Address: 21-27 Tudor Ct, Wootton Hope Dr, Northampton NN4 6FF
Phone: +44 (0)1604 704100
Head of Digital Departments
As Head of Digital Departments at Milton Bayer, I defined and executed the company’s technical vision, partnering with Directors to leverage technology as a growth driver. I led a diverse team—including Drupal, WordPress, and Magento developers, DevOps engineers, QA analysts, and acted as the Agile Scrum Master—to translate strategic goals into high-impact digital solutions.
Responsibilities
- Established a comprehensive technical roadmap that aligned web initiatives with the company’s strategic plan, prioritizing projects by operational capacity.
- Provided leadership that reinforced Milton Bayer’s culture, mission, and values, and fostering a collaborative, continuous-learning environment.
- Conducted in-depth research and case studies on cutting-edge technologies—Progressive Web Apps, headless CMS architectures, serverless functions—assessing feasibility for implementation.
- Architected and implemented end-to-end automation pipelines: behavior-driven development; build scripting with Vagrant, Ansible, Puppet, and Chef; provisioning on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, AMI, Route 53, EFS, CloudFormation); horizontal/vertical auto-scaling and load balancing.
- Deployed CI/CD frameworks using Jenkins with SimpleTest, Selenium, Behat, Cucumber, and Gherkin, and managed automated application releases via Rundeck.
- Oversaw continuous security patching and proactive maintenance of all digital properties, ensuring 24/7 availability and compliance with industry standards.
- Managed offshore development teams, establishing robust communication channels and performance metrics to guarantee on-time delivery.
- Led full-cycle recruitment, onboarding, and, when necessary, restructuring of digital teams and external partners to maintain a high-performing organization.
Key clients included Standard Chartered Bank, Santander, Carlsberg Brewery, and the Bank of Ant and Dec. Through strategic technology leadership, I delivered scalable, secure, and user-focused web solutions that boosted client engagement, optimized operational workflows, and reinforced brand credibility.