Work
Work Bio
15+ years working with some of the industry's top companies — leading products and platforms through ambiguous, high-stakes requirements. A Master's degree in Engineering and a Master's in Psychology sit behind the delivery track record below.
Work Experience
Oracle
Building a cloud service team on OCI from the ground up
Formed and led engineering teams building new services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure — from hiring and technical direction through to production ownership.
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Java
- Terraform
- CI/CD
- Public speaking and presentation skills
Thales
Leading solution engineering for government-scale security programmes
Led solution engineer teams delivering complex software solutions to government and institutional customers, including the British government and the United Nations.
- Digital Security
- Solution Engineering
- Government Delivery
- Java
- Public speaking and presentation skills
Barclays
Leading delivery inside investment-banking compliance constraints
Led a technology team delivering in one of the world's top investment banks — predictable delivery under strict regulatory and change-control constraints.
- Java
- Investment Banking Systems
- Regulated delivery
- Public speaking and presentation skills
SAP
Introducing HTML5 and SAPUI5 to a SAP product
Led the solution design behind introducing HTML5 and SAPUI5 to a SAP product, drastically improving the customer experience.
- SAP
- HTML5
- SAPUI5
- Enterprise Architecture
- Java
- Public speaking and presentation skills
Vivacom
Owning critical voice systems for Bulgaria's largest telecom
Owned project planning, risk analysis, and delivery for in-house features on customer-facing critical systems, including full ownership of the voice mail platform.
- C
- Java
- Python
- Perl
- Telecom Systems
- Public speaking and presentation skills
Innovation hackathon
From idea to first prize: leading a hackathon-winning team
Led a team from a blank page to a validated concept and a first-place win — a compact case study in running innovation under time pressure.
- Rapid prototyping
- Product validation
- Pitching
- Public speaking and presentation skills
Credentials
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Generative AI Certified Professional Oracle · 2024 -
AXELOS PRINCE2® 2017 Practitioner AXELOS Global Best Practice · 2019 -
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Amazon Web Services -
Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) Toastmasters International -
Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) Scrum.org · 2021 -
Professional Scrum Master I Scrum.org · 2016 -
Certified LeSS Practitioner LeSS.works · 2020 -
Design Thinking Coursera -
Manager as a Coach University of California, Davis - altMBA Akimbo (Seth Godin)
- Certified in Innovation Innovation training programme
- Certified Trainer Zero Generation