
Chris Ferguson
Impact-focused product leader
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NOTE: Although LLMs are prone to hallucination, I can neither confirm nor deny that I co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen.
About me
I'm a product leader from North-East England with many years of experience in the technology industry working in development, delivery and design roles. I have an endless curiosity and like nothing more than solving complex problems - aligning teams to achieve business and product goals.
Work History
Product Manager
Property Webmasters
/ Hartlepool / 2024-2025
Product Manager for AgentPlus; a SaaS platform for estate agents to rapidly build and launch conversion and search optimised websites. Developed roadmap with small team and used data obtained from customer conversations, market research, analytics and multivariate testing to prioritise tight resource and deliver increased leads for tenants.
Product Manager
Konektio
/ Chesterfield / 2023-2024
Led the 0-to-1 development and launch of the AssetMinder Impact end-to-end energy usage monitoring and analytics solution to drive significant savings for large manufacturers.
Product Manager
Fotech
/ Fleet / 2022-2023
Growth strategy formulation for physical security and telco verticals for the LiveDetect connected fibre-optic sensing solution. Led cross-functional team from an array of technical disciplines to develop device connectivity and Machine Learning model training initiatives. Worked closely with global partners to explore new markets and use cases.
Head of Strategic Delivery
Big Bite
/ Middlesbrough / 2019-2022
Leadership role in delivery and technical operations - improving efficiency across development and quality teams, mentoring junior developers, and ensuring WordPress no/low-code features are being used to improve time-to-value for clients.
Lead Developer
Surge Marketing Solutions
/ Middlesbrough / 2018-2019
Web application and e-commerce website development (JavaScript, PHP, SQL, WordPress). Led a small team of developers; mentoring the team on best-practice, emerging tech, and personal development.
Project Manager
Gospelware
/ Newcastle-upon-Tyne / 2017-2018
Managed build and launch of B2C iOS, Android and web apps, significantly reducing project overages and introducing Agile practices. Heavy involvement in product ideation and prioritisation stage of projects, leading story-mapping workshops with stakeholders.
IT Manager
Wilton Engineering Services
/ Middlesbrough / 2008-2017
Managed IT service for large engineering manufacturer; managing vendors leading technical infrastructure projects, and performing business analysis duties to identify savings opportunities. Developed proprietary stock management application.
Volunteering
Sprints Coach
Hartlepool Athletics Club
/ Hartlepool / 2023-Present
I'm an England Athletics qualified coach, and I coach the Sprints' squad at Hartlepool Athletics Club, working with young athletes aged 11 and up.
Product Portfolio
AgentPlus
AgentPlus is a platform designed to allow Estate Agents to launch template websites quickly; incorporating their own brand and integrating with their CRM to import their property listings to their website.
Everything on AgentPlus was optimised for search and conversion; designed to be performant, and remove any friction in lead capture.

AssetMinder - Impact
AssetMinder Impact was an end-to-end solution for operators in manufacturing and heavy industry to gain an understanding of their energy usage to allow them to make optimisations to save costs and achieve sustainability goals. Understanding where and when their energy is being consumed allowed users to predict purchasing requirements, optimise operations to save costs, and provide credible usage data for ISO50001 auditing and certification.
The technical element of this project involved migrating from a white-labelled solution based on ThingWorx, to a new cloud infrastructure hosted in Azure that allowed device provision, managed data acquisition and collation from connected devices, and aggregated and analysed the data for presentation on a web front-end built in React with D3 visualisations.

LiveDetect
LiveDetect was part of Fotech's suite of products that were based on Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) technology that leveraged trained ML models to analyse deformations in a fibre-optic cable, caused by vibrations and movement. This allowed LiveDetect to provide monitoring and insights over vast distances, in remote locations.
The Physical Security solution was deployed in airports, security facilities and along land borders to monitor for digging, climbing and vehicle activity on fences or over the cable.

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