Stephan Tual

Current

• Technical Director at 5one

Past

• Technical Director at SiteJourney
• Founder at Terapad.com
• Training Manager at Highlander PLC, London

• Chief Technical Officer / Partner at design:pacific, Philippines
• Senior Media Application Developer / Team Lead at Roundpeg, San Francisco, CA
• Internet Services Manager at Highlander Soft. LTD, London, UK
• Co-Manager at RT-Production, Paris, France

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Education

• Institut Franco-Américain de Management

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Websites

• My Company

Stephan Tual’s Summary

I am 5one's Technical Director, where I hold the overall responsibility for the day to day running and security of the technical infrastructure.

Until March 2008 and as Terapad.com's Founder and Technical Director, I grew the company from a startup in August 2004, to today where it now operates over 10,000 websites in 156 countries including national landmarks such as the world-famous Cutty Sark. I single-handedly wrote the application that is now ZDNET's highest rated web publishing and Content Management solution, winning the Editor's Choice award and surpassing Microsoft Expression Web, Dreamweaver, WordPress, etc. in their December 07 review (http://tinyurl.com/yttre9).

Prior to launching Terapad I acted as Macromedia's (now Adobe) Regional Master Certified Instructor for the UK. During that time I have provided consulting services on scalability, security and programming for a broad range of over 50 prestigious companies, including BT OpenWorld, Cable & Wireless, Churchill Insurance, GMTV, the Royal Air Force and the Department of Defense.

Stephan Tual’s Specialties:

I have 11 years of extensive experience in client and partners' management, solution selling, complex project delivery, business development and technical sales. I also hold a far-reaching technical background, including developing dozens of enterprise-level web applications for companies such as Creative Labs and Mobil Oil.

As an EU citizen who worked in the US, France and England, I am open to regular and international travel.

Stephan Tual’s Experience

• Technical Director

  5one

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)

  As 5one's Technical Director, I have the overall responsibility for the day to day running and security of the 5one technical infrastructure. This includes data handling, systems design and architecture as well as system maintenance for both internal users and external client users.
  
  Responsibilities:
  
  • Managing the Operation team
  • Overall systems design and technical infrastructure strategy
  • Day to day running and overall security of the 5one technical infrastructure
  • Client liaison on technical issues and data transfer
  • Disaster recovery and back up strategy
  • IT Support
  • Raw data management
  • Maintenance of servers and server room
  • Software upgrades and licensing
  • Technical service levels (internal and client facing)
  
  Clients include BP (UK, Germany, Spain, Poland, Portugal), Boots, Iceland, Woolworths South Africa, Game, Marionnaud, Modelo Continente, The Co-operative and American Express.

• Technical Director

  SiteJourney

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

  September 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 7 months)

  In September 2006 the Terapad.com software was transferred to SiteJourney Ltd. As Technical Director, I headed SiteJourney's strategic vision, architecture, software development and operations.
  
  During my tenure at SiteJourney Ltd, our flagship product Terapad continued to receive positive reviews from both the press and its rapidly growing user base. These reviews can be consulted at http://www.terapad.com/press/.
  
  My responsibilities included strategic and technical management, project/program management, coordinating teams, research planning, user experience, technical build/implementation and liaising with System Integrators and ISVs.
  
  I also implemented and overview our Reseller program, managing and leveraging relationships with our resellers network, running partner events, building alliance strategies with web, design, marketing and creative agencies of all sizes.

• Founder

  Terapad.com

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 2 months)

  As Terapad's Founder, I took the company from inception to hosting over 10,000 websites in 156 countries. Terapad offers a hosted online publishing and e-commerce solution to SMBs, encompassing over 400 features as part of one coherent, secure and scalable offering.
  
  During this time I single handedly deployed the large-scale, always-on Terapad architecture and built the application using: UML, Java, OOP/MVC, ColdFusion, MySQL, JavaScript (AJAX), xHTML, CSS and XML. Terapad scales to 2M page views/day per off-the-shelf server, and is clustered and load-balanced as a J2EE application (using JRUN) to scale near-linearly.
  
  While growing the company from initial launch to a continuous release cycle, I leveraged my ties in the web 2.0 community to garner press coverage, business relationships, word of mouth marketing and overall traction. I handled all marketing, sales, distribution channels and strategic alliances with external suppliers and ISVs in a rapidly expanding environment.

• Training Manager

  Highlander PLC, London

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

  March 2003 — February 2005 (2 years )

  - In charge of coordinating the training department, including our internal trainers and contractors.
  - Provided consulting services on ColdFusion, Scalability and Rich Internet Applications for a dozen high-profile clients, both on and off-site. Companies included BT Open World and PIPEX, as well as governmental agencies such as the Dental Practice Board, the DOD and the RAF.
  - Taught to more than 150 companies, both on-site and in-house, on a vast array of courses, including Sun Java SL110, SL265 and SL275, Advanced ColdFusion and CF Server Administration.
  - As the Regional Master Macromedia (now Adobe) Certified Instructor for the UK, I also “trained the trainer” and Macromedia’s staff itself on many occasions.
  - Developed the calendaring system, including scheduling operations both on-site and in-house, sales tracking, delegate tracking, trainer management, holiday management and statistic.

• Chief Technical Officer / Partner

  design:pacific, Philippines

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

  August 2001 — November 2004 (3 years 4 months)

  - As the CTO of design:pacific, I was managing the IT department and put in place its global technology strategy.
  - Developed 7 phases Internet Application Lifecycle management process that was used on every design:pacific project.
  - Managed day-to-day IS infrastructure and planning, managing a staff of 5, evaluating Java and ColdFusion solutions.
  - Handled technical sales, demonstrating how our products could meet our customers' needs. Gathered customer specific requirements to improve the application development roadmaps.
  - Supervised the development of prototypes solutions demonstrating the capabilities of dynamic web applications.
  - Architected, built and deployed various ColdFusion websites and their respective administration interfaces.
  - Managed relationships with remote development team based in Australia.
  - Negotiated hosting services with data centers and Independent Software Vendors.

• Senior Media Application Developer / Team Lead

  Roundpeg, San Francisco, CA

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

  January 2000 — April 2001 (1 year 4 months)

  - Acted as Technical Lead on a variety of high profile CFML / dHTML projects with clients including Mobil Oil, TUMI luggage and Creative labs.
  - Lead and coordinated teams of between 2 and 5 coders.
  - Developed advanced features for the above sites using ColdFusion Enterprise Server 4.0+, Fusebox 3, SQL Server 7 and Oracle 8+ on both Windows NT and Sun Solaris environments.
  - Participated in the application architecture, deployment and support processes.
  - Developed dynamic WAP applications for the Roundpeg Intranet and some of our international clients.
  - Presented the ‘Introduction to WAP and WML’ session at the Allaire DevCon 2000 to 300 delegates.

• Internet Services Manager

  Highlander Soft. LTD, London, UK

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

  November 1998 — July 1999 (9 months)

  - Ran and coordinated the Internet Service department, including technical build, hosting, support and technical sales.
  - Provided Technical pre-sales and on-site demonstrations for our top 5% customers, including First Telecom, and Virgin Net.
  - Designed, programmed and maintained a dozen+ web applications, on-line shopping systems and administration interfaces.
  - Designed and developed mikrofax-sw, a WDDX/DHTML port of a purchasing management system originally developed in Visual Basic by one of our partners, and currently used by customers like Bank of America, Visa International and the British Council.

• Co-Manager

  RT-Production, Paris, France

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  June 1996 — June 1998 (2 years 1 month)

  - Co-Founded the Web design and hosting company R.T. Production.
  - Coordinated the accounting, administrative, technical and commercial aspects of the company.
  - Analyzed customers needs, developed bids and presented proposals.
  - Architected and programmed the GAEL software, an electronic commerce solution offering order processing, storefront creation and inventory management.
  - Designed and implemented in the Ile-de-France region the C-WATCH software, a web-based car inventory management system using ColdFusion 2.x, dHTML and JavaScript
  - Designed, developed and advertised seven other web sites, including one for BMW, with extensive use of dynamic HTML and JavaScript.
  - Provided system and network troubleshooting for our clients. Awarded for high quality service and expense savings on the telecommunication network of BMW JB Holding.

Stephan Tual’s Education

• Institut Franco-Américain de Management

  Economics 1995

  After a few months of experiencing college life, I secured funding from one of my fellow students and co-founded my first Internet company, RT-Production.

Additional Information

Stephan Tual’s Websites:

• My Company

Stephan Tual’s Groups:

•    Team Allaire Alumni

Stephan Tual’s Honors:

Macromedia (now Adobe) Regional Master Certified Instructor for the UK 2003 - 2005.

- Sun Certified Programmer (score: 88%) (J2SE 1.4)
- ISEB/BCS Foundation Certificate in Software Testing
- Macromedia ColdFusion Certified Advanced Programmer (score: 82%)
- Macromedia Flash Certified Developer (score: 82%)

Officially certified to teach over 20 curricula, including:

- SL275 : Java programming Language
- SL265 : Java for structured programmers
- SL110 : Fundamentals of the Java Language
- MYSQL: Using and Managing MySQL
- FTCF : Fast Track to CFMX
- ACFD : Advanced CF Development
- CFAD : Developing CF Applications with Dreamweaver MX
- CFADMIN : CF Admin
- FRMD : Macr. Flash MX 2004: Rich Media Design
- FLAD : Macr. Flash MX 2004: Application Development
- FAAD : Macr. Flash 2004: Advanced App Development
- FPAD : Macr. Flash MX 2004: App Dev for Programmers
- DWWD : Macr. Dreamweaver MX 2004: Website Dev
- DWDA : Macr. Dreamweaver MX 2004: Dynamic App Dev

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