CTO at Habitissimo
Palma Area, Spain
- Current
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- CTO at Habitissimo
- CTO at urbArAmA
- Co-founder & CTO at Anywr.com
- Founder - IT Manager at MGC Corporation
- Past
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- Software Engineer at Carson & Brasch
- Web producer at Enpunto Commerce
- Software Developer at Elettro Network Inc.
- Education
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- Universidad de Mendoza
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Martin Caleau’s Summary
I believe web will become increasingly important and a lot can be done to make it work better.
I am extremely passionate about technology, the internet, and how they relate to business and consumers needs. In the past 8 years I have gained experience in the field by working in different IT and internet related projects, undertaking different positions.
I really enjoy managing innovative and interesting internet and mobile business projects.
Martin Caleau’s Specialties:
Project management, people and team management, internet technologies, mobile technologies, professional programming skills in a wide range of platforms and coding languages, business strategy, customer satisfaction, usability.
Martin Caleau’s Experience
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CTO
Habitissimo
(Architecture & Planning industry)
January 2009 — Present (7 months)
Habitissimo is a multinational one-stop shop website for homeowners planning to build or renovate their homes. Its core product is a matching service between homeowners and architects, interior designers or home improvement contractors, making easy for homeowners to find more information about an architect or contractor than just a random name and telephone number in a Yellow Pages directory. Other products are an online magazine providing information and advice on home renovation, a question and answers area, a request for quotation service, and an online catalog of construction materials, architectural and interior design products organized by product and manufacturer.
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urbArAmA
(Architecture & Planning industry)
November 2008 — Present (9 months)
urbArAmA is a web 2.0 Atlas of Architecture and online community for architects and architecture passionates.
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Co-founder & CTO
Anywr.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)
• Co-founded, designed and developed Anywr.com.
• Co-developed conference presentations for Start-up 2.0 in Madrid (where the project was selected among the top 15 out of over 250 applicants), and Essential Web 2007 in London.
• Grew the service from zero contacts managed to almost 200,000 in less than three months.
• Developed more than 50,000 lines of own source code in a wide range of languages: PHP, Advanced JavaScript, AJAX, CSS, Smarty, MySQL, XML, Java, VC++ .NET, etc. Currently translated in almost 6 languages.
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Founder - IT Manager
MGC Corporation
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 1999 — Present (10 years 6 months)
• Developed of business solutions through international software and web site design.
• Marketing and selling products to different places in the world.
• Planned and implemented over 20 projects for clients. Trained those clients once the systems were put in place.
• Some software developed:
--- MGC DJ: Ranked number 1 in its category in download.com. More than 300.000 downloads in 2001. Developed in VB 6.0, VC++. Skins support. Translated in 7 languages. Published in numerous international magazines and newspapers.
--- MGC Cyber Manager (2003, 2004 and 2006) Server-Client: cybercafe
application. Sold and used in over 50 businesses in different countries.
--- Iptinode (2005): iptables module extension developed at Linux Kernel level. Developed in Posix C. GNU License.
--- Obelisk Open Portal (2006): Ajax web portal, netvibes style with more than 20.000 lines of code. Developed using PHP, Smarty, MySQL, Javascript and AJAX. First open source Ajax Portal in spanish. -
Software Engineer
Carson & Brasch
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)
February 2002 — November 2002 (10 months)
Analysis, design and implementation of the Intranet (BlueNET) for business administration. Developed using ASP, MS SQL Server, Stored Procedures, ActiveX for web access, Ms Interdev. Take part of the PepsiCo's outsourced management system.
- Business Chat (2002): Update and re-design of the private messenger software using the Jabber platform, file transfer support, filters and skins. Used by more than 300 employees of the company at Mexico.
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Web producer
Enpunto Commerce
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2001 — February 2002 (1 year 2 months)
Development of a complete e-commerce solution through a website (sales and training of e-Marketing courses). Developed in ASP using MS SQL Server, SSL and MLM structure. Winner of the Gold Market 2001 award.
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Software Developer
Elettro Network Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
September 2000 — March 2001 (7 months)
• Analyzed the requirements of the company and developed a customized version of the MGC DJ: Elettro Network Edition.
• Managed the restructuring of the web site.
• Software published in about 1000 promotional CDs.
Martin Caleau’s Education
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Universidad de Mendoza
Software Engineer , 2000 — 2004
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Martin Caleau’s Interests:
Business, Entrepreneurship, New technologies, Business development, International development, Social development, web 2.0, Learning and discovering new things, Music (composer - piano), Travelling, Movies
Martin Caleau’s Honors:
Graduated with honors.
European Startup 2.0 Finalist (http://www.startup2.eu)
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