A big picture, strategy and tactics thinker, who couldn’t stop playing with computers. Lee-Jon started his programming around age 8, building fractal display systems, and modelling exam questions, rather than answering them. He totally forgot about his love of computers, and was instead the first non-BBC employee to session at BBC Pebble Mill studios for Sony Records, and then went into running large funk and soul, and deep house nights in Manchester. After realizing whatever he earned DJing went back on records, he returned to computation to do a PhD in computational chemistry, solving antibiotic interactions and unnatural DNA structures; a subject unusual enough to net him a job in Financial Services optimising their operations, processes and systems.
After deciding to have a proper job fifteen years ago, Lee-Jon has focused on the interface between strategy and technology, looking at technology processes like agile and product management, and solving complex delivery problems. He has acted as interim CTO, startup advisor, product director, and strategy consultant to established companies and some of the fastest growing startups within the UK and Europe. He is as happy coaching and training existing teams as he is with spreadsheets and budgets. His approaches are relentlessly commercial and customer focused, and believes that experimentation and results-focused action are superior to opinion and gut-focused features.