A public second brain

About

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An experienced Engineering leader with a passion for people development, building teams using agile methodologies, and focusing on flow and delivery. A broad history of working with various programming languages. Has led multiple teams in fast-paced environments, implementing agile approaches and reducing cycle times significantly.

Has a track record of increasing team morale and motivation through a holistic people development style, recruitment, and introducing new ways of working. Has also developed strategies, technical roadmaps, architectural reviews, personal development frameworks, and addressing technical debt.

Holds an HND in Business Information Systems and an HNC in Business Information Technology in Computing from Solent University. Was one of two people in his year to study French and Spanish at GCSE. Consumes an unhealthy amount of football and podcasts.

Colophon

Hosted on GitHub Pages, the site uses Jekyll, a static site generator, on Ruby. DNS and SSL by Cloudflare. It also uses GitHub actions, GitHub issues, and some Python for automation. Content is written in GitHub flavoured Markdown. Data is stored in Yaml files.

It is called “weak notes” as a play on words of the popular Government “week notes” blogging style - due to the likelihood, I will be inconsistent and non-regular and having worked adjacent to Government for 16 years.

In The Press

During an era of running a successful football analytics website I had work published on the Chelsea FC website, FourFourTwo magazine, Man City’s match day programme, the Daily Mail, the Independent and various club fan sites.

The Twitter account, active from 2010 to 2018, peaked at 185,000 followers with a monthly reach of 8 million users worldwide all through organic growth.

Please recommend a podcast.