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Geoff Evason

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Geoff Evason

Experienced Technology Manager

Proven leader with strong technical skills, a track record of delivering high quality

products, and the ability to engage both business and technical stakeholders.

References

"Geoff is an astute company director, providing strong leadership and business strategy."

Quentin Osborn Infrastructure Architect at Macquarie Group

" demonstrated a commitment not only to delivering day to day, but of consistently

increasing the value he and his entire team offered to the organisation."

Angus Irvine Business Analyst at realestate.com.au

"He was also instrumental in leading and managing a group of highly skilled engineers in

bringing to production key software technology."

Elias Ahmed Sr. Technical Engineer at PMC-Sierra

" he was always the man to go to for advice and help when we needed."

Uzair Khan iOS Developer at Robots and Pencils Inc.

" provides leadership as well as being reliable for getting things done, including making

difficult things seem easy, and also understandable."

David Bolton Development Manager at Westfield

" identified an opportunity, built a strong product, recruited a solid team and grew

Momentville to become a major player in the wedding website space."

Mike Jarema CTO at Eqentia Inc.

"Hard working and dedicated, Geoff is great at conceptualizing and executing new

projects."

Paul Sehr Director Of Engineering at CommunityLend

"Geoff has a proven ability to take on ill-defined problems and achieve concrete

solutions."

Ivan Logan Executive Development Manager at Westfield

"He always worked hard to help me out with solutions to my design needs"

Anthony Watts Creative Director at Enthrive

" performed excellently at handling most of the project management tasks for our team,

and helping other members get up to speed on various technologies."

Josh Gorner Senior Web Developer at Jugnoo Inc.

"With his calm, pragmatic approach to problem solving he has the rare ability to work

across technical streams whilst engaging business stakeholders to ensure they understand

even the most complex issues."

Morgan Myers Delivery Manager at Westfield

"He is an extremely competent developer, and excelled at writing scaleable, maintainable

code."

Peter McCracken Senior Developer at Uniiverse

See more at http://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffevasonExperience

Nov 2011present

CommunityLend : Director of Engineering Toronto, ON

Oversee the maintenance and development of a complex loan management platform that

handles tens of millions in loans.

Successfully implemented TDD and BDD development flows.

Apr 2007presentMomentVille.com : Executive Director Sydney AU/Toronto

Delivered a scalable, fault-tolerant consumer website built using Ruby on Rails.

Grew the site to over 100,000 registered users and 150,000 requests/day.

Developed a mobile version of the product using HTML5 and CSS3.

Optimized performance of the application through the use of caching, indexing, and

minimizing http, and mysql calls.

Responsible for all company budget and resourcing decisions.

Achieved a 70% increase in revenue per user through a closely measured conversion

optimization campaign.

Reduced the cost of user acquisition by 80% through marketing, press, and SEO

initiatives.

Jan 2012presentLittle Big Thinkers : Director Toronto, ON

Design and implement fun educational apps for kids, such as Rocket Speller.

May 2011Nov 2011

Enthrive : Senior Developer Toronto, ON

Lead a team building an iOS health and fitness app backed by a Ruby on Rails RESTful web

service.

Implemented an agile development process using scrum, Jira, BDD, and retrospectives.

Aug 2010Apr 2011Westfield.com.au : Senior Development Consultant Sydney AU

Developed and deliver the high-traffic multi-retailer e-commerce platform as a senior

member of a large agile team.

Contributions included: fraud detection, shopping cart/funnel optimization, order

lifecycle, payment processing, facetted product search, product category management,

retailer product APIs, SEO

Achieved 80% reduction in the runtime of some test suites as a result of test

refactoring, database optimizations, and system settings.

Aug 2010Apr 2011RealEstate.com.au : Senior Development Consultant Sydney AU

Developed and delivered a content platform for real estate agents as a senior member of

an agile team.

Participated in the introduction of an agile process into the team, including Kanban,

TDD, BDD, stand-ups, and retrospectives.

Influenced technical and architectural designs for the platform.

Mar 2006Apr 2008

Softection : Manager Technical Services Sydney AU

Worked with clients of our enterprise security software to develop and implement roll-out

plans.

Responsible for liaising with clients and the development team to ensure the product

roadmap addressed client needs.

Managed the re-seller network for the distribution of our security product. This included

training, co-branding, and co-ordinating sales and technical staff.

Involved in all product planning decisions including the segmentation of our security

product into solution focused categories.

Oversaw the development of all marketing and training materials including the company

website, white papers, case studies, and technical guides.

June 2001Apr 2005

Altera : Supervisor / Senior Engineer Toronto

Managed a team of 7 engineers in developing detailed power modelling software for FPGAs.

Co-ordinated cross functional teams in Toronto, San Jose & Malaysia to ensure that

hardware, software, and testing components worked together seamlessly.

Responsible for the scheduling, milestones, and status tracking of long term (6-10

months) projects.

Ran weekly status meetings to keep projects on track and communicated the status to

senior management.

Successfully delivered production software on schedule.

Exceeded model accuracy goals by 33% in the first release.

Initiated site wide code architecture reviews to promote knowledge sharing and encourage

high quality code.

Delivered 20% reduction of overall power usage of FPGAs 6 months ahead of schedule.

Involved in the recruitment, mentoring, and career development of team members.

1999Aug 2000

RIM : Engineering Development Manager Waterloo, ON

Supported 3rd party application development for the Blackberry SDK.

Developed a widely used ROI calculator/sales tool application for the Blackberry device.

Provided technical support for sales to major customers including AOL and Merrill Lynch.

Skills

Platforms

Web

iOS

BlackBerry

Mobile Web

Desktop/Client

Web

Ruby on Rails

jQuery

HTML5

CSS3

Prototype

Wordpress

Languages

Ruby

Objective C

Javascript

C++

PHP

Perl

Delphi

APIs

Foursquare

Google Maps

Google Data

Register.com

Alexa

Delivery

Apache

Nginx

Passenger

HAProxy

Capistrano

MySQL

PostgreSQL

SOLR

Other

RSpec

Cucumber

Google Analytics

JIRA

Subversion, Git

Activities

Invited Guest: %a(href="http://google-au.blogspot.com/2009/02/google-developers-down-

under-hackathons.html">iGoogle Hackathon

Presenter: %a(href="http://rubyonrails.com.au/">Ruby on Rails Oceania Sydney

ToastMasters: Vice President of Membership (2008 2009)

Participant: Sydney Startup Camp 1 & 2

Participant: Railscamp 3

Education

Masters of Applied Science

University Of Toronto: Sept 2002May 2004

Cumulative GPA: 4.0

Worked on masters part time while working full time. Put on hold for move to Australia.

Bachelors of Applied Science Computer Engineering

University Of Toronto: Sept 1997May 2001

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