Software Consulting

"As CTO, I worked alongside Paul who was VP of Engineering. Paul brought around real change towards team-based ways of working. Engineers now practice subtasking, swarming, pairing, and have collective ownership of delivering features. It was a big shift from previous ways of working and Paul was the agent of change that made it happen, which is no small feat on its own.

Paul also had an impact on product design and agile processes. This included creating processes and collaborating across product and engineering teams to create thinly sliced user stories, a solid definition of ready and definition of done.

I was impressed by Paul's ability to drive improvements in engineering health and engineering services. Paul established a process and inspired focus on regular incremental engineering health improvements, and encouraged ownership of technical components. He also initiated 2 engineering-focused teams in the areas of Platform Engineering and Performance/Observability. These were key and clever investments in engineering services."

Jan Kurianski
CTO, Displayr

"Paul came to LUX with a wealth of experience and a clear north star with regard to engineering culture and best practices. It’s not always easy to come into a new organisation and take over an established team, but Paul’s experience, passion and genuine people focus seemingly made it easy for him. He quickly established new ways of working within the engineering team with a strong focus on agile best practices and engineering excellence. As part of the leadership and exec team, he also made numerous contributions to ways of working across the company, including meeting and documentation culture, decision making and people & culture processes, that will last past his tenure."

Andreas Dzumla
CEO, Longtail UX

"Paul joined our Engineering Capability team during a period of change, and his role required close collaboration with Platform and Product Engineering teams in diverse locations.

Paul has excellent technical and architectural capabilities, at the same time gives consideration to product and commercial outcomes. Paul will challenge the status quo and ask the hard questions - and does so with a considered view. He engages positively at all levels of an organisation and encourages autonomy, ownership and quality of outcomes.

He introduced and led some important change concepts that both align strategically and help drive towards strategic outcomes. He was able to do this across our business and in different geographies. Paul is engaging, challenging and brings perspectives to software and product engineering that is often missed or lacking."

Andrew Todd
CTO, Iress