Mikal Todd Email & Phone Number

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Sole Founder & Shareholder. Steered and brokered the sale of Be Intelligent to PwC. Be Intelligent was a Global Salesforce Partner with an innovation-driven, user-centric approach to delivering value to customers in various industries.Fast facts:* Largest independently owned New Zealand Partner* Client base across Australia, US, New Zealand* Full service digital marketing team in-house - heavily certified* Unique approach to experience design, proposals and stakeholder engagement* Private and Public sector with Enterprise down to SMB clients* 30+ staff* $5000 before tax per employee to spend on an EV or solar* Strong employee values focus with an extremely innovative & fun interview process

Auckland, New Zealand

Lead Architect on the Vector Natural Gas Trading GTAC upgrade program of work. Working with complex gas transmission systems, forecasting, nominating, reconciling and billing via the FirstGas OATIS and TACOS platform. Existing business heavily based on spreadsheets, migrated into a service orientated architecture using re-usable architecture templates. Integration with third party systems, all architectural facets covered.* Owner and driver of Enterprise Architecture* Roadmapping for the business unit* Services design both with internal meter reading systems, gas composition, nominations, allocations* Agile program of work

Auckland, New Zealand

Responsible for enabling business transformation for an entire sales, service, support and billing capability within a leading New Zealand utility-grade B2B connectivity provider. Transformed numerous spreadsheets into a powerful digital online quoting and ordering system* Enterprise architecture and roadmapping* Salesforce Architecture including CPQ* Integration Architecture* Salesforce implementation* API design

Auckland, New Zealand

Solarcity provide the only zero upfront cost solar battery product in Australasia. There had been no previous technology leadership so I have taken Solarcity on a technology growth journey.As part of the executive team who manage between us >120 staff in the business I own the entire technology budget and direction. This includes:• All architecture including procurement/setup of Salesforce CRM, Field Services, Marketing Cloud• Technology transformation from an entire manual business with spreadsheets to automation• Introduction of Agile and SCRUM• Ownership of core infrastructure - internet and telephony• Solely responsible for the introduction and establishment of AWS at Solarcity• Cost reduction• Hiring an entire division including interview process• Introduction of deep learning to improve our business decision making• Ownership of interactive digital online experience (static owned by CMO)

Auckland, New Zealand

I co-founded CloudinIT. In 2016 and 2017, the fastest growing Salesforce partner in ANZ. CloudinIT has now been acquired by DeloitteWithin our first year of operation we became a Salesforce Silver Partner. In a startup you do everything until you grow to the stage where you can start to delegate. No two days were the same, and there were numerous challenges to overcome. Be it hands-on Salesforce work, BA work, making up a logo, doing the accounts, filling the fridge, buying furniture and assembling desks. What kinds of things I got up to:* Nurtured, proposed, pitched and won, then worked as sole practitioner on a Salesforce org migration for a large Telco which involved metadata, config and code along with Zuora* Nurtured, proposed, pitch and won, then implemented a data architecture piece integrated with Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Service Cloud ultimately resulting in me setting up Contact Builder and Journeys. * Nurtured, proposed, pitched and won, then worked as the Architect on a Salesforce implementation for an education provider. Included integration with multiple systems such as Campaign Monitor, Checkfront and Wordpress* Nurtured, proposed, pitched and won, then worked as the account exec and functional consultant on a Salesforce set of improvements for a famous food company* Nurtured, proposed, pitched and won, then worked as the SDM and delivery consultant on a Salesforce Sales/Service Cloud and Pardot implementation involving multiple integrations for a leading energy companyAnd a couple more.

Auckland, New Zealand

I was responsible for the architecture and initial Proof-of-Concept of a telematics API Gateway Solution to expose EROAD's information and value-added-services to third parties. Sadly because I started CloudinIT on the side and it took off like a rocket, I had to leave an amazing position at EROAD

Guiding agile teams using lightweight architecture and an open leadership styleThis role fell within the core of Spark Ventures servicing each venture. This requires both hands-on and hands-off approaches in equal measure, from configuring a Salesforce instance, to considering the impact of Enterprise Single-signon (SSO) or researching PaaS as an alternative to Puppet and AWS.I was responsible for the following:* Introduction of Docker as a way to accelerate environment setup and switching for developers* Architecture and implementation of Bigpipe - a naked broadband service* Responsible for data analytics and business intelligence architecture and framework for Lightbox* Managing Salesforce configuration and establishing an internal capability to service Salesforce without constantly requiring consultants* Salesforce Apex development, Unit Testing, Live Agent setup and customisation* Researching and considering the next platform evolution, exploring OpenShift, Fabric8, Docker. Can developers do less boilerplate and configuration wrangling and more coding? * Automation straight through from development to production* Morepork Analytics and Salesforce ArchitectureTechnologies were extremely varied and no two days are the same. I worked with the following, in order of exposure and capability within this role:* Salesforce Service Cloud, Sales Cloud* AWS Redshift, S3, EC2, Lambda, RDS* Shell scripting/automation* Java* Zuora* Puppet

Auckland, Nz

Mikal was responsible for all technology aspects of the business. As the most senior technologist within the company he defined the entire roadmap of products and services.Bulletin, under Mikal's direction moved from being a pure text messaging company into the private instant messaging sphere with rich media. Bulletin was eventually sold to MessageMedia. He drove new product initiatives, existing product maintenance and improvement alongside operational initiatives such as migration to the cloud. Worked with other senior management executives to formulate plans on best market approach, target market and PR. Assists with execution where necessary in these fields.Specialist focal point is agile team building - lighter on process empowering the team and continuous iteration. Use automation, unit tests, standups and be lean. A team that runs itself does not need a high degree of management.Key result areas:* Commercial negotiation with clients including Vodafone, Air New Zealand, Telecom* Nurturing product innovation and first to market opportunity * Recruiting and hiring a team of superstars* Market direction and guidance* From 2010-2012 was responsible for SEO, usability, overall design, Adwords* Technical architecture (3 tier), both software and operations (AWS/EC2)* Communication and key involvement of the team across multiple regions

Auckland

Ensured development and operations were integrated via introducing revolutionary tooling and approaches. Responsible for configuration management, deployment, build and release.Introduced such practices to Bravura Solutions before the word DevOps even really existed. * Direct and indirect reports in UK, Australia and NZ* Part of the core product application development management team* Prepare and deliver training to large teams (50+) in offices accross the world* Organise and negotiate vendor relationships* Make key strategic platform, software and infrastructure decisions* Manage budgets* Budget holder and owner for Anthill Pro DevOps tooling * Owner of all DevOps related initiatives, including real-time database upgrade and migration* Involvement in Mergers and Acquisitions activities* An integral part of large tenders and costings* Responsible for ensuring compliant change management practises and developing global standards* Managed software transformation from Powerbuilder to Java including the vendor relationship with Quipoz.

Auckland, New Zealand

On joining Bravura Solutions, Mikal worked on the Architecture Team as a software transformation developer. He learnt the basics of Powerbuilder, and directly contributed to the complex recipes to transform Powerbuilder into Java. The technology stack of this project was Java/JSF/JBoss/Sybase/XUL.August 2007 he was given his own team and responsibilities in the DevOps space as well as ownership of the transformation process including the relationship with our vendor Quipoz

Auckland

A combination of technical leadership and software development for large insurance projects, based in the UK, but developed in both NZ and UK. Practiv specialise in colaborative, high yield delivery in short timescales.I consulted on a number of banking projects including some time onsite with Scottish Equitable in the UK, Friends Provident Java Development and Personal Touch Financial Solutions insurance product developmentMy ethos of creating unit tests first, which were in effect an executable specification was used to the fore at Practiv when I developed a robust finite-state-machine within an overly complex commission payment module. This went through QA with a clean bill of health. Technologies I developed day-to-day included:- Java 1.5/1.6 with EJB 2.0 - Websphere 5.x - Struts/Hibernate 2.0- Oracle- MySQL- Cruisecontrol

London, United Kingdom

Conversant Ltd was my first real self-propelled business venture over and above some time directing Mantissa Computing in 2000/2001. From a number of strong project performances during my previous years contracting I was able to close some sales with existing contacts and bootstrap the business with the co-founder Ian Howlett. As the co-owner of a business, everything had to be taken care of with little delegation. This meant I had to get up to speed with some interesting areas. We built our own website, systems and marketing materials (brochures and adverts). We outsourced telemarketing to an agency. With some success under our belts we brought on additional resources including a web developer and author.Various projects were executed through my lead:- Re-insurance J2EE development for Mitsui Sumitomo Reinsurance, Lloyds syndicate. Leading edge Javascript-RPC framework developed in 2004. Reverse engineered the obfuscated Google suggest and deployed the solution in a re-usable guise system-wide.- Web Application Security audits for large corporates (Schroders, FT.com etc). XSRF, Cookie tampering, insecure coding, SQL injection. Both white and black box- Medical insurance pre-screening systems, contractual negotiation, specification and architecture. - Supplier of web application penetration testing software development, deployment. Valued over £200k- Worked with Incite MVNE, storyboarding, developing and deploying a Mobile SMS white labelled campaign management and delivery system. (EJB, Struts, Oracle)Provided solutions to enterprise level, global environments including outsourcing some of the work and managing the relationships with clients.

London, United Kingdom

I was hired as a J2EE Insurance consultant to work on a leading edge reinsurance system designed to integrate with the Lloyds of London messaging platform. The work was highly self-managed with specifications being handed out to the team members and work was expected to be carried out on time with a high degree of maintainability. - I developed a testing framework for In-Container Unit testing in Cactus which separated the test data from the test cases. - Assisted in design and development of an entire underwriting system from claims to underwriting- Managed a third party for delivery of office integration with the Java based system- Extended the traditional "thin-client" approach to web applications to include asynchronous RPC behaviour- Implemented a template-driven persistence approach which aided in providing effective decoupling between multiple workflows and business process- Technologies included Hibernate, Oracle 9iAS and DB, Struts, JAXB, AJAX, JMS

London, United Kingdom

I both led and was involved in a number of important projects with high visibility:- Architecture and development of the O2 SMS Bulk sending billing system. Struts/Oracle/Hibernate/JDO- Key involvement in the development and hosting of Pop Idol and Arsenal Football Club SMS bulk sending and management systems- Responsible for cost estimation, time planning and mentoring of developers.

London, United Kingdom

This was a contract role and I had 2 extensions before the integration team was brought in-house.I was responsible for ensuring smooth delivery of leading-edge wireless applications to both the test team and live website. Much of this work was carried out under intense pressure, with a high visibility to the public and our partners.- Understood Java Web Technologies in order to debug runtime issues before they went to test.- Undertook Pre-Test Quality Assurance and developed procedures to do so- Deployed and configured various third party application on Enterprise Solaris Servers. These include IPlanet, Vignette, eGrail, Apache, Oracle- Planned and developed platform-wide distribution scripts for rapid application software deployment.- Addressed and documented various potential security threats and assisted with machine hardening.

Woking, Surrey

This was a contract role focusing on the development of a website which guides property movers through the complete process from start to finish. The majority of this work was undertaken using PHP/Perl/MySQL. Key responsibilities included:- Linux server administration- Web Design with HTML/CSS- Software deployment- Software development and maintenance- Keeping the costs as low as possible

Bsc (Hons), Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Sailing club race captain Computer Society OrganiserUndertook a research project in Bayesian email filtering.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Sailing team, shooting, RAF CCF, Gliding Scholarship (Viking), cross country running