Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos

• I identify and nurture new partnerships, and manage the technical relationship with all major partners including AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, NVIDIA and Databricks. With a dual reporting line, I sit at the intersection of the office of the CTO and the Global Partnership organisation, ensuring partnership technology alignment in GTM solution development and delivery.

Jan 2022 – Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• I joined the corporate strategy team, to provide technology input into the broader organisational goals. Delivered technical leadership throughout the full end-to-end acquisition process, including research and sourcing, diligence, and acquisition integration.

Sep 2016 – Jan 2022 · 5 yrs 4 mos

• As the company went from being founder-led, through private equity ownership to IPO, I became directly responsible for ~$5MM/year application portfolio, supporting the core collaboration needs of every colleague.

Sep 2009 – Sep 2016 · 7 yrs

• I transitioned from billable client work to tackle internal organisational change as the company grew from <1000 to 5000+ employees. Established product model for IT, and set up functions that serviced the core tasks for all colleagues: Comms and Collaboration; Offices and Devices. Sponsored the creation of an Identity team, focused around Okta.

Apr 2009 – Sep 2009 · 5 mos

• Leveraged technical expertise and project experiences to support the sales process for Thoughtworks solutions - Mingle and GoCD. Used a thought leadership driven approach to nurture prospects through regular product webinars, as well as tailored in-person presentations.

Jun 2008 – Apr 2009 · 10 mos

• Global Energy Technology Provider | Coaching and technical leadership for globally distributed platform and application teams building custom applications for mapping next-generation smart grid power networks.
• International Publishing House | Coaching focused on enablement of software delivery teams, and support for business analysts designing publishing workflows for academic journals, built around the MarkLogic NoSQL platform. Covered development practices, workshop design and tools selection.
• National Broadcaster | Syndication of video content to national newspapers over RSS feeds.

Jun 2005 – Jun 2008 · 3 yrs

• Lead the two anchor client engagements, hiring, coaching and training a number of future leaders for the business. As part of the country leadership team, helped grow the China business from the first few hires, to over 100 people. Organised first Agile China conference.
• Global Investment Bank | Delivery lead for team creating a custom CRM application for equities analysts, integrated directly into Outlook. This was the first project to implement CI/CD pipelines using GoCD.
• Chinese Gaming Startup | Project lead for team building a trading platform for online MMORPG games, with direct API integration to multiple banks and games platforms.

Dec 2004 – Jun 2005 · 6 mos

• Major Electronics Retailer | Built and maintained an automated performance testing suite for a 3rd party routes-to-market application, as part of vendor selection and subsequent optimisation.

Jun 2004 – Dec 2004 · 6 mos

• US Retail Bank | Provided agile project management coaching and support for a developer-focused infrastructure team, supporting multiple application development squads, responsible for loan processing.

Feb 2003 – Jun 2004 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Major Electronics Retailer | At the time, the largest ever distributed agile project globally. Developed the stock management module for a Java-based custom touchscreen point-of-sales application. Built on commodity hardware, with a particular focus on resiliency, tills were designed to continue operations in the event of complete network failure, ensuring stores could continue trading.