Adam J.

Experience

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  Occam DM is now Edit

  Aug 2001 - Jan 2004

  Support Engineer

  - First line support for data cleaning tooling- Datacleaning for importing to Alterian databases

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  ISKY Europe Plc.

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2006

  Senior Developer

  - .Net framework development on in house MI tooling

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  Helphire

  Jan 2006 - Apr 2008

  Senior Developer

  - .Net framework development on insurance products

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  Hyperlaunch

  May 2008 - Dec 2008

  Technical Lead

  - Lead technical discusssions on variety of media projects- .Net framework and SQL server development- EpiServer cms work

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  Versed Consulting

  Jan 2009 - Aug 2017

  Director

  - Own freelance business providing missing capability to organisations from technical consulting, software development to solution architecture demonstrating an entrepreneurial and adaptable skillset. - 60% of clients were repeat business.- Technologies spanned distributed web applications (monolithic and micro service), Cloud migrations for internal tooling, Restful APIs and SaaS offerings in B2b and C2b industries.- Consulted on technical governance, cloud migration plans, risk and gap analysis, build vs buys for a range of organization size and industry type.- Led engineering teams, understanding their developer practices, tools and ways of working before adding value. I foster collaborative communities where peer feedback is actively sought to grow understanding.- Hands on full software development life cycle work, from developing backend features in dotnet and node.js through to defining overall system architecture and direction. Sql and NoSql backed offerings (dependent on need) across Azure and AWS platforms.- Orchestrated the technical team which devised a data migration plan that resulted in a successful transition of 100% of digital content.- Developed a booking service web app reducing overall transaction time by 70% which led to an increase in bookings of 7%.- Created middle-ware Restful API entry point that simplified and aggregated calls to downstream services - this reduced the number of service calls compared to an existing system by 47%. Show less

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  Zone

  Aug 2017 - now

  - Worked with Defra, HMRC, the FA - product discovery, strategic planning, setting road map and product vision across multi disciplinary teams at programme level.- Produced product roadmap and strategy to coordinate 4 pms leading multi-disciplinary teams for a £12 million public sector portfolio with 100% success rate against government service standard.- Ownership of product strategy for an AI (NLP) based metadata search platform, with machine learning driven data classification. Created value framework to drive product development, improved matching by 48%.- Received MVP award Q2 2023 for developing strong multi-disciplinary relationships - demonstrating empathy and outstanding communication skills.- Continuous positive feedback in end of year reviews, recognised by my peers for leading with empathy.- Mentoring and coaching responsibilities, setting out learning pathways and helping to define best practices.- Thought leadership in the blockchain space writing for blogs as well as engaging in industry round tables.- Part of the leadership team conducting continuous review of internal offerings and practices for improvements.- Spearheaded multiple successful project tender / pitch process including presentations up to CxO Show less - Worked with BMW, Ford, Barratt Homes, John Lewis, Greene King, Sensyne, NHS England- Led a cross-functional team of 8 owning persona and use case identification for NHS Covid pass, increasing registered users by 18 million (circa 28 million user a month). Winner of pandemic innovation awards.- Led UX redesign of a fleet vehicle electrification app, boosting conversion rate by 27%. Collaborated with the design team to create a value framework measuring accessibility and UX best practices against user engagement.- Worked as a solution architect to define a data pipeline for cohort builder for Health startup that reduced time from ingestion/cleaning to availability by 27% over legacy systems.- Received MVP award in Q4 2019 for my contributions iterating our in house accelerator model, improving our new business pipeline conversion rate by 23% Show less

  • Principal technical product manager

    Oct 2022 - now

  • Senior Technical Product Manager

    Aug 2017 - Oct 2022