Product Development Manager
Toronto, Canada Area
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- Product Development Manager at Small World Net
- eCommerce System Manager (contract) at Fastmount Ltd
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- 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 Hick’s Summary
Core strength is to take a vision or idea and form it into a working production ready application from the ground up. 11+ years of experience in total across all facets of web and software development. The last 5 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.
Rowan Hick’s Specialties:
2+ years Ruby on Rails + MySQL. High availability configuration, replicated systems. 5+ years PHP + MySQL. Specialist domain knowledge in complex product configuration. Experience with CAD/CAM systems and complex BOM generation.
Rowan Hick’s Experience
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Product Development Manager
Small World Net
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
November 2007 — Present (11 months)
Product development manager of a Web 2.0 service built with Ruby on Rails. 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.
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eCommerce System Manager (contract)
Fastmount Ltd
(Privately Held; Maritime industry)
June 2005 — Present (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.
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Web Projects Manager & Developer
The Strategic Coach
(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.
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Director
Nerds Inc Limited
(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
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Web Application Developer
Soft Tech NZ Ltd
(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 !
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Web Developer
PDF Communications Ltd
(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
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Project Manager / Senior Business Analyst
Soft Tech NZ Ltd
(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.
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Rowan Hick’s Interests:
Rock Climbing, Mountain Biking, Travel, Woodworking.
Rowan Hick’s Groups:
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Rowan Hick’s Honors:
Nomination for the Hi-Tech Young Achiever of the Year, 1999 by head of NZ Software Association.
Rowan Hick’s Contact Settings
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