Software Product Exec / CTO / VP Engineering
London, United Kingdom
- Current
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- VP Custom Solutions, International Markets at Yahoo!
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- VP Engineering at Yahoo
- Head of Development at Misys Banking Systems
- Technical Director at Talgentra Ltd
- Head of Development at SRC
- Technical Director at Thales e-Transactions
- R&D Director at Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd
- Education
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- PhD (Computer Science)
- BSc (Computer Science, First Class)
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Tim O'Donoghue’s Summary
Tim is a software executive with nearly 20 years experience in software engineering and software product development; this experience has been gained in a broad range of industries and technical environments.
He is currently VP Custom Solutions at Yahoo, and is responsible for advertiser and partner solutions in all markets outside of North America; previously at Yahoo, Tim was VP Engineering for Europe and Canada.
Prior to working in the internet, Tim worked in a broad range of businesses including: banking and financial services, enterprise software, speech recognition IVR solutions, embedded real-time applications and high-tech R&D.
Having experience in both large international corporations running geographically-distributed teams, and in smaller, early-stage companies where a more “hands on” approach may be needed, Tim is equally comfortable managing “in the large” as he is managing “in the small” and can adapt his approach accordingly.
In addition to his technical expertise, Tim is also experienced in general business management and he typically represents the technical interests of the business in the senior management teams of the companies in which he works.
Tim was educated at the University of Leeds in the UK where he obtained both a BSc and PhD in Computer Science, the latter focusing on computational linguistics and statistical natural language processing.
Tim O'Donoghue’s Specialties:
Building and leading high performance product development teams; product and technical strategy; bringing agility to larger, more mature organizations; adding structure to smaller less mature organizations; turning around problematic programmes and teams; continuous improvement and transformational change; controlling chaos.
Tim O'Donoghue’s Experience
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VP Custom Solutions, International Markets
Yahoo!
(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)
May 2009 — Present (7 months)
Tim is responsible for delivering "custom solutions" for Yahoo's advertisers and partners in all markets outside of North America (Europe, Asia and Emerging Markets). He has product and engineering teams based in the US, Europe (UK, France, Spain), India, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea and Brazil.
Custom solutions comprises:
* custom branded solutions which are integrated into Yahoo's properties and "one off" promotional properties designed to engage a specific audience;
* custom advertising solutions (targeting, analytics and insights) to enable Yahoo's advertisers to address a targeted audience; and
* custom partner solutions, supporting both strategic partnerships (such as Yahoo's broadband partners) and the "audience channel" partners. -
VP Engineering
Yahoo
(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)
October 2007 — April 2009 (1 year 7 months)
Tim led Yahoo's engineering teams in Europe and Canada and was responsible for a mix of both regional and global product engineering.
Regional properties include the various portals (e.g. xx.yahoo.com) and media properties (e.g. News, Finance, Sports, etc) for all of the European and Canadian markets. On the global side, the most notable property which is both built and operated from Europe is “Yahoo Answers”; Answers is the 4th largest property in the Yahoo network and has global audience of ~130 million monthly unique visitors who perform over 1.5 billion page views every month.
In addition to leading the Engineering function, Tim was also a member of the management team which runs Yahoo’s European business. -
Head of Development
Misys Banking Systems
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; MSY.L; Computer Software industry)
August 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 2 months)
Misys plc is a UK-headquartered global application software and services provider for the banking and healthcare industries. Tim worked in the banking business and was initially responsible for the J2EE re-engineering of Misys’s retail banking solution and led a team of 150+ software engineers based both in the UK and India.
Latterly Tim was responsible for the development of BankFusion, Misys's next-generation core banking platform which underpinned future product development strategy across all of Misys’s banking markets (universal, retail, wholesale, treasury and capital markets). Tim had teams in Ireland, Germany and India. -
Technical Director
Talgentra Ltd
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2004 — July 2006 (2 years )
Talgentra was a privately-held, UK-headquartered company providing “customer revenue management” software solutions and services globally.
As Technical Director Tim was responsible for Tallyman, Talgentra's revenue management and collection enterprise solution; this business has since been acquired by Experian Decision Analytics. In addition to the product management and software development of Tallyman, Tim was also responsible for Talgentra’s technical strategy, including IT strategy and operations. The broad remit of Technical Director encompassed three main roles: Tallyman Product Director, Software Engineering Director and IT Director.
Tim had teams in the UK and Malaysia, the latter off-shore team being built from scratch. -
Head of Development
SRC
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2003 — July 2004 (1 year )
SRC, the Speech Recognition Company, is a privately-held, UK-headquartered company providing speech recognition solutions. SRC’s telephony business – SRC Telecom – was acquired by Fluency Voice Technology (who have subsequently been acquired by Syntellect).
As Head of Development for SRC Telecom, Tim was responsible developing SRC’s speech application hosting platform and delivering speech recognition solutions (both packaged “white label” and bespoke) to automate traditional human-led, call centre applications. -
Technical Director
Thales e-Transactions
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2001 — March 2003 (1 year 7 months)
Thales e-Transactions developed secure electronic payment solutions; the e-Transactions business has since been sold by Thales Group to Hypercom.
As Technical Director, Tim was responsible for product development in the UK focusing on EMV IC card handling and new product development for the launch of “Chip and PIN” in the UK markets. He was also a member of the management team which ran the e-Transactions business for Thales in the UK. -
R&D Director
Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CAJ; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1991 — August 2001 (9 years 11 months)
Canon Research Centre Europe, a UK subsidiary of Canon Inc., focused on applied high-tech R&D in software technology areas as diverse as speech recognition, image processing, 3D modeling, natural language processing, information retrieval and internet technologies.
As R&D Director, Tim was responsible for all research and development undertaken in the UK centre, the primary customer of which was Canon Inc in Tokyo.
Prior to becoming Director Tim held various positions at Canon including:
• Technology Strategy Manager, where he was responsible for the overall R&D portfolio and key account management;
• General Manager of the Internet Solutions Team, where he “put Canon on the web” by launching and operating www.canon.com and www.canon-europa.com (for Canon’s European HQ);
• Research Scientist, where he led the development and deployment of a patented “translation memory” workflow system which was used by Canon to localise all European product documentation.
Tim O'Donoghue’s Education
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PhD (Computer Science)
University of Leeds, UK 1988 — 1991
Thesis topic: statistical NLP (natural language processing)
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BSc (Computer Science, First Class)
University of Leeds, UK 1984 — 1988
Jointly awarded annual "Babbage-Lovelace" Prize for best CS degree
