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WolfspeedSenior Engineering Manager
Jul. 2023Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
ProofpointSenior Engineering Manager
Aug. 2022 - Aug. 2023Belfast Metropolitan AreaEstablishing a new team Belfast team to work on the modernisation of Proofpoint’s enterprise email security software. Key Highlight
• Recruiting & leading a diverse team of 10 engineers, establishing ways of working, accountability, feedback loops and promoting agile methodologies.
• Establishing relationships & liaising with colleagues in San Francisco to understand complex project requirements with on time delivery. • Catalyst for change within the wider organisation to help promote the Belfast team and improve processes. Established a tech steering group to drive decisions, improve forecasting and initiate thought leadership. • Leading the efforts to migrate fortune 100 clients from a single tenant user database to a cloud based multitenant LDAP solution to support email filtering. • Representing Proofpoint within the Belfast technology community speaking on panels discussion diversity & inclusion.
ProofpointEngineering Manager
Oct. 2021 - Aug. 2022Belfast Metropolitan Area
EnthuseHead of Technology
Nov. 2019 - Jun. 2021London, United KingdomOverriding responsibility for technology within the organisation. Developing a technical and data roadmap to anticipate and meet future business opportunities. Ensuring healthy robust systems along with the development and recruitment of technical teams. Key Highlights
• Supporting the transition of Primo Events clients, processes and finances leading to a full company rebrand as Enthuse. • Alignment of processes and ways of working with an 11 strong technical team based in both the Ukraine and Lisburn.
• Setting the technical strategy to breakup two monolith application using microservices which in turn facilitated custom studios work utilising React widgets. • The creation of a seamless fully branded online events and fundraising platform, allowing participants to sign up for charity events and in turn automatically create a fundraising page. • Rapidly developing a virtual events product which integrated with Strava incorporating leader boards and map based challenges. • Centralising hosting within AWS and securing $70k in funding support.
Primo EventsFounder and Managing Director
Feb. 2008 - Nov. 2019An online event registration platform specialising in charity and sporting events. Initially from a home office Primo grew to a team of 8 becoming a leading supplier of event registration software within the charity sector. Clients included many of the UKs top 100 charities such as the Alzheimer's Society, Save the Children, The NSPCC, Prostate Cancer and The Princes Trust. Processing 500,000 registrations annually our software helped charities raise over £20 million each year. Key Highlights
• Partnerships with leading fundraising platforms Blackbaud, JustGiving and Virgin Money Giving.
• Global client base with key clients in Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland and the USA. • Multiple high profile events such as Moonwalk London, March for Men and the Belfast City Marathon. • Achievement of ISO270001 Information Security Management accreditation. • Invest NI client and grant funding to support staff growth. • A fantastic highly motivated core team with first hires still with the business. • Successful acquisition by Enthuse in 2019.
CitiAnalyst Programmer
Jun. 2007 - Feb. 2008Development of a J2EE web application using Agile practices and making use of Spring, JMS, Sybase and Unit Testing.
AMT SybexProgrammer
Aug. 2005 - Jun. 2007Working on a JAVA web servlets using Spring, Ajax, Web Services and Tomcat. Also various legacy VB applications
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