Andy Eva-Dale

Tangent

- Representation of the largest department within Tangent; at senior management level.
- Leading a 43 strong team, made-up of technical architects, frontend & backend developers, quality, infrastructure and operational IT. 
- Jointly defining the companies strategy for servicing offer, delivery, operations and people/culture
- Driving 50% growth within the tech team as well as the sustainable retained revenue to support it
- Ensuring the revenue streams to sustain my team growth
- Pitching, workshops, solutioning and cost for new business opportunities
- Technical/Solution Architecture for green and brown field projects
- Overseeing all aspects of technical delivery for client such as SAP, Labour Party, UKPN, REED, IWG/Regus and Sky
- Introducing an enterprise level support model and onboarding of retained UKPN and REED accounts
- Pioneering a JAMStack / mircoservice de-facto approach with Tangent 
- Working with back-end languages such as Python, .NET Core, .NET Framework, PHP, Java and Go
 -Working with front-end frameworks such Node, React, Vue and Angular
- Development of new servicing offers for headless CMSs, Enterprise & Open-source CMSs, SPA, SSG and SSR frontend and native mobile applications
- Driving through enterprise level digital transformations
- Selection and on-boarding of near-shore and off-shore partners
- Definition and direction of Tangents technical capabilities and preferred technical offering.
- Information security, acting as DPO and ISM; ensuring continuing ISO27001 certification for the business
- Oversight of proprietary database and cloud infrastructure, architecture and services using AWS, Azure and GCP
- Implementing automation across the business for infrastructure and applications; Puppet, Terraform, CI/CD, Automated Testing
- Safeguarding quality, change and release management for the business, introducing a quality process across accounts. Formalising test plan and test case management.

Technical Director

POSSIBLE

- Responsible for defining and describing a recommended technical approach for a project. As well as producing technical design (UML) and functionality specifications.
- Quality Assurance of Technical Delivery ensuring Code Quality for the project; i.e. ASP.NET, MVC & CMS Best Practices implemented.
- Responsible for defining Physical System design and requirements. Including continuous deployments design using Bamboo/NUnit/Selenium/Octopus.
- Working with stakeholders to design scalable, loosely coupled CMS Integrations, considering design patterns and OWASP A9. These have included a compliance system, elastic search FIND replacement and external services using WCF.
- Estimating technical effort, defining ACs, determining additional costs.
- Implementing processes for sprints including peer-to-peer code reviews, release notes, QA reports, deployment processes (ensuring HA), reviewing ACs.
- Recommend CMS upgrade planned based on errors, issues, new functionality.
- Identifying, categorising project technical risks and articulating a mitigation strategy.
- Managing sprint team/Scrum master.
- Running workshops in the role of a BA; defining functional/non-functional requirements, actors and use-cases that flow through the project from UX to MVP & backlog for BAU.
- Working with the team define Test Plans for a project, ensuring core functionality has a sufficient level of Tests in place by design (TDD).
- Consult with the client on technology strategy and act as a trusted adviser.

Principle Technical Architect

Emperor Design

- Involved in the Umbraco CMS community; going to meetups, hackathons and festivals.

- Introducing an Agile approach to working with third party suppliers 

- Involved in technical pitches - Scoping directly with the client to produce a product to meet their needs 

- Planning and costing for working - Producing technical documentation 

- Managing a team of developers on a large-scale project 

- Working on front-end, backend as well as scripting on large scale corporate sites 

- Responsible for layout out coding best practices and review peers and third parties work 

- Presentations internally on case studies and new technologies - Custom integration with externally systems and CRMs - Introduction the Umbraco CMS into the organisation 

- Training internal team on HTML, CSS and CMSs 

- Proprietary Cloud Hosting and Azure deployments

Technical Lead

Draw Group

My core responsibilities are Last Exit include:

• Scoping and thought leading on pitch level for projects, working alongside producers and designers.
• Engineering the integration between design and development; using innovative technologies to
produce high quality pixel perfect products.
• Communication and presentations to clients from the initial stages of a project, through to product
delivery and training.
• The personal development of Junior and placement developers and the wider team.
• Scheduling, quoting and resource management for maintenance clients.

Below is a selection of projects from well over 30 sites I worked on for Last Exit:

Umbraco (INTO) - Latest Last Exit Project:
I was responsible for the development of three different websites for INTO, INTO Higher (www.intohigher.com), INTO Success (www.into-success.com) and INTO Corporate (www.intocorporate.com). All three sites were build in Umbraco and involved a high level of custom code using a combination of C# and XLST to manipulate the XML backend. In regards to the front end of the site JQuery and various third party plugin were integrated into the CMS and are hence fully controllable by the end user. In addition for INTO Higher structured the site to allow the user to build up pages from a selection of over 20 modules as well as making the site available in 4 languages.

Kentico sites:
As well as producing sites in Umbraco we have developed multi sites a CMS called Kentico using HTML/CSS, C#, JavaScript/JQuery tested across a range of browsers.. A few of the sites include:

• Visit Europe (www.visiteurope.com) - Winners of Kentico Best Other/At Large Site 2009
• Martin Baker & JSF (www.martin-baker.co.uk and www.jsf.org.uk)
• Venture Finance and VFiles (www.venture-!nance.co.uk and v!les)
• Meet England (www.meetengland.com)
• The Bathhouse (www.thebathhousevenue.com)
• F&F (www.ffmoda.com) for Tesco’s.

Web Developer

Accenture supporting the London Stock Exchange

•	Maintaining and supporting www.londonstockexchange.com
•	HTML and C# code changes to the website
•	Writing complex T-SQL query to produce business reports
•	Controlling change to the website in a highly tense and business critical environment
•	First port of call for website query and issues for the business
•	Experience with CMS to update the website content

Systems Analyst

Eli Lilly and Company

Responsible for resolving technical software and hardware issues across Europe, Middle East and Africa.
 
• Supported users of Lotus Notes with technical advice within agreed service levels.
• Implemented Lotus Notes and Domino projects for sites in Europe, Middle East and Africa to improve the reliability and capacity of the infrastructure.
• Co-ordinated a multi-national planning team across Europe, Middle-East and Africa to introduce a new Blackberry system.

Lotus Notes Administrator

BAE Systems

Junior Developer

Hi, I'm Andy

I'm the Technical Director at Tangent and mentor a 45+ strong department, creating cloud-first, scalable, robust, secure, globally distributed applications.

I have over 20 years’ experience of architecting, building, support & maintaining; award-winning, complex systems for the likes of SAP, IWG, Grant Thornton, Aegon, UKPN and Sky. 

I'm active in the community championing: sustainable system design, diversity in tech and dyslexia awareness by speaking at conferences across Europe, meet-ups and to organisations. 

Additionally, i'm a member of SaaS products steering groups and the BIMA innovation council.

I've worked with organisations like the London Stock Exchange, Accenture, BAE Systems and WPP. 

It would be great to connect!

Happy Friday LinkedIn 👋 

I had a blast talking about 'Unlocking Sustainable Systems' 🌿 at the first ever Composable Commerce Summit hosted by Brave Bison 🦬 this week.

The event was packed full of a 100+ technology and marketing leaders including Tangent' Nadine Clarke, Tom Walsh and Jack Clough. I got tons of useful insight and the after drinks weren't bad either! 🍹 

On stage, I was joined by some phenomenal speaker and panellists, massive kudos to Hannah Baker, Oliver Millar, Elizabeth Azide, Connor Weir, Flavia de Pfyffer, Sam Billett, Mike Saar, Marcel Houtzager, Leo Rayman 🍃, Tangent' own Leigh Gammons 🤠, Rachel Tonner, Kieran Lane, Antti Voutilainen, Ed Hornby, Ralph Urmel, Andy Pickup, Craig McLaren and David Nisbet.

Lastly, big up the legends from Brave Bison and SocialChain for making this happen, special thanks to Amber Dawson, Ben Field-Johnson, Matthew Grundy, Mike Pickston, Melissa Harvey, Ro Bocking, Tessa Nylen, Boyeong Gwak, George Blackburn, Joe Edge and Kyle Pyne-James. 

Also thanks Katie Street for getting the word out and Tania Nash for helping sort out the event.

Technical Director / Architect / Speaker / Mentor / Umbraco MVP / Sustainability Champion / Highly Commended Tech Leader of the year, Prolific North Tech Awards 2023 / NTA Technology Leader of the year nominee 2024

Hello LinkedIn 👋 ,

I am on the latest release of the DXTalk podcast! 🎙Whoop, Whoop 🎉

Thanks to my hosts Lasse Fredslund & Jonas Thykjær Poulsen, who looked after me whilst I was over in Denmark 🌎. We chatted about everything from sustainability 🌿 and the great work the Umbraco Sustainability Community Team is doing in the space, AI 🤖 and its potential carbon impact.

Please have a listen and let me know you're thoughts. The links ⛓ are in the chat.

Here at Tangent we've been hitting the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit in London for the last 6 years (ish, ignore 2021).

The calibre of the talks and the conference is top notch and it's FREE 💸, I will pop the registration link in the chat. 

Gen AI 🤖 is obviously going to be a big part of this years conference; I for one am pumped to hear about the advances to Amazon Bedrock & Snowflake in this ever changing world.

Anyhoo, if you're going hit me up, it would be great to see you there 👋 

#GenerativeAI #AWSSummit #AWSSummitLondon #AWSSummitLondon2024, #Amazon

Delighted that Tangent' Chris King and Stuart Bannerman joined The Travel Corporation' Aadil Qayium, Filip Białogrecki, Hanad Ahmed and Jordan Migula for a great time 🙌 at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Paris 🇲🇫

Surprise, surprise, there was lots of news about running LLMs on kubernetes. With NVIDIA announcing GPU(s) resource allocation for kubernetes hosted apps 🤖. I will pop a link in the chat!

Also, anyone who knows me, will know I love the CNCFs Phippy and gang. 🦒 They also launched a new book called Phippy's AI friends... again I will pop another link in the chat.

#kubeCon #CloudNativeCon 

A warm welcome back to Filip Białogrecki and Jordan Miguła from their enriching experience at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Paris, where they teamed up with Aadil Qayium and Hanad Ahmed for an unforgettable week of learning and exploration!

Here’s the essence:
🚀 Future-Forward Tech: They've glimpsed into technologies that can revolutionize our work, making it smarter and more impactful.
🌱 Sustainability Focus: Their insights into eco-friendly practices have us excited about making our projects greener and more planet-friendly.
🤝 Global Insights: Conversations with innovators from around the world have opened up new avenues for us to explore, enriching our work with diverse perspectives.
🛠 Learning in Action: Hands-on sessions have armed them with practical skills and ideas ready to be shared and applied here.
🇫🇷 Paris Beyond Tech: The city's culture and history have added a layer of inspiration, reminding us of the power of diverse ideas and creativity.

As we integrate these discoveries, we're set to transform our work in ways that are not only innovative but also meaningful. Let’s embrace these new possibilities, collaborate, and make a lasting impact.
Here’s to our journey ahead, fueled by fresh ideas and a commitment to make a difference! 🌟 

#KubeCon #CloudNativeCon

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