CEO and Founder, Codevio
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Founder and CEO at Codevio
- Founder and data editor at Internet Movie Database (IMDb.com)
- Past
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- Founder and CTO at Home Media Networks Limited
- Java contractor at 3Com
- Senior Software Engineer at Shiva Europe Limited
- Software Engineer at Spider software
- Education
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- University of Strathclyde
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Colin Tinto’s Summary
CEO of Codevio
Started 3 companies, 2 of which have ended through a successful trade sale. Now building the third, Codevio, up into a premier provider of software design services and consultancy to the digital media industry, covering both PC and Consumer Electronic sectors.
Broad experience of starting, building and running companies, including producing business plans, financial models, fund raising, market research, competitive analysis, project planning, project management and product design. Experienced CTO or technically focused CEO, with excellent day to day man management and project planning skills.
Current role includes building a network of contacts and clients, while scoping out work for existing clients and managing projects already under way.
Always interested in the latest technology and looking to expand through interesting contracts and consulting opportunities.
Colin Tinto’s Specialties:
Project planning, project management, product & UI design, company start-up, fundraising, trade sale, competitive analysis, market research.
Colin Tinto’s Experience
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Founder and CEO
Codevio
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)
Started Codevio to provide software consultancy and design services to companies working with digital media, primarily on the PC, but also in the Consumer Electronic space. I have been responsible for building a network of contacts and clients, as well as scoping out customer projects, and then managing the projects through to successful delivery, on time and on budget. I have also carried out general consultancy work for clients developing new CE products for worldwide markets.
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Founder and data editor
Internet Movie Database (IMDb.com)
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
1992 — Present (16 years)
Started working with a remote group of indviduals when there was no such thing as the world wide web, helping put together a small database of movies for the rec.arts.movies Usenet newsgroup. This small database gradually developed into one of the world's first commercial websites, and became a real company, earning revenue from advertising. Not long after it went commercial, the company was acquired by Amazon.com to help flesh out their new video store.
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Founder and CTO
Home Media Networks Limited
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2000 — December 2005 (5 years 11 months)
As one of the founders of this start up company I started in the position of CEO, and successfully raised over £1.5 million in funding, despite starting out just after the dot com crash. With my 2 other co-founders we developed a product called ShowShifter, the first 'media centre' application for the PC, and sold it through a number of channels, including direct sales and OEM. The product won many prestigious awards over the years, and was selected by HP Europe as their main media application for all of their PCs aimed at the home market. HMN also carried out a number of bespoke developments for the likes of AMD, Micronas and Intel.
My roles at HMN were wide and varied, and included product design, coding, project planning, team management, sales, business development and strategic planning. I was also heavily involved in the successful trade sale of Home Media Networks in 2005. -
Java contractor
3Com
(Public Company; Computer Networking industry)
January 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 8 months)
Provided Java development services for a network management tool.
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Senior Software Engineer
Shiva Europe Limited
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)
1995 — 1998 (3 years)
Designed/developed PC and UNIX based network management software for managing/monitoring Shiva’s (and Spider’s) range of dial-in remote access and WAN internetworking product. At Shiva worked on team who provided one of the world's first commercially available Java based applications, Shiva Configurator.
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Software Engineer
Spider software
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)
1992 — 1995 (3 years)
Spider Software was acquired by Shiva Europe Limited - see above.
Colin Tinto’s Education
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University of Strathclyde
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, 1988 — 1992
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