Dianne Mcewan Email & Phone Number

Remote

After a company reorg and flattening layers, I have moved into a Senior Engineering Manager position to directly lead our Growth EPD team with a key strategic goal of accelerating key aspects of our product-led growth engine: Reducing friction to drive initial activations, building habit-forming features that keep users retained, and improving the.

Buffer is a marketing platform that helps you build an audience organically. Our vision is a world with more small businesses that do good while doing well and our mission is to provide essential tools to help small businesses and ambitious individuals get off the ground and grow.I am currently leading the engineering team at Buffer by managing our 5.

Remote

Engineering management of our biggest team and biggest revenue-generating product, Buffer Publish.

Cape Town

The role includes a mixture of line management responsibilities in a matrix management structure and working with a team as one of the software engineers. My responsibilities as a line manager include mentoring, coaching, and helping to grow the career of the engineers with whom I manage. As well as overlooking the efficiency, structure, and performance of.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Prodigy Finance provides borderless postgraduate student loans to international students to attend a top school. These loans are collectively funded by a community of alumni, institutional investors and qualified private investors. The student borrowers gain access to higher education that they might not otherwise be able to finance, and the investing.

Cape Town

• Technical Team lead of our CMS team. We manage, improve and run client projects on our own home grown content management systems as well as on custom CMS builds. These clients include PSG, SHA, Nedgroup Investments and.
• I initiated and lead the consolidation of our internal CMS at New Media Labs, in order to grow it and share features across all of our client applications.
• Team and technical lead in the redesign of the Nedgroup Investments public website. Developed their first online application wizard as a part of this redesign.
• Mentor to the junior developers on our team and performed code reviews.
• Involved in the architecture of our client apps and client interactions.Technologies:.Net, C#, Asp.net Javascript, JQuery, Entity Framework, IIS, Nuget, Backbone.js

Cape Town

• Competed as a professional triathlete racing international Ironman events.
• Highest place finish was 4th at Ironman South Africa 2012.
• Represented brands such as GU nutrition, Brooks running shoes, Huub design wetsuits and apparel, Felt Bicycles, Casco Helmets, Compressport compression and recovery apparel.Soft Skills: Marketing, Time management.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Was involved in rewriting their back office administration application – it handles customer and fund administration, new business and payout functions.
• Working in a large team of 24 with 9 developers.
• Strict adherence to Domain Driven Design principals.Technologies:.Net, C#, WPF, NHibernate, DB2, WCF, AGILE, SCRUM, TFS

Sandton

• Involved in developing a Silverlight application for ATM Solutions. The application is a financial system to be used by the treasury department to aid in their day to day cash balancing.
• Was involved in the full SDLC from requirements gathering to the delivery of a solution for Nedbank to streamline and optimize their existing daily general ledger process with Drawcard.
• Created a Silverlight application for Drawcard to replace an existing ASP.NET site.
• Made enhancements to the existing framework used by ATM Solutions and monitored changes made by other team members.
• Mentored other members of the team in understanding Silverlight, NHibernate, Prism and the current architecture used by ATM Solutions. Technologies:.Net, C#, Silverlight, Prism WCF, Nhibernate, Unity, SQL Server (2005.

JHB

• Created a com compliant DLL that interfaces between Discovery’s call centre agents desktop UI and the Genesys telephony environment, enabling agents to perform telephony functions such as make, transfer, receive and.
• Involved in a rewrite of the Multichoice IVR.
• Created a reusable utterance collection application that could be configured for various languages. This included an ASP.NET user interface and VoiceXml application.
• Developed a desktop performance monitor application to determine the monitor hardware and software settings, remote access and application versions of various call centre agent PC’s.
• Technologies:.Net, C#, WCF, ASP.NET MVC, VoiceXml, SQL Server (2005 and 2008), Silverlight, WPF, Prism

Switzerland

• Based at the World Cycling Centre in Switzerland, under a scholarship by the International Olympic Committee.
• Qualified South Africa a slot for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens by placing 4th at the B World Championships.
• Represented South Africa at numerous World cups and international tours.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Information Technology

Activities and Societies: Golden Key Society Of South Africa For our 3rd year project, our team built a complete Radio Station System for.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Head Girl 2001, Captain of Swimming, Athletics, Hockey and Cross Country teams. Head Girl 2001 Captain of.