Martin Thorn

I’m a software professional with extensive experience leading agile teams. I’m known for my leadership skills; in particular my ability to accelerate personal development and motivate the teams working for me, ensuring a happy, high performance culture. I’ve had significant success building relationships with customers and stakeholders, ensuring cross function alignment and delivering high-quality solutions.

Senior Delivery Lead

08/2021 to Current

Ghyston 

• Accountable for the successful delivery of a portfolio of projects across a large number of customers.
• Resource lead making the delivery plans for all projects delivered by the business.
• IT provision, as well as all other services required for business operations by any part of the business.
• Planning and implementing business change initiatives.

Head of Support

01/2016 to 08/2021

Ghyston 

• Leading the teams providing the support function delivered by Ghyston.
• Ensuring quality of service provision and adherence to SLAs.
• Ensuring the happiness of the teams providing the function.

Software developer/Business Analyst/Project Manager

10/2013 to 01/2016

Ghyston 

I was originally hired as an experienced Software developer; however, my Communication, Leadership and Strategic skills led me to almost immediately take on leadership roles across the Software development lifecycle.

Software Engineer/Team Lead/Technical Lead/Systems Architect

08/2000 to 08/2001 & 09/2003 to 10/2013

BAE Systems 

• Two years as Lead Architect for a significant system development to revolutionise the British naval ship systems.
• Four years running a team as combined Tech lead/team lead delivering systems into exhibitions, experiments and other fast paced experimental settings.

BEng Computer Science from York University, achieved with first class honours.