Jeremy Kenyon
12 Station Road, Sheffield, S21 4FX
Tel: 01246 436610 Mobile: 07736 666996
Email: jez@jez.cc
Objective
A challenging strategic product design / management role in a progressive company committed to harnessing technology to deliver high quality products and customer satisfaction.
Professional Profile
A Technical Director with Masters degrees in Mathematics and Computing from Cambridge University and extensive practical experience in designing and delivering critical business solutions and state of the art software to private and public sectors.
Personal strengths in commitment, diligence and focus complemented by key management skills in:
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¨ Technical Innovation |
¨ Problem Solving |
¨ Business Strategy & Finance |
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¨ Project Management, Organisation and Planning |
¨ Product Design, Development and Marketing |
¨ Leadership & Motivation |
Selected Achievements
¨ Instrumental in devising a business and marketing strategy which delivered a 12 million dollar turnover within 3 years of the business starting.
¨ Directed design, development, QA and distribution of WildTangent’s 3D web technology, one of the most widely adopted media players on the Internet other than Flash and the foundation of WildTangent’s growth from start-up to 130 staff, attracting $51 million funding.
¨ Planned and co-ordinated product strategy for Harlequin’s electronic publishing division - directing software development, QA and delivery, establishing Harlequin as Adobe’s most formidable competitor and increasing yearly revenue from almost nothing to over £30 million.
¨ Invented an efficient way of delivering maps online, purchased by Google for half a million dollars – analysed existing solutions and developed a mechanism that reduced server requirements over 10-fold and dramatically improved the user experience.
¨ Managed $8 million budget for WildTangent’s software and systems development. Investors often praised us for running a tight ship and continued to invest after the dot-com bubble burst.
¨ Designed a game delivery system, satisfying Hewlett Packard’s Marketing and QA, giving WildTangent a channel to HP customers and now shipped by all major PC makers.
¨ Designed and developed WildTangent’s highly optimised and robust automatic software update mechanism, used to update software on over 70 million PCs, allowing cheap rapid distribution of functionality and patches.
¨ Foresaw Harlequin reaching market saturation and revenues falling, so devised an upgrade and maintenance policy leading to yearly revenue equivalent to over 10% of cumulative sales.
¨ Transformed Selima’s HR suite from ‘also-ran’ to class leader by freeing up time to focus on enhancements, quadrupling developer productivity and cutting site implementation time 5x, while managing multiple customer projects and implementations.
¨ Rescued pivotal multi-million pound deal by convincing a very sceptical customer to reconsider. The deal launched a major product and remains a key selling point 11 years later.
Career History
2003 – 2007 Head of Vision Development, Selima Software Ltd, Sheffield
Selima develops Payroll and Human Resources software for public and private sector
· Directed architectural design and development process of the HR suite, turning it from a sideline into the key selling product, generating 75% of new revenue.
· Built up the strength and ability of the development team, improving productivity 4-fold, ending fire fighting, improving robustness and making time to focus on new functionality.
· Managed many projects, implementing HR and Payroll, working with customers to establish realistic requirements and timescales, efficiently delivering large complex business critical systems.
1998 – 2003 Technical Director & Co-Founder, WildTangent Inc, Seattle
WildTangent develops web software for 3D product development and software distribution.
· Headhunted to direct WildTangent’s technology architecture, development strategy, QA and distribution, growing the engineering organisation from start-up to 90 staff.
· Managed multi-disciplinary teams on large-scale complex projects ensuring timely delivery of projects to customers including Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Electronic Arts and AOL.
· Designed, produced and shipped a web 3D graphical engine - installed on 70 million PC's.
· Designed, developed, optimised and debugged very large scale software delivery services, now shipped by HP, Dell, Sony, Gateway and other PC suppliers.
1990 – 1998 Technical Product Manager, Harlequin Ltd, Cambridge
Harlequin develops printing software and intelligence data analysis tools.
· Led the development strategy, steering the printing software from embryonic product to market leader, with yearly revenue exceeding £30 million.
· Provided technical consultancy to the development and QA teams - designing and optimising algorithms, data structures, user interfaces and automated QA processes.
· Managed multi-site development, setting up source control and task management across 5 development sites consisting 75+ technical staff.
1985 – 1990 Technical Director, Bensasson & Chalmers Ltd, Cambridge
· Started as a developer on project management software, later promoted to Technical Director.
Academic Qualifications
¨ Masters Degree: Mathematics, University of Cambridge, 1981-1984
¨ Masters Degree: Computer Science, University of Cambridge, 1984-1985
Specialist Skills
¨ Programming: C++, C#, Java (incl. real time), Visual Basic, UNIX scripting
¨ Web environments: PHP, ASP, Apache and IIS
¨ Databases: SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle and IBM Universe
¨ Operating systems: Windows (3.1 to XP), Linux, Solaris and MacOS.
Personal
Married, two children.
Interests: Formula 1, hiking, computer games, reading. In addition I have a commercial interest in www.snoremenders.co.uk and www.snoremenders.com.
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