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Summary
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Extensive project/product management, infrastructure, and internet experience.
Web savvy and entrepreniual, having built both Gumtree and Qype to be dominant European players.
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Experience
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NON-EXEC DIRECTOR
www.zoombu.co.uk |
Hamburg, Germany
2008-present |
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Board member and investor in the winners of Best Travel Startup 2009. |
CTO
www.qype.com |
Hamburg, Germany
2007-present |
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Building the product, infrastructure and technology organisation to grow Europe's leading local review site. |
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Took the business from one language and 700k UU to 10 markets, 7 languages and 15M UU/mo. |
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Launched API, along with iPhone, Android and Nokia Ovi apps. |
DIRECTOR
trafficmonkey ltd. |
Hamburg, Germany
2006-present |
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Consultancy on infrastructure and SEO for a diverse set of clients. Delivered over 1M GBP of revenue to Thomas Cook. |
HEAD OF TECHNOLOGY
eBay - gumtree.com |
Richmond, UK
2006-2007 |
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Providing a quality Gumtree product platform and user experience. |
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Defining product and technology strategy. |
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Leading development of scalable infrastructure and leading-edge product to support Gumtree's growth to a top 20 web property in the UK. |
ANALYST
Accenture - Technology Consulting |
Leeds, UK & Chennai, India
2004-2006 |
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Performance and Scalability Lead - responsible for delivering a scalable, performant architecture for the NHS North East and East LSP clusters. |
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Leading a team of developers and performance testers to discover and fix performance bottlenecks in the end-to-end solution. |
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Working with our software partners in the UK and Indian development centres to deliver reliable, scalable code fixes. |
CONSULTANT
Hewlett Packard, European Service Centre |
Warrington, UK
1999-2003 |
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Integrated SMS repair/order tracking into legacy ERP system, using LAMP/FreeTDS. |
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Designed, coded and implemented a bespoke IT Governance system in PHP/MySQL. |
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Supply chain optimisation using LAMP solution to provide wireless zonal picking for HP's parts distribution centre. |
CO-FOUNDER
privateproperty.co.uk |
Nottingham, UK
1998-1999 |
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Founded and grew privateproperty.co.uk into one the UK's largest property listings websites. The business was subsequently acquired. |
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Sold listings services to estate agents across the UK. |
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Provided IT services, including a property-listings management DB to clients, allowing easy integration with the website. |
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| Education |
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
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BSc (Hons) 2.1, Computer Engineering, 2000 |
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Semester of study at Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France |
WIDNES SIXTH FORM COLLEGE
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A-levels in Physics (A), Maths (B), Chemistry (B), General Studies (A) |
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| Other |
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Programming skills: Python, PHP, Java, Linux, MySQL, T-SQL, HTML, XML, XSLT |
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Foreign Languages: French (conversational), Mandarin (limited) |
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Interests: photography, travel, drums, guitar, cookery |
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