Feb 2024 – Apr 2024 · 2 mos

• Taking a few months recharge before starting next role

Jul 2023 – Feb 2024 · 7 mos

Apr 2021 – Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Dec 2019 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

Mar 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Developers all around the world use open source code to enhance their applications. It's great! It's also a security nightmare! As the Director or Developer Relations at Snyk, I help and enable developers all around the world to understand why they need to consider security when using open source projects.
• More to come soon :o)

Jan 2017 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · UK (Remote)

• As a director of Developer Relations at ZeroTurnaround, I run a team of skilled Developer Advocates that cover JRebel, XRebel local, JRebel for Android and XRebel Hub. As an group we advocate many aspects of the Java technology as well as product through webinars, the RebeLabs blog, speaking at conferences and user groups, feeding customer interactions back and supporting the marketing and sales teams. My role oversees our activities making sure we're executing based on an advocacy strategy that is inline with the business. My tasks include interacting with sales, marketing, engineering and the exec team, budget management, strategy and execution planning, team planning, as well as the more hands on conference speaking, running user groups and making awesome videos!
• I have presented at major conferences around the world, including, JavaOne, Devoxx Belgium, France and UK, JavaZone, JavaLand, JFokus, JAX London, JAX SF, JMaghreb, JDC, IBM Impact, IBM Innovate, LJC Open Conference and many more. My passion and drive is around communities, so I continues to work with local JUGs and present regularly at user groups as one off sessions or JUG tours around countries such as France JUG tour (9 sessions across 5 JUGs) and Poland (3 sessions across 3 JUGs). I present on various topics such as Java Productivity tips, Java/Java EE Application Servers, Java and JVM languages, Classloaders, and Java 8/9 and much more.
• I'm the founder and leader of the worlds fastest growing Java User group, the Virtual JUG, which hosts virtual Java sessions, a book club, podcast and a 24 hour virtual Java conference! I'm a technical writer and an editor with RebelLabs, a research & content think-tank established by ZeroTurnaround. I've written many many blogs for RebelLabs including 50-80 page white papers and reports. These include The Great Java Application Server Debate, The Curious Coder's Java Web Frameworks Comparison and The Adventurous Developer's Guide To JVM Languages.

Aug 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · UK (Remote)

• As the worldwide developer advocate for ZeroTurnaround, covering JRebel and XRebel, my role varies from budget management, planning, reporting and evangelism strategy to speaking at events, running user groups and making awesome videos!
• I present at major conferences around the world, including, JavaOne, Devoxx Fr, Devoxx UK, JavaZone, JavaLand, JAX London, JAX SF, JMaghreb, JDC, IBM Impact, IBM Innovate, LJC Open Conference and many more. My passion and drive is around communities, so I continues to work with local JUGs and present regularly at user groups as one off sessions or JUG tours around countries such as France JUG tour (9 sessions across 5 JUGs) and Poland (3 sessions across 3 JUGs). I present on various topics such as Java/Java EE Application Servers, Java and JVM languages, Classloaders, and Java 8 and others.
• I'm a technical writer and an editor with RebelLabs, a research & content think-tank established by ZeroTurnaround. I've written over 40 blogs for rebel labs including 50-80 page white papers and reports. These include The Great Java Application Server Debate, The Curious Coder's Java Web Frameworks Comparison and The Adventurous Developer's Guide To JVM Languages. I have also written 2 posts for the Java Advent blog (Under the JVM hood - Classloaders and Mastering Java Bytecode), which is a community run blog and has run for two years.
• My work also touches on many other departments, including sales enablement work with the sales team and feature/bug requests from the field back to our engineering team. I work closely with our customers to ensure they're happy with our products and are aware of the awesome technologies and tools we have that can help their teams.

Nov 2012 – Aug 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos · UK (Remote)

• As the worldwide developer advocate for ZeroTurnaround, covering JRebel, XRebel and LiveRebel, my role varies from budget management, planning, reporting and evangelism strategy to speaking at events, running user groups and making awesome videos!
• I present at major conferences around the world, including, JavaOne, Devoxx Fr, Devoxx UK, JavaZone, JavaLand, JAX London, JAX SF, JMaghreb, JDC, IBM Impact, IBM Innovate, LJC Open Conference and many more. My passion and drive is around communities, so I continues to work with local JUGs and present regularly at user groups as one off sessions or JUG tours around countries such as France JUG tour (9 sessions across 5 JUGs) and Poland (3 sessions across 3 JUGs). I present on various topics such as Java/Java EE Application Servers, Java and JVM languages, Classloaders, and Java 8 and others.
• I'm a technical writer and an editor with RebelLabs, a research & content think-tank established by ZeroTurnaround. I've written over 40 blogs for rebel labs including 50-80 page white papers and reports. These include The Great Java Application Server Debate, The Curious Coder's Java Web Frameworks Comparison and The Adventurous Developer's Guide To JVM Languages. I have also written 2 posts for the Java Advent blog (Under the JVM hood - Classloaders and Mastering Java Bytecode), which is a community run blog and has run for two years.
• My work also touches on many other departments, including sales enablement work with the sales team and feature/bug requests from the field back to our engineering team. I work closely with our customers to ensure they're happy with our products and are aware of the awesome technologies and tools we have that can help their teams.

Oct 2013 – Present · 12 yrs 8 mos · The World

• The Virtual JUG is the worlds first online only Java User Group. It is designed to provide Java content from the worlds best speakers in the Java industry to everyone around the globe.

Jun 2009 – Nov 2012 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Worldwide technical evangelist for WebSphere Application Server, Liberty Profile and OSGi
• technologies.
• Led developer relations initiatives at events and conferences.
• Organised and ran stands at conferences, as well as being an accomplished speaker.
• Integrated WebSphere with a RaspberryPi with extreme success in changing the WebSphere image.
• Key contributor to communities including the London Java Community (LJC) and the WebSphere User Groups (WUG).
• Created one of the most successful community sites on developerWorks today - http://www.wasdev.net
• Active blogger and tweeter on numerous IBM and personal accounts.
• Experience Gained:
• Marketing experience.
• Presentation skills.
• Community and
• networking skills.
• Technical writing skills.
• Budget experience.
• Key skills:
• Innovative thinking
• Networking and engaging with others
• Communicating and presenting
• Ability to deliver

Jan 2004 – Nov 2012 · 8 yrs 10 mos

• Agile developer and scrum master for the OSGi feature pack in WAS V8.0.
• Component owner for numerous extended transactions and compensation
• components.
• Lead developer for WebServices-BusinessActivity (WS-BA) in WAS V7.0 and V8.0.

Jul 2001 – Jan 2004 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Functional tester for WebSphere Application Server and FVT team leader
• Team lead for the entire transaction, messaging and compensation test team.
• Technical lead for the transaction test components.
• Developed the home grown test and automation frameworks used by the team.
• Experience Gained:
• Agile development on
• a major product.
• Technical doc writing.
• Component design
• and architecture skills.
• Experience Gained:
• Experience of the test
• discipline.
• Leadership skills, both
• technically and within a
• team environment.