Roderick Caruana Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

Malta

With 20+ years of experience, CTO as a Service assists startups and small businesses. Transforming an idea into a product or developing the capabilities to enable a company for continuous improvements. With a "pay-as-you-go" model, the customer pays by the hour without long-term contracts. It's one of the cost optimizations of hiring a fractional CTO. Feel.

• Restructure SVN similar to GitFlow for improvement in the software quality.
• Embraced the DevOps culture, introduced CICD pipelines and decreased the time to production while creating further segmentation of roles.
• Reshaped the development pipeline with the use of JIRA. New business requests are centralized to identify the work stream, introduced sprint for development teams, and estimate better the resource capacity.

• Increased the headcount from 3 developers to over 35 developers and helped out the company's organic growth. Nurturing over 95% of new joiners after coming out from school.
• Created development teams to become subject matter experts on specific software and helped the product become feature-rich and quicker to deliver.
• Taking the lead on database administration and system engineering, redesigned the infrastructure from one web and database server to many servers with different functions. The ROI from the year 2014 allowed exponential.
• Created a plan for the remediation work after the first PCI audit and delivered the complete remediation in time for the PCI audit. Passing the PCI audit allowed the company to take a significant government contract as.
• Delivered a multicurrency prepaid card feature in 2014, which gave the company the advantage over other companies as being the first to market.

• Managed to reduce the costs of sending SMS messages by half instead of using a local mobile operator API by developing an application using AT commands to receive and send SMS messages through a USB GSM modem.
• Established a new standard for authentication in software by creating a web service which integrates to Active Directory (AD) using LDAP.
• Successfully managed the clients' servers and created a new company revenue stream for this new service.
• Developed a library that integrates with several acquirers. Any software that requires an acquirer integrates into this library, and developers get access with a standard interface to several acquirers. Managed to.

• Provided support to the company end-users and kept the corporate servers up and running.
• Developed the backup and restore procedures for the corporate environment; Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 2 hours and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 24 hours.
• Developed a web application using C# to keep track of inventory and end-user hardware. Consolidated several excel files into one platform and enriched audit of the stock within the IT department.

Qormi

• Created and managed the company websites and used SEO techniques to improve page ranking and the click conversion rate.
• Established the standard operating procedures (SOP) for the ISO12075 accreditation.
• Developed software using Microsoft Access database and Visual Basic to collect data from scientists and outputs the paternity results. The software improved the scientist's procedure 4 times (360 mins / 90 mins).
• Built the IT helpdesk to support the users for any technical difficulties, which helped identify a requirement for a new member in IT support.
• Developed a web application, LIMS, to supersede the Microsoft Access software. The improvements led to less paperwork related to ISO17025 accreditation, automated data input from equipment and result delivery 6 times.

St. Venera

• Fault finding electronic components on computer-related hardware, mainboards, and power supplies; customers pay less due to component charges only while company sales revenue increases.
• Coordinating the delivery and installation of computer hardware and software to end-users and businesses like an internet café.
• Aiding customers by phone or home visits for any technical difficulties that include internet and computer.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bsc Ict Hons, Information Technology

Higher National Diploma, Computer Hardware Technology/Technician