mopoke.co.uk - Andy Kelk - Melbourne, Australia

Summary

Team Leadership. Management. Agile Software Development. Ruby, Perl, Linux, Web Development.

Key member of the IT leadership team, responsible for delivering new features and maintaining code on the group's websites as well as related customer-facing tools
Developing and implementing IT strategic direction and vision with other senior IT managers
Regularly presenting new ideas, updates and developments to the IT team and wider organisation through showcase meetings and blog posts
Managing an internal software development team through a major transition to Agile practices and a change from Perl code to a Ruby on Rails stack
Working with external vendors and developing new partnership relationships
Member of the REA Group Senior Leadership Team
Liaising with members of the Executive Leadership Team
Assessing internal and external costs for new development initiatives
Member of the executive project-approval committee with responsibility for reviewing, challenging and accepting detailed business cases
Focusing on delivering value to the rest of the business, our customers, consumers and shareholders
Setting principles, guidelines and standards for the development team to ensure quality, repeatable practice
Turning business vision into operational reality by setting goals and objectives

Founding member of the Venda technical team, building the company from a start-up to a global business with over 250 staff and operating more than 100 websites
Leading a team of developers to integrate the Venda platform with client systems;
Pioneering the opening of Venda's wholly owned, offshore development facility in Thailand.
Leading a team of local developers in Thailand to create sites and integration modules using the Venda platform.
Defining and implementing internal business processes to ensure quality and robustness of code
Interviewing and hiring new staff to join the growing Venda team
Development using Object Oriented Perl, SQL Databases, using Linux and Microsoft platforms
Defining and finding solutions to integration requirements
Developing standard interfaces for all data updates to Venda sites

Key member of the initial UK business start-up team; part of a focused group responsible for building the search database for the site's successful March 2000 launch
Providing business intelligence to identify weaknesses in the core search offering
Scoping and building tools to improve operational efficiency; working closely with product managers to develop and implement best practices for developing the search database
Instigating and building a high-volume, scalable reporting solution to maximise relevancy and monetisation of the search database
Maintaining and optimising all databases within the company using Microsoft SQL Server
Interviewing and hiring new staff to continue developing the organisation