Experience

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  Advanced

  May 1998 - Sept 2023

  Hold full accountability for making strategic decisions to optimise roadmap delivery and on time releases for all 13 products in the division. Responsible for identifying integration points between products, working with teams to develop API’s and looking at how these can be hosted within a shared infrastructure / platform for increased user experience. Directed 12 product owners and product managers remotely as a part of the extended leadership team advising on group-wide strategy and policy. Worked with the wider team to build business cases to stack rank future features and flexed engineering resources to the highest value items. Lead on the migration of legacy products to SaaS products including restructuring teams to accommodate this transformation. Managed teams with a mixture of technologies including AWS and Azure Cloud. Most recently accountable for pioneering the use of AI and Machine Learning within our products. Carried out hands on product owner and product management duties for the highest value products within the division. Drives the escalation process, co-ordinating and prioritising engineering effort to ensure a balance between new features and customer needs. Ensures incremental value delivery. Through acquisition it has been necessary to scale up several stage 0 products as well as leading established products.Built the Product Ownership function and team from scratch including best practices for DSDM, backlog refinement and prioritisation, release validation including AB testing, funnel analysis and Pendo customer insights. Successfully lead this team through a company restructure and time of uncertaintyReceived significant recognition for building group wide Communities of Practice for Product Ownership, QA, Java, .Net and Principal Engineering Initiated and lead a group wide project to assess and prioritise by feature value that increased ARR by 30% - £18 million increase Show less Oversaw the development of all ERP in ERP suite following a manager of managers approach. Led a team of 10 software development managers with each responsible for one of software products.Acknowledged for standardising development tooling across all development teams in the group – approximately 20 individual teams with different technology stacks and backgrounds. This resulted in significant license cost savings for tooling.Championed and delivered a set of groups wide KPIs and management reports which provide checks and controls to monitor the progress at a high level and get early warning of any issues. Show less Tasked with managing the development of payroll and HR products as part of the ERP suite. Effectively managed a multi-cultural team consisting of UK, Vietnamese and Indian team members using Scrum, carrying out the role of Scrum Master. Held accountability for line management with 30 team members across software development, testers, and business analysts and matrix management responsibility for wider offshore teams. Carried out the Product Management role for the products as well as being the technical leader.Ensured delivery of the legislation and compliance changes for the start of each tax year, never missing a deadline for the release along with defining or meeting accepted quality standards. Pioneered the use of Scrum processes, implementing from scratch and building the company wide Agile Playbook Show less

  • Head of Engineering - Agile Delivery and Product Management

    Mar 2018 - Sept 2023

  • Senior Development Manager

    Mar 2017 - Mar 2018

  • Software Development and Product Manager

    Mar 2007 - Mar 2017

  • Team Lead

    Jan 2004 - Mar 2007

  • Developer

    May 1998 - Jan 2004
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  7im

  Nov 2023 - now

  Product manager

  Product Manager for technical enablement team working with Azure to implement Cloud Authentication and overseeing the overall cloud migration.Carries out the role of Product Operations Manager to improve overall Product Management processes across the company and enabling a product-led culture.