• Responsible for all technical concerns, resource planning and review of technicaldocuments• Successfully directed over 20 developers of different nationalities and backgrounds, including external staff, student trainees and an off-shore development team in Yerevan, Armenia• Managed three on-site teams, each consisting of one senior development manager and both junior/base and senior developers• Mentored team members, in particular leaders of project teams

• Technical responsible for design, development and deployment of Pangora's white label product search applications for major international customers like AOL, Tiscali, Deutsche Post and others• Responsible for support and maintenance of these applications during their entire product life cycle• Directly supported customers, helping them to build the best possible solution for their respective environment• Responsible for planning, deployment and maintenance of system and networkinfrastructure to support Pangora's high availability, high performance applications

• True all-round hands-on position, as IBO started out as a small start-up company with only three developers• Designed, developed and deployed highly customized product search applications,administrative and customer UIs and data processing subsystems• Designed APIs and database schemes• Set up office and production infrastructure• Designed and developed an autonomous image server with multi-level caching strategy and on-demand, on-the-fly rendering capabilities, which is now the longest standing system in the company