Director of Technology, Mosaic Interactive
Toronto, Canada Area
Director of Technology, Mosaic Interactive
Toronto, Canada Area
Core strength is to take a vision or idea and form it into a working production ready application from the ground up. The ability interface between clients and dev teams - add and assist defining strategy and what technology suits, then get it into a completed product. Rare ability to speak to two audiences, both the business audience and the development teams.
12+ years of experience in total across all facets of web and software development. The last 6 years focused on Web Application Development in open source technologies, built on a solid 6 years of experience in QA, Business Analysis and Project Management roles. Proponent of Agile development.
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Please don't contact me for RoR developer positions or referring people to said positions. I'm Director of Technology for an interactive/creative division and thus far more likely to be hiring RoR positions than vice versa! - that's not an invitation to get bombarded by recruiters wanting to hire for me either ;) however if you are a RoR developer in Toronto feel free to connect as you never know what may spring up in future.
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Design & architecture of community based web sites and functionally complex web sites/applications. System architecture of high availability, replicated systems. Specialist domain knowledge in complex product configuration. Experience with CAD/CAM systems and complex BOM generation. 3+ years Ruby on Rails based sites, 6+ years PHP. Flex, AIR and various other technologies.
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
(Internet industry)
November 2007 — September 2008 (11 months)
Lead a web team in taking a prototype Web 2.0 service built with Ruby on Rails successfully into production. Day to day includes: Rails development, management of development schedules, team and general project management. Development of hosting infrastructure for a high availability, redundant system. Technologies: Rails, MySQL, Apache, OS X, Unix Servers.
(Maritime industry)
June 2005 — September 2008 (3 years 4 months)
Ongoing management and development of a b2b ecommerce system for this award winning NZ Marine startup. System facilitates global purchasing with complex pricing structures, order management, customer management and shipping rules. Current system in PHP/MySQL, live for over 2 years. Development of new Rails/Merb system.
(Management Consulting industry)
February 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 10 months)
Management of web projects & web team. Lead developer for Ruby On Rails based web infrastructure. Key success include leveraging legacy database through Rails to add a successful client 'portal', upskilling and streamling web development team / processes, implementing Rails based infrastructure.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
June 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 1 month)
Web Application development and consulting. Interface design and development. Project Management and Business Analysis for medium to large Web Application projects. Technologies : PHP, MySQL, Flash, Flex, Linux
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2005 — January 2006 (9 months)
On contract for desing/build/rollout/support of inhouse web applications. Delivered two PHP/MySQL web applications, one for management of software installation base, other for systems management. Integrated with existing .NET systems through web services. Time well spent !
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
February 2003 — May 2005 (2 years 4 months)
PHP Web Application Development (sole developer) from small sites through to large user base content management systems. Management of small hosting environment
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 1996 — February 2003 (6 years 4 months)
Started at the ground floor and worked over 6 years through QA, Business Analsys and ultimately Project Management, working on a 3D CAD/CAM/CAE Enterprise applicator for the Window and Door industry, mainly in commericial sector in the US.
Rock Climbing, Mountain Biking, Travel, Woodworking.
Rails community
Nomination for the Hi-Tech Young Achiever of the Year, 1999 by head of NZ Software Association.