Andy Mayer

Current

Technical Director at Socialware Limited
Managing Director at andymayer.net Ltd

Past

Freelance web developer (Self-employed)
Senior Developer, Copenhagen at Juize A/S
Senior Systems Consultant at Columbus IT Partner

Graduate programmer/analyst at British Steel

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Education

The University of Salford
John Leggott Sixth Form College

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Industry

Internet

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Andy Mayer’s Summary

Entrepreneur and business owner with over 15 years experience in the industry, covering a mix of international project management, software design and development. Specialist in exploiting social software, enterprise 2.0 and open source technologies.

Andy Mayer’s Specialties:

Technical project management, UI design, Web 2.0 strategy, online communities, collaboration and social networking. Ruby on Rails, Google Android, OpenSocial and Facebook.

Andy Mayer’s Experience

Technical Director

Socialware Limited

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

* Responsible for startup specialising in mobile social networking
* Won R&D grant for innovation with support from BBC, Channel 4 and Orange
Managing Director

andymayer.net Ltd

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

October 2004 — Present (4 years 10 months)

* Owner manager of small but growing web 2.0 software consultancy - currently five employees
* specialising in social apps and UI design
* Ruby on Rails
Freelance web developer

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2002 — October 2004 (2 years 10 months)

* Freelance web development using MySql, PHP, Linux
Senior Developer, Copenhagen

Juize A/S

(Internet industry)

June 2000 — January 2002 (1 year 8 months)

* Java and Oracle development of mobile internet apps
* Responsible for managing team of Java developers spread over three continents
* Riding the first dot com boom :-)
Senior Systems Consultant

Columbus IT Partner

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 1998 — May 2000 (2 years 4 months)

* Presales consultant working with Microsoft Dynamics AX
* Responsible for development of proprietary international project implementation method (similar to PRINCE2)
Graduate programmer/analyst

British Steel

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1992 — February 1998 (5 years 7 months)