Work Experience 

Founder, CTO - Openads LTD.  London, UK.  (2006 - Present)

  • Community leader for Openads, the most popular ad server on the web.
  • Created initial business plan for the formation of the the company.
  • Raised $20M in capital from Index Ventures, Accel, Mangrove, and other top tier venture capitalists.
  • Overseeing a community growth rate of over 50% annually.
  • Owner of product and technical vision

Co-founder, CTO - M3 Media Services LTD (Unanimis Consulting).  London, UK.  (2002 - 2006)

  • Built technology to deliver and measure the effectiveness of online advertising for large websites.
  • Oversaw the development of a technical infrastructure capable of delivering billions of ads per month, thousands of ads per second.
  • Sold M3 to Unanimis Consulting. 
  • Created and executed technical direction for Unanimis Group.

Co-founder, CTO - Article 27 LTD.  London, UK.  (2000 - 2002)

  • Co-founded company that managed exclusive internet video rights to feature length films.
  • Helped secure $6M venture capital financing from Geocapital Partners.
  • Led overall product development for an enterprise level digital asset management system.

Principal Engineer, IDX Systems Corporation (GE Healthcare).  Boston, USA.  (1994 - 2000)

  • Developed applications for IDX, a large healthcare software firm with 3000+ employees. 
  • Founding member of the Web Architecture Group.  This group built the inital web framework for all IDX appliations, which is still used by all applications.
  • Member of the Architecture Board.  The Architecture Board is a small group of developers and architects that set technical direction for the entire company.

Technical Experience

  • Software Development:  PHP (4+ years), Java (8+ years), Object Oriented Design Patterns
  • Operating Systems:  Linux (4 years), MacOS (2 years), Windows (10+ years)
  • Databases:  MySQL (6 years), SQL Server (3 years), Database Design, Performance Tuning
  • Web / Application Servers:  Apache (8 years), IBM Websphere (2 years), Tomcat (2 years), Microsoft IIS (4 years)
  • Methodologies:  Scrum Agile Development Methodology

Education

Personal

  • Married with two fantastic children.
  • Tennis, golf, table tennis.
  • Traveling, visiting museums and collecting art.