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Vice President of Engineering

Mediasurface - August 1999 to June 2001

Mediasurface is a venture capital-funded product start-up providing content management software for business web sites.

Built and managed the Product Development division, which grew to 70 people and had an annual budget of circa £6 million. The division worked primarily with Enterprise Java, Perl and Oracle8i technologies on Solaris, Windows, Linux and HP-UX platforms.

Achievements

. Stabilised and consolidated an innovative product
. Managed near factor 10 growth [10-70 people]
. Enabled multiple simultaneous streams of product development
. Shortened product development cycles
. Stabilised customers who had early product releases
. Initiated an integrated product development process
. Pioneered use of offshore outsourced development partners
. Introduced line management and appraisal process