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 ### Personal Profile
 
-An experienced Engineering leader with a passion for people development, building teams, implementing agile methodologies, and focusing on flow and delivery. A broad history of working with teams using various programming languages, in fast-paced environments, reducing cycle times significantly.
+An experienced Engineering leader with a passion for people development, building teams, implementing agile methodologies, and focusing on flow and delivery. A broad history of working with teams using various programming languages, in fast-paced and regulated environments.
 
-Has a track record of increasing team morale and motivation through a holistic people development style, recruitment, and introducing new ways of working. Has also developed strategies, technical roadmaps, architectural reviews, personal development frameworks, and addressing technical debt.
+Has a track record of increasing team morale and motivation through a holistic people development style, recruitment, and introducing new ways of working. Has also developed strategies, technical roadmaps, architectural reviews, personal development frameworks, addressing technical debt and reducing cycle times significantly.
 
-Holds an HND in Business Information Systems and an HNC in Business Information Technology in Computing from Solent University. Was one of two people in his year to study French and Spanish at GCSE. Consumes an unhealthy amount of football and podcasts.
+Holds an HND in Business Information Systems and an HNC in Business IT in Computing from Solent University. Was one of two people in his year to study French and Spanish at GCSE. Consumes an unhealthy amount of football and podcasts.
 
 ### Core Skills
 
-- Methodologies - Shape-up, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, XP, TDD, Ensemble, no estimates,
+- Methodologies - Shape-up, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, XP, TDD, Ensemble, No estimates,
 - Languages: C#, SQL, XML, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Markdown, Ruby, Jekyll, Python, Sass, TypeScript, NodeJS, Blazor,
 - Testing: TDD, Nunit, Moq, Specflow/Cucumber, Selenium Web driver, pytest, Playwright
 - Source Control: TFS, Azure DevOps, Git, GitHub, subversion, CVS
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 #### Blackfinch Group - Head of Engineering (July 2023 - May 2024)
 
-_Blackfinch Group are investment specialists offering a range of products including tax-efficient investments for individuals and businesses plus offering investment support in solar/wind energy and UK start-up companies._
+_Blackfinch Group are investment specialists offering a range of AIM and EIS products including investment support in solar/wind energy and UK start-ups._
 
 Implemented an agile approach to software delivery across three teams building a sustainable pace for product delivery aligned to emerging business needs, set up various team ceremonies, one-to-ones, and. Using a data-led approach recording DORA metrics and through objective setting and coaching saw the average cycle time reduce from 51 to 5 days. Implemented new working methods such as refinement, building out acceptance criteria, and unit testing.
 
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 _Seccl’s technology helps advisers, investment managers, and fintechs of all sizes to operate their own investment platforms. Seccl is an API-first technology company operating in the wealth management and financial services sector as part of the Octopus Group._
 
-Started leading multiple squads in the Investments and Advice tribe, focusing on delivery, empowering, and growing our engineers. Implemented a role/skill matrix during annual reviews - the first time anything like this was used in the company, acted as head of engineering during a senior/c-suite leadership change and aided recruitment of new CTO and HoE.
+Started leading multiple squads in the Investments and Advice tribe, focusing on delivery, empowering, and growing the engineers. Implemented a role/skill matrix during annual reviews - the first time anything like this was used in the company, acted as head of engineering during a senior/c-suite leadership change and aided recruitment of new CTO and HoE.
 
-Currently leading the DevOps capability, a team responsible for cloud infrastructure and developer enablement and support. Developed a roadmap to remove legacy cloud, poorly managed systems to managed services. Helped team deliver an automated client onboarding process reducing cycle time from approximately 6 hours to 3 minutes. Oversaw a DB upgrade well within deadlines and without downtime or customer detriment. Gave Technical debt and security greater gravitas within the organisation and helped construct a roadmap for remediation. Increased Team happiness metrics by 4 points (out of 10), +2.7 in wellness and +2.4 in overall engagement, +7.1 in relationship with peers from 6 months to the prior 6 months.
+Moved to lead a team responsible for cloud infrastructure and developer enablement and support. Developed a roadmap to remove legacy cloud, poorly managed systems to managed services. Helped team deliver an automated client onboarding process reducing cycle time from approximately 6 hours to 3 minutes. Oversaw a DB upgrade well within deadlines and without downtime or customer detriment. Gave Technical debt and security greater gravitas within the organisation and helped construct a roadmap for remediation. Increased Team happiness metrics by 4 points (out of 10), +2.7 in wellness and +2.4 in overall engagement, +7.1 in relationship with peers within six months.
 
 Built a recruitment process and question set for various roles and formalised a fair and systematic approach to recruitment hiring 12 engineers in the first 6 months. Contributed in non-engineering hiring sessions to support other hiring managers. Interviewed and hired peers and was on an interview panel for CTO and HoE hires.