Entrepreneurial technology / product executive with a strong background building and leading cross-functional technical teams in high-growth environments and startups. Comfortable working across a business with direct experience in strategy, product, architecture, implementation and scaling for B2B and B2C web applications reaching millions. Proven experience translating complex business goals / priorities to product strategy and execution and building consensus at an executive level. Genuine passion for designing, building and shipping great products, with extensive technical knowledge across the development stack, from IaaS / PaaS management to UI frameworks & optimisations. Experienced software developer with solid track record developing SaaS platforms with Javascript (Node.js, Backbone, React), PHP (Symfony, Laravel), Go(lang).
VP Engineering @ Songkick and CrowdSurge have joined forces to combine the world's largest concert discovery service with the world's largest artist-ticketing platform. The joint company will do business under the globally recognized Songkick brand, bringing together over 500 of the world’s biggest artists with a usership of 10 million monthly fans, ticketing a combined 10,000 events worldwide each year.
http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/04/concerts-are-twice-as-big-as-recorded-music/
http://songkick.com/jobs From June 2015 to Present (5 months) London, New York, Nashville, Los AngelesVP Engineering @ Songkick and CrowdSurge have joined forces to combine the world's largest concert discovery service with the world's largest artist-ticketing platform. The joint company will do business under the globally recognized Songkick brand, bringing together over 500 of the world’s biggest artists with a usership of 10 million monthly fans, ticketing a combined 10,000 events worldwide each year.
CrowdSurge brings artists closer to their fans, and event owners closer to their customers through innovative ticketing technology and marketing solutions. Our white-label SaaS platform empowers artists to run creative marketing and ticketing campaigns leveraging their own proprietary channels.
We power worldwide D2C programs for artists such as Alicia Keys, Arcade Fire, Jack White, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Paul McCartney and many others, while maintaining a strong presence in the B2B space, facilitating e-commerce for companies like BBC Worldwide, Converse and Sony Music Entertainment.
At CrowdSurge I'm responsible for defining and executing our product and technology strategy. We're building amazing products to delight artists and fans and solving interesting problems at scale, mainly using Go and Cassandra on AWS. We're always looking for great talent, learn more about us and find out how to apply here: https://www.crowdsurge.com/#careers From November 2014 to Present (1 year) London, New York, Nashville, Los AngelesCTO @ openXO is an innovative technology company working to change the way brands connect with their offline audience, helping them offer a public Wi-Fi network with compelling services, backed up with an analytical approach to customer relations.
Responsible for product and technology, leading a team of exceptionally talented software engineers delivering innovative and disruptive Wi-Fi products built for security and scale. Our solutions range from IP / networking integration to data analysis and unique consumer web products.
Writing Javascript on the client (Backbone, React) and server (Node.js), PHP (Laravel framework) and Go(lang) with a dash of Python and Ruby where it makes sense. From May 2013 to September 2014 (1 year 5 months) London, United KingdomVP Product @ Group Commerce is the market-leading platform for publishers who want to succeed in e-commerce. Our company serves the three groups that make an eCommerce program work: the consumer, the publisher, and the merchant.
Initially responsible for UK technology strategy & execution, building & leading a local engineering team and contributing to PHP (Symfony) and Javascript (Backbone) development. Managed design & build of client programs, coordinating UK & US product and engineering resources, with a consistent track record of delivering successful projects for $MM e-commerce businesses. Heavily involved in UK corporate strategy including market analysis, financial modelling, resource planning and enterprise sales-cycle.
As VP of Product, responsible for global product strategy & process, managing a small team (Product Management, Design and UX) in London and NY delivering a SaaS e-commerce platform for the world's premier publishers. Clients included The New York Times, Entercom, Rogers, Nectar and The Daily Telegraph. From April 2012 to May 2013 (1 year 2 months) London, United KingdomHead of Development @ Dealised is a premium, enterprise-grade group-buying platform and services provider. Our expertise lies in helping telecoms and media companies enter and conquer their market quickly. In April 2012, Dealised was acquired by Group Commerce to kick-start their international growth strategy.
Led technology / development (incl, technology P&L responsibility) for SaaS, white-label, ecommerce platform serving clients running $10M+ businesses across the globe. Managed overseas team of 20+ across engineering, product & QA as well as local application engineering & product teams. Responsible for development & execution of company technology strategy. Heavily involved in enterprise sales-cycle, client-services & marketing.
Dealised's European operations were acquired in April 2012 by Group Commerce. From January 2012 to April 2012 (4 months) London, United KingdomEngineering Manager @ Spreets were the first group buying site to launch in Australia in Feb 2010 and in February 2011 were acquired by Yahoo!
Responsible for building and leading an in-house engineering team to "in-source" a legacy e-commerce platform and associated back-office systems. Led platform and frontend teams (10 engineers) building B2C e-commerce software across web, mobile and native applications delivering $60M+ in annualised revenue. Led technical & product strategy for key initiatives incl. major commercial white-label partnerships.
Mainly writing PHP (Zend Framework), client-side Javascript and a little Python as well as Iaas and Paas providers. From January 2011 to December 2011 (1 year) Sydney Area, AustraliaCo-Founder @ GroupByWhat is a group buying analytics platform, delivering critical market data in Australia, UK, Indonesia, Norway, Netherlands & Denmark.
As co-founder, architected & designed the initial product, built web & indexing applications providing near-realtime access to complex time-series data in multiple forms (in my spare time).
In July 2011 after 7 months of development, my co-founder and I decided to focus more on other opportunities - GroupByWhat was wholly acquired by Dealised to add to their group buying platform. From January 2011 to July 2011 (7 months) Sydney Area, AustraliaEngineer, Snr. Engineer @ Various (primarily LAMP) engineering roles, working on everything from MySQL DB performance tuning and infrastructure management to MVC development (Zend, Symfony) to JS framework and UI builds. From 2008 to 2010 (2 years) London, United Kingdom
BSc Hons, Physics @ University College London, U. of London From 2005 to 2008 Mark McIntyre is skilled in: Application Architecture, Technology Strategy..., Technical Leadership, Web Application Security, Web Infrastructure, Data Analysis, Mobile Applications, Product Design, MySQL, Product Strategy, Linux, E-commerce, Product Development, Agile Methodologies, PHP, Xbox, Python, Product Management, Web Applications, Native Advertising, MVC, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Start-ups, Strategy, Analytics, JavaScript, Entrepreneurship
Websites:
http://www.mgmcintyre.co.uk/,
https://www.songkick.com/,
http://songkick.com/jobs