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I am a hardtech product person. I develop industrial connected devices that make electrification possible. With me, strategy connects with execution, research and development is financially astute and everyone has a safe space to play.

Led development of the world’s most data efficient smart meter, improving grid uptime from 50% to +98% at some of Africa’s most challenging sites.
Founded and grew a venture backed grid automation business from day one to £100m AUM, £5m lifetime value, £0.3m ARR and 1% churn, serving 100,000+ consumers and 15 utilities in 12 countries.
Raised and managed £10.1m in equity, venture debt and grants.
Developed an industrial battery energy management system, exceeding requirements and saving 50% of the BOM cost.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
French
Fluent
Spanish
Basic

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Manchester (up to 50km)

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Technical Product Manager
TECH
April 2024 - Today (2 years and 2 months)
Manchester, United Kingdom
I navigate the hard parts of early stage product development for energy technology startups.

- IoT and cloud software development for an energy storage OEM.
- Hardware buy / build for a sensor software startup.
- Go-to-market strategy for an engineering consultancy.
Coaching Positioning strategy IT Strategy Product Development Strategic planning
Instagrid
Head of Systems
ENERGY AND UTILITIES
February 2023 - February 2024 (1 year and 1 month)
Manchester, United Kingdom
As one of three product managers working across five engineering domains, UX and QA, I managed development of a 250kWh multi-level inverter battery system and its Energy Management System subassembly.
Recruited and led a specialist connected devices team (UX, QA, developers).
Instated a product decision stack, minimum viable tests, requirements management, Kanplan and other practices that drove collective decisions forward and created clarity across a deep tech stack.
Exceeded demanding requirements (portable, rugged, cloud-connected) while saving 50% of the BOM cost.
Instagrid
Technical Program Manager
ENERGY AND UTILITIES
April 2022 - February 2023 (10 months)
Manchester, United Kingdom
I defined the positioning and buy / build strategy for an industrial battery energy management system.
Conducted discovery with target buyers and positioned the product for high compliance, enterprise-grade B2B2B adoption.
Outsourced computer hardware (100% amortised NRE) and cloud infrastructure development (50% AWS funded).
Developed the back end for prototypes and demos (Node-RED, SQLite, Svelte, MQTT, CAN bus).
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MS - Environmental Science
Yale University
2012
Spatial statistics, energy systems analysis and off-grid energy
BA - Social Anthropology & Economics
SOAS University of London
2007
Coffee pricing, anthropology of food and social theory

Virtual Personal Leadership Programme
The Living Leader
2020
Leadership Leadership Development
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