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Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, Gb

- Achieve Leaf Grow vision a reality by working closely with data, engineering and product teams alongside be a bridge in communication in Product, Performance Marketing and Engineering. - Contributes to architectural decisions with a focus on the product and business needs at present and in the foreseeable future- Work with tech leads to address tech debt, SLAs and post-mortems- Actively identifies bottlenecks accross the organization and works to remove them- Make the different engineering teams the best place to work and grow within Leaf in terms of technical challenges and culture- Manage the growth for all individuals in the entire engineering organisation through regular 1:1s, continuous feedback and empowereness for team leads- Ensures that every team member understands the business goals for the next months and has bought into these goals

Cr

Lead the development and maintenance of consumer oriented websites using technologies such as WordPress, HTML5 + CSS3 + JQuery and Media Queries.Collaborated in the development of native iPhone and Windows Phone apps with integration to social services.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Worked closely with designers, back-end devs and project managers to make products come to life for clients such as Mitsubishi, Blendr, Dannon Oikos and Possible Worldwide .Lead the application development for iPhone/iPad apps with responsibilities such as defining the application architecture, frameworks to use and standards to follow. Main clients included Allrecipes, Blendr and Grindr. Provided a quick ability to pick up new technologies and make it work on the fly, pitching them later as new business opportunities for current customer, an example for this was Allrecipes for Kinect.

Seoul, Kr

Research and developed a GWT-based architecture to support the Discovr Places mobile platform, a social augmented platform sponsored by the Korea Tourism Organization.Lead the program management of the Discovr Android team and provided the team with engineering support during key research iterations.Developed the Discovr web client using Python, Django and the Google AppEngine platform.

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Lead the path finding phase for FM touch portability to Android. Tasks included platform research, prototyping of key features and presentation of a fully functional prototype to Product Management for review.Provided support to Marketing Production by collaborating on featured videos that advertised the product capabilities; in charge of ad production and co-writting collaboration to the product's newsletters and blogs. Also lead the production of a set of Cheat Sheets (JS, PHP, HTML & CSS).Research and developed customer usage scenarios by developing a set of Demo applications and web sites that supported the adoption and marketing of FM touch and satellite technologies such as PHP and MySQL within the community.

Designed and developed a secure document management web application allowing the Association’s management to record and generate secure certificates for the country’s Firearms Control Department and Work-in-Daycare Department.In charged of user requirements gathering and database model design, as well as auditing the source code quality against as set of standards defined upfront. In charged of communication and planning the meetings between the stakeholders and the team; keeping track of the projects agreements, item prioritization and the overall advance of the project.

Bachelor, Software Engineer

Associate, Software Development Technologies