TELEV8 in exclusive partnership with TiVo, provide IPTV solutions for hospitality and multi-family markets. ● Hands on CTO, full stack software engineer. Python, HTML, JavaScript, CSS. ● Responsible for design and build of SDKs for multiple OS platforms. Android, Tizen (Samsung), Pro:centric (WebOS LG) and Apple. ● Responsible for design and build of web-based management platform. ● Lead team to jointly develop hospitality version of TiVo managed platform app with automatic device-based authentication. ● Responsible for channel line-up management and update automation and integration. ● Design and build of telev8 API. ● AWS DevOps and platform management, CI/CD.

Interact provide fully managed community wide Wi-Fi and Internet, IoT enabled and app-based cloud IPTV solutions for multi-family dwellings. Co-founder and responsible for the design and development of core systems and services. ● Hands on CTO, full stack software engineer. Python, HTML, JavaScript, CSS. ● Responsible of design and build of all web-based systems both customer facing onboarding portals and staff facing management systems. ● Integration with partner platforms. ● Design and build of Interact API. ● AWS DevOps and platform management, CI/CD. ● Principal technical contact for multiple corporate partners, TiVo, Positron, Arris (Comscope), AWS, Evolution Digital.

Co-founder of business with mission to create a commercially licensable casting platform for the hospitality industry. ● Lead the development, product design. ● Lead solution architect and development manager, managing a small highly skill team of specialist software engineers. ● Established technology partnerships with multiple strategic vendors.

Providing a consultancy service that delivers expert advice, and strategy guidance to hospitality technology companies and organisations ranging from start-ups to established multi-national enterprises. Proven ability to manage complex initiatives, multi-functional teams and successfully launch differentiated new products. Project focus is around rapid product development for disruptive technology solutions. ● Product development management. ● Development and communication of product vision and roadmap. ● Market and business development strategies. ● Investor engagement. ● Building and inspiring development teams. ● Product integration strategy and implementation. ● Technology partnerships. ● Field support for sales teams and C-Level presentations.

SaveMyChairs is an online reservation and asset management platform to monetise a hotel/resort pool deck. Guests can reserve and pay for pool assets such as chairs, lounge beds and cabanas, in advance or as walk-ups. Staff facing applications provide property staff with a full set of tools to control the property configuration and manage the guest experience. ● Direct overall technology strategy. ● Sales and product demonstration. ● Establish and manage product roadmap. ● Manage external technology relationships with customer and technology partners. ● Optimise on-boarding process through development and engineering of product administration features.

Cendyn/ONE is a leading provider of CRM and loyalty software solutions for hospitality. Mandated to oversee the transition of Cendyn’s product portfolio to fully leverage mobile technology and restructure overall product management methodologies across multiple teams. ● Lead architect and business analyst transitioning eConcierge™ from a desktop only pre-stay guest engagement application to a multiple platform, multi device full service guest engagement tool, encompassing the full guest lifecycle from pre-stay, arrival, during stay and post stay. ● Develop strategy for unifying product management and development processes across 6 core products to facilitate effective communication of development status and roadmap strategy to executive management, ownership, and investors.

Recruited to jump start product and commercial development of a post start-up mobile application development company and establish and operational presence in North America. ● Lead the development of a product and commercial strategy with a feature set designed to create a differentiated customer value proposition. ● Achieved a 1.5M USD pipeline by opening new key accounts in North America and Europe. ● Restructure a flagging global Channel Partner Program. ● Developed a new sales toolkit and training program. ● Recruited new global channel partners. ● Responsible for establishing a key strategic relationship with a UK based global IPTV vendor and establishing a roadmap for joint product development and commercial strategy to penetrate the North American market. ● Challenged to develop a communication and education program to maintain and enhance partner product and commercial skills. ● Established technology partnerships with multiple strategic vendors in the hospitality market. ● Developed sales model for exploiting niche geographic market segments.

iRiS is recognized as one of the market leaders of mobile applications in hospitality. As one of the founding 3 members of the management team, oversaw product development, strategy, project management and expansion to 65 employees. Management and budget responsible for a department of 40 development, support and project management staff. ● Responsible for all product development and technology relationships. ● Customer facing technical sales support on all strategic accounts. ● Headed development and project management team working with IHG to develop and deploy an embedded component delivering guest information and interactive service features for the central IHG brand mobile application. Successfully completed installation of cross brand pilots, in North America and Europe. ● Developed strategic technical and channel partnerships, including establishing Micros as a channel sales partner for all iRiS products. ● Worked directly with Microsoft in the UK and Redmond to develop a bespoke Windows 8 application for the Microsoft FirstWave program the objective to deliver a bespoke in-room tablet application for Mandarin Oriental Hotels. The project was completed on time, on budget and established as brand standard and is currently being deployed across all 27 Mandarin properties worldwide. ● Played a lead role in securing and managing a contract with Whitebread plc UK, the UK’s largest hospitality group, for a new technology focused brand ‘The Hub’. Requirement was to develop a middleware solution for multi-vendor platform communication and integration abstracting vendor interface development and allowing software vendors to development against a single API. ● Lead development team to multiple industry awards/nominations, including: - Most Innovative Hospitality Technology - Runner Up, HTNG March 2014. - Best Event Technology – Nominee, Eventex, March 2014. - Best Technological Innovation – Nominee, 2013 Travolution Awards, October 2013. - Best Technological Innovation – Winner, Travolution Awards, November 2012.

Reported directly to board of directors. Mandated to analyze the digital development business unit of a creative marketing agency and stabilize issues with project delivery. ● Successfully completed a transition to a combination delivery business model incorporating a specialist in-house development team of web and software engineers blended with multiple outsourced delivery partners. ● The digital development business unit broke even within 12 months of my tenure. Upon departure was contributing 25% of overall company profit. ● Established and directed relationship with SEO and VSEO vendors. Created a organic search department achieving sales of £1m in 6 months from a standing start. Collaborated with search agency to enhance their VSEO (Video Search Engine Optimisation) technology and a then market differentiating service.

● During an internship at a London based event management company, I successfully developed a software solution to solve existing challenges in event registration and admission management. ● After presenting the solution to the board and securing a contract for the group I founded Dataco and grew the business to 25 full employees and 100+ seasonal and part-time staff managing over 40 events per year and sales of £2m. ● Maintained a role as Managing Director and lead architecture and programmer until transferring responsibility to in the house development team during the adoption of .NET platform in the late 1990’s and development of web based hosted solution of the core platform. ● Dataco pioneered the use of bar-code technology for event attendance tracking and exhibitor lead retrieval management. ● Responsible for introducing web based access to scan leads allowing marketing and sales departments to optimize event attendance by communication and managing leads in real-time and during events. ● I left the business after successfully transferring to a competitor and completing a six-month earn out contract.