Marcus Downing
Partner, Workforce & Organisational Transformation
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcus Downing is a seasoned partner in workforce and organisational transformation with nearly 30 years of client-facing experience designing people strategies that align to business goals across global and local markets. He combines hands-on commercial leadership—having run P&Ls and led teams in London and Shanghai—with deep expertise in strategic workforce planning, talent and succession systems, human-centred digitisation (including pragmatic GenAI adoption), and organisation design. Marcus excels at orchestrating multi-country teams and C-suite collaborations to de-risk change, unlock new revenue streams, and deliver measurable cost and performance outcomes. A pragmatic thinker who has stayed with clients through changing markets, he also contributes technical backend work to open-source tooling for PDF templating, reflecting an uncommon blend of HR strategy and hands-on engineering curiosity.
13 years of coding experience
University of SouthamptonWindsor Boys SchoolUniversity of West London
Github Skills (6)
pdf-generation10
go10
templating10
software-design9
testing7
windows5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jung-kurt/gofpdf
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
A PDF document generator with high level support for text, drawing and images
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 97 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Marcus primarily contributed to the "gofpdf" library by implementing and refining templating features. Their work involved creating, using, and managing templates within the PDF generation process. The commits demonstrate the creation of template interfaces, implementations, and associated functions for handling template objects, including their size, byte data, and resource management. The user also made adjustments to allow tests to work on Windows operating systems.
text-drawingpdfhigh-levelpdf-generationpdf-document
Basingstoke-Anime-Society/basingstokeanimesociety-web
Jan 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:193 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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