CTO at MixBit, a platform to help people tell great stories through video. Currently writing our video processing engine. Past co-founder of Trunk.ly, a tool that collects your links shared from your online social presence and makes them searchable which was acquired by AVOS (Delicious) in November 2011. A refugee from large global enterprise, I've been working in IT for over 20 years. During that time I've done the full cycle of coding to management to strategy and back to coding again and now into product management with occasional coding and team management too. Specialties: Development Management, Product Management, Architecture & Strategy, API integration, API design, Python / Django, Ruby, SQL, ObjectiveC and AVFoundation

CTO @ Working on MixBit, a platform to help people create and tell stories through video. From May 2013 to Present (2 years 6 months) San Mateo, CAProduct Director / Senior Software Engineer @ AVOS was a platforms company where we worked on multiple product ideas. I was involved in product and engineering management for Delicious, Zeen, Dropdot and MixBit. AVOS Systems renamed to MixBit, Inc to focus exclusively on mixbit.com, a platform to help people create and tell better stories through video. From November 2011 to April 2013 (1 year 6 months) San Mateo, CaliforniaCo-founder & CEO @ With Alex Dong we built and developed Trunk.ly a tool that collects your links shared from your online social presence and makes them searchable. Acquired by AVOS (Delicious.com) in November 2011. From October 2010 to November 2011 (1 year 2 months) Melbourne, AustraliaCo-Founder @ My primary role was guiding our product strategy and direction, sales and community management with some development. Our core product was Tribalytic, which incorporates market research and analysis techniques and had a uniquely Australian focussed view of Twitter usage and conversation. We closed Tribalytic in November 2011. From November 2009 to November 2011 (2 years 1 month) Melbourne, AustraliaDirector, Platform Coordination Architect @ Originally seconded from PwC Australia to PwC Global to work as an integration architect on a global technology platform redesign. I stayed with PwC Global and worked on IT strategy and road-maps for their Enterprise Social Software initiatives and Global Application Architecure. I represented PwC on several technical strategy councils with leading vendors including IBM and Microsoft. I also represented the Australia PwC firm on as the representative to the Global PwC Architecture Review Board, reviewing and commenting on architectural proposals of global significance and impact From September 2007 to November 2009 (2 years 3 months) Director, IT Architect @ • IT Architect for PwC Australia developing Information Technology (IT) Architecture and strategy for PwC Australia. • Sub-stream leader and Australian representative for Platform of the Future project, redesigning the IT platform and systems for PwC globally • Author of chapter “Retailing on the Web” in PwC’s Retail and Consumer Outlook publication for clients included presenting at client functions • Member of Australian IT Leadership team • Consult with PwC clients on technical IT issues as expert resource • Liaise with vendors on upcoming products and roadmaps to ensure we map our systems to key future directions • Review projects for compliance with Enterprise Architecture and strategic directions. From January 2007 to August 2007 (8 months) Senior Manager, National Development @ • Reporting directly to the CIO, responsible for management of National Development group with a team of 3 direct reports and 29 indirect reports. Included recruitment, staff development and performance appraisals and reviewing market data to set salaries in line with market performance and that of the firm • Built a firm-wide project office integrating multiple IT groups into one. • Developed strategies to reduce costs and improve efficiencies within National Development group, implemented policy and procedures as required • Facilitated the creation of strategy plans for other groups within IT department • Consulted with senior staff and partners requiring IT services to understand requirements, estimate costs and initiate projects to solve various business problems • Provided expert technical advice and comment to clients as required as well as presenting to clients From January 2002 to December 2006 (5 years) Senior Manager, Emerging Technologies @ • Member of, then leader of the “Emerging Technologies” group established during the dotcom boom to evaluate, understand and implement appropriate new technologies for PwC Australia • Successfully built an operational web hosting centre and developed several web enabled business offerings in conjunction with the firm for the firm to deliver to the market • Promoted several times from Senior Technical Analyst to Manager to Senior Manager • Lead a team of 6 direct reports • Built and implemented “pay for use” hosting service, the first within the IT department. • Managed the ongoing operations of the extranet services at a strategic level • Joint winner of a PwC Global Innovation award for developing Tax News Network website • Project managed successful implementation of Asia Pacific hub of PwCs internal intranet system which involved dealing with up to 20 stakeholders and a team of 10 technical people From September 1997 to June 2002 (4 years 10 months) Senior Analyst Programer @ • Involved in 2 year implementation of what was the largest SQL Server 6.5 implementation in the world as at July 1997. • Member of a small team of Programmers employed to design and develop the early versions of what is now PwC’s most widely distributed Practise Management System globally. • Extensive design and development of core architectural system elements in VB and SQL server From June 1995 to August 1997 (2 years 3 months) Analyst / Programmer @ • Promoted from Hi-Fert Pty. Ltd., a subsidiary of WMC to the central Management Information Systems (MIS) department • Worked on 2-tier client-server program connecting to DEC RMS, DEC RdB and DEC Oracle systems • Managed the implementation and development maintenance of a custom reporting solution which combined various data sources. • Designed training materials and conducted training courses at remote mining sites. From July 1994 to May 1995 (11 months) Programmer, PC-Support @ • Member of small 3 person team providing technical support and internal development for small 40 person Fertiliser Company. Developed many small database systems and spreadsheet models in support of business. From December 1989 to June 1994 (4 years 7 months)

Tim Bull is skilled in: Product Management, API, Python, Social Media, Integration, Django, Development Management, IT Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, APIs, Web Applications, Microsoft SQL Server, Software Development, JavaScript, Software Design, Web Development, Cloud Computing, Architecture, Leadership, Management, Strategy, Analytics, MySQL, Mobile Applications, Team Leadership, Distributed Systems, User Experience, Ruby, Mobile Devices, E-commerce, Architectures, Agile Methodologies, Start-ups, Ruby on Rails, User Interface Design, Agile Project Management, Git, Web 2.0