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Stephen Ford

Stephen Ford

Full Stack Developer

52 years old
Driving License
Victoria (V8V1E9) Canada (British Columbia)
Available soon Open to opportunities
I am looking for a career in a rich and cultured environment with a forward thinking, dynamic team driven to engineer great products.

I thrive on creating and delivering products that matter and empower the people who use them. Bringing all aspects of a business together to create a perfect storm of success is the pep in my step.
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Product Manager

Sparklit
April 2015 to February 2016
Full-time
Victoria
Canada - British Columbia
  • Developed strategies to on board new customers and minimize churn. Revenue increase for the year was 50%.
  • Designed and implemented a process that resulted in new team members contributing at a top level in a fraction of the time previously.
  • Oversaw the design and implementation of an API for on-line ad serving
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Product Developer

Sparklit
May 2013 to April 2015
Full-time
Victoria
Canada - British Columbia
  • Tier 1-3 technical support for a ad serving and survey software. Difficulty ranging from payment issues to time critical bug patches
  • Product development
    • Designed and coded C++ FastCGI modules
    • AJAX driven interfaces
    • API integrations with 3rd party services
  • Inbound sales
    • Technical demonstrations and web conferencing with customer development teams
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Infrastructure Engineer

Unit Productions
June 2012 to January 2013
Full-time
Victoria
Canada - British Columbia
  • Managed load balanced servers for 20 flash based game sites.
  • Increased profits by cutting hardware requirements by stack optimization through profiling and caching
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Quality Assurance

Illuminated Technologies
May 2007 to January 2008
Full-time
Vancouver
Canada - British Columbia
  • QA Testing
  • Customer Support
  • CMS systems
    Drupal, Ektron, WordPress and I wrote a plugin to simplify integration of our ad serving product within WordPress.
    Advanced
  • Databases
    MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
    Good
  • Online Advertising
    Deployment, configuration, troubleshooting and development of software as well as optimization and all aspects of the ad chain
    Expert
  • Web
    Cloud, Protocols, Scalability, Concurrency, Advanced troubleshooting
  • PHP
    Advanced
  • JavaScript
    Good
  • C/C++
    Intermediate
  • Markup
    Advanced

Electronic Engineering

Camosun

September 2009 to May 2012
Diploma of Electronic Engineering with a focus on renewable energy
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