Going "outside the pure engineering requirement" to deliver notifcations, monitoring and recording into Google Apps so that Technical Operations staff as well as People Ops can not only record, monitor and observe utlisation and requests, but can update in their natural (Workspace) systems to trigger appropriate actions within the technology environment - situations such as onboarding and offboarding, for example.
Contino - Senior Engineering Consultant
Well recognised as one of the leading global technology consultancies, Contino is a digital transformation engineering consultancy that has evolved second to none delivery of standards/best-practice engineering as part of transformation at each stage;
BOTS - Azure DevSecOps Senior Engineer
Bond Origination Technologies (Bots) is an early stage B2B Fintech start-up building an innovative SaaS application for capital markets professionals at investment banks where reliability and security are essential.
Taking full ownership of Azure and O365 platforms, ensuring best practice aiming for IS 27001 compliance as well as supporting fully automated dev to production using containerised .NET.
Vanquis - Data Infrastructure Engineering Lead
Transforming legacy VM & cloud infrastructure, managed by engineers who fought the change, servicing a business unsure of why cloud-first was championed by the previous CIO, what initially seemed like a challenging environment became a great opportunity to reach across the business and implement my personal style of leadership and accountability.
SmartFocus - Lead Engineer & Head of Operations (Global)
Starting as a multi-skilled engineer to support the companies Message Cloud platform - an enterprise
messaging, analytics and real-time customer engagement platform - the 5 components services were designed
and implemented by different teams, using different technology stacks, supported by the acquired teams -and
presented in a wrapper layer that while impressive with function was confusing, slow and required a lot of
hand-holding to use with customers.
A release aimed at combining some of the functions across the services - a release of 6 months of changes -
would not release into any test environment with success, but was pushed at the command of CTO causing a
complete platform failure
FICO - Web Operations Engineer
Responsible for providing 24 x 7 operational support of the company's SaaS, ASP and hosted solutions, the
Engineer II role is responsible for installing new cloud and hosted web based applications running on LINUX and Windows; utilising JBoss, Tomcat, Outsystems, MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server and technologies.
An interesting role on paper, the day to day work and working Minnesota hours, I tendered my resignation in
search of a role that would challenge me technically and would balance better with my personal life
Sony DADC (rGenerator) - Lead Webops Specialist
The GENERATOR team within Sony DADC is responsible for creating customer-facing applications and web
experiences that allow entertainment brands and media assets to connect directly to fans. In a rapidly evolving
digital space, the group is responsible for exploring new opportunities and defining the future of digital discovery
nd consumption.
Recruited to formalise and build initially UK then follow-the-sun support structure for Sony DADC’s burgeoning
web production service – rGenerator - supporting clients and internal teams using GENERATOR’s CRM tools,
provisioning resources in AWS via RightScale, delivering content updates to static sites, dealing with all manner
of sites from static to life-cycle of Sony D2C sales platform
MailOnline Senior AppSupport & Tech Support Lead
Working as part of a 6-person operation team, I was responsible for the support, maintenance of the production, integration and development environment for MailOnline which is a non-typical; n-tier architecture providing content to over 125 Million visitors per month in an Agile continuous development/integration cycle.
After working as a senior application support analyst, I progressed to own and manage many of the support processes while still playing a key hands on role in the entire life cycle – most especially the time critical support of the production platform – a platform which has 100% uptime through CDN.
