Strengths

Innovative, Passionate, and Feedback-driven technologist with a track record of success in multiple roles and countries.

Experience

September 2008 – July 2009

  Smart Tickets Limited              London, UK

  Senior Developer

Worked closely with founders to enhance features of and increase return on investment in the ‘GigJunkie’ music social network product. Provide technical leadership on best practices for developing scalable, enterprise level architectural patterns. Provide business leadership by building and encouraging a team-oriented, agile development environment and promoting awareness and discussion of corporate culture issues to fellow team members. Promote awareness of technology issues, constraints,  ethics and level of effort estimates to founders from a business development perspective. Provide feedback on new ideas and marketing initiatives that require technical cross-team support to marketing members.

Technologies used: C#, ASP.Net MVC, Jquery/AJAX, CSS, IIS, SQL Server 2005, Subversion, BlogEngine.Net, REST.

Industry vertical: Music and Entertainment (U.K.)

Selected achievements:

• Implemented agile practices including team scrums, code reviews and estimations techniques for sprint planning
• GigJunkie social network enhancements such as widgets, blogging, microformat integration and RSS feeds.
• Adoption of Microsoft framework guidelines and coding standards for enhancing team driven development
• Quicker turnaround times for change requests because of enhanced flexible architecture redesign adopted
• Use of open architecture promoted mash-ups developed internally as well as externally
• Implemented continuous improvement protocol of monthly three-way feedback meetings with founders
• Increased productivity of meetings through use of good design tools such as whiteboards and  structuring meeting plans

May 2006 –   January 2008

  Medullan              Cambridge, MA, USA / Trinidad

  Software Developer

Worked with teams on fixed time/fixed price engagements in a globally distributed delivery environment for US Healthcare. Received leadership training and continuous feedback from senior executives in technology, project delivery and core values and in turn provided leadership to junior team members on these.

Technologies used: C#, ASP.Net, IIS, SQL Server 2005, MSMQ, IVR (Interactive Voice Response), Google Mini

Industry vertical: Healthcare (U.S.)

Past clients: Metaphor Solutions, ChartOne, Healthright, PDS Health, Compliance Gurus, Kobex International

Selected Achievements:

• Delivered successfully on projects including several startup prototypes and live sites
• Recruitment and mentoring activities led to growth from 2 to 30 in near-shore Trinidad offices in under 2 years
• Exemplary leadership to team associates as member of ‘Delivery Excellence’ team
• Led team of between 3-5 on internal project as part of readiness training for client delivery projects

1998 – 2008

  OTHER              Trinidad/Barbados

Various technologist and consultant positions which contributed to professional experiences and growth

Technologies used: C#, ASP.Net, IIS, SQL Server 2005, Team Foundation Server, Java, Php, Apache, Eclipse, Tomcat

Industry verticals: Insurance, Data Entry, Disaster Management, Public Sector, Telecommunications, Education, Consultancy

Past clients and employers: Guardian Life, CLICO, Nealco Datalink, CDERA, TSTT, Teleios Systems, CLICK, Tables  Turn  Workshop, Illuminat, Redditech

Community

  Executive member: Trinidad Computer and Linux societies, Past member: Rotary Club. Current member: ACM

Certification

  MCDBA and MCSA.

Passions

Travelling the UK, US and Caribbean and learning of cultural subtleties and similarities. Fan of hiking the nature trails of Trinidad and live music events in the UK. Entrepreneur in techniques and technologies used for organic and viral marketing and corporate culture building in startup environments. Reading business books on leading management

Publications

  Newsforge.com, Redditech Blog.