Working with great people on the difficult and very interesting problem of financial inclusion. Check out our website @ http://www.aire.io or drop me an email if you want to learn more. We are doing algo development in a combination of R, Python and Node.js coupled with lots of test driven development and paired programming. - Early and late stage startups. - Technical strategy - Management of large, diverse, cross purpose technical teams - Technical Delivery and Code Quality - Experienced implementation of Lean and Agile project methodologies - Solutions using Mobile Applications - Solutions using Highly available, fault tolerant internet based services - Business Intelligence, Analytics, Health - Continuous delivery, Build Automation, Test Automation - Quality through sprint reviews, code reviews - Server-side and Client side experience - Payment gateways - New digital media

Chief Technology Officer @ Aire gives people a new credit score to help them qualify for essential financial products. Formed by a collective of finance, technology and commercial specialists, Aire is redefining how the market approaches credit scoring using only clean data and ethical means. By harnessing industry expertise, machine learning and an in-depth understanding of the issues facing many consumers, Aire has created a service that allows businesses to access a new, financially capable population. From January 2015 to Present (1 year) London, United KingdomFounder and Chief Technical Officer @ I was responsible for all aspects of technical vision and direction, product delivery and quality, and for the performance of the development organization. Further, as a member of the executive team for over 5 years, I was involved in the formulation, implementation and support of finance, product, business, and marketing strategies. • Spearheaded delivery of the first release of the Read Me Stories App to the Apple App Store via an iOS native app. • Today all updates to the Read Me Stories app ship on the same day to 5 mobile app stores across 3 platforms, and has seen in an excess of 6 million downloads. • Lead a team that delivered over 40 major updates over the last 5 years to the “Read Me Stories” flagship app while maintaining a minimum 4.5 star rating across all major stores. • Defined and rolled out an Agile product dev process spanning the organization, which is continuously improved via regular reviews. To date, the process has supported over 50 month-sized sprints. • Built and managed a diverse team of 10 developers, testers, and support staff. Instilled an attitude of constant improvement and quality via sprint and code reviews. • Enabled deeper insight into the business impact of new releases on customers via the definition and implementation of our BI strategy. • Designed and delivered mobile application and server architectures with an understanding that the team has to maintain operations alongside all product development activities. Today, the server barely breaks a sweat under a daily peak load of in excess of 70 requests a second loads, with over 50K daily active users all while requiring minimal maintenance. • Reduced ship time to all stores from 2 days down to 4 hours via the design and delivery of an automated cross platform test framework called Maestra. Technologies: Objective C, Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Java, PHP, Ruby, C#, Unity3D, Jenkins, Hudson, AWS (EC2, SQS, RDS, ElastiCache, ELB), Mixpanel, ANTLR, DSL From March 2009 to Present (6 years 10 months) Founder and Chief Technical Officer @ • Partner and Business Development, Research and Development, and Consulting. • Lead Research and Development efforts in the arena of Agile Development Technologies including Ruby, Flash, Air, Amazon EC2 and S3 technologies • Continued on-going investments and understandings in Microsoft based technologies including MOSS, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF), and K2.NET. • Lead Consultant for the Ministry Of Fisheries Working with key stakeholders, defined and implemented SOA strategy and architecture for Catch Effort System. • At Ministry Of Fisheries, Led technical development of a 4 man team. Instilled and lead an agile project management methodology within the team Technologies: AWS (S3, EC2), Flash, Air, Ruby, MOSS, WPF, WWF, K2.Net, SOA From January 2008 to June 2011 (3 years 6 months) Wellington & Wairarapa, New ZealandSolutions Architect @ Datacom is the largest New Zealand based IT Consulting Company with approximately $900 million NZD in annual revenue. Provided architecture and technical leadership across Datacom's Java and .NET teams. Some specific examples include: • Led the architecture and technical design of the largest project at that time for the organization ($2 million NZD ) for Beca Group Limited, one of the largest employee-owned engineering and related consultancy services companies in the Asia-Pacific • Built and managed a team of ten engineers while contributing to a test team of five • Applied iterative development to lead the team to success, meeting deadlines under budget and on time under tremendously demanding circumstances. • End result was a system with over 170,000 lines of code which met all key milestones to date. • Broke new ground in the organization with best practices and technology focused quality review, iterative development, continues development, and source control • Defined architecture for Sun based Identity Management build on Oracle and J2EE • Lead Java/.NET implementation of GLS Message Toolkit. Technologies: C#, Windows SharePoint, Meridio, K2 Workflow, Hudson, Continuous Integration, Office Automation, Windows Explorer Integration From 2005 to 2008 (3 years) Wellington & Wairarapa, New ZealandProgram Manager @ • Oversaw extensible infrastructure to be used by the 100+ component teams of the Windows Platform to diagnose and self-heal common support problems • Managed the wider Windows Client Performance Team responsible for improving performance of the Windows Operating System. • Specifically responsible for the Super Fetch Feature - a profiling and pre-fetching feature of the Windows Virtual Memory System. • Establishing clear ownership of problems, task tracking, clear roles and accountability for all participants enabling ongoing progress and collaboration • Assisting in negotiations amongst all stakeholders, closing initial architecture and design within tight one month deadlines • Resolving cross-team dependencies on features via communications with ten different component teams in the Windows Division • Resolving project goals within the larger Vista products goals • Driving adoption of the infrastructure across the Windows Division • Achieving critical code development milestones on schedule • Managing a team of two program managers, three developers and three test developers From January 2003 to May 2004 (1 year 5 months) Founding Engineer and Technical Lead @ Scale Eight was a Silicon Valley Startup specializing in highly available storage services. Their key product was the MediaPort service - a device that plugged into corporate data centers and provided unlimited storage utilizing and backend service distributed in 4 geographic locations around the globe (Asia, Europe, US West, and US East). Their largest customer was Microsoft. My area of responsibility was Service Manager - a distributed accounting and monitoring system used for both billing and customer insight into their use of the service. Primary accomplishments include: • Founded and lead a team of ten engineers • Defined architecture and lead development • Took solution through four successful releases over two years - increased functionality on average 30% for each new release • Increased system reliability and performance by defining and implementing engineering best practices, including nightly builds, bug and task tracking systems, and code reviews Technologies: C++, Java, Java Struts, Tomcat, Apache, Linux, and Sybase From 1999 to 2002 (3 years) San Francisco Bay AreaFounding Engineer @ • Development of credit card authorization service, database object layer and the Yellow • Pages daemon for the backend of the Live Capital financial services platform. • Undertook research and development. Evaluated and prototyped a number of potential products and technologies • Leading load testing and performance analysis, improving system performance and reliability Technologies: C++, PLSQL, and Oracle From January 1997 to 1999 (2 years) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Engineer @ • Involved in all backend web development activities, including database development, web applications and system support. • Contributing to meetings with customers, defining requirements, planning and executing development. • Lead load testing and performance analysis, improving system performance and reliability Technologies: HTML, Perl, SQL From 1996 to 1997 (1 year) Greater San Diego AreaSoftware Engineer @ • Built and maintained the internal customer accounting system, responsible for over 500 accounts and $20,000 dollars in billing per month. • Built and maintained fault detection technologies for all modems, reducing all hung calls by 60%, increasing quality of service and customer satisfaction. • Lead development of PowerStation, a web publishing product • Responsible for maintenance and support of network infrastructure Technologies: HTML, C++, Solaris, Perl, SQL, Netscape Secure Server, Cisco Routers From 1994 to 1996 (2 years) Greater San Diego Area