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- Technologically credible career as technical director, solution architect, development manager and software developer with a demonstrable track record of technical leadership, solution design and delivery - Experienced in working with internal and external clients establishing enterprise & architectural requirements and translating to reliable and scalable physical and logical architectures using UML artefacts such as Use Cases,...

- Technologically credible career as technical director, solution architect, development manager and software developer with a demonstrable track record of technical leadership, solution design and delivery - Experienced in working with internal and external clients establishing enterprise & architectural requirements and translating to reliable and scalable physical and logical architectures using UML artefacts such as Use Cases, Statecharts, Interaction Sequence diagrams - Solid history of systems integration, platform development, web application and service orientated architectures using a range of programming languages, platforms and environments - Practiced in software development lifecycle tools such as Jira, TFS, Go, Maven; processes such as Agile and continuous delivery, with Prince2 and Scrum Master experience and certifications - Strong line management, team leadership and people development history Innovation focused, introducing new appropriate technologies such as Windows Azure, Couchbase and Hadoop - Microsoft Windows Azure Scenario advisor, HDInsight (Hadoop on Azure) pre-launch evaluator and active member of the UK Windows Azure User Group - Regular participant in innovation events, most recently Big Data Hackathon, Tesco 24 Hour Hackathon, Azure-Contrib - Technically minded, but personable and able to effectively communicate with internal and external clients at all levelsCloud Solution Architect - Azure @ From November 2015 to Present (2 months) London, United KingdomGroup Technical Director @ AKQA is a global award winning full service digital agency where I was a technical director for a group of high profile clients. I managed a large portfolio of technical experts delivering well designed and high quality technical solutions. My work consisted of concepting, scoping, technical management, technical architecture, recruitment support, forecasting, resourcing, scheduling and ensuring adherence to software development best practices. I worked collaboratively with my clients and peers developing trusted relationships and strong networks. Projects: Formula1.com - technical leadership for architecture and build of high traffic premium Adobe AEM 6 website. Technical leadership of 14 software engineers and web developers, architectural design of platform and third party integration with Formula1 data services, Gigya identity management, MPP payment services and DeltaTre blogging platform, Ooyala video services and trackside photography Nike Training Club iOS/Android App; Nike Adobe CQ 5.6 Brand Platform; Nike Running Community; Nike Rio 2016 - design and technical leadership of AWS hosted Node.JS sports mentoring platform AKQA Intelligence - Architectural design and technical executive sponsor for Windows Azure ML based predictive analytics platform Vodafone Firsts www.firsts.com - delivery of AWS hostedAdobe CQ 5.5 based campaign portal Booking.com - Client contact and technical oversight for Booking.com campaign websites Technologies used: Windows Azure, Windows Azure ML, Java, Adobe AEM 6, Adobe CQ 5.x, Gigya, MPP, Node.JS, REST services, SOA, AWS S3, Cloudfront From August 2014 to November 2015 (1 year 4 months) Application Architect @ Dunnhumby are the global leaders in using data science to help retailers build customer insights and loyalty My role as Application Architect entailed providing technical and systems architecture leadership across a range of key strategic software development programmes - Architectural ownership of the design of the key interfaces, services and architectures for applications Working with internal and external clients to identify functional and non-functional requirements, architectural design and initial sizing estimates - Providing technical support and governance to developers and tech leads, ensuring overall governance and consistency of architecture for a product - Focusing on elaboration and architectural design of future product releases and defining the required designs/spikes as needed Technologies used: Windows Azure, Office 365, Windows Service Bus, MicroStrategy BI, HDInsight, TIBCO EMS .NET 4.5, MVC4, MVC4 Web API, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint App Model, Windows Server 2012, REST services From August 2013 to July 2014 (1 year) Development Manager - Digital Personalisation @ Solution architect and development manager for the dunnhumby Digital Personalisation work stream, delivering Big Data based repeatable real-time retail personalisation and marketing solutions to customers of global retailers such as Tesco and Kroger through their retail websites From March 2012 to August 2013 (1 year 6 months) London, United KingdomSolution Architect @ Solution Architect and development lead for the dunnhumby intranet and extranet web portal solutions Translation of user and enterprise requirements to effective applications Development lead and line manager of development, test and deployment team Project scoping, solution architecture design, and development Coordination of infrastructure and development resources Technologies used: .NET 2, 3.5, C#.NET, ASP.NET, SharePoint 2007/2010 SharePoint object model, AJAX, Javascript, JQuery, MVC, API development. WCF services, Memcached, LINQ, custom web part development, SharePoint list and site definition schema development and customisation, SQL, Agile process From January 2010 to February 2012 (2 years 2 months) Practice Consultant @ Application design and development From June 2008 to December 2009 (1 year 7 months) London, United KingdomDevelopment Lead @ Leading the design and build of Sage ERP integration platforms From February 2005 to April 2008 (3 years 3 months) Johannesburg Area, South AfricaSoftware Developer @ Application design and build From January 2004 to May 2005 (1 year 5 months) MSc, Computing @ Northumbria University From 2000 to 2002 MA, Counselling @ Durham University From 1998 to 1999 BSc, Psychology @ Middlesex University From 1989 to 1993 Ben Houghton is skilled in: Segmentation, Agile Methodologies, Digital Marketing, Customer Insight, Strategy, Solution Architecture, Scrum, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Architectures, Analytics, Leadership, Retail, CRM, Database Marketing