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Founder of Insignum: Intelligent Analytics Monitoring for Data-Driven Product Development. Previously VP of Engineering and Growth for startups in Vancouver and London. Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical & Computer Engineering from The University of British Columbia, Canada.Co-Founder & CEO @ www.insignum.io - Intelligent analytics monitoring for product development. Insignum uses unsupervised machine learning to detect significant...

Founder of Insignum: Intelligent Analytics Monitoring for Data-Driven Product Development. Previously VP of Engineering and Growth for startups in Vancouver and London. Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical & Computer Engineering from The University of British Columbia, Canada.Co-Founder & CEO @ www.insignum.io - Intelligent analytics monitoring for product development. Insignum uses unsupervised machine learning to detect significant changes in user behaviour over time with mobile apps or websites. From July 2014 to Present (1 year 6 months) London, United KingdomHead of Growth (Contract) @ GoCardless is a next generation payments company. They make it cheap and easy for anyone to take payments online using the Direct Debit infrastructure. From March 2014 to September 2014 (7 months) VP of Growth @ ● Managed the growth strategy and lean product development of an enterprise social platform for web and mobile that launched in the North American real estate market. RESAAS is a publicly traded company that has raised over $12 million. ● Grew the social platform to tens of thousands of licensed real estate agents who engaged with the platform to communicate with other professionals in real time and to market their brand and property listings to home buyers and sellers. ● Quantified product/market fit for user segments using cohort analysis and net promoter scores to determine allocation of raised capital. ● Employed growth hacking tactics for several user acquisition strategies including organic search, social media, paid advertising and referrals. Meticulously measured each stage of the user acquisition and conversion funnel and continuously optimized digital advertising to lower the user acquisition cost. ● Used A/B testing to determine which optimizations were statistically significant. Measured user behaviour, performed cohort analysis and targeted users with specific traits to acquire customers who were more likely to engage with the product long­term which resulted in doubling retention in 2 months. ● Led pitches to over one hundred investors and brokers, and an institutional investment firm, to raise $1.4 million. From May 2013 to March 2014 (11 months) VP of Engineering @ ● Responsible for performance, security and analytics across the web and mobile SaaS products and achieved a consistent APDEX of 0.99. The technology stack included HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JSON, C# .NET, SQL, NoSQL, Git/SVN, and automated testing and deployment infrastructure with Jenkins. ● Designed and transitioned to a Kanban process to manage tasks and align incentives within the business and engineering teams. This enabled predictable frequent releases and company-­wide visibility. ● Architected and built an automated Continuous Delivery system that moved the company from monthly to daily production deployments while simultaneously decreasing the risk and frequency of releasing defects. ● Transitioned from an on­-premises software and deployment architecture to a cloud-­based one hosted on Microsoft Azure in 3 months. This increased the speed and scalability of the product while decreasing overall operational costs. From January 2012 to May 2013 (1 year 5 months) Vancouver, Canada AreaSenior Software Engineer @ From June 2011 to January 2012 (8 months) Vancouver, Canada AreaSoftware Engineer @ ● Architected and implemented web and mobile software using social marketing strategies for Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft and Starbucks. ● Introduced both Agile and Continuous Integration (CI) processes on 8 agency accounts and became the expert within the company on product delivery infrastructure. Metrics from each build were used to optimize and improve code quality, test coverage and deployment time. ● Automated manual acceptance testing to reduce the dependence on QAs which prevented recurring software defects and which increased the rate of delivery from weekly to daily. From September 2009 to June 2011 (1 year 10 months) Vancouver, Canada AreaBiomedical R&D Engineer (Contract) @ ● Designed software and robotics for a vibro­elastography robot that identified cancerous tissue and was used in surgeries at the British Columbia Cancer Agency. From May 2007 to December 2009 (2 years 8 months) Vancouver, Canada AreaSoftware Engineer @ ● Engineered advanced visualization solutions for multiplanar images of CT and MRI data. ● Learned Agile process, completed user stories, wrote unit and acceptance tests and performed code reviews. From November 2008 to August 2009 (10 months) Edinburgh, United KingdomStudent @ Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering. From September 2003 to May 2008 (4 years 9 months) Vancouver, Canada AreaSoftware Engineer (UBC Co-op Contract) @ Environmental Criminology Research Inc. (ECRI) develops and supplies software for geographic profiling and serial crime analysis to police, military and security customers. (www.ecricanada.com) From January 2007 to April 2007 (4 months) Software Engineer (UBC Co-op Contract) @ Canadian Automated Management Systems (AMS) develops turnkey commerce systems across an entire spectrum of customers from single location parts distributors to large multi-location retailers. (www.amscomp.com) From May 2005 to April 2007 (2 years) Vancouver, Canada AreaBiomedical Robotics R&D Engineer (UBC Co-op Contract) @ Medico Supplies Inc. develops CAD equipment and software for the prosthetic device industry. (www.medico-supplies.com) From April 2006 to August 2006 (5 months) Vancouver, Canada AreaInstrumentation and Control Engineer (UBC Co-op Contract) @ Syncrude operate a large oil sand mine, utilities plant, bitumen extraction plant and upgrading facility in Canada's oil sands that processes bitumen and produces value-added light, sweet crude oil for domestic consumption and export. (www.syncrude.ca) From September 2005 to December 2005 (4 months) Alberta, CanadaBachelor of Applied Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering @ The University of British Columbia From 2003 to 2008 Andrew Thompson is skilled in: Agile Methodologies, C#, .NET, Web Applications, Software Engineering, Test Driven Development, XML, Software Project Management, Software Development, Windows Azure, WCF, Enterprise Software, Continuous Delivery, Subversion, SOA