History

Engineering Director

Bumble Inc.

Leading engineering, machine learning, and data science in the Trust & Safety space. Helping to build a platform across all Bumble Inc. brands, to empower all our members to create safe and healthy connections. We encourage integrity, kindness, equality, confidence, and respect during all stages of any relationship — whether online or offline.

VP of Engineering

Farewill

After our CPTO left the business I was promoted into the VP role to become the most senior technology representative. I was accountable overall for the performance of technology across the business. My responsibility spanned our Engineering, IT, and Data & Insights functions, and I reported to the CEO. My aim was to use technology effectively to help the company hit its goals, as well as creating a supportive, inclusive, and productive environment for people to grow, and do the best work of their careers.

Head of Engineering

Farewill

I joined Farewill as Head of Engineering, taking responsibility for the company's team of engineering managers and engineers, and sitting on the company's Leadership Team.

Senior Engineering Manager*

Monzo

At Monzo I was responsible for scaling engineering within the COps Collective, which then grew into Operations Collective (covering our customer support, financial crime, and more. I was also discipline lead for web across the company.

My line of management in Operations included 4 other engineering managers (some also managed managers), and around 40 engineers, split across multidisciplinary squads. Other responsibilities included:

👥 Sitting on the leadership team for Ops Collective to represent engineering, alongside the COO, VP Ops etc.
👭 Partnering with technical leads, senior engineer, and product managers to help drive technical initiatives, strategic work, and headcount planning.
👩🏻‍💻 Line management and coaching of managers and senior IC engineers, focused on their performance, progression, growth, and wellbeing.
💼 Contributing to management best practices and initiatives.
🕸 Setting strategy for the web at Monzo.
🙌🏽 Leading hiring for the web, including aiming to attract and hire high potential team members from diverse backgrounds.
😬 Risk and compliance responsibilities.

Some of the work that I'm most proud of includes proposing and starting up new teams (Web Platform and Web Consultancy), leading the delivery of redeveloping the engineering progression framework, and helping to scale our engineering function and its culture to support the company reaching over 4.2 million customers.

* note that this was a Director-level position, not reflected by my title because of internal freezes.

Consultant & Director

Records Sound the Same Ltd

Through my company I worked as a consultant on strategic and digital transformation projects.

The work involved a real mix, but included things like: research, discovery, and requirements gathering; assessing systems and processes for areas of improvement; helping to change culture; setting strategy, defining roadmaps; running workshops, coaching and teaching skills. I aimed to improve user experiences as well as balancing these with business needs, and making sure that technical conversations could be understood by everyone in a business.

Clients included Manor Racing F1 team, RNLI, Hotelplan (Inghams, Ski Total), Henley College Coventry, Patchwork, and more.

Contract Digital Solutions Architect

Accenture Digital, Ostmodern, Precedent, Coast Digital

After leaving the world of full-time employment, I initially spent a period of time contracting with other digital agencies in order to gain broad exposure to different technologies and practices, balancing this with my direct clients in between.

Projects included the BBC, BT, UTV, Survivors UK, David Lloyd Leisure, The MS Society, SSE.

Head of Technology

Lightmaker UK

As Head of Technology at Lightmaker UK my primary responsibilities included setting the technical direction and strategy for the company, management of the development team, assisting with high level project direction, offering technical strategy and consultancy services, and working alongside our Sales and Marketing team for pitches and RFPs.

I also worked closely with our partners (Adobe, Microsoft, AWS, NTT Europe Online, Rackspace, Akamai, Sitecore) in order to forge relationships which would benefit our clients.

I was able to work with some great clients on some fantastic projects. These include Electronic Arts, D-Link, Eurotunnel, Nokia, Royal Bank of Scotland, The R&A, Phaidon Press, JK Rowling, Disney Interactive Studios, Innocent Drinks, Manchester United, Fulham FC, Chelsea FC, Sony Entertainment, Pitcher & Piano, the British Blood Transfusion Society, The FA, The LTA, Yamaha, Mondial Insurance, NHSBT, National Galleries of Scotland, and the COI - to name but a few.

Technical/Solutions Architect

Lightmaker UK

Reporting directly to the Managing Director, I was responsible for the architecture and documentation of solutions and processes, training, direct management of full time developers (spanning front-end, back-end, native app, and Flash), business/technical strategy, training, technical sales, and some project development work.

Head Developer

Lightmaker UK

Promotion from Lead Developer role, continuation and extension of responsibilities.

Lead Developer

Lightmaker UK

Promotion from Developer role, continuation and extension of responsibilities.