Sebastian Urban's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Career highlights include co-founding Quixo Facto, launching Yellow Pages in NZ, leading Yahoo!'s AU/NZ Search engineering team and launching Australia's premier Social TV experience FANGO. My strengths focus on turning propositions into products. This includes product management, technology strategy, solution design, server architecture, software engineering, and project management. I'm an engineer at heart, with a passion for understanding how things work and have spent many years focused on large-scale, highly available systems.Senior Engineering Manager @ **Who are we?** Invoice2go was founded in 2002 by an Australian small business owner who was frustrated by the lack of simple invoicing solutions. Today, we are the #1 invoicing app globally with over 150,000 customers who trust us to send their invoices every month.We have built unique trust with business owners around the globe by understanding their challenges and developing a mobile-first product to make their work more productive. **We are always hiring great people!** We are growing fast and are looking for customer-centric, data-driven people to join our team. Sounds like you? If so, we’d love to chat. Please visit our our careers page: http://invoice2go.com/careers If you cannot find your dream job right now, please email [email protected] as we would love to hear from passionate, energetic and driven candidates in the US, Australia and Indonesia. There might not the perfect fit right now however we would love to stay in touch in the future. From September 2015 to Present (4 months) Sydney, AustraliaTechnical Director @ Co-Founder & Technical Director. Responsible for software, architecture, scale and technology strategy. Primary duties include software development across Quixo Facto's portfolio of web and mobile applications, overseeing infrastructure operations and providing technology vision for the business. From August 2012 to December 2014 (2 years 5 months) Sydney, AustraliaHead of Social, Mobile, Search Platforms @ Prior to co-founding Quixo Facto, I worked at Yahoo! Inc. for 7 years (in Australia), during which time I held a number of different positions. Most recently I was the head of Social, Mobile and Search platforms, where I was responsible for the delivery and operation of the platforms and applications associated with this portfolio. In addition to leading in-house and offshore product and engineering teams, this involved working closely with thought leaders from marketing, design, production, engineering, sales and editorial in the US and AU to develop and operate a technology strategy that would both drive and support Yahoo!s considerable growth in the region. Notable highlights from this period include launching Fango, Australia's first Social TV app (iPhone/iPad/Android); leading the mobile-focused overhaul to Yahoo!7's operational infrastructure; leveraging Yahoo! US's Facebook partnership to launch Social Bar across AU and NZ media properties. Before heading up Social, Mobile & Seach Platforms, I held positions as Solutions Architect for Yahoo!7's Innovation department, Project Lead for IPTV, Regional Search Engineering Manager and Software Engineer. The bulk of this time was spent working in the Search and Location space, with a number of overlapping, multi-year projects on core Web Search, Maps and Local Search. This period also included working in both Engineering and Technical BD capacities across a number of strategic partnerships with businesses such as Telecom NZ, Yellow Pages (both AU & NZ), TrueLocal (News Corp), eBay (US) and Vivid Wireless. From September 2011 to August 2012 (1 year) Solution Architect, Innovations @ - Business development technology lead - Platform strategy - Solution design for Y! technology partnerships - Technical lead for RFP handling, including technology pre-sales - Architect and platform lead for enterprise commercial listings search platform - Technical and search specifications writing - Team design and onboarding - Investment case research and development - Executive communications and presentations - Programme planning and alignment - Process engineering From July 2010 to September 2011 (1 year 3 months) Project Lead, Video / IPTV @ - Major infrastructure investment for Yahoo!7 video delivery and IPTV platform - Coordinated the build and launch of Yahoo!7 IPTV platform with major vendors including Sony, Samsung, Panasonic - Video delivery pipeline, working with syndication partners including Channel 7 broadcast - Native TV-based video streaming applications - Digital rights management consultation - Closed caption data extraction and reintegration - Ad serving solution From January 2010 to July 2010 (7 months) Search Engineering Manager @ - Head of development and operations for Yahoo! Search, AU & NZ - Globally distributed team, open-source development model - Informed product and audience strategy - Search quality metrics and tools - Advertising systems pipelining; sponsored search & behavioural targeting - Local Search business development - Maps engineering, front end & back end (tile generation and serving, geocoding, site build, testing) - Performance and security engineering - Implementation and operation of highly available, globally scaled systems - Vertical search technology strategy, architecture, index design From September 2007 to January 2010 (2 years 5 months) Technical Yahoo @ - Media site builds - Technical specifications and software design - CMS administration - Server maintenance and administration - General solutioning - Major projects include: Yahoo Travel Yahoo News Yahoo Sports Official Yahoo Socceroos home page (2006 FIFA) Yahoo Finance Yahoo NZ (media engineering lead for creation of nz.yahoo.com) From July 2005 to August 2007 (2 years 2 months) Software Developer @ I worked at AOL Australia for 5 years, in roles including Software Development and Operations. Notable highlights from this time included developing and operating the internal fault tracking system; developing the broadband (ADSL) customer registration system; and pioneering many of the support procedures and vendor relationships upon AOL's initial foray into consumer-grade ADSL. From March 2000 to July 2005 (5 years 5 months) BinfoTech, Software Engineering, Networking @ Charles Sturt University From 2002 to 2008 Bachelor's degree, Computer Science @ Macquarie University From 1999 to 2000 Marist College North Shore From 1992 to 1998 Sebastian Urban is skilled in: Scalability, LAMP, JSON, Perl, Apache, Search, Project Planning, System Architecture, Digital Media, Technical Leadership, Mobile Applications, Bringing Order to Chaos, Mobile Devices, Product Management, Web Services