Andrew Elmore

• Chief Technology Officer & Engineering Manager with experience ranging from start-ups to multinationals. Managed multi-site teams and departments in excess of 100 engineers across EMEA, Asia Pacific & the US with annual budgets in excess of 10 million GBP. Experienced in effective usage and leadership of on & offshore development as well as outsourcing.

• Successfully developed & deployed highly scalable and robust enterprise, hosted & desktop software solutions into multiple markets, including financial services, retail & telcos through a combination of agile, iterative & traditional development methodologies.

• Accomplished communicator & negotiator who has engaged with key stakeholders at up to executive level within the world's most prestigious financial institutions.

• Enthusiastic, professional & commercially-focused leader, blending engineering best-practice with innovation to create new business opportunities and deliver world-class products. Capable in both technically hands-on and off roles.

Specialties: • Technical strategy • Development planning & implementation - onshore, offshore & outsourced • Building, motivating & leading development organisations • Financial services (reconcilliations, corporate actions, trade lifecycle management) • Data mining (churn, customer behaviour modelling & scorecards) • Agile (Scrum, DSDM, XP), RUP, Booch OOAD & Waterfall methodologies • Java/JEE, Spring, C++ & C, Scala, HTML, Javascript/Ajax, XSLT, SQL, Windows & Unix • MPP, NUMA, SMP, clustered & farm/grid-based architectures