People focussed technologist with experience in applying lean thinking to software development.

Head of Engineering @ From November 2015 to Present (1 month) London, United KingdomVP Engineering @ The latest venture from the founders of Last.fm, Lumi is consumer facing content discovery service that recommends personalised content based on a user's browsing history and twitter profile. I lead the engineering team and am responsible for all aspects of technical delivery. From March 2014 to November 2015 (1 year 9 months) London, United KingdomDirector of Engineering @ OpenMarket aims to make it easy for enterprises to add SMS, MMS and mobile payments to their business operations. OpenMarket differentiates itself through the quality and reliability of its products. Senior Leadership Team:- I sat on OpenMarket’s Senior Leadership team and represented the ~50 person UK Engineering team. I also shared regional general leadership responsibilities for the smooth running of the 80 strong OpenMarket London office and the UK business. Product Delivery Management:- Leading a globally distributed team I was responsible for product specification, design, implementation, delivery and maintenance of OpenMarket’s global SMS, PSMS and MMS capabilities. These services formed the core of OpenMarket's product offering, handled over a billion transactions monthly and were held to 99.99% availability SLAs. Organisational Development:- Working across the UK Engineering team, I worked to identify and implement projects to address the challenges inherent in growing a technical department. This ranged from introducing ideas from the agile and lean communities (in particular, Kanban and Continuous Delivery) through to working on performance feedback processes and compensation benchmarking. From August 2012 to March 2014 (1 year 8 months) London, United KingdomSenior Development Manager @ From May 2011 to August 2012 (1 year 4 months) Development Program Manager @ From April 2010 to May 2011 (1 year 2 months) Project Manager @ From July 2007 to May 2010 (2 years 11 months) Software Developer @ From July 2004 to July 2007 (3 years 1 month) Operations Engineer/Developer @ Hawkeye Innovations provide statistics and 3D reconstructions of sporting events for use by broadcasting companies, in 2004 it had 4 full time employees. My role, as a freelancer, involved attending major sporting events and handling the operations and maintenance of the system both in terms of software and hardware in the context of a live television broadcast. From January 2004 to July 2004 (7 months) Summer Placement @ From June 2002 to September 2002 (4 months) Summer Placement @ From June 2001 to September 2001 (4 months) Summer Placement @ From June 2000 to September 2000 (4 months)

MEng, Electrical and Information Science @ University of Cambridge From 1999 to 2003 Neil Johnson is skilled in: Agile Methodologies, Mobile Payments, Scrum, Cloud Computing, SMS, MMS, Kanban, Lean IT, Mobile Messaging, SaaS, Software Development, Mobile Applications, Mobile Devices, Agile Project Management, Mobile Internet