Bachelor’s Degree

High School

Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Chief Technology Officer

🔸 Technical advisory. Engaged in the capacity of planning, architecture, implementation, deployment and validation of complex technical solutions. This function has most typically been exercised in the context of startups kicking off seed round investment and driving forward through subsequent rounds towards scale-up. 🚀
🔸 Fractional executive consulting. Assisting organisations to hone strategy, focus vision and distil it all into a highly effective, executable plan. Optimisating resource utilisation for the purpose of maximising outputs "that move the needle". 📈
🔸 Scale-up strategist. Increasingly activated for counsel at the scale-up phase for the purpose of plotting a course for fledgling startups to break into the big leagues. 🏌️
🔸 Engineering contracts. Frequent execution of short-term and ad-hoc contract work in tandem with ongoing primary employment. Providing fantastic opportunities to dive deep on a wide variety of cutting edge languages and frameworks. 🧑🏻‍💻

Worthy 

Senior/Lead Software Engineer, Technical & Strategic Consultant

Managing a fast-growing team of talented software developers, spread across a handful of wildly different projects. Some items I'll tackle on a weekly basis include:

🔹 Cross-silo meetings for aligning software goals with business goals.
🔹 Weekly scrums reconciling past, ongoing, and future development items across the team.
🔹 Roadmapping development items to limit blockers and enable quasi-precise projections.
🔹 Diving into the programming trenches to clear development impasses where needed.
🔹 Rapid proof-of-concept development to allow for better feature inclusion decision-making.
🔹 Etc.

Some notable moments thus far:

🔸 Undertook and completed migration of all backend systems from a monolithic architecture to a highly scalable and extensible micro-service architecture.
🔸 Executed a full migration of Azure web application codebases from .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 6.
🔸 Designed, implemented deployed and optimised a highly performant geographic information system that drives realt

Software Development Manager

Managed three core software projects through from early requirements-gathering stages all the way through to shipping, optimisation and maintenance. These projects included the following:

Backend Project (Web API/Database) 
🔸 Status: Shipped 🚀
🔹 .NET Core 3.1 web application written in C#.
🔹 Microsoft SQL for relational and some spatial data.
🔹 High availability and high performance, both mobile application implementations. 

Android Project (Mobile Application) 
🔸 Status: Shipped 🚀
🔹 Native implementation written in Java (with a dash of Kotlin).
🔹 Bluetooth connectivity (interfacing with two concurrent peripherals).
🔹 Mapping, navigation and tracking. 

iOS Project (Mobile Application) 
🔸 Status: Shipped 🚀
🔹 Native implementation written in Swift.
🔹 Bluetooth connectivity (interfacing with two concurrent peripherals).
🔹 Mapping, navigation and tracking.

Lead Software Developer

🔹 Technical consulting. Provided guidance and planning around ERP, CMS (inc. ecom) and data management (flow of data pertaining to inventory, logistics, financials, etc.)
🔹 Data analysis. Large-scale sanitization of disparate datasets originating from distinct data sources. Management of the critical amalgamation and import of ecommerce inventory datasets ahead of company launch.

Senior Data Analyst & Technical Advisory

🔹 Brand building. Establishment and growth of the brand domestically. Foundational planning and preparations for international launch.
🔹 Marketing vision. Conception and execution of marketing strategy aligned to company DNA and overarching product vision.
🔹 Content generation. Managing a small team of graphic artists, photographers, and content creators.
🔹 Customer acquisition analysis. Quantifying and dissecting outputs emerging from marketing efforts for the purpose of fine-tuning the planned approach.
🔹 In-person talks. Conducting product demonstrations to large audiences.
🔹 Stakeholder management. Liaising with executive management and the board with regularity, in order to ensure actionable marketing strategies aligning with business goals.

Senior Director of Marketing

🔹 Operating as a member of a small, tightly knit team of technical consultants servicing clients both domestically and internationally.
🔹 Adhering to and evolving internal processes in order to effectively offer resolutions to our end-users.
🔹 Liaising with departments within our organisation to deliver outcomes for our customers that exceed customer expectations.
🔹 Daily use of Microsoft SQL, CRM and supporting software solutions.
🔹 Leveraging intermediate MSSQL knowledge to work with customer databases on a daily basis.
🔹 Everyday use of remote access solutions (VPN, RDP, VNC, TeamViewer, etc.)
🔹 Exposure and general use of Citrix and Terminal Server environments.
🔹 Deployment and configuration of client-server environments including, but not limited to maintaining and upgrading existing deployments.

IT Support Consultant

🔹 Fulfilling a Tier 2/Tier 3 Support role, responding to tickets received by phone or email and proactively improving customer relations.
🔹 Managing problems with the platform that may emerge as a result of system development - tying issue tickets to a known problem. Aiding in the diagnosis of issues and working towards timely resolutions for end-users.
🔹 Client account management and customer relationship management.
🔹 Bug-testing during specific phases of the platform's development cycle. The logging of bugs that are yet to be reported as well as a method of replication (JIRA).
🔹 Writing support articles to minimise phone/email support tickets where particular queries have been identified as recurring.
🔹 Service level agreement design and implementation using Zendesk (helpdesk software).
🔹 Provisioning/configuration of internal VoIP solutions.

Technical Account Specialist

Senior Manager, Software Engineering at GoPro

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