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Director of Engineering
Sainsbury's Digital, Tech and DataDirector of Engineering
Apr. 2024 - Jul. 2025United KingdomLed Supply Chain & Logistics engineering with full accountability for a technology budget exceeding £100m. Built and stabilised a newly merged domain, managed delivery across transformation programmes, and operated as a trusted peer to other Engineering and Product Directors. - Delivered significant in year savings through SCT programme. - Modernised depot infrastructure and logistics tech roadmap with benefits projected over a long time horizon. - Steered critical product initiatives through leadership transitions in SC&L. - Mobilised teams within 12 hours during Blue Yonder cyber incident to maintain store operations. - Formed and coached new senior leadership team. - Elevated 'We’re Listening' engagement scores for team of 600.
Senior Head of Engineering
Sainsbury's Digital, Tech and DataSenior Head of Engineering
Jul. 2019 - Apr. 2024United Kingdom, LondonBuilt and led large engineering teams across multiple domains including operational support and supply chain transformation. Oversaw service, architecture, delivery, and technology budget planning. Contributed to growing the organisation from inception to a 200+ person function and managed budget responsibility exceeding £100m during tenure.
Senior Tech Manager
BeyondSenior Tech Manager
Nov. 2017 - Jun. 2019United Kingdom, LondonAs one of the Tech Managers at the London studio of Beyond I helped look after teams who worked with our clients. I engaged with new clients to define the scope of work that we undertook and then helped to build the team that delivered the project for the client. This included a large stock photography organisation, where we created the back end services that drive a new section of their business. I’ve also worked with a FTSE 100 organisation as the lead for a team of architects implementing a new event driven architecture to stabilise their infrastructure and prepare them for the next phase of growth. Alongside this, I worked with our CIO and other senior leadership to ensure that the tech team in London was positioned to meet upcoming client requirements in the short, medium and long term as we continued to grow rapidly to meet expanding workload.
Partnerships Consultant
comparethemarket.comPartnerships Consultant
Sep. 2016 - Nov. 2017United Kingdom, LondonI worked with the Commercial team to implement changes across the CtM range of products related to external partners such as Autotrader and Rightmove, I was involved in all aspects of the business from talking to third party developers through to implementing changes using different technology stacks within CtM. Depending on the project this will involve working with many different technologies, development teams, commercial teams along with legal, compliance and designers.
Director
LDC ViaDirector
Sep. 2014LondonI architected and implemented a new tool that will enable the migration of legacy document data to mongoDB while continuing to support document level security, proprietary rich text, response hierarchies and other features. The data can be used as a live archive, or as the basis for more modern application development via the comprehensive REST API that drives the application. The application is designed to be deployed to either cloud services (e.g. Heroku) or on premises depending upon customer requirements. In this role I architected and implemented every aspect of the application, from database design, security, API and front-end.
Consultant
Independent consultantConsultant
Jul. 2000 - Nov. 2016United Kingdom, LondonI worked with clients large and small to create custom applications using various technologies. Public examples of projects that I worked on include... i-Sight We created a new Java framework to allow the flexible development of this market leading case management tool. The key deliverables were a JSF managed bean Java framework which had to support user configurable security and workflow, and scale to support at least ten times the number of users that the company had previously supported. We delivered the project on time and budget. The project uses a customised version of Bootstrap for the UI and highly tuned Java code in the form of managed beans on the back end to drive the functionality. http://i-sight.com/software/ XControls Working with a UI designer, I created an open source set of developer tools that allow the fast development of business applications to run on mobile devices either in a browser or in Teamstudio's Unplugged product based upon Bootstrap. The project has been ongoing since 2012 with thousands of downloads from developers around the world. In this project we made use of LESS to dynamically generate CSS files, advanced jQuery and highly tuned JavaScript aimed at very fast performance. The project website can be viewed here http://xcontrols.org/ Royal Bank of Scotland I maintained and extended a legacy web application used for the management of toxic assets following the 2008 global banking crash.
Senior Programmer
WillisSenior Programmer
Jul. 1995 - Jul. 2000United Kingdom, IpswichGraduate trainee → Senior Programmer

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