Experience

GreenPark Sports

• United States
• Mobile Gaming Apps
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP of Engineering

  • Oct 2018 - Aug 2020

  Burlingame, CA GreenPark Sports creates digital experiences and games for the new generation of sports and esports fans. Our flagship product is a native, free-to-play mobile game played over the top of sporting events, where fans battle to become the undisputed “Best Fans” of their league and season.



MixBit

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO

  • Aug 2017 - Oct 2018

  San Mateo, California Drive product strategy and design for zeen.com, a mobile video conferencing platform. Designed several innovative features including “Stand up to talk”, “Heads up Agenda’s”, “Live Bookmarks” and “Rich Audio Playbacks”. * Negotiated and completed the acquisition of MixBit (Zeen) team by BlueJeans. * Restructured the team and recruit key hires to drive our marketing and segment focus, contributing to increased usage of 2,500% over 6 months. * Revised UX direction and transitioned from… Show more Drive product strategy and design for zeen.com, a mobile video conferencing platform. Designed several innovative features including “Stand up to talk”, “Heads up Agenda’s”, “Live Bookmarks” and “Rich Audio Playbacks”. * Negotiated and completed the acquisition of MixBit (Zeen) team by BlueJeans. * Restructured the team and recruit key hires to drive our marketing and segment focus, contributing to increased usage of 2,500% over 6 months. * Revised UX direction and transitioned from Peer-Peer to Client-Server streaming, outsourcing backend to reduce development cost, improve quality and improve monthly user retention from ~3% to ~15%. * Work with board and investors on strategy. * Lead remote team in New Zealand and office in San Mateo.

• CTO

  • May 2013 - Jul 2017

  San Mateo, CA Lead on product and engineering management. Working directly with CEO, I was responsible for making his product vision a reality. * Managed product and engineering teams in NZ and San Mateo. * Prototyped product ideas in iOS / Swift. * Built a video processing engine for MixBit in Objective C and then Swift using AVFoundation. Tech stack: AWS, Apache, Ruby / Rails, iOS Swift, AVFoundation, WebRTC

• Senior Software Engineer / Product Lead

  • Nov 2011 - Apr 2013

  San Mateo, California * Product manager for Delicious. * Product manager for Zeen (original version, online magazines).



Trunk.ly

• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Co-founder & CEO

  • Nov 2009 - Nov 2011

  Melbourne, Australia * Negotiated and led acquisition of trunk.ly by MixBit Inc (called AVOS at the time) * Designed and developed trunk.ly, a social bookmarking tool. Led product and marketing, growing traffic at average of 15% per week. * Designed and developed tribalytic.com, a social media analytics tool. Led sales and marketing to generate ~$100K in revenue. * Managed finances, external accountants and government reporting. Tech stack: Python, Django, REDIS, RabbitMQ, OAuth, APIs



PwC

• Professional Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director, Platform Coordination Architect

  • Jan 2007 - Nov 2009

  * Lead integration architect for a multi-million dollar global IT platform systems redesign for PwC impacting all 60+ territories. * Represent PwC on global technical councils with IBM and Microsoft leading efforts for improved interoperability and open standards. * Consultant to PwC clients on as expert resource. * Review projects for compliance with Enterprise Architecture and strategic direction as Australian representative on Global IT review board. Tech Stack: C#.NET, SQL… Show more * Lead integration architect for a multi-million dollar global IT platform systems redesign for PwC impacting all 60+ territories. * Represent PwC on global technical councils with IBM and Microsoft leading efforts for improved interoperability and open standards. * Consultant to PwC clients on as expert resource. * Review projects for compliance with Enterprise Architecture and strategic direction as Australian representative on Global IT review board. Tech Stack: C#.NET, SQL Server, Windows NT, SAML, SOAP, XML, REST

• Senior Manager, National Development

  • Jan 2002 - Dec 2006

  * Reporting directly to CIO, lead the national development group, a team of 3 direct reports and 29 indirect reports. Responsible for recruitment, staff development, performance reviews and recommending salaries. * Built a firmwide project office (PMO), centralizing IT Project Managers from several lines of business. Tech Stack: VB.NET, SQL Server, Lotus Notes, Windows NT

• Senior Manager, Emerging Technologies

  • Jul 1995 - Jun 2002

  * Led 6 direct reports to build and manage a web hosting centre. Developed web enabled business offerings. * Promoted to Manager and then Senior Manager. * Initially hired as programmer for large Visual Basic project.



WMC & Hi-Fert

• Analyst / Programmer

  • Jan 1990 - Jun 1995

  Adelaide, Australia Individual contributor designing and building projects in Visual Basic and FoxPro. Finished as team leader for small team of three.