Digital technology director with a wealth of experience in building and operating technology teams; strong background in large scale e-commerce software development, SOA, web services and related technology. Boasts an almost unique capability to work across multiple technology and wider-business stakeholders whilst making rational decisions to balance individual and corporate needs. IT Strategy Operational leadership Lean Start-up Impact Driven delivery Adaptive Architecture Offshore engagement setup and leadership

Director of Technology @ With a mission to offer an unsurpassed hotel booking service to our customers, Hotels.com engineering team - designs, develops and operates the Hotels.com global desktop and mobile web experience. In the role of a Director of Technology I'm responsible for operations and delivery of Hotels.com hotel shopping/search experience, as well as key discovery services. My mission is to build and lead self-improving agile teams that continually deliver to refine customer experience, add value to the company and increase its market share. I oversee a cross-functional organisation of engineers, scrum masters, dev. managers, and business analysts across 3 development centres of Hotels.com (UK, Hungary, Italy) that work with state-of-the-art technology (see more in the list below) using an ever-improving release process. The services my teams build and maintain process millions of search, filtering, pricing, availability and data calls each hour, whilst the desktop and mobile web pages are viewed by over a million unique visitors each day. We deliver value by: • Releasing continuously / on demand • … And we find that our move to continuous deployment naturally takes our teams from Scrum to operate in a more Kanban approach And use awesome technology: • Java, Scala • BDD\Cucumber • SOLR, Cassandra, Kafka, Akka, ExpediaDotCom/tesla • Docker (docker.io) • Serf (serfdom.io) • Ansible (ansible.com) • Scalr (scalr.com) • OpenStack (openstack.org) • Atlassian Suite and APIs (HipChat, Bamboo, Jira, Stash) • Logstash (logstash.net) • Kibana (elasticsearch.org/overview/kibana) • and lots more... From March 2014 to Present (1 year 10 months) London, United KingdomSoftware Development Manager, Hotels.com @ large scale high traffic and volume e-commerce environment, serving 50+ countries worldwide - a member of Hotels.com technology management - managing onshore and offshore development teams - direction and coaching on scrum and lean practices - providing technical guidance From March 2011 to February 2014 (3 years) Development Coach and Solutions Architect @ - Top 5 international matchmaker: high volume, high traffic website, serving 25+ countires Worldwide - Delivered successfully in the dual role of the Development Coach and Solutions Architect - Provided comprehensive support for 2 SCRUM teams, consisting of 15 developers and QA engineers - Coached the teams for Lean principles and State of the art development practices - Shepherding all activities through the development Life-cycle From July 2009 to February 2011 (1 year 8 months) Development Team Lead @ - Top 5 international matchmaker: high volume, high traffic website, serving 25+ countries Worldwide - Providing leadership and direction for a team of five developers and Senior Software Engineers - Designing and implementing Matching Engine as a service system - Contributing to the significant reduction of high server loads by introducing horizontal partitioning - Accountable for leading the design and implementation third party Email Service Providers. - Led the area of web tracking, including Omniture Site Catalyst, Google Analytics integration From September 2006 to June 2009 (2 years 10 months) Java Software Developer @ • Achieving promotion to this position due to excellent performance in previous role responsible for the effective implementation of numerous ground breaking systems including; • Innovative front and back-end of Lycos Chat Crypto-log scanner system • Specific Lycos Live Chat modules • Lycos back-end Community Desktop - Global Storage in-memory cache, Buddy/Favourites Management and Room Management • Working on Lycos Email interstitial page implementations, transforming mock-ups to HTML and Style sheets and creating JSP-s From March 2004 to August 2006 (2 years 6 months) Intern Network Administrator @ consulting on networks and software From April 2000 to May 2002 (2 years 2 months)

Master of Science (MS), Management of Software Projects @ The Open University From 2007 to 2011 Postgraduate Diploma, Management of Software Projects @ The Open University From 2007 to 2010 BCs (Hons) in Software Engineering, Computer Science @ State Engineering University of Armenia From 2002 to 2006 Narek Verdian is skilled in: Scrum, Agile Methodologies, Software Development, Java, Object Oriented Design, E-commerce, SDLC, REST, Java Enterprise Edition, Product Management, Integration, NoSQL, XML, Agile Project Management, Web Services