I am the CTO of Amido, a consulting company focussed on technical strategy, cloud services and identity. Prior to this, I lead the Microsoft Development practice at EMC Consulting (formerly Conchango).
By trade I am a Technical Architect and Developer with over fifteen years design and development experience using a broad set of technologies at an enterprise level. I am experienced in architecting systems for the cloud, including massive scale consumer facing services.
I am a widely respected thought leader in the areas of Cloud Computing, Web Development and Service Oriented Architecture, and a published author and speaker. I have worked closely with Microsoft’s own product teams in early adoption programmes for ASP.NET, WCF and Windows Azure. I'm an experienced team leader, coach and mentor.
I am experienced in delivering projects using Scrum and RUP methodologies across several business domains including financial services, travel and automotive sectors.
Specialties: Technical Architecture, Strategy, SOA, Windows Azure (Cloud Services, IaaS, Websites, Service Bus, ACS and Azure Storage) ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET WebAPI, WCF, OData, WIF, Scrum, Agile, Engineering Practices, RUP
