Michael Reid
Chief Executive Officer at Average Dad Enterprises
Greater Edinburgh Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichael Reid is a Learning & Development leader turned CEO with a decade of experience designing training, coaching and digital skills programs across public sector and financial services. He led L&D at the Scottish Parliament and managed learning initiatives at Royal Blind, Care Inspectorate and RBS, translating complex regulatory and operational needs into practical, learner-centred solutions. Comfortable at the intersection of people and technology, he has hands-on experience developing digital learning and even contributed back-end code to an open-source linear optimization project (HiGHS), demonstrating technical curiosity beyond HR functions. Based in the Greater Edinburgh Area with an HNC in Business Administration, he combines strategic programme leadership with a pragmatic, coaching-first approach to organisational capability building.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Hnc, Business Administration and Management, General, Hnc, Business Administration and Management, General at Edinburgh College
Github Skills (3)
cprogramming-language10
c-language10
file-parsing10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ERGO-Code/HiGHS
Oct 2018 - Oct 2022
Linear optimization software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 308 commits, 99 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Michael's commits focus on implementing and integrating a file reader for the HiGHS linear optimization software. They have developed classes and methods related to reading models from .lp files, including parsing section keywords and handling objective functions. The contributions also include defining various token types and integrating new .lp reader classes. Furthermore, they have also started the implementation of a .mps file writer.
simplexparalleloptimizationlinearmixed-integer-programming
feldmeier/FilereaderLP
Mar 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:29 commits, 5 pushes, 2 comments in 1 year 1 month
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