“A highly experienced senior leader with expertise developed across a wide range of hi-tech industries. Passionate about continuous learning, with a career focused on guiding engineering teams through transformative journeys to build maturity and implement best practices. Known as a Pragilist—a combination of PRagmatic, AGIle, and Lean(ist)—with specialisation in building, leading, and motivating technical teams. Expertise lies in the practical application”
Skills & Experience
LEADERSHIPEngaging leadership approach with extensive experience leading teams of cross-functional professional engineers (10–65 direct/indirect reports). Excellent interpersonal communication skills with high emotional intelligence. Exceptional ability to identify, develop and motivate professionals, building up high performing teams from scratch. | STRATEGIC MANAGEMENTVast experience maturing departments and organisations through development of Career Development Frameworks, using OKRs, coaching Executive Leaders in strategic, tactical and operational thinking and managing outcomes to set teams up for success. Capable CIO/CTO/CPO. |
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENTExperience creating CI frameworks, mindset and tools. Using experimental change, retrospectives, lean principles, journey mapping, lean coffee, kaizen events, gemba walk, TIMWOODS, 5S’s. and many more… Using tools for problem type identification, fishbone, 5 whys, etc. | PROJECT & PROGRAMME MANAGEMENTExceptional organisational and planning skills, working within Stage-Gate, Waterfall, Lean | Agile | Kanban, and ISO accredited environments, including medical imaging and industrial control manufacturing. Understanding and experience of PMP | PRINCEII approaches. |
AGILE COACHING | DEVELOPMENTSignificant experience of Agile Development: tools and processes, including successfully introducing and fixing Agile implementations. Excellent understanding of how to apply agile-lean in a variety of industries through a pragmatic approach which fully embraces people-process-product. | BUSINESS ANALYSIS | PRODUCT OWNERSHIPExtensive experience analysing and documenting user stories to meet the business requirements for various functions and applications. Assisting with product planning, product backlog formulation and grooming, and customer journey mapping. |
LEAN START-UP AND CHANGEFrom Design Thinking through to Lean Change, experience of coaching teams from IT, software, firmware, hardware and integrated systems. Understanding People-Organisation-Culture. Experience leading agile transformations.Extensive experience with departmental & company restructures. | SOFTWARE | FIRMWARE | HARDWARE SKILLSManaged Teams building SaaS products encompassing Architecture, microservices, CI/CD, DevOps, Test Automation, AWS .NET, Android and iOS Application Development. Extensive computer programming experience primarily using C and assembly languages, PHP, HTML, CSS, MySQL, Powershell and Python scripting languages. |
Work Summary
| Position (reports) | Company (area) | Department/Subsidiary | Held | (yrs) | [reason for change] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Development Manager (7 direct ) | Phocas Software BI and FP&A SaaS | AI and Data Insights | 2025 – current | … | |
| Associate Director – Software (50 direct/indirect ) | Verizon Connect Fleet Management SaaS | Compliance Business Unit | 2023 – 2025 | (2 yrs) | [NZ Business Closed] |
| Software Practice Lead (10 – 14 direct/indirect ) | Voyager Internet Ltd (Voice/Broadband/Internet) | Software & Test Practice | 2021 – 2023 | (1.5 yrs) | [Opportunity] |
| Delivery Lead | Agile – Lean Coach Principal CSI Manager (2 direct) | Computer Concepts Ltd (IT Services) | Leaven (Cloud Transformation) Continual Service Improvement | 2020 – 2021 2018 – 2020 | (2.5 yrs) | [Opportunity] [Position redundant] |
| Director of Engineering (20 – 26 direct/indirect) | ARANZ Medical Ltd (Medical Imaging) | Engineering Department | 2017 – 2018 | (1 yr) | [Position redundant] |
| Controls Team Leader (6 – 8 direct) | Cavotec (Industrial Controls) | Cavotec MoorMaster™ | 2014 – 2017 | (3 yrs) | [Opportunity] |
| Senior Manager – Radio Firmware (13 – 20 direct/indirect) | Samsung (Silicon/WiFi/BT/GPS) | Samsung Cambridge Solutions Centre | 2011 – 2014 | (3 yrs) | [Returning to NZ] |
| Principal Engineer (3-8 direct) | WhisperTech Ltd (Stirling Engine – environ) | Electronics & Software Department | 2009 – 2011 | (2 yrs) | [Earthquake] |
| Software Department Manager (65 direct/indirect) Software Team Manager | Engineer (12 direct) | Allied Telesis Labs (Networking Equipment) | Software Department | 2006 – 2008 2001 – 2006 | (7.5 yrs) | [Time for growth] |
| Research & Development Engineer – | Lincoln Ventures Ltd (Technology Consulting) | Lincoln Technology Group | 1996 – 2001 | (5 yrs) | [Time for growth] |
| Consultant | Owner – | Mnemonics Ltd (Technology Consulting) | Agile | Lean | PjM | BDM | Continuous inactive |
Qualifications
| MEng | Master of Electronic Engineering | University of Hull, 2000 |
| DipEng | Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental and Ecological Electronic Engineering | University of Hull, 1994 |
| BEng(Hons) | Bachelor of Electronic Engineering | University of Hull, 1994 |