Marko Samastur Email & Phone Number

Slovenia

London, GB

- developed and led digital product strategy and initiatives for the first two years- leads tech team building and maintaining 3 integrated websites and several administration tools for internal teams- main developer for several of those tools and website features- company’s main UX/UI designer

London, England, GB

- led a small team implementing all user facing features (website, mobile app, management dashboard)- designed UI for the mobile app and was its lead developer- created innovative UI widget for quick but error-resistant unlocking of doors compatible with app stores policies- implemented dynamic, responsive and fast company website

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

- organised and ran problem and solutions discovery workshops for non-profit organisations- designed several technical interventions to solve specific organisation’s needs using participatory design- led and be part of multi-functional implementation teams- provide technical advisory role to NGOs

Envisioned, designed and developed several web products and services. Some of them:- a modern AJAX based webmail interface used by 30000 students (2005)- a simple to use photo sharing website inspired by Flickr (early 2006)

Mostly focused on designing and implementing server backend with occasional forays into interface design and implementation, copy editing and other things that need to get done to launch a new service.

Ljubljana, SI

- improved design and implemented sections of partners dashboard administration interface- designed and implemented interface for evaluating suitability of sources for inclusion in Zemanta content pool- implemented new widget improvements- mentor team members

Ljubljana, SI

- streamlined product line to better fit Zemanta’s goals and abilities- developed a consumer product strategy still largely in use (mid-2011)- designed new preferences and led early development

Ljubljana, SI

Led a small team of front-end developers which has:- ported and maintained blogging assistant widget on 20 blogging platforms in all major browsers across multiple versions- developed several experimental web services (Reblog, Zemanta popular)- supported communication with community and kept a high user satisfaction- personally developed large parts of a.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

- performed technology due diligence before acquisitions - designed front-end architecture for Noovo and developed large parts of it- authored algorithms used in early versions of Noovo recommendation engine

- implemented a light Javascript library for common functionality- a (limited) internal education about web standards and its use- started front-end work on Noovo, which got spun off in Neo

Started and organized regular weekly meetings intended mostly for web professionals, but open and free to all:- successfully started most popular Slovenian web gathering- organized 30 talks (from more than 170 so far)- kept a regular schedule with no budget and high frequency of events- helped with development of event website and designed one of its.

Ljubljana, SI, SI