I am the Engineering Director of the Black Marble Ltd a Microsoft Gold Partner based in the North of England. Black Marble specialises in system integration based business automation.

As Engineering Director I am responsible for the delivery of systems and tools to allow my company, and our clients, to deliver solutions efficiently. All Black Mable's development activity is underpinned by Visual Studio TFS/VSTS and an agile process model. I am an MVP for Visual Studio ALM (nee Team System), an ALM Ranger, a Typemock MVP, a Certified Scrum Master, a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) and a Chartered Engineer (CEng)