Feb 2024 – Apr 2024 · 2 mos · Diss, England, United Kingdom

• Advised on content, including https://www.1bonding.com/ and specifically the pieces on https://www.1bonding.com/learn-more. 1Bonding connects service desk information via a PaaS, easily interfacing, say, JIRA to ServiceNow desks. They typically target MSPs, but also firms transitioning from one desk to another.

May 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• Taking the world's fastest and most interesting analytics warehouse to cloud-native streaming analytics, in Fin Svcs, Manufacturing IOT, and more.

Nov 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr · London, England, United Kingdom

• At ACTIONX, we make sense of AI, DS, ML *and* pre-hype statistical programming and processes, helping organizations of all types develop and scale beyond MLOps into fully-fledged commercialization.

Sep 2019 – Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Content development and curation, market intelligence, market development, community development, sales support and enablement, conference speaker, author, event organizer, a little bit of PR and occasional blogger. I work for the Sunnyvale-based company Azul Systems providing the world's fastest JVM [Zing] which underpins HFT and other low latency financial and client-oriented Java-based time-critical applications including most likely certain web-sites you are using right now. Azul also provide the world's best supported (and free community) JDK [Zulu], powering your favourite Java-based devices, cloud services, and many household name software applications and web-sites.

Jul 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · London, United Kingdom

• I perform several roles at 30+ SME and satellite, drone and imagery specialist Geospatial Insight, which structures data and provides bespoke insights into Financial Services and Insurance markets:-
• Product Manager for a retail/consumer data product,
• Market Development, working primarily with buy-side firms and their service providers, some insurers too
• Author and deliver blogs, articles and conference/seminar/meetup presentations.
• Help project manage space research-funded technology transfer projects.

Jan 2009 – Jun 2018 · 9 yrs 5 mos

• Assisted MathWorks front office Sales and Technical teams to credibly support MATLAB use among Financial Services customers and segments, and ensured industry needs were conveyed to Development and Product Marketing. I organized multiple finance conferences and seminars, including ghost authoring customer keynotes. As public spokesperson, I authored, contributed and ghost-wrote blogs, industry commentaries, technical articles and user stories. As "voice of the customer", I initiated several cross-industry corporate initiatives in response to major market shifts, at the forefront of MathWorks current market-facing and development priorities.
• From January 09 to March 10, I performed Product Marketing responsibilities for MathWorks financial products.

Oct 1996 – Dec 2008 · 12 yrs 2 mos

• This role was a mix of market development and marketing, technical support and good customer service to ensure successful "selling".
• I worked with Automotive, Chemical/Process and Pharmaceutical industries as well as Financial Services where I ultimately "majored", helping evolve the industry from being the also-ran "ginger headed stepchild" segment to being the primary revenue generator for the UK office in 2006 & 2007.
• My unique characteristic was my ability to understand the technology of computational finance, MATLAB's role in it, and how it could apply to the diverse segments of Financial Services: risk, insurance, algorithmic trading, asset management, economics and good old fashioned pricing and valuation.
• I met Sales Targets for 9 of my 11 years in Sales, and won EMEA Sales "Gold Award" for 2005, with a "Silver Award" in 2004.

May 1995 – Jul 2008 · 13 yrs 2 mos

• I provided an internet sales outlet for local East Anglian foods, gifts and crafts. I was the original Etsy.

Sep 1994 – May 1996 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Geography TA on 101 and 121 for Cole Harris, Derek Gregory, David Ley, David Edgington and Terry McGee. In ratings from the students, I was voted top TA (out of 20+) in the Department on two of four occasions by the students, many subsequently choosing to major in the discipline and at least two now noted Professors.
• I also supported my postgraduate studies as a tenant landlord for a basement in Kitsilano on West 10th, and as a Research Assistant on a video about the colonial experience of the Nlaka'pamux in the 19th and early 20th Century.