Jon Haydock

Chief Technology Officer at Fobi
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, CA

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Ian Moore

Jon is an extremely technically minded person who maintains an intellectual stake in all facets of what he does. He also brings a certain level of zeal and enthusiasm in his day-to-day work, which in turn boosts the moral of those who work around him!

Alex Clark

Jon is a driven, motivated, naturally inclusive leader and was great asset to the engineering team. He cared very much for the quality of work produced and established processes that had a direct, positive impact on the software releases. Jon is a fantastic mentor with a positive attitude and good sense of humour that made the environment more enjoyable for those around him. In addition to his natural leaderships skills, Jon also has deep technical knowledge and a rare ability to keep track of many details and moving parts in complex software applications. I really enjoyed working with Jon and found him to be a great asset to the company.

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Credentials

  • Machine Learning
    Coursera Course Certificates
    Oct, 2016
    - Nov, 2024
  • Chartered Engineer (CEng)
    Engineering Council (UK)
    Jan, 2011
    - Nov, 2024
  • Certified ScrumMaster
    Scrum Alliance
    Sep, 2009
    - Nov, 2024
  • MCITP: Database Developer on SQL Server 2005
    Microsoft
    Jul, 2009
    - Nov, 2024
  • MCTS: SQL Server 2005
    Microsoft
    Jul, 2009
    - Nov, 2024
  • Member (MIET)
    Institution of Engineering and Technology
    Jan, 1996
    - Nov, 2024
  • Dive Master
    Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI)
    Jan, 2005
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

  • Fobi AI
    • Canada
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Chief Technology Officer
      • Aug 2022 - Present

      Fobi is a leading AI and data intelligence company that provides businesses with real-time applications to digitally transform and future-proof their organizations. Fobi enables businesses to action, leverage, and monetize their customer data, power data-driven customer experiences across online and offline platforms, and drive digital sustainability by reducing unnecessary plastic waste at scale. Fobi works with some of the largest global organizations across retail & CPG, insurance, sports & entertainment, casino gaming, and hospitality & tourism. Show less

  • Open Ocean Robotics
    • Canada
    • Maritime Transportation
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Director Of Engineering
      • Feb 2020 - Aug 2022

      I was the Director of Engineering at Open Ocean Robotics, a company that develops autonomous, solar energy-harvesting boats to collect information from our oceans and instantly relay it. Their goal is to protect our oceans, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build an Internet of Things for the ocean. Open Ocean Robotics' mission is to build the world’s most advanced ocean robots with a focus on safety, reliability and repeatable performance. The technology teams specialize in creating mobile data-collecting platforms that can remain indefinitely in inhospitable ocean environments. I build and lead the electronics and software engineering teams. I served as a systems architect and helped manage the software architecture. I was also responsible for ensuring that design requirements were met, oversaw the consistency of user experiences, and managed a team of engineers and developers. Aiding in the development of the company strategy and product strategy, I also managed the technical roadmap and was responsible for co-developing the technical strategy. Maintaining the technical roadmap ensured that OOR continued to innovate from a technical standpoint and ensured they were working on the highest priority features, to meet their obligations to their customers. Show less

  • Ingrooves Music Group
    • United States
    • Musicians
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Software Engineering Manager, Finance Engineering
      • Aug 2019 - Jan 2020

      Building the next generation of our accounting software to provide a market-leading user experience to Ingrooves end users. We built systems that managed the complexity of royalties accounting & joint venture deal processing in the background, whilst providing a simple, intuitive and fast user experience to our customers.I built a new team to work on the Deals and Terms area of the new Ingrooves Royalty product. The team included two engineers, who worked across teams with other areas of the finance engineering department. Show less

    • Software Engineering Manager, Dispatch
      • Jan 2018 - Aug 2019

      Integrating with existing Ingrooves applications, Dispatch enabled customers to easily manage their digital assets portfolios. Providing easier ways to share with people inside and outside of the Ingrooves ecosystem; including the creation, management and monitoring of social media campaigns.Dispatch also provided easy access to third party fingerprinting services, such as You Tube and Facebook, allowing artists and distribution labels to maximize revenue opportunities from their music assets. As Engineering Manager for the Dispatch Team- Managed the development of a new product for the Ingrooves suite, through production deployment, continued support and feature enhancements.- Lead and coached a team of contractors and full time employees, distributed across several locations: Victoria, BC; California; New York; Texas.- Evolved the development process to leverage best practices; to fit the team’s needs and aligning with Scrum methodology.- Worked closely with Product Management to educate and negotiate on new features; enabling the team to meet the required deadlines and frequently changing priorities.- Architecture design review and redesign: Refactored system components into containerized micro services. Communication through message queues. Ensuring a secure and scalable software infrastructure.- Increased emphasis on testing; especially easily reproducible, automated testing.- Integrated open source platforms and technologies, to best fit the product requirements.- Ongoing recruitment to build up the team, and initiative to replace contracting staff in order to reduce project expenditure. Show less

  • Vandrico Solutions Inc.
    • Canada
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Director of Engineering
      • Feb 2017 - Dec 2017

      Vandrico sees an automated future, where humans work intuitively with machines to reach exponentially greater productivity with no risk to human life. To reach this vision, we take best-in-class software practices and apply them to traditional industries. Our open and flexible approach supports management of innovation at all levels. It accelerates realized business value, while also reducing innovation risk. The tools that we develop and license enable industrial companies to learn faster from their operations, share learning across teams more easily, and facilitate iterative efficiency gains from new technology. As Director of Engineering at Vandrico Solutions I • Was responsible for the welfare and management of the engineering department, and the development and innovation of our software platform: Connected Worker. • Improved the engineering practices, platform architecture and selecting hardware technologies. • Migrated the internal infrastructure to cloud based vendors, reducing the DevOps responsibilities and leveraging single sign-on capabilities. • Enabled the company to take advantage of newer technologies, such as Packer, Terraform and Docker Swarm. Allowing the automation of platform build and deployment, increasing the stability of the production systems and reducing DevOps time. • Implemented of system monitoring strategies and disaster recovery processes. • Pushed for continuous improvement of the product; including improving security, ensuring open source licensing compliance and performance testing. • Headed up and was hands on with the R&D for the product. I am particularly proud of the new time-lapse engine, digital tag board, and the evolution of our edge computing capabilities. Each having its own unique requirements and challenges. • Evaluated and selected new technologies, including RFID and UWB Real Time Location System hardware, and vendors. Show less

  • Bit Stew Systems, From GE Digital
    • Canada
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Director, Software Engineering
      • Apr 2014 - Feb 2017

      As Director of Software Engineering at Bit Stew, my main focus is on my team and our core products. My team is responsible for the maintenance and enhancements to Grid Director, MIx Core and the new MIx Director. In leading the core engineering team, I ensure that we support the needs of our end customers and our internal teams, which use the products on behalf of our customers. With my team • Apply elements of the Agile framework to design, build, test and iterate new product features. Encourage feedback, evolve and innovate the engineering processes, tools and best practices. • Plan and manage a software engineering team to deliver product releases in accordance with the road map. • Recruit, coach, mentor, inspire, retain and performance-manage a team of highly skilled software engineers. • Integrate and manage an offshore team in India; ensure that, as a team, we can scale to meet the needs of our ever-growing customer base and product backlog. • Ensure a product development focus within the team. • Continue to drive innovation with software engineering to maintain Grid Director as class leading platform. • Oversee the research and development of several innovative projects. • Do whatever is needed to unblock my team and produce the next awesome iteration of our core products. With our products • Work closely with product management and product marketing to ensure the product road map meets the needs of the market. • Push continuous integration into all parts of the software development process. • Push to evolve QA and test automation processes and practices. With our company • Design and evolve new software development process and work-flows, which span multiple departments including Product Management, PMO, QA, and Engineering. • Provide support to other teams’ recruitment efforts, technically assessing their engineers and technical contractor candidates. Show less

  • Blast Radius
    • United States
    • Advertising Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Technology Architect
      • Dec 2010 - Apr 2014

      Technology Architect and Software Development Manager for projects on Microsoft, Nike, Starbucks, Land Rover, Crown, BCAA, New Era and Bacardi accounts. Provide estimates and technical leadership and mentoring to developers and architects on projects, and to career management team. Identify best way to integrate front end and back end, select technologies, and seek input from developers and designers to create ideal solution. Create solutions that are scalable, perform optimally, easily maintained, have exceptional security, and delivered on time and on budget. Initiate innovative internal projects to improve productivity and reduce development costs. Collaborating with other disciplines on pitch and support work Show less

  • Nokia
    • Finland
    • Telecommunications
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Principal Lead Software Design Engineer
      • Aug 2009 - Nov 2010

      Principle Lead Software Design Engineer / Technical Architect / Development Manager, Ovi Share service Managing the three development teams working towards building the next generation Ovi Share service server back end and client applications for S40 and S60 Nokia phones. Also working with the Transition Team and Advanced Operations Team to design and provision server environments for installation in multinational operation centres. Principle Lead Software Design Engineer / Technical Architect / Development Manager, Ovi Share service Managing the three development teams working towards building the next generation Ovi Share service server back end and client applications for S40 and S60 Nokia phones. Also working with the Transition Team and Advanced Operations Team to design and provision server environments for installation in multinational operation centres.

  • Splashdot
    • Canada
    • Advertising Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Director of Software Development
      • Feb 2008 - Aug 2009

      Managed the product road map and architected the development of the next generation of a web based Incentive Relationship Management product to be more stable and include new features, with increased usability and cross-browser capability within budget constraints and project deadlines.Evaluated the need for new equipment, oversaw configuration and installation as well as liaised with clients, third-party software companies, advertisement agencies and internal departments on system integration and enhancements.Led and directed the work of a team of five developers and a System Manager while maintaining the smooth running of the development and production teams. Analyzed functionality and new requirements to meet the need of the projects and the product in an agile working environment and in several cases, where the requirements or implementation were extremely complicated, developed and updated areas of the system including projects such as data encryption, data integration server web service, XML tokens and XML / XSLT based search. Show less

    • Team Leader - Product Development
      • Sep 2006 - Feb 2008

      Led and directed the work of a team of seven developers enhancing an existing Incentive Relationship Marketing product to be more reliable with increased functionality and usability; including Automatic Email Scheduling, Reports, SMS messaging and Web Services. Developed business and development processes to aid development and maintenance. Developed the office network; Server configuration, Anti-Virus & Firewall consistency. Developed, configured and monitored Internet contests sites. Managed the move of the companies production hosting environment; which included the setup, configuration and security of the new production environment. Assessed and interviewed prospective new developers in the current recruitment drive. Show less

    • Senior Developer
      • Sep 2005 - Sep 2006

      Senior Developer in a team of seven web developers/designers enhancing an existing Incentive Relationship Marketing product to be more reliable and enhancing functionality, including Automatic Email Scheduling, Reports, Web Services. Configured and monitored Internet contests sites. Developed business and development processes to aid development and maintenance. Implemented and maintained of office domain network and backups.

  • UK to Singapore (Overland)
    • Time off traveling
      • Jan 2005 - Jul 2005

      Traveling from the UK to Singapore over land through Europe, Russia, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. I took the opportunity to experience new cultures, build on my hobby of photography and become a PADI professional diver by attaining the Dive Master certification. I also took the opportunity to expand my diving knowledge further by taking the Deep Dive Specialty course, the Enriched Air Nitrox course, and the DAN Oxygen Provider course. Traveling from the UK to Singapore over land through Europe, Russia, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. I took the opportunity to experience new cultures, build on my hobby of photography and become a PADI professional diver by attaining the Dive Master certification. I also took the opportunity to expand my diving knowledge further by taking the Deep Dive Specialty course, the Enriched Air Nitrox course, and the DAN Oxygen Provider course.

  • Interactive Dimension
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Web Developer
      • Dec 2003 - Jan 2005

      Thirteen month permanent contract as a Lead Developer in a team of six web developers/designers developing several dynamic websites and applications; including Outlook type event calendar, monthly news letter (which won the BAE Systems Chairman's Award for Innovation), online training application, and online content management system. Implemented coding standards and configuration control for source code, performance tuned C# and SQL code and debugged network and server issues. Thirteen month permanent contract as a Lead Developer in a team of six web developers/designers developing several dynamic websites and applications; including Outlook type event calendar, monthly news letter (which won the BAE Systems Chairman's Award for Innovation), online training application, and online content management system. Implemented coding standards and configuration control for source code, performance tuned C# and SQL code and debugged network and server issues.

  • Logica
    • Canada
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Consultant, Space & Defense Division
      • Jul 1997 - Dec 2003

      Worked as a consultant in numerous roles and countries, in-house and at client site, on various Space and Defense projects. My roles on the projects included Software Designer, Analyst Programmer, Team Leader, Pre-launch Support, Post-launch Support, Technical Analyst, Technical Author, Data Modeler, DBA, Web Developer and Integration Manager. Worked as a consultant in numerous roles and countries, in-house and at client site, on various Space and Defense projects. My roles on the projects included Software Designer, Analyst Programmer, Team Leader, Pre-launch Support, Post-launch Support, Technical Analyst, Technical Author, Data Modeler, DBA, Web Developer and Integration Manager.

  • Keysight Nemo Wireless Network Solutions
    • Finland
    • Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Analyst Programmer
      • Jul 1996 - Jul 1997

      Wrote and maintained software to support and enhance the existing AFOS Ferry Operator system, working in-house and on client site, including evaluating client requirement changes. Wrote and maintained software to support and enhance the existing AFOS Ferry Operator system, working in-house and on client site, including evaluating client requirement changes.

Education

  • University of Warwick
    B.Eng (Hons), Computer Systems Engineering
    1993 - 1996
  • Justice Institute of British Columbia
    Collaborative Conflict Resolution
    2010 - 2010
  • Justice Institute of British Columbia
    Conflict Theory
    2010 - 2010
  • Justice Institute of British Columbia
    Negotiation Skills Level I
    2010 - 2010

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