Expert Details
Mobile Software, Scaling Teams, and Process Improvement
ID: 739440
California, USA
He is currently CTO at Employer, a technology consultancy to businesses in mobile, IoT, real estate, social media, and photography. Previously, he held Director of Engineering roles at VMware, Blackberry, and Good Technology where he led the creation of multiple enterprise mobile applications. He is a recognized expert in mobile software and security and speaks at many industry conferences.
As the Director of Engineering at VMWare, he oversaw the WS1 Core team responsible for delivering the WS1 Intelligent Hub, Enterprise, Security, and Analytics SDKs on client devices. He also created and led the Client Architecture team before taking over the WS1 Intelligent Hub teams.
Capabilities:
Mobile; Upskilling; Java, Kotlin, Swift; Full stack; Scaling; JavaScript; Agile; Leading, Empowering; C, C++, objc; DevOps; Coaching; Machine Learning; Zero Trust; AR/VR/XT; Mentoring; Innovation; Quality & Security; Computer Vision
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1996 | Degree: MEng | Subject: ESIT | Institution: University of Cambridge |
| Year: 1995 | Degree: MA (Hons Cantab) | Subject: EIST | Institution: University of Cambridge |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 2019 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: CTO | Department: |
Responsibilities:Engineering Leadership consultancy across multiple spaces – mobile software and security, technology, social media, real estate, photography. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2017 to 2023 | Employer: VMWare | Title: Director of Engineering | Department: End User Computing |
Responsibilities:Experienced leader in WorkSpace One (WS1) Client Engineering. Oversaw the WS1 Core team responsible for delivering the WS1 Intelligent Hub, Enterprise, Security, and Analytics SDKs on client devices. Reported to the VP of WS1 Client Engineering. Delivered on the promise of Consumer Simple, Enterprise Secure, ensuring enterprise management, security, identity, and employee experience.Led Security and Analytics Mobile and Desktop solutions. Created and led the Client Architecture team before taking over the WS1 Intelligent Hub teams. Led a team of 130 reports, including 10 directs and up to 3 layers of managers. Provided leadership, coaching, and mentorship to ensure success. Provided continuing mentorship for several managers and staff engineers, internally and externally, and coached all client engineering leads through the staff+ promotion process. Additional accomplishments: • Transformed the Airwatch SDK product and team into the modern modular WS1 SDK leading the enterprise mobility management space. • Upskilled the team through targeted recruitment and team rotation. • Created the Mobile DevOps CI/CD process first within the SDK, then across the full mobile organization, both introducing/building the tools and evolving the developer mentality. • Moved from release every 3 months to 2 per month. Internal daily testable version of SDK and apps - fully automated with code analysis and automated test gateways. • Applied Microservice thinking to Mobile to create reusable modules to expand the reach including experience analytics, operational telemetry and Zero Trust security reporting whilst maintaining usability and privacy. • Founding team member for Innersource@VMware, enabling and evangelizing the sharing and contribution to reusable components across the company. • Drove Innovative solutions to a wide range of customer problems (security, integration, identity, password-less) 60+ team filed patents, 13 filed patents personally, 5 granted as March 2023. • Responded to the impact of the “Great Resignation” by spinning up a new team in a new location (15 people in 3 months). |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2015 to 2017 | Employer: BlackBerry | Title: Director of Engineering and Architecture | Department: Enterprise Solutions |
Responsibilities:After the acquisition of Good Technology:• Lead the integration of Good ’s Enterprise Mobility Platform and BlackBerry Enterprise Suite. • Defined the platform architecture for all BlackBerry’s mobile applications. • Expanded the platform organization to more than 80 people (developers, quality engineers, automation experts, architects, managers and scrum masters) to rapidly address the combined customer base. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2010 to 2015 | Employer: Good Technology | Title: Director of Engineering | Department: Engineering |
Responsibilities:Software developer, Architect, Manager and Director:• Created Good Dynamics mobile SDK. From 0 to 5000 apps. From 0 to 20M+ users. • Architected many innovative new solutions to providing secure access to content and back end infrastructure, leading to a world class enterprise mobility solution, and 20+ patents (3 personal). • Grew the mobile/desktop SDK group from 5 to 60+ people covering iOS, Android, Windows 10, macOS, as well as Cordova and Xamarin. • Developed the leading team members into effective managers and architects to guide multiple teams across multiple countries and time zones. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2005 to 2010 | Employer: Burning Deck | Title: Founder and Director | Department: |
Responsibilities:Development of image manipulation/processing software platform for mobiles.• Shipped apps on Symbian and Android • Mobile Software and Architecture consultancy projects (Symbian and cross platform) for Nokia, SurfKitchen (now Symphony Teleca), Vertu and Gate9/Nokia Maps |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2005 to 2005 | Employer: Samsung Mobile | Title: Technical Manager | Department: |
Responsibilities:Software Architect and Manager for the Future Technology group delivering prototypes.• First mobile panorama stitching solution. • First “delete person from photo” solution. • Driving innovation, delivering 6 patents (smart assistant, mobile kickstand, text on rear of phone). |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2003 to 2005 | Employer: Mobile Innovation | Title: Team Lead | Department: |
Responsibilities:Architect/manager for a series of Nokia/Symbian smartphone projects.• Scaled team from 2 to 20. • Shipped first keyboard-less touchscreen phone. Added TRL text input. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2001 to 2003 | Employer: Teleca* | Title: Senior Software Engineer | Department: |
Responsibilities:Mobile Software Engineer.• Added photo sync to the first smart camera phone. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1996 to 2000 | Employer: BAE SYSTEMS | Title: Lead Systems Engineer | Department: |
Responsibilities:Systems engineering lead for guidance, tracking and targeting systems.• Designed the calibration at scale that enabled multiple gyro-stabilization systems - best known: Segway • Developed Machine Learning Computer Vision solution for identifying and tracking targets |
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