Tom Davidson is experienced at providing a strong link between business and IT functions, enabling highly collaborative working in an agile business environment. I have experience in both start-up and corporate environments and am able to draw upon that experience to bring the best of both worlds together. Specialties: enterprise architecture, high performance web architectures, integration architecture, open source, communicating between the business and IT, business agility, innovation and prototyping.

Principal Engineer @ Leading the engineering team in Sky's new Digital Centre for Excellence. From June 2015 to Present (7 months) Leeds, United KingdomEnterprise Architect @ Overall architectural leadership for the Gaming area of Sky Betting and Gaming including developing strategies and setting architectural policies. I also manage the architecture team for the Gaming area. A focus on the maintaining extreme performance and reliability in our web estate. From February 2013 to June 2015 (2 years 5 months) Leeds, United KingdomSolutions Architect @ Architectural responsibility for core business systems both customer-facing and back-office. My primary responsibility was for the MyAccount functionality; a highly performance, high-throughput web application fulfilling SSO and core account management functionality. From September 2012 to February 2013 (6 months) Leeds, United KingdomArchitect @ Architectural and technical leadership within the Online arm of BT Directories from architectural vision to development and delivery of business change to underpin the evolving business strategy. I was also responsible for running a team including developers, dev-ops and system administrators. From 2008 to September 2012 (4 years) Lancaster, United KingdomDevelopment Manager and Chief Architect @ As the manager of the Development Team, my main responsibilities were: managing and leading the department; the allocation and prioritisation of tasks and projects; managing the departmental resources and budget; taking a leading role in strategic business planning, as well as application and platform design. As a result of this role, I am proficient at using the following programming languages/technologies: HTML, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, XML, XSL, XSD, php, Perl & mod_perl, bash, MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, Linux (including Apache & MySQL) and Windows up to 2008 server. I have used my skills to train others in the aforementioned areas when needed to expand the skill set within the team and to ensure coding standards. From December 2003 to July 2008 (4 years 8 months) Technical Manager @ Overall responsibility for the internal and external IT services, the design team's delivery of customer solutions and the customer support team. Identifying key business initiatives and driving them through to completion. From May 2000 to December 2003 (3 years 8 months)

BSc, Biochemistry & Genetics @ Lancaster University From 1997 to 2000 St. Clement Danes School From 1990 to 1997 Tom Davidson is skilled in: Agile Methodologies, Agile, Web Applications, Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Microservices, SOA, Domain Driven Design, Event-driven Architecture, TOGAF, Test Driven Development, Open Source, Integration Architecture, Application Architecture