Director of Technology, Mosaic Interactive
Toronto, Canada Area
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- Director of Technology, Mosaic Interactive at Mosaic Sales Solutions
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- Product Development Manager at Small World Net
- eCommerce System Manager (contract) at Fastmount Ltd
- Web Projects Manager & Developer at The Strategic Coach
- Director at Nerds Inc Limited
- Web Application Developer at Soft Tech NZ Ltd
- Web Developer at PDF Communications Ltd
- Project Manager / Senior Business Analyst at Soft Tech NZ Ltd
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Rowan Malling’s Summary
Core strength is to take a vision or idea and form it into a working production ready application from the ground up. The ability interface between clients and dev teams - add and assist defining strategy and what technology suits, then get it into a completed product. Rare ability to speak to two audiences, both the business audience and the development teams.
12+ years of experience in total across all facets of web and software development. The last 6 years focused on Web Application Development in open source technologies, built on a solid 6 years of experience in QA, Business Analysis and Project Management roles. Proponent of Agile development.
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Rowan Malling’s Specialties:
Design & architecture of community based web sites and functionally complex web sites/applications. System architecture of high availability, replicated systems. Specialist domain knowledge in complex product configuration. Experience with CAD/CAM systems and complex BOM generation. 3+ years Ruby on Rails based sites, 6+ years PHP. Flex, AIR and various other technologies.
Rowan Malling’s Experience
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Director of Technology, Mosaic Interactive
Mosaic Sales Solutions
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
September 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
I run the Technology side of an Interactive team for this large Experiential Marketing agency. We design/develop both consumer facing web sites as well as operational management tools for our field teams. Position includes security/compliance reviews, planning and development of project timelines from a development standpoint, social media ideation for consumer sites, evaluation of hardware/software solutions. Our clients include the largest brands in the world and Mosaic XM was recently listed in the Top 10 Agencies of the year in Canada for 2009. Technologies include RoR, MySQL, PostgreSQL, .NET, SQL Server, Apache. Methodologies - Agile/BDD. If you want to come work on our team, just connect !
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Product Development Manager
Small World Net
(Internet industry)
November 2007 — September 2008 (11 months)
Lead a web team in taking a prototype Web 2.0 service built with Ruby on Rails successfully into production. Day to day includes: Rails development, management of development schedules, team and general project management. Development of hosting infrastructure for a high availability, redundant system. Technologies: Rails, MySQL, Apache, OS X, Unix Servers.
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eCommerce System Manager (contract)
Fastmount Ltd
(Maritime industry)
June 2005 — September 2008 (3 years 4 months)
Ongoing management and development of a b2b ecommerce system for this award winning NZ Marine startup. System facilitates global purchasing with complex pricing structures, order management, customer management and shipping rules. Current system in PHP/MySQL, live for over 2 years. Development of new Rails/Merb system.
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Web Projects Manager & Developer
The Strategic Coach
(Management Consulting industry)
February 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 10 months)
Management of web projects & web team. Lead developer for Ruby On Rails based web infrastructure. Key success include leveraging legacy database through Rails to add a successful client 'portal', upskilling and streamling web development team / processes, implementing Rails based infrastructure.
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Director
Nerds Inc Limited
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
June 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 1 month)
Web Application development and consulting. Interface design and development. Project Management and Business Analysis for medium to large Web Application projects. Technologies : PHP, MySQL, Flash, Flex, Linux
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Web Application Developer
Soft Tech NZ Ltd
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2005 — January 2006 (9 months)
On contract for desing/build/rollout/support of inhouse web applications. Delivered two PHP/MySQL web applications, one for management of software installation base, other for systems management. Integrated with existing .NET systems through web services. Time well spent !
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Web Developer
PDF Communications Ltd
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
February 2003 — May 2005 (2 years 4 months)
PHP Web Application Development (sole developer) from small sites through to large user base content management systems. Management of small hosting environment
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Project Manager / Senior Business Analyst
Soft Tech NZ Ltd
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 1996 — February 2003 (6 years 4 months)
Started at the ground floor and worked over 6 years through QA, Business Analsys and ultimately Project Management, working on a 3D CAD/CAM/CAE Enterprise applicator for the Window and Door industry, mainly in commericial sector in the US.
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Rowan Malling’s Interests:
Rock Climbing, Mountain Biking, Travel, Woodworking.
Rowan Malling’s Groups:
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Rowan Malling’s Honors:
Nomination for the Hi-Tech Young Achiever of the Year, 1999 by head of NZ Software Association.
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