James Fitzsimons

Current

• Managing Director at BeforeYouBuy Limited
• Development Manager at Starnow

Past

• Head of Esprit Technology at GLG Partners
• Software Developer at Intergen
• Senior Consultant at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

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Education

• Victoria University of Wellington

Connections

45 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog

James Fitzsimons’s Summary

Software Engineer and entrepreneur with a particular interest in web technologies and e-commerce. Always interested in new business opportunities, especially those with a web focus.

James Fitzsimons’s Specialties:

.NET & C# 1.1 - 3.5, ASP.NET, XML, HTML, CSS, Javascript, MooTools, AJAX, Spring.NET, NHibernate, Lucene.NET, MySQL, MS SQL Server, Mono, Linux (ubuntu and debian).

James Fitzsimons’s Experience

• Managing Director

  BeforeYouBuy Limited

  (Privately Held; Consumer Services industry)

  2009 — Present (less than a year)

  BeforeYouBuy is an online shopping comparison site exclusively targeting the New Zealand market.
  
  We provide high quality product data and sophisticated comparison capabilities to assist consumers choose the product they want, as well as where they choose to purchase from.

• Development Manager

  Starnow

  (Internet industry)

  October 2009 — Present (2 months)

  Website development and architecture.
  Infrastructure management and maintenance.
  Build and manage development team.

• Head of Esprit Technology

  GLG Partners

  (Partnership; Investment Management industry)

  September 2004 — March 2009 (4 years 7 months)

  I ran a team who built and maintained a quantitative electronic trading system.

• Software Developer

  Intergen

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2002 — March 2004 (2 years )

• Senior Consultant

  Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CAP; Management Consulting industry)

  January 2000 — April 2002 (2 years 4 months)

James Fitzsimons’s Education

• Victoria University of Wellington

  BSc/BCA , Computer Science, Management, Marketing , 1996 — 1999

Additional Information

James Fitzsimons’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog

James Fitzsimons’s Interests:

Fly Fishing, Technology, Mountain Biking, Robotics

James Fitzsimons’s Groups:

•    Victoria University of Wellington Alumni

James Fitzsimons’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• new ventures
• job inquiries
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