Simon Holmes

Trusted human-centric technical leader and published technical author with 20+ years driving innovation through strategic vision, problem-solving, building collaborative relationships, and cultivating high-performing teams. Proven abilities in communicating complex concepts to broad audiences coupled with a unique blend of technical and business acumen.

Co-Founder and Consultant

Is your engineering team not running the way you want it to? Chances are it's not a technical issue or a skills gap. Chances are, it's more complex - it's human.

We partner with people who believe what we believe, namely that:
1) Software engineering is a deeply human endeavour
2) Software delivery and organisational performance are predicted by the underlying engineering culture

Alongside consultancy, change management, and interim management two of our most popular services are:

1) Engineering Culture Index
Our Engineering Culture Index provides a way to measure your engineering culture, highlighting the strengths of the team and the issues holding you back.

2) Team Dependencies Matrix
Identify the hidden bottlenecks and dependencies that are slowing your team town.

For both of these we help you with the root cause analysis and corrective actions. They are often combined together into a complete actionable audit.

John Vanko

GymOwners.com

Driving the creation of a gym software company. Took 2 commercial saas products from zero to one.

Our cutting-edge gym management system and revenue intelligence dashboards empower gyms to streamline operations, unlock business insights, and accelerate revenue growth.

CTO and Head of Product

Gym Launch

Gym Launch helps gym owners reach more people, change more lives, and build wildly profitable businesses.

Chief Technology Officer

Prestige Labs

Prestige Labs Supplements are the future of modern fitness.

Johnstone Supply

At Johnstone Supply, I brought modern software development practices to the company and refactored the tech architecture and team. 

Management of a development team for an HVAC wholesaler/distributor with over 8 distribution centers and 440 stores. Applications include online store, part orders, procurement orders and mobile applications. API integration with partners, Back-end refactoring. 

-Ownership of the SDLC cycle end-to-end
-Running agile development and projects
-Security, Cloud, Code and DevOps best practices
-Vendor, Release and Change management ownership
-Web and mobile applications

eCommerce Software Development Manager

American Integrity Insurance Company

Led development and solutions architecture. Other responsibilities included process creation and management of products, release management, and change management.

Software Development Manager

Anchor Insurance Holdings

At Anchor, I worked closely with our CIO to structure technology processes in-depth across the organization. 

Leadership of development team at an insurance startup maintaining mission critical systems. Responsible for product management and release prioritization. Headed strategic projects such as insurance score and lockbox. Special project leadership including system migrations to AWS. Scrum/XP/Kanban. Anchor Insurance closed its Florida operations in 2020.

Pacific Blue Software Inc

Conducted product management and development. Designed and developed company website. Products include property tax, online payments, cashiering POS, certificate auctions and business tax.

Lead Consultant

Led solutions for the banking and financial services industry. Financial services solutions in categories including Customer Insight & Marketing, Digital Transformation, Core Banking, Payments and Risk.

Solutions Leader - Financial Services Technology

Wipro Technologies

Led business technology solutions and projects with cross-industry focus.

Practice Leader, Business Technology Services

Archetype Consulting Solutions

Founded Archetype Solutions, a small independent consulting company. Clients included top telecoms (Telefonica) and banks (Rabobank). Involved in all commercial aspects of the company; including sales, project execution and P&L.

Senior Consultant

An energetic leader building a SaaS startup as well as a CTO of two 8-figure businesses, I bring remarkable experience in leadership, company building and construction of excellent SaaS products.

I have a passion in creating and pursuing exponential growth opportunities, and empowering others to do the same. My mission is to create companies and products that have real value for my customers, partners, and employees. We leveraging agile methodologies, SaaS and mobile platforms, and cutting-edge technologies. My teams have developed and launched multiple successful web and mobile applications. I’ve had the opportunity to work with many fantastic people around the globe including onshore, nearshore, and offshore. 

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