Stuart

Cross-functional CTO and technology expert with a career in diverse sectors across privately-owned, and high-growth internationally-scaling VC-/PE-backed, businesses.  Blends board-level strategic roadmaps, complex business transformation, and £m cost savings, with low-level technical detail and everything in between.

Has previously designed, migrated/built, and delivered several large and/or complex technology-agnostic global platforms, products, and integrations across high-traffic omni-channel web and mobile, e-commerce, CRM, and content / community; wholescale cloud infrastructure replacement / migration, built for extensibility and uptime; delivered with a mix of in-house teams and near- / off- shore third parties.

Full end-to-end delivery capabilities: high-level outcome definitions, functional design + business rules, compliance, intuitive and high-conversion UX + UI, process and operational simplification, automation, technical architecture, least-privilege security, software + DevOps builds, behaviour- and domain- driven testing, and BI data visualisation delivered using multi-stream agile iterations.

Other competencies:
– Product creation, design, UX
– People development; mentoring, coaching; recruitment
– Vendor management/consolidation; contract (re)negotiation

Sector experience – Leisure & Travel, Hospitality and F&B, Property and Construction, Lloyd’s Market Reinsurance, Not for Profit.

Geo – UK Wide/Remote. Part time engagements considered. Day rates from £800.

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