CTO
Elosophy LLC
Total years of experience :18 years, 2 Months
• Bring the proper balance between business and technology strategy by effectively connecting the outside world with the inside through distilling information into the key trends that indicate where the company needs to go next, thus aligning the company’s tech strategy with its business strategy.
• Effectively hold, develop, articulate, and continually evolve the company’s strategic technical direction.
• Responsible for making sure the company continues to have the best technology solutions at offer in a dynamically-evolving highly-competitive space.
• Inspire/excite people internally around the long-term vision of the company, as well as convince outsiders that this is where the world is going to be, and that Elosophy is the best choice to take them there.
• Have authoritative knowledge about the current market needs, be credible with customers, and be able to articulate the business value and ROI to a variety of audiences at different levels.
Rally the engineering organization towards the long-term technical goals of the company, and be able to inspire new engineers to join the organisation and help in the sourcing/identification of such talent. Help set and maintain the technical culture to make sure the company can continue to retain and attract top technical talent.
• Develop applications for embedded devices and google TV using Android.
• Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code, using latest Android SDKs.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application, identify and correct bottlenecks and
fix bugs, help in maintaining code quality, organization, and automatization.
• Improve existing software products of the company, by removing bugs and adding new features.
• Work mainly on Web Services to enable embedded devices to connect to the existing product line. Improve content sharing and application connections to social networks.
• Continuous research and development to improve quality of service.
• Investigate and propose existing or new standards to help create better software products.
• Build and maintain back-end support for mobile applications, provide maintenance and support in an agile
software development environment.
• Responsible for participating in definition, design and implementation phases of new applications as well as
enhancing large applications.
• Involvement in all phases of team development including project scoping, team building, working with
business leads and project managers, organizing sprints, managing deadlines, understanding and articulating
priorities, finding solutions, coding and delivering results.
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution
development, and propose solutions.
• Prepare solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
• Improve operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Update job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and
computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications;
maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data
usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle.
Work Description:
• Manage and maintain numerous complex websites for clients including local government agencies and public bodies. Initiating internal dept-wide transition to faster, more efficient data management systems; custom built to reduce maintenance costs and allow flexibility for future expansion.
• Assessing client’s requirements and implementing practical solutions to problems. Supporting and organising my team in scheduling projects; while maintaining a high standard of customer focus.
• Training clients on websites powered by content management systems, some based around open source software such as Joomla, Drupal and others custom built from scratch dependent on required specification.
• Providing ongoing support to partners and customers, ensuring that the highest quality support is delivered at all times. Investigating PHP, MySQL, CSS and jQuery issues that arise from client feedback and developing suitable solutions.
• Working with payment gateways such as SagePay, PayPal and Authorize.net to allow clients to monetize their content through a number of different avenues such as affiliate marketing, advertisement, subscription/membership, pay-per-view content and online store.
• Working with local clients, to complete the requirement/technical analysis.
• Writing and maintaining Scope documents for projects.
• Coordinating with the remote development unit to escort throughout the design, implementation and testing
phase.
• Investigating new technologies; Researching, designing and writing new software programs; Testing new programs and fault finding;
• Developing existing programs by analyzing and identifying areas for modification; 'Bolting together' existing software products and getting incompatible platforms to work together;
• Guiding technical authors to write scope documents, operational documentation, technical specifications and test plans;
• Working with computer coding languages;
• Maintaining systems by monitoring and correcting software defects;
• Consulting clients/colleagues concerning the maintenance and performance of software systems and asking questions to obtain information, clarify details and implement information;
• Problem-solving and thinking laterally as part of a team, or individually, to meet the needs of the project
In the Masters program I've specialized in Computer Communication Systems.
It was a Four Years Degree for, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
