Interim CTO & Non-Executive Director

Paul has been a valued member of my team for the last six years and has played an important part in the 300% growth of the Maginus eCommerce Business Unit. In that time, Paul has been able to combine his technical, analytical and customer facing skills in a number of different roles including Product Consultant, Development Manager, Operations Manager and Product Manager. Paul has showed exceptional management skills in his capacity as Operations Manager where he led and managed resource for a team of consultants, developers and project managers. I would highlight as Paul’s particular strengths, his ability to use and develop processes and procedures to control complex projects. One of Paul’s major achievements has been to change the Business Unit from being a “project company” to a “product based organisation” with very strong source control via the implementation of Team Foundation Server. Paul’s attitude and commitment to the clients has made him popular in the customer base. I would not hesitate to recommend Paul for any role in the eCommerce market.

Paul took over a 10 person plus product development team in late 2014. He quickly evaluated each person within the Dev team and within 2 – 3 months had integrated “his” team into the business. He quickly ended the “them and us” mentality of his predecessor and got his team working to agreed management targets and KPI’s. More importantly, he took total responsibility for the development plan. He synchronised product development with sales and marketing and inspired confidence throughout the business integrating sales with development, ensuring the business sold products that it could deliver. He worked tirelessly with the US team to ensure that they were involved in product development and that they remained franchised within the business. Paul can manage and motivate people, not just developers but any client facing sales and client service team. He recruited young talented individuals who refreshed a business that lacked real depth before he arrived. I have no hesitation in recommending Paul and what he can deliver to any business who has ambitions to become the best in what they deliver.

Paul was a key member of our software developer team. He joined as our second team member. The team grew to over 20 people, and Paul was made development manager, reporting to Paul Sharrock, IT Director. Paul was development manager during the explosive growth of dabs.com, (1998-2003), building a robust reliable system coping with the sale of 16,000 products to over 5,000 customers per day. He performed his duties reliably and conscientiously, with a good degree of creativity, as we were pioneering brand new technology. I would recommend him wholeheartedly to anyone in a software development management role. His technical skills are of course, also excellent.

Paul has a great knowledge of E-Commerce built up from his years at Dabs were we worked together to develop in-house one of the UK’s most successful E-Commerce businesses before its eventual sale to BT. Paul worked closely with the commercial team within Dabs to ensure that we developed functionality that was not only robust but also returned an ROI. Recommend him 110%.

I worked with Paul on a new site build for Calendar Club and I remember asking him towards the end of the project “are all site developments this easy?”. Paul was there every step of the way to help take us through what needed to be done and to adhere strictly to what was a very tight deadline. His knowledge of the basic platform was extensive – his background is technical which makes troubleshooting more straightforward. Whilst project managing a site build is quite intense, Paul made it much easier than it could have been and I appreciated his patience no end!