Matthew Jacobi Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, United Kingdom

- Co-founder of a software consultancy company that specialise in helping clients get their startup ideas to market but also help clients improve their legacy projects.- Setup and maintained cloud based deployments using Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies such as EC2, S3, RDS, ELB and other Amazon cloud products with auto-scaling and puppet/chef/ansible for server management.- Designed and implemented custom bespoke mobile/web/destop applications using Actionscript/Flex/AIR, Python/Django, J2EE/Spring, AJAX, jQuery and postgreSQL/MySQL.- Consulted with clients to advise them on best practices, establish specifications, scaling and performance strategies and their mobile application architecture.- Contributed to open source projects and frameworks as well as released some in-house projects onto github that range from helping manage your cloud resources to Flex/AIR based applications that help with your issue management.- Promoted Agile and TDD methodology including sprints and SCRUMs.- Some of the major companies worked for/consulted with include: - Adobe: Several projects involving Adobe AIR/Actionscript. Given access to new features in their platform to help integrate for their customers. - NewsCorp/Accenture: Desktop team Lead, using Adobe AIR to develop a desktop client as part of a bigger multiplatform delivery. Later ported the application to Adobe AIR mobile for Android. - Audi: mobile web application that integrated with their SAP. J2EE/Spring - RBS/NatWest: Brought in by Adobe to redo the existing iOS native mobile application. Adobe AIR. - Pitchup.com: Dev-ops and feature developer for their full stack web based application. Python/Django, HTML5, Javascript, Postgres. - tellybug.com: Successfully architected, implemented and helped the POC that is now in use by high profile companies such as the X-Factor and LiverpoolFC. Python/Django, HTML5/Javascript, MySQL, AWS/EC2

Desktop Client Lead

- Worked mainly with Google Adwords to market affiliate products on the internet.- Average monthly spend on Google Adwords £3k-£6k.- Gross profit margins around 40-50%.- Generates on average over £50k a month in revenue for Amazon UK.- Self starter and self motivated.

London, United Kingdom

- Responsible for key mobile application carrier deployments in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) region.- Deployed redundant fail over Oracle clusters as well as help train the support team.- Selected, installed and configured Sun hardware such as Sun Blade systems as well as administer a cluster of Solaris based machines.- Successfully deployed a WebLogic J2EE based mobile application to a major telco in the Nordic region which won an award.- Extended and modified Adobe's J2EE based mobile application server to integrate with various bespoke customer backend systems.- Wrote RFIs/RFQs of up to £1 million budget for potential partners.- Managed all aspects of out-sourced work with various third party technology partners.- Interacted with and advised major mobile operators on the use and benefits of Adobe technologies.- Managed and trained internal server teams.- Lead Architect for customer deployments and integration of Adobe’s mobile data services server (Flash Cast).- Develop training plans and documentation for colleagues and customers.- Architect and designed mobile applications for Adobe customers such as AT&T, Nokia and others using Actionscript and C++.

- Worked closely with customers to develop custom mobile applications with Adobe technologies using a combination of Flash Lite, Actionscript, Flex and C++.- Developed C++ system plug-ins for Flash Lite applications on Series 60 Symbian V8 to enable greater functionality and interoperability with the system (PIM, Call Log, Application Starting, Messaging, Music Player, Camera).- Ported and optimised a Flex application framework (Cairngorm) for Adobe's mobile team to help with agile development and promote best practices.- Developed a custom build environment using Ant to handle multi-programming language source components whilst keeping in line with Adobe’s strict QA standards.

- Maintained and optimised Symbian system level C++ UI components (CKON/UIKON) for Nokia Series 80.- Partnered with major mobile phone manufacturers primarily Nokia.- Developed familiarity with and helped maintain the build server environment.- Localization including enabling right-to-left functionality of Symbian UI components (CKON/UIKON) for Nokia Series 80 and solving Unicode issues.- Successfully localized a high end, business mobile device (Nokia Communicator) for the Hebrew/Arabic markets (including right-to-left changes).- Development and maintenance of company intranet services.- Scripting of everyday tasks to optimize efficiency and increase quality of work.

- Lead developer on several major portable wireless PDA/Smartphone projects.- Designed and implemented systems on Symbian, Windows CE, PalmOS and Linux based devices.- Setup and administered enterprise Oracle database backend system.- Designed and implemented the back end services needed to support the devices.- Worked heavily with Symbian communication subsystem to interact with a backend database to create a video messaging solution and a wireless workforce solution using XML-RPC, GPRS and SQL.- Worked closely with clients, including government departments, to establish specifications and system designs.- Supervised and mentored junior programmers.

- Coded internal systems to audit high volume credit card transactions.- Developed and implemented CRM tools which earned more than AU$500,000 for the company.- Helped maintain support of hundreds of e-commerce sites.- Worked with Irix, Solaris, FreeBSD and Linux systems.

- Development of an ecommerce system from the ground up with shopping cart for delivery of software products (including secure digital delivery mechanism) using the LAMP platform.- Responsible for setup and maintenance of the network, including the public facing website and the email system using Linux and Solaris.

- Founded an ISP.- Technical partner in an ISP joint venture.- All technical aspects of the ISP, including telecommunications, network connectivity and internet servers, email and dialup modems.- Worked closely with customers to ensure high quality of service.- Used innovative techniques to reduce bandwidth of customers by more then 50% for substantial cost savings.- Used extensively Redhat/Linux to implement all core features of a typical ISP.- Managed Apache, DHCP, NFS, Sendmail and NFS servers- Bash scripting