Rowan Malling

Director of Technology, Mosaic Interactive

Toronto, Canada Area

Current
  • Director of Technology, Mosaic Interactive at Mosaic Sales Solutions
Past
  • Product Development Manager at Small World Net
  • eCommerce System Manager (contract) at Fastmount Ltd
  • Web Projects Manager & Developer at The Strategic Coach
  • Director at Nerds Inc Limited
  • Web Application Developer at Soft Tech NZ Ltd
  • Web Developer at PDF Communications Ltd
  • Project Manager / Senior Business Analyst at Soft Tech NZ Ltd
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Rowan Malling’s Summary

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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Rowan Malling’s Specialties:

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.


Rowan Malling’s Experience

  • Director of Technology, Mosaic Interactive

    Mosaic Sales Solutions

    (Marketing and Advertising industry)

    September 2008Present (1 year 3 months)

  • Product Development Manager

    Small World Net

    (Internet industry)

    November 2007September 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.

  • eCommerce System Manager (contract)

    Fastmount Ltd

    (Maritime industry)

    June 2005September 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.

  • Web Projects Manager & Developer

    The Strategic Coach

    (Management Consulting industry)

    February 2006November 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.

  • Director

    Nerds Inc Limited

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    June 2005June 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

  • Web Application Developer

    Soft Tech NZ Ltd

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    May 2005January 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 !

  • Web Developer

    PDF Communications Ltd

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

    February 2003May 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

  • Project Manager / Senior Business Analyst

    Soft Tech NZ Ltd

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    November 1996February 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.


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Rowan Malling’s Interests:

Rock Climbing, Mountain Biking, Travel, Woodworking.

Rowan Malling’s Groups:

Rails community

  •    Ruby on Rails
  •    DemoCamp
  •    Experiential Marketing
  •    Merb

Rowan Malling’s Honors:

Nomination for the Hi-Tech Young Achiever of the Year, 1999 by head of NZ Software Association.


Rowan Malling’s Contact Settings

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