Neil Tootell

Neil Tootell

Product Designer

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  • About me

    Associate Director, Transformation Consulting

  • Education

    • Hucknall National Comprehensive School

      1987 - 1994
      N/A GCSE & A-Level Education

      Activities and Societies: Outdoors safety officer for the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme I attended the same school all the way through my education from primary to sixth form including A-Levels.

    • Loughborough University

      1994 - 1997
      Industrial Design & Technology Product Design, Engineering, Materials Science, Product Semantics, Photography

      Activities and Societies: Hang Gliding Club, Mountain Biking Team Industrial Design & Technology

  • Experience

    • PDG Ltd

      Sept 1997 - Oct 1998
      Product Designer

      Taken on after a successful university project in collaboration with PDG Ltd.The office was split into Product Design & Print Design. I worked in both areas.Learned skills on PC & Mac for illustration, cartography, & brochures, mainly for Siemens and Lucien Technologies.Worked on biological 3d projects with Nottingham Queens Medical Centre hospital.Experience in rapid prototyping techniques & application.Started training on PTC Pro-Engineer 3d design & development software with view to gaining certification. Show less

    • Visual 2000 Ltd

      Oct 1998 - Aug 1999
      Multimedia Developer

      Web development & Macromedia Director programmingOnline video editing & short film production using Avid editing suite.Created digital campaigns on film for various clients.Video comping using 3D Studio Max.

    • PDG Ltd

      Aug 1999 - Mar 2000
      Product Design Engineer

      Designing & prototyping products for a variety of clients including Boots, Nokia, Nexsan, Rolls Royce & Ora Communications Plc.Professional user of PTC Pro-Engineer.

    • Nexsan Technologies

      Mar 2000 - Sept 2000
      Product Design Engineer - Freelance

      Design & build of high-level RAID server enclosures & operating systems.Using professional CAD applications to streamline the process.Creating an ASP.VB-Script driven web interface for RAID controller cards.Creating graphical branding & labels for products.

    • OE Europe Plc

      Sept 2000 - Oct 2007
      Product Design Engineer - Freelance

      Product conception, prototyping and engineering for large automotive companies including Porsche, Toyota & Fiat.

    • RE:Media

      Jun 2001 - Mar 2005
      Developer

      Worked on a mix of technical solutions, including 3D Studio visualisation, Macromedia Director programming, ASP & ASP.Net web development, wrote bespoke content management systems for FTSE 100 clients.

    • SAS London (MSLGROUP)

      Apr 2005 - Jul 2013

      I held the technical architect & lead developer position at SAS London, working on a variety of high level digital projects. I manage the technical implementation & architecture of the digital projects that SAS London produce and am ultimately responsible for the quality of the digital output from my team. A large part of my role is consultative. Managed a small team of skilled developers. Worked on a range of technical web solutions for clients using ASP.Net, Umbraco, C#. Worked closely with designers and user experience architects to make creative web solutions.

      • Technical Architect

        Feb 2007 - Jul 2013
      • Senior Developer

        Apr 2005 - Feb 2007
    • Self employed

      Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
      Umbraco Developer & Technical Architect

      Contracting Umbraco specialist & consulting Technical Architect working on a freelance basis in and around London.

    • Radley Yeldar

      Jan 2014 - Oct 2016

      A new challenge following on from a successful year as Technical Manager at Radley Yeldar. The Associate TD role will be more focused on consultation, strategy, and architecture work. Interesting client challenges, new technology stacks, mobile application development, refined process models and managerial duties to perform with the brilliant consulting development team at RY.2015 should be a seminal year, bring it on! Working on a full-time basis with RY in Shoreditch. My responsibilities are split between strategy, client focus, development, architecture and team management.This is an exciting opportunity to influence the digital maturity of an agency and do some great work with interesting clients. Working under contract with the Digital team at RY.

      • Associate Technical Director

        Dec 2014 - Oct 2016
      • Technical Manager

        Mar 2014 - Dec 2014
      • Technical Manager - Freelance

        Jan 2014 - Mar 2014
    • Nordea

      Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
      Technical Solutions Architect — Contract

      Working within the Change Management team, helping internal development teams mature with their use of modern software development best practices. Specifically focused on configuration management, release management & deployment management.

    • KHWS - The Brand Commerce Agency

      Jul 2017 - Apr 2018
      Technical Director

      Working with a motivated team at KHWS on a contract basis. An exciting opportunity to refine process and practice with a digital first agency. I rebuilt the digital team and modernised the development processes.

    • Contino, a Cognizant Company

      May 2018 - May 2024

      Helping clients to deliver complex programmes of work into ever changing business environments using sound agile methodologies.

      • Senior Principal Consultant

        Sept 2022 - May 2024
      • Principal Consultant

        May 2018 - May 2024
    • Cognizant

      May 2024 - now
      Associate Director, Consulting
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python)

      University of Michigan
      Jun 2024
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    • BHPA Club Pilot

      British Hangliding and Paragliding Association
      Jul 2017
    • AgilePM® Practitioner

      APMG International
      Mar 2020
      View certificate certificate
    • Scrum Master Certified (SMC)

      The Knowledge Academy
      Mar 2021
    • PADI Open Water Diver

      PADI
      Oct 2013
    • PADI Advanced Open Water Diver

      PADI
      Oct 2015
    • Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®)

      Scrum Alliance
      Mar 2021
      View certificate certificate
    • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

      Amazon Web Services
      Aug 2018
      View certificate certificate
    • Oxford Executive Leadership Programme

      University of Oxford
      May 2022
      View certificate certificate
    • Confluence Fundamentals Badge

      Atlassian
      Jan 2024
      View certificate certificate
    • UK A Class Motorcycle License – unrestricted

      Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA)
      Mar 2001
    • AgilePM® Foundation

      APMG International
      Mar 2020
      View certificate certificate
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Instructor for safe cycling mechanics classes

      Issued by Radley Yeldar on Mar 2015
      Radley YeldarAssociated with Neil Tootell