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Previous Experience

schuh

Large-scale retail technology, ecommerce, loyalty systems and search modernisation, developed during Dave's 14 years within schuh's technology team.

Client

schuh

Category

Retail Technology & Ecommerce

Type

Previous Experience

The Challenge

Serious technology, at national retail scale.

schuh needed to support ecommerce, loyalty and search technology at national retail scale, serving more than a million loyalty members and a significant share of weekly sales, while keeping systems reliable, fast and adaptable as the business grew.

What Was Needed

Systems that could keep up with the business.

  • Reliable, scalable ecommerce and retail systems
  • Loyalty technology supporting more than one million members
  • Modern, fast product and site search
  • Integrations across internal and third-party systems
  • Ongoing platform development and support

Our Approach

Fourteen years inside the technology.

Over 14 years, Dave worked across schuh's technology environment, contributing to the systems behind ecommerce, loyalty, search and core retail operations — including planning, building and supporting business-critical platforms used daily by customers and colleagues.

Technology & Services Used

C# .NET SQL Server Elasticsearch Azure APIs & Integrations CMS Platforms Background Processing

Solution

Search modernisation and platform development.

This included migrating search technology from SQL-based search to Elasticsearch, improving product discovery and site performance, alongside ongoing development of loyalty, ecommerce and retail systems.

Results & Impact

Technology that ran at the heart of the business.

1M+

Loyalty members supported

60%+

Weekly sales connected to supported systems

14

Years of continuous platform development

These figures relate to Dave's previous professional experience at schuh, not BettaSites client results.

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