Mark Riddell
Head Of Programmes at Various
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMark Riddell is a seasoned programme and project leader with 11 years of experience, now serving as Head of Programmes at Leonardo in Edinburgh. He combines an engineering and physics background (BSc Edinburgh, MSc UCL in Engineering Management) with deep delivery experience across defence and aerospace programmes, bid management and systems engineering. Over two decades at organisations including Selex, BAE and Leonardo he’s progressed from systems engineer and bid manager to senior programme leadership, consistently turning complex technical requirements into deliverable plans. Colleagues rely on his blend of technical credibility and commercial acumen to steer multi-disciplinary teams and large-scale bids to success. Outside work he’s an experienced BASI Level 2 snowboard instructor, a role that reflects his hands-on coaching style and appetite for practical problem solving under pressure. He describes himself on GitHub as a “shotgun surgeon,” hinting at a pragmatic, wide-ranging skillset that tackles problems across technical and programme boundaries.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Hons, Physics, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Hons, Physics at The University of EdinburghUniversity College London
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Github Skills (38)
viewer10
coffeescript10
har10
zammad10
javascript9
ruby9
rails9
photo9
nas9
mhealth9
exif8
endpoint-security7
photography7
python7
docker7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MacroPolo/harshark
Aug 2017 - Oct 2018
Harshark - A simple offline HAR viewer built with Python.
Contributions:137 commits, 22 PRs, 67 pushes in 1 year 2 months
viewerpythonofflinehar
MacroPolo/harshark-dev
Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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