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Learning on ScreenDigital Development Leaf
Oct. 2025United Kingdom, LondonLearning on Screen is a charity dedicated to making the visual medium as important in education as the written word, including via it’s flagship product the Box of Broadcasts, a streaming service offering uk broadcast TV archives from the last 70 years.
I run tech for it.
ICEYESenior Infrastructure Engineer
Nov. 2024 - May. 2025For Satellite Imaging company ICEYE, I briefly taught computers how to computer other computers. This time with Kubenates.
Carcosa DreamsHydra
Jan. 2019For Live Action Roleplaying company Carcosa Dreams, I'm one of the five founders and central members of the executive. We share responsibility designing and running roleplaying experiences from small enclosed technological science fiction in Tabula Rasa to folk-inspired pre-iron-age fantasy in Alba.
Pernod RicardTech Team Lead
Oct. 2017 - Apr. 2024London, United KingdomFor Drinks industry titan Pernod-Ricard I was the lead of the first cross-brand DevOps/Architecture team for the "Brand Co's" european marketing segment, responsible for the team that manages the technical platforms, cybersecurity and CI/CD development processes across most of PR's top EU-based brands (Such as Jameson Whiskey, Absolut, Chivas Regal & Beefeater gin). My roles included standardising and securing hosting environments, managing and implementing build and maintenance systems in conjunction with the developers, and support and gatekeeping for domain changes for our international brands' domain portfolio. Most recently I was heading up a team of engineers providing platform and shared technology support for the 30+ digital marketing development team.
Irish Distillers Pernod RicardIT Solutions Developer
Mar. 2017 - Oct. 2017OxfordAs a contractor for IDL (who make Jamesons whiskey), I came on as a back-end developer, involved in the development of several flagship websites as well as work on the Cornerstone CMS that runs an increasing number of sites for the Pernod Ricard group. I took responsibility for a lot of the server management and DevOps processes, which led to them funding a full-time DevOps position for the wider company, which I applied for.
ElsevierSenior Systems Engineer - Technical Infrastructure Automation Team
Nov. 2015 - Feb. 2017Oxford, United KingdomFor scientific publishing house Elsevier I was part of a small team spearheading a company-wide project to reposition the hosting platform for all our online products (Totalling over a hundred projects across several dozen development teams and three continents) onto a new cloud-based, devops-focused, scalable system. My role included: - Enterprise grade cloud computing and transition from traditional server hosting to cloud environments.
- Contributions to business-wide systems processes and standards for dev-ops across the multi-national company.
- Local team training in Git,
- Driving development process via scrums, sprint planning and Kanban Jira boards.
- Working with security teams to provide PCI-compliance in the cloud.
- Developing technical solutions and social training for federated login to AWS (Including SAML/ADFS integration) (Tools used: Active Directory, Python, AWS API)
- Development of Terraform and Puppet modules for consistent deployment
- Spearheading a project to produce consistent and secured base operating systems for enterprise-wide use (Tools used: Packer, Ansible, Vagrant, Virtualbox)
- A reliable and easy-to-use virtualbox appliance to ensure consistency of versioning and operating system across our toolset and development (eg. Terraform, packer, saml configuration AWS tools etc. (Tools used: Packer, Ansible, Bash scripting, Virtualbox)
Siftware.comContract Developer
Nov. 2014 - Oct. 2015ShrewsburyTaking on lead development on one of their most advanced projects, including some client liaison and project direction. (Oct-2014 - Oct-2015). Code (PHP, Symfony, MySQL, SQLServer, Python), DevOps (Vagrant, Ansible, Ubuntu)
SkuteTypist
Mar. 2014 - Oct. 2017LondonSkute - http://skute.me - is a new breed of Personal social network. Locational social network. Securable social network. Findable social network. Physical social network. A system where the digital content you create can be found by others in the real world, and your real friends can share your digital world. An application to leave your mark on your places, and share your works with others. For Skute, I helped found the company. I wrote the original backend server system, manage the servers and technology we use to keep everything ticking along. So mostly, I type.
zappitLead Developer
Feb. 2012 - May. 2013London, United KingdomZappit are leaders in the field of NFC and QR based marketing.
As Senior Developer for Zappit, and the second full time coder to be hired (First after the founder) I have been involved not only in upgrading and improving their systems and server hosting solutions, but also developing critical aspects of their current platform, including a “game mechcanic” system for a series of campaigns created for internationally recognised brands. I have been working to tight deadlines with occasionally sub-complete briefs and tasked with not only the technical and project management aspects of these vital clients, but also the ongoing support during and after the campaigns to ensure that both our clients and their end-user customers are happy with our timely and supportive service.
Profound Decisions Ltd.Event Management, Odyssey Project
Jul. 2011 - Aug. 2016Profound Decisions is a small company running popular "Living History" events. I was brought on after the first event of their Odyssey cycle - projected to run two events a year until 2016 - to assist in on-the-ground management of the creative fidelity of the event. This role soon developed into my current role, where I run the customer-facing first-contact desk for the events themselves, and work closely with the creative team for customer satisfaction as well as point of contact for the event to the customers Key responsibilities:.
* Management of ICT setup for the weekend event headquarter tents.
* Development of event and creative element management software.
* Management of a team of event representatives on the ground
* Coordination of large "set piece" creative events
* Customer service and advocacy for our 500 (avg) attendees
* Oversight of creative aspects as they affect customer experience
* Liason and negotiation between corporate and creative management teams
* Pre and post-event oversight of programme elements and timetable
Istic NetworksDirector
Jan. 2010Istic networks is my own company founded as an umbrella for my contractual roles, including development of a mobile application platform as well as various other, smaller projects in line with my previous experience.
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