Epping, England, United Kingdom
Agile Software Development Manager / Scrum Master with full-stack design and coding experience delivering technology-led innovation and high-profile business change programmes within the finance sector. Has repeatedly delivered in the areas of project initiation, architectural design and building highly productive and collaborative technical teams to create business value. Accomplishments include a $100m sales win and delivering a $17m programme that added $10m per annum to income. Relishes continuous learning and applying new technologies. Technology Leader Builder of global software teams and systems Software Systems: Delivery Manager, designer and architect Agile practices Transition Leader Hands-on full software development life cycle Low latency C++ FinTech systems FX, derivatives & crypto electronic trading
Relocated to Abu Dhabi from London within the same crypto currency group of companies; continuing as scrum master for development of the Himalaya Exchange, P2P Payments and Blockchain platform https://himalaya.exchange/
Joined the 1 year old crypto currency startup soon after its IEO to work on development of the Himalaya Exchange platform and ecosystem - https://himalaya.exchange/ Relocated to Abu Dhabi in Jan-2023 with a spin-off technology consultancy company to continue development of the same products.
This scrum master role finished when, unfortunately, Gobsmack Rewards entered administration in October 2021
Agile Software Development Manager/Scrum Master of the low-latency foreign exchange client pricing squad. • Led technology projects which created new ultra-low latency co-lo sited FX client pricing/trading plant in New York, London & Tokyo. Fulfilled the $17m multi-year programme through delivery management, systems design, leading development teams as scrum master for 15 C++ developers. • Implemented Agile practices and fulfilled scrum master with an ethos of servant leadership. Transitioned the team’s output pattern so that every sprint generated a testable release containing a meaningful feature, which accelerated overall project time-to-market by 20%. • Assembled, led and mentored an 8 person C++ development team in Shanghai receiving “team of the year” award.
Software Development Team Leader & Architect; delivered the first full-stack FX e-commerce system (C++, Java, C#) with a FIX API for client connectivity, and then led its continuous major and minor technical enhancement and business expansion.
Created & led the technical architecture function having oversight of automated trading systems architecture and design. Led the pre-sales activities of LIFFE CONNECT® and its adoption by the new parent company, Euronext, for all its derivatives trading in 4 countries. • Led technical pre-sales and bid designs, including Chicago Board of Trade who selected LIFFE CONNECT®, which replaced the incumbent trading system, in a $100 million, 5-year deal.