Senior engineering manager, The Guardian
May, 2012 - Jun, 20164 years 2 months
I managed and coached developers as well as contributing to project delivery and writing software. I worked on a number of specific projects at the Guardian but in my last role I was the development manager for the Editorial Tools team, which build and maintained the digital content management and publication tools for journalists.
Created the Guardian's Fellowship programme to create a way for people from non-traditional development backgrounds to join the Guardian's development team
Created a more autonomous working environment by empowering developers to understand the business problems and user needs themselves and enabling them to deliver solutions independently
Designed and lead the project to move all content to a single CMS
Built the Guardian's Glass application
Created new recruitment processes for client-side and general software developers
Growth-hacking to try and look at qualified opportunities to grow reach on the Web
Moved the Guardian's legacy products from a two-week release cycle to on-demand delivery
SEO implementation, monitoring, optimisation and internationalisation