Stephen Mcnabb Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Oakland

Emeryville

San Francisco Bay Area

In 2012 I shifted my focus from executing as an engineer to managing and mentoring a team of engineers, while still keeping my hand-in on the coding side where possible. I also took on the Lead Engineer role for IGN's new Tools & Services project track, aimed at discovering alternative sources of revenue from mobile apps.

San Francisco Bay Area

In 2011 I took on the Lead Engineer role for IGN's Wiki project, which was to replace the existing static guide system with a wiki powered game help system. I was also heavily involved in IGN Evolution, a project dedicated to moving the whole of the IGN.com website to the Zend Framework MVC platform I had developed. During this year I also took on five.

San Francisco Bay Area

In 2010 I decided to relocate to the IGN office in San Francisco where we had started the first phase of moving IGN.com on to a modern architecture. We identified that the Zend Framework MVC platform I had developed could be used. I mentored, advised and assisted the team that was responsible for rearchitecting the Video pages of IGN to use it. At that.

Belfast, United Kingdom

I continued to develop and improve the Zend Framework MVC platform used for IGN's Portal network of web sites. This included adding article, wiki, image and video modules, and a very successful map module for Grand Theft Auto 4. I later went on to develop IGN's first foreign language website, IGN Germany.

Belfast, United Kingdom

I began at IGN working remotely on their community based Vault and Planet network of websites, developed using PHP and MySQL. This included maintaining the existing codebase and adding new community and content features. I then moved on to lead the architecture and development of a Zend Framework MVC based platform that was to be used for their.

Belfast, United Kingdom

I decided to go self-employed and worked with a local web designer to develop e-commerce and dynamic content websites for local and national businesses, using a custom PHP MVC based CMS product I developed. I also picked up some contract work with IGN Entertainment, improving and maintaining their LAMP based portal websites.

Belfast, United Kingdom

I began as part of a team scoping, architecting and developing custom web based solutions for local businesses using Active Server Pages. I then moved to work on a team developing a booking system for a government agency using Visual Basic and MS SQL. Later I moved to a team developing.NET intranet applications for banking and financial customers.

Belfast, United Kingdom

I started as a COBOL programmer during my university placement year, developing and maintaining Relay's bespoke insurance broker software. After completing my placement year I decided to accept an offer of full-time employment, continuing my role as an applications developer. Later I lead the architecture and development of the Windows product using Visual.