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.
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.
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
Detailed Description
- Developed a transactional email integration with our CRM to empower sales and support staff to easily implement drip campaigns as well as effectively communicate with customers.
- Built surveys as well as spoke directly with customers to identify needs and strengths of the product.
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
- Designed and coded C++ FastCGI modules
- Inbound sales
- Technical demonstrations and web conferencing with customer development teams
- Technical demonstrations and web conferencing with customer development teams
Detailed Description
- As a small SaSS company I was saddled with numerous responsibilities which provided me with invaluable experience.
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
Detailed Description
- Migrated the stack to optimized technologies which implemented an 80% reduction in server costs as well as increasing the site thuroughput
Quality Assurance
Illuminated Technologies
May 2007
to January 2008
Full-time
Vancouver
Canada - British Columbia
- QA Testing
- Customer Support
