Paul Watson Email & Phone Number

Cape Town, WC, ZA

ZA

As CTO of a funding-dependent non-profit with over 8 years of critical public projects my responsibilities not only included new projects but ensuring the continued operation of existing projects often in resource constrained environments. Technically OpenUp's projects range from intensive Python Django and PostgreSQL web applications to rapidly built.

Co-started the Somerset Strikers Cricket Club with Wesley Moodie (Chairperson and 2005 Wimbledon Mens Doubles Champion), Fiona Haughney (hon. secretary), Linda Hartley (treasurer), and Jimmy Sounes (club captain.) Helped grow the club to over 100 members in its first season, organised over 60 inter-club/school matches, and gained Western Province Cricket.

Dublin, Dublin, IE

Led the development of fine-tuned Large Language Models (LLM) for classification and generative AI tasks. Built various customer web APIs in Python, web applications and dashboards in Ruby on Rails, a Wordpress plugin, browser extensions in JavaScript for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, a Scrapy web scraper for media monitoring, and a marketing website in.

My priority as Junior Section Club Captain is and will remain your children's enjoyment of and progress in cricket.

Dublin 2, Dublin, IE

Working with two former colleagues from Storyful we built an 11 person design, research, curation, and development team in Ireland. We delivered an iOS mobile app that measurably improved the news feeds of thousands of users, processed tens of millions of news stories, and launched a white-label Ruby on Rails and React web-app for Ireland's largest media.

Dublin, Dublin, IE

Developing new features and refactoring existing code (Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, CSS, HTML/HAML, Algolia), performance and security of the platform (Heroku, AWS S3, AWS CloudFront, SSL), and instilling a product development process (Scrum agile).

Product (UX, UI, analytics, metrics), code (AngularJS), process (Scrum agile), operations (internal knowledge management), and team building consultant.

Dublin, County Dublin, IE

I was the first full-time technical hire at Storyful and saw it grow from 6 people to over 100 and remained through the acquisition by News Corp in 2013 for $25m.My initial responsibilities were to manage and then move an out-sourced development team from the Ukraine to Ireland. Recruiting and retaining technical talent was a key responsibility. I worked.

Dublin 8, IE

Advised on the viability of cross-platform mobile toolkits and the development of an iPhone and mobile-web app for a leading Irish financial institution.

Waterford, IE

Developed business registry information systems.

Dublin, IE

MUZU.tv is Europe's largest online provider of officially licensed music videos (including the Big Four record labels) with over a million unique views a month delivering tens of millions of high definition videos to users worldwide. I was brought in to lead an established web-team in the development of new on and off-site features while maintaining and.

Waterford, IE

Co-founded, secured national funding for and developed the FeedHenry project which eventually sold to RedHat for $82m. Responsibilities included conceptualisation, graphic design, front-end implementation, systems architecture, back-end prototyping, usability and user-experience testing. I worked directly with senior customers in leading Irish telecoms.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Responsible for developing new features and maintaining existing systems (back-end and front-end) on the world's largest Microsoft developer website. Worked with an international team reaching from Canada to India to Australia to South Africa. Also interacted with the 5 million strong Code Project community.

Recruited as a junior web developer and over the course of 5 years was promoted to senior web developer (front-end and back-end) with responsibilities including formal specification creation, customer interaction and user interface design. Customer facing, on-site role including contractor negotiations.

The creation and operation of an internet based in-store radio broadcasting system. This involved the development of a client-server system able to stream audio files to multiple locations with a minimum of user interaction. My role also included working with store managers in the deployment of hardware and continued operation of the software.