Paul Bennett

• Accountable for delivery across multiple scrum teams I achieved real efficiency improvements. Firstly, through the introduction of monitoring and metrics, I surfaced bottlenecks and constraints. Subsequently, through iterative cycles of focused improvement, I drove the teams to demonstrably increased throughput and quality.
• Building highly performant teams. Through the selective recruitment of strong talent and by developing individual engineers by identifying training needs, coaching, mentoring and development planning.
• Drove Engineering best practice across the division. Keeping abreast of industry best practice I championed and implemented new tools and processes (and removed obstructive processes).
• Partnered closely with other disciplines including Product & Ops to build out product strategy, vision and mission setting, and goal setting.
• Lead on communication with stakeholders from other teams, creating focus space for engineers to do their best work.

• Led organization-wide technology strategy development.
• Built inter-team collaboration guidelines to reduce dependence and redundancy and accelerate development efforts by integrating diverse developer voices.
• Managed software development reporting for corporate reporting and business intelligence efforts.
• Led cross-functional teams of engineers, quality assurance engineers and designers in development of products and resolution of product defects.

• Drove the provision of highly-performant, scalable, maintainable customer facing systems - namely the company's flagship Sports Betting Website and Systems.
• Management of software developers from recruitment, development, mentoring and coaching to daily line-management responsibility.
• Application of active governance around overall solution design, code quality, coding rules and coding standards with the team and reviewing the team's adherence and output.
• Ensured solutions met the needs of the business and owned responsibility for work estimation, producing solution documents and estimates, and ultimately ensuring accurate portrayals of effort can be obtained and subsequently delivered upon.
• Worked with technical stakeholders, including principal and senior development, to create fit for purpose solutions and share learnings and best practice.
• Worked with project management to ensure timely delivery of projects and adopt appropriate methodology, be that agile or otherwise
• Working with stakeholders in Product Management, Design and Test to ensure deliverables meet requirements
• Held an in-depth understanding of the technical structure, domain and architecture of the systems the team is responsible for and how those systems are configured in the development and production estate.

Developing websites and CMS solutions for agency clients.