6 Figure Creative

Lead Coach

Marketing Expert

Midas Advisor

Grant writing and consulting services for local and national businesses. We help SMBs access operating capital through EU and government funding.

Non-Managing Partner

Dan Calin

As a freelance professional and consultant I was focused on helping businesses create online marketing assets using copy, media, and design.

Fractional Marketing Professional

Digtective

Accurate, cookieless tracking solution for online advertising to identify and eliminate wasted ad spend. Digtective products are fully GDPR, CCPA and ePrivacy compliant.

Operations Officer

Strategic Advisor

SaaS Academy

Worked with 1000+ SaaS founders across our programs, and grew the Growth Accelerator program for early stage companies to 450+ active members.

Program Lead

Moved into a full time role of managing all public and client facing content. Our focus was creating valuable frameworks and sharing them with more B2B SaaS founders.

Content Manager

As employee #2 under Dan Martell, we started creating the media assets for what became the Growth Stacking Show and the Escape Velocity podcast.

Marketing Assistant

Get Rich Education

Created and managed the content marketing infrastructure, company SOPs, and communication guidelines. Sourced and trained my replacement for a seamless hand-off.

Leverage 

Halfway through my time with the agency, I joined the sales and marketing team as a Project Manager overseeing client projects.

Project Manager

Joined the team as a general contractor where I took ownership of various projects ranging from setting up basic marketing funnels to liquidating multi-million dollar art collections.

General Contractor

Adeline Flowershop

Flowers and plants importing company with retail and wholesale distribution models. Local, privately owned business with a management team who averaged the age of 22.

Co-Founder / Shop Manager

Dynamic operator with 12+ years of experience helping businesses reach their full potential through marketing, customer success, and effective operations.

Over the course of my career, I developed the skills and competencies that make me a well-rounded professional able to thrive in both startup and enterprise environments.

By working extensively with sales and marketing, I've learned to understand creatives on both sides -- those who care about making art, and those who care about making sales. I am able to speak their language and pull cross-departmental projects over the finish line.

Over the past decade, I've developed, taught, and delivered marketing and operations best practices to more than 1000 entrepreneurs and web professionals. That exposed me to some of the most innovative businesses in the world.

I helped build, promote, sell, and deliver everything from executive training programs to complex technological solutions, through every major online business model.

Nasstar

Engineering Director, Technical Services

Cognizant Microsoft Business Group

I'm leading a geographically distributed team of engineering managers and software engineers with expertise in Azure Cloud PaaS and .NET ecosystem. 
Focusing primarily on delivering custom enterprise solutions for UK and EU customers. 

Main responsibilities:
- Strategy definition and implementation for the App Dev practice
- Commercial reviews and estimations of new opportunities
- Recruitment 
- Delivery oversight, supporting teams make technical choices 
- Coaching, mentoring, and career planning

Key achievements:
- Exceeded delivery revenue target by over 40% 
- Scaled out the practice by over 120% (>60 members)
- Maintained 0% attrition for permanent employees
- Optimised the practice for future scalability by creating new capabilities aligned with technology verticals

EMEA Head of App Dev

Leading a geographically distributed team of engineering managers and software engineers with
expertise in Azure Cloud PaaS and .NET ecosystem, delivering custom enterprise solutions for UK
clients

UK Head of App Dev

New Signature

In addition to the Lead Solutions Architect responsibilities I was supporting the Practice Lead to grow
the App Dev practice with:
- Hiring talent
- Line management, coaching, and mentoring
- Pre-sales activities

Due to our fantastic track record and success story New Signature was acquired by Cognizant.

Lead Solutions Architect, Deputy Practice Lead

In addition to the Solution Architect responsibilities I was supporting the practice architecture capability
by defining architecture principles and best practices for our teams.

Lead Solutions Architect

Leading large scale technology programmes, encompassing multiple project teams and utilising Agile
frameworks.
Responsible for the overall solution architecture and high level designs.

Solutions Architect

Software Architect

Reflective Software Ltd

Reflective Software Ltd was a software consultancy specialized in providing solutions using Microsoft technologies.

Founder & Director

Dot Net Solutions

Joined as a .NET Lead/Technical Architect on an initial 3 months contract to coordinate a team of 4 developers working on a greenfield cloud-based content management system for Microsoft Studios. Subsequently the contract was renewed 5 times as I contributed to the successful delivery of multiple projects.

Responsibilities:
•	Translating business requirements into workable technical solutions.
•	Attending technical assurance meetings with company clients
•	Participating in Scrum activities
•	Coordinating the development team
•	Hands-on development

Achievements:
•	Introduced and consolidated the use of DDD tactical elements by the development team which provided a solid foundation for tackling complexity in subsequent projects.
•	Due to my extensive technical experience as well as outstanding ability to liaise with technical and non-technical stakeholders I was delegated to a client’s site to unblock an existing project by redesigning a faulty messaging component. The project was eventually a success which was also confirmed by future engagements from the client.

Technical snapshot: DDD, Scrum, TDD, TFS, Windows Azure, ASP.NET Web API, ASP.NET MVC, Angular JS, Knockout JS, C#, SQL Server, Entity Framework, Lucene.NET, Unity, Moq, jQuery, JavaScript, Visual Studio 2012 / 2013

.NET Lead/Technical Architect (Contract)

BITE Consulting Group Ltd.

Freelance .NET Developer

Profiller Software

Profiller Software is a Start-up company that provides an online solution, delivered as a SaaS, for simplifying the recruiting process by filtering candidates through testing and skill matching.

Employed as a .NET Software Engineer to participate in the full development life cycle process and contribute to the first public release of the Cloud-based online service.

Responsibilities:
•	Participating in Scrum activities: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, and Sprint Review 
•	Translating Business Requirements into workable system solutions.
•	Domain modelling of new product features based on Product Backlog user stories.
•	Performing code reviews to ensure domain model integrity, coding standards and good practices are satisfied.
•	Essential DDD Bounded Contexts and Aggregates refactoring to improve the performance of the application.

Achievements:
•	Initiated the introduction and transformation of the software development method from a ‘Lite-DDD’approach to a ‘Rich-DDD’ approach, making use on advanced concepts like Bounded Contexts, Domain Events, and Eventual Consistency, which provided a cleaner separation of concerns between the application responsibilities and enabled the development team to implement new features more easily.
•	Due to my extensive technical experience as well as outstanding ability to liaise with technical and non-technical stakeholders I was appointed to co-ordinate the development and participate in the successful implementation of multi-step ordering process that allowed customers to place orders and used the online service for recruiting purposes. More than 200 company orders have been processed since the first beta launch in July 2013. 

Technical snapshot: DDD, Scrum, TDD, TFS, Mercurial, ASP.NET MVC, C#, Windows Azure, Service Bus, SQL Server, Fluent NHibernate, Moq, jQuery, JavaScript, Knockout JS, TypeScript, Visual Studio 2010 / 2012

.NET Software Engineer

Outdash Development

OutDash Development is an outsourcing company based in New Jersey, USA, specialised in providing services in the Health and Travel industries 

Employed remotely as a .NET Developer to participate in the development of a large EMR (Electronic Medical Records) application used by medical centres across the US. Worked mostly on an individual basis.

Responsibilities:
•	Integration of hardware devices (i.e. ECG, Spirometer, Holter, Blood Pressure, Temperature, etc.) with the EMR using vendor specific APIs.
•	Functionality extension and bug fixing on non-hardware dependant modules of the EMR and other projects.

Technical snapshot:
C#.NET WinForms + DevExpress UI Controls, SQL Server 2008 R2, ColdFusion, Visual Studio 2010, Oracle

.NET Developer

Mediasat

Media SAT is one of the main companies that provide telecommunication services for B2B market in Romania.

Hired as a .NET Developer to work in a team of 5 developers and develop and improve a highly trafficked SMS Gateway platform.

Responsibilities:
•	Team Leader for custom solutions used for SMS and WEB marketing purposes, ensuring that the design and implementation of new solutions fitted the client requirements and also integrated efficiently with the existing configuration
•	Implementation of keyword based content processing solutions using efficient parsing algorithms, like deterministic finite automatons, and regular expressions.
•	Provide B2B integration support with the SMS Gateway

Achievements:
•	Solely and successfully implemented the SMS Bulk distributed system that simplified the process of sending large amounts of SMS messages for the company’s B2B customers, which increased the company revenues.
•	Worked to very tight deadlines and with very little guidance to solely design and implement the Promotional Campaigns management system which allowed the company to enter the promotional campaigns market by integrating it with their existing SMS-based services. This increased the company revenues.
•	Designed, together with team members, the RabbitMQ-based SMS message handling system which allowed large amounts of SMS messages (> 100 000/hour) to be retrieved from mobile operators. This system was later successfully used for recording SMS vote for shows like Romania’s Got Talent and Dancing with the Stars, which increased the company revenues.

Technical snapshot: C#, ASP.NET Web Forms, Desktop WinForms, Agile, Bugzilla, Subversion, MySql, SQL Server 2005, RabbitMQ messaging system, SMPP protocol, C++, Visual Studio 2005/2008.

Winlog

WinLog proposes innovative solutions of global management under Windows, which can be parameterized and customised to be adapted to restrictions of Construction and Public Works’ companies. 

Hired as a Javascript Developer to develop ERP modules used in public works and construction sites. As a part of a multi-national development team I was initially trained to work on a proprietary development framework that required excellent JavaScript skills. After a period of time, I was assigned the team leader role for various small-sized projects and I was also involved in the research for a new .NET-based version of the ERP system.

Responsibilities:
•	Custom ERP modules and functionality using JavaScript and a proprietary framework.
•	Team leader role for various small-sized projects.
•	Research for a new version of the ERP system using .NET technology.

Achievements:
•	Successfully delivered a few small scale projects on time within very tight deadlines.
•	Investigated and optimised the sorting algorithm of an in-house developed tree control.

Technical snapshot: JavaScript, Visual Studio 2005, ASP.NET, Source Safe.

Javascript Developer, .NET Developer

I'm a software engineering leader with over 16 years of experience building products and solutions for companies in sectors such as telecommunications, recruitment, banking, utilities, using a wide range of technologies and delivery methodologies, most notably Azure Cloud, C#/.NET, Java, and Agile.

Proven delivery track record and proficient in all aspects of the software development lifecycle including requirements gathering, solution design, hands-on development, and team leadership.

Worked in product and consultancy companies, as well as fast-paced, high-growth environments, and have managed teams through significant organisational change to optimise effectiveness (from start-ups -> to mid-size private equity -> to global public enterprises).

Led geographically distributed teams of over 70 people and successfully driven business growth whilst minimising attrition. 

I have a personal passion for people with a focus on nurturing talent, mentoring, and coaching others through their career journey.

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