Mark Petrie Email & Phone Number

Dundee, Gb

New York, Ny, Us

Senior Director of R&D at Optimove. Responsible for all Engagement Channels and Personalization. General Manager for our Dundee, Scotland office with over 45 in Development, QA and Ops.

New York, Ny, Us

Director of R&D at Optimove who acquired Kumulos in March 2022. Responsible for OptiMobile (Kumulos), OptiMail, OptiWeb and OptiText as well as the Opti-X Digital Experience Platform (Graphyte acquisition).

Co-Founder and CEO of Kumulos, the multi-award-winning Web & Mobile User Engagement Platform. On a mission to win the fight against mobile messaging spam! Acquired by Optimove in March 2022.Consumers are fed-up being bombarded by irrelevant messages. Brands are struggling to be heard above the crowd. Kumulos is the personalization engine for mobile apps, empowering marketers to communicate with users on their terms. • Mobile Push Notifications• Rich, In-App Messaging• Web Push Notifications• Deferred Deep Linking• User, behaviour and location-based audience segmentation and targeting• App analytics and campaign reporting• Automations and much, much more…Trusted by developers… loved by marketing teams, around the world.www.kumulos.com

London, England, Gb

Chief Operating Officer at Waracle, now the UK’s largest mobile app developer, overseeing work of the app development and optimisation teams. Helped improve development, testing and delivery processes, grow the team and land their first enterprise account in finance sector. Also, technical account management, including all aspects of project management and delivery, for large, European pharmaceutical account.

Morrisville, North Carolina, Us

After the acquisition of HoundDog Technology by GFI Software, promoted to Director of Engineering for the GFI MAX Business Unit, since rebranded LogicNow, acquired by Solarwinds MSP and then listed as N-Able (NYSE:NABL).Responsible for Product and Engineering Management for GFI MAX RemoteManagement (new name for HoundDog), now the market-leading Remote Monitoring & Management platform used by over 11,000 MSPs in 5 languages and 100 countries around the world.Oversaw successfull integration and widespread adoption of technologies from other Business Units within GFI including Remote Access (via TeamViewer), Patch / Vulnerability Management, Managed Antivirus and Managed Online Backup as well as acquisitions in the Mobile Device Management and Service Desk space.At the same time, continued to grow team to over 70 Software Developers, Software Testers and DevOps Engineers in Dundee and new office in Edinburgh (opened 2011). Adopted Test Driven Development to ensure quality throughout this rapid growth.Successfully delivered a number of customer conferences in US, EMEA and ANZ helping customers learn how to use our products to grow their business.

Gb

As HoundDog grew, stepped up to lead the growing, talented team of software developers and testers. Oversaw the adoption of Agile Development and SCRUM to successfully deliver a number of new product features. Furthered skills in Linux Sys Admin and gained significant experience scaling MySQL.HoundDog was now a profitable, boot-strapped, start-up becoming a major player in the provision of Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) tools to the Managed Service Provider (MSP) market. Grew the team to over 30 employees (over half were in development) and grew revenues year-on-year. Acquired by GFI in July 2009.

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Best move of my career, "Took a punt" on a small Dundee-based start-up developing a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product for IT Support Companies and Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Responsible for quickly developing and releasing new features in response to market demand, including a client reporting suite, which at the time was the second highest revenue generating feature. Furthered Object-Oriented Programming skills with LAMP (PHP) stack.

Dundee, Gb

Joined SCRI both as Sys Admin for over 30 Linux servers and Software Developer implementing solutions to improve business processes throughout the Institute. Responsible for the migration of key network services (Firewall, DNS/DHCP etc) from Solaris to Linux to reduce operating costs. Provision of grid computing facilities from HPC using SUN Grid Engine with several database (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and web (Apache) servers. Gained significant experience with LAMP (PHP) stack.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Promoted to Senior Software Engineer with larger Telecomms Systems Division. Part of small team responsible for the developing the Roaming Management System into an off-the-shelf product that would be sold to over thirty GSM telco operators world-wide. Also, second tier customer support and training of both field engineers and customersExpanded the technical skills learned as a graduate, gaining further experience in Object Oriented Programming in C++, Perl, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle, HP-UX and ClearCase.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

After leaving University, joined Agilent Technologies (spun-out of Hewlett Packard) as part of a small team developing customer-focussed, test and measurement solutions for mobile telco operators. Helped improve processes, achieving CMM level 2 and passing an external audit by Vodafone. Gained experience in C/C++, Perl, SQL, Oracle, HP-UX and Clearcase.

Glasgow, Glasgow City, Gb

While studying for degree, employed by Scottish Enterprise, supporting 100 users across 6 sites. This involved troubleshooting software, hardware and network problems; user account maintenance; development of procedures manual and housekeeping routines. Responsible for installation of corporate Intranet and running training sessions on safe use of the Internet. Gained experience in TCP/IP networks and Microsoft Windows/Exchange/Office.