant Media

• Advertising Services

• Agile Software Engineering Manager

  • Sep 2008 - Apr 2013

  Managing Java and Javascript teams in London and New York



Pelgrane Press

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder - Part time

  • Mar 1999 - 2010

  Roleplaying games company, produced The Dying Earth RPG line, Essoterrorists, Book Of Unremitting Horror and Trail Of Cthulhu.



JPMorgan

• United States

• Senior Java Developer - Contractor

  • Jun 2006 - Feb 2008

  Front end developer for CDS Trader and Sales real time Eclipse RCP application.



FlexEye Technologies

• Java Application Designer - Contractor

  • 2005 - 2006

  J2SE, Swing, RMI, XML, UI/UX



Gameforce UK Ltd

• Co-founder - Part time

  • 2000 - 2006

  Roleplaying, wargaming, board gaming and card gaming convention company. I ran the the Dragonmeet annual convention for 4 years.



BSkyB

• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution

• Senior Java Developer / Team Lead - Contractor

  • 2001 - 2005

  Swing, J2SE, J2EE, MQ Series, SOAP, Websphere, Oracle, JUnit, CMS, Struts, ERP, Team leading



Deutche Bank

• India
• Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Developer - contractor

  • 2001 - 2002

  Java, Swing, CORBA, Oracle



Eludo

• United Kingdom
• Software Development

• CTO - Start up

  • 2000 - 2001

  J2EE, JSP, Javascript, HTML, J2SE, MySQL


Sun Microsystems
• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee
• Java Mentor - Contracting

  • 1998 - 1999


Work Group Systems

• Peru
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Team Leader

  • 1997 - 1998

  Java 1.1, RMI, Swing, C++, SQL, Team leading



Intuitive Systems

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Java & C++ Programmer

  • 1995 - 1997

  Java 1.0, Java 1.1, JDBC, AWT, C, C++, SQL