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Program Management

Project Management

Full stack

Development Operations

AI Ethics

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Jason Macauley

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Another View Coaching

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Organisation skills

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Jira

Miro

Owned the customer facing technology and lead strategic growth initiatives at Rue Gilt Groupe, a ~$1B discount e-commerce company specializing in high-end luxury goods. Directed a 30-member engineering organization, fostering junior leader growth with outstanding results. 
Key Contributions: 
•	Established a culture of cross-departmental collaboration and leadership, emphasizing alignment between engineering and product.
•	Established a novel performance management approach at individual/team levels, elevating accountability and productivity. 
•	Utilized Python, React, ElasticSearch, and AWS to ensure on-time feature delivery, generating around $30M in additional revenue. 
•	Developed leaders and sustained team focus and effectiveness post a 75% workforce reduction in January 2023.  
•	Initial hiring manager for a Dublin engineering studio, optimizing costs while maintaining excellence.  
•	Implemented capacity planning tools and processes, enhancing delivery consistency and predictability.

Provide independent coaching in the area of leadership, resilience, conflict resolution and mentoring.  I support both long term growth and short term problem solving for my clients using a broad toolkit of frameworks tailored to their needs and the human system they are working within.  The outcome is a thoughtful approach to work and leadership that promotes transformation through understanding and deliberate action.

SimplyBusiness is a global insurance provider with UK and US locations, specializing in insurance sales tailored to small and micro businesses. 
Key Contributions: 
•	Led multiple product teams with a total organization of 30+, fostering professional growth in engineering and product departments. 
•	Created a global team health dashboard across 19 teams blending qualitative and quantitative metrics creating a basis for experimentation and continuous process improvements.
•	Developed agile processes, enhancing planning and expectation management for efficient project execution.
•	Built multiple data analysis applications to  a self-made identifying process improvement opportunities.
•	Led the Engineering Management Community of Practice, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing among peers.
•	Provided mentorship and strategic guidance to leaders from across the company focused on managing interpersonal conflict and performance.
•	Tech Stack: Ruby, Rails, React, MongoDB, AWS, Docker

Led development of Akamai's web application firewall products,  enhancing the company's industry-leading web acceleration and security solutions. 
Key Contributions: 
•	Optimized engineering processes and prioritization methodologies, aligning the organization with precise estimation and strategic roadmaps. 
•	Drove the planning and execution of the Web Application Firewall (WAF) management interface for an application deployed to 330,000+ servers globally supporting trillions of requests per day.
•	Directed an organization of ~30 engineers, including 3 managers, overseeing recruitment, development, and fostering a culture of innovation.
•	Led multiple annual New Product Development projects, consistently meeting milestones, timelines, budgets, and benchmarks. 
•	Mentored and coached junior leaders within my organization as well as other areas within the business.
•	Restructured the organization, promoting cross-functional teamwork and enhancing product development efficiency.

Established and grew Gazelle as a digital platform specializing in buying and selling pre-owned electronic devices. Halted talent drain by implementing strategies that revitalized and expanded the engineering team, fostering growth and stability. 
Key Contributions: 
•	Owned all technical aspects of the Gazelle business unit, including the docker implementation, continuous integration, ruby on rails and java based applications.
•	Re-architected the trade-in application to leverage standardized libraries and a self-service content model
•	Built a distributed organization responsible for maintaining and extending the Gazelle application suite.
•	Introduced agile (Scrum) and continuous improvement through agile experimentation
•	Addressed a history of high staff turnover, cultivating stability and strengthening team members' commitment.
•	Focused the team on mentoring as a route to success and created a team centric ideology.
•	Team Size: 15 Engineers plus QA
•	Tech Stack: Ruby on Rails, Redux, React, docker, AWS, Big Commerce

Steered the digital transformation at Cengage Learning, enhancing content delivery and revenue while leading a high-revenue business unit, strategically positioning it for growth and innovation in the digital education sector, managing several hundred million in revenue. 
Key Contributions: 
•	Technical head of a business unit responsible for several hundred million in revenue.
•	Involved in transitioning a legacy print business into a digital first business model.
•	Led the replatforming of the language learning applications.
•	Team Size: 3 managers plus a variable number of engineers and QA
•	Tech Stack: React, Redux, Java

Transitioned the business to agile including both the engineering and product organization. Rearchitected the central application driving uptime, extensibility, and maintainability. Established Scrum practices that streamlined project management via rigorous prioritization and a unified backlog. 
Key Contributions: 
•	Transformed American Student Assistance into highly effective cross-functional teams, enhancing collaboration and productivity.
•	Consolidated and streamlined release cycle, transitioning from large quarterly releases to a "release as ready" model through the 
•	Introduced CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
•	Coached and provided mentorship to a group of first-time managers, fostering their effectiveness within the organization.
•	Significantly reduced bug fix turnaround time, from several weeks to just several hours, from discovery to production release.
•	Revamped web architecture to facilitate responsive, high-turnaround implementation of projects, enhancing user experience.
•	Led a 36-member team in aligning saltmoney.org with a changing business model and managed a tech stack of .Net and Node.js.

Managed consulting and educational services for a diverse client base, ensuring high-quality service delivery. Increase my department’s revenue from around $1 million to nearly $5 million over the course of 3 years, running at a 40% margin. Held a senior leadership position within Percussion Software's management team, providing strategic direction and oversight. Led delivery and enhancement of Percussion's educational courses/offerings, ensuring high-quality educational resources for clients.
Key Contributions: 
•	Defined, scoped, and led turnkey engagements, elevating the average deal size from less than $60K to greater than $500K.
•	Led proposal authoring and scoping process, playing a pivotal role in securing key business opportunities and partnerships.
•	Aligned and expanded global consulting resources, significantly growing the department to meet increased demand effectively. 
•	Delivered internal projects across departments, demonstrating versatility and a proactive approach to process improvement.
•	Implemented Agile/Scrum in software development, ensuring efficient project management practices.

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