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An experienced software engineer with a strong commercial bent who has spent the past 9 years building tools to make the lives of other software engineers easier. Most recently - as well as coding - providing commercial and strategic leadership to the Nomad for Visual Studio team, and making a successful case to Red Gate's leadership to grow investment in Nomad and make Red Gate a major player in tooling for mobile and tablet development. Over the years has lead development on a range of well-known, successful and award-winning products, including .NET Reflector, ANTS Performance Profiler, ANTS Memory Profiler, and SQL Prompt. Project management has evolved from a simple big design up front approach - though Red Gate has never really been a waterfall organisation and has always implemented continuous testing - to incorporate Agile processes such as Scrum and Kanban, depending upon the needs of the team and project. Strong multi-skilled technical background embracing a wide-range of technologies including: C#, .NET, SQL Server, HTML5, CEF, JavaScript, Angular.js, Knockout.js, CSS, Node.js, WPF, WinForms, automated testing, continuous integration, Git, Subversion, Java, Swing, XML, Oracle, Php, MySQL. Commercial experience including: acquisitions, due diligence, product management, pitching, market sizing, competitor analysis, market research, business analysis, business model development, recruitment, social media marketing, content generation, partnering, networking. Other skills include oral and written communication through pitching, speaking at user groups, blogging and articles.