Head of Technology at Charanga
Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Head of Technology at Charanga
- Director at Remote Matters - web and internet consultancy building Rails and Facebook applications
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- Co-Founder & CTO at Snipperoo
- Co-Founder at Go-Du - an IPTV startup
- Head of Software Development at Press Red
- Co-founder at Future Platforms
- Senior Developer at Tui
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Jay Caines-Gooby’s Summary
A multi-faceted technologist with over a decade of experience and an excellent practical and commercial understanding of the web, internet, mobile and interactive TV.
Jay Caines-Gooby’s Specialties:
In-depth practical experience of all aspects of internet development; both client and server-side, server architecture, database architecture and development, client-side UI development, information architecture and usability
Commercial skills include business plan and report authoring, new business development and start-up fundraising.
Jay Caines-Gooby’s Experience
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Head of Technology
Charanga
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Music industry)
January 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)
Charanga publish music-teaching software. I architected and built a Ruby-on-Rails music e-learning system that is sold into thousands of schools across England. I’ve recently recruited and grown the team to three people.
In addition to our online product, I’ve been responsible for exploring affiliate and vertical-market opportunities, defining a revenue-generating strategy for 250 idle dot-com domains and the technology to manage this. I’m introducing analytics, blogging, affiliates, widgets and social networking as core components of our online model. -
Director
Remote Matters - web and internet consultancy building Rails and Facebook applications
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)
March 2006 — Present (2 years 6 months)
Ruby on Rails web development and Facebook application consultancy and development
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Co-Founder & CTO
Snipperoo
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
May 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 2 months)
Snipperoo is a seed stage startup that deals with the management of microcontent within web sites.
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Co-Founder
Go-Du - an IPTV startup
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
November 2005 — August 2006 (10 months)
We were licensing HomeChoice's IPTV platform to exploit a specific demographic and geographic audience. HomeChoice's merger with Tiscali has ended this opportunity.
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Head of Software Development
Press Red
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2002 — March 2006 (3 years 8 months)
Joined Press Red as sole developer in August 2002. My code played a pivotal role in Press Red raising over £500,000 in venture capital.
We were generating revenue by December 2003 and had a near 100% share of the interactive advertising (i-Ad) creation market on Sky, in the UK.
I architected the development and recruited and led the team of software engineers and testers.
Press Red additionally had an interactive TV consulting arm where I acted as technical consultant to the business
development team. My involvement included:
• A new games channel on Sky for a games publisher
• A content management system and churn tool for The Community Channel (a digital TV broadcaster)
• ABBA – a generic interface to Sky’s ABB platform churn tool
• Transport for London journey planner on Sky Active.
• Broadband streaming video website for the Community Channel
• Cable service for Community Channel
• BBCi Bridge to WTVML linking application -
Co-founder
Future Platforms
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2000 — August 2002 (2 years 1 month)
Co-founder of emerging-platforms agency, specialising in interactive TV, mobile and PDA tools and services.
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Senior Developer
Tui
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)
April 1995 — August 2000 (5 years 5 months)
Tui is a london-based interactive design agency.
Founded in 1993 and working across all forms of new media including Internet developments, interactive television, airline entertainment systems, mobile communications, in-store promotions and kiosks, I was involved in some way in most of the projects during my tenure.
Key developments included DaftPunk.com and Halifax.co.uk
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Jay Caines-Gooby’s Honors:
* New Media Age Effectiveness Awards, 2004. Shortlisted for Best New Business
* New Media Age Effectiveness Awards, 2001. Pocket Doctor; winner of “Health” category
*Banking Technology’s Technology for Retail Banking, 1998; Halifax ‘Branch of the Future’
