{"id":3824,"date":"2016-03-25T15:31:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T14:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2016-03-25T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T14:34:08","slug":"lfg-im-looking-for-ctotechdirectorhead-of-mobileconsulting-roles-in-ca-tx-london-and-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2016\/03\/25\/lfg-im-looking-for-ctotechdirectorhead-of-mobileconsulting-roles-in-ca-tx-london-and-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"LFG: I&#8217;m looking for CTO\/TechDirector\/Head of Mobile\/Consulting roles in CA, TX, London, and Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>TL;DR: experienced CEO\/CTO\/TechDirector with long background in programming, sales, and business management (Corporate, iPhone\/Android, Games, Education) looking for strategic roles in USA, UK, and Asia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After a year-out to do a post-graduate degree in Education, I&#8217;m looking for something new and exciting to do next. My primary goal is to boost a company or team rapidly and show significant outcomes &#8211; increased revenue or other KPI&#8217;s &#8211; either through Consulting or full\/part-time senior leadership.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Things I&#8217;m particularly interested in right now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VR &#8211; my DK2 sits on my desk glaring at me, wondering why I don&#8217;t play with it any more. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been too busy with non-VR work!&#8221;, I cry.\n<li>Android, iOS &#8211; I&#8217;ve shipped dozens of apps. I&#8217;ve designed some, programmed some, project-managed some, and been an emergency &#8220;fixer&#8221; brought in to help established teams.\n<li>Computer games &#8211; I&#8217;ve played well over 2,000 games. And I&#8217;ve written game-engines, libraries, tutorials, unlaunched indie games, published AAA games, MMOs &#8211; bits of everything.\n<li>China and Korea &#8211; many years ago I studied basic Chinese (Mandarin) and Korean\/Hangul; I would love an excuse to become fluent in either.\n<li>San Francisco \/ Bay Area &#8211; I&#8217;ve visited dozens of times for conferences, meetings, holidays, etc, but never lived there. I had non-negotiable ties to London. But &#8230; now I&#8217;m free to relocate and travel.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ways I can help your company:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creating a thriving company-culture from the ground-up, especially a tech-friendly and tech-respecting culture that works across non-tech divisions\n<li>Identifying your strategic problems, finding high-level solutions, and organizing and motivating teams to work on them\n<li>Identifying immediate problems, finding &#8220;what can we do TODAY?&#8221; solutions, and executing on them rapidly and effectively.\n<li>Talk technically to tech teams, commercially to marketing teams, and pragmatically to ops and finance teams\n<li>Build massive empathy with developer-communities, engaging frequently and effectively both with individuals and teams\n<li>Educate and enthuse C-level management and senior management on how to better exploit tech within their own spheres, and how to interface better with tech teams\n<li>Public engagements &#8211; pitch-meetings, conference talks, client\/account-management, sales support, etc.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Miscellaneous qualifications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Certified ScrumMaster\n<li>Degree in Computer Science (Cambridge University)\n<li>BCS Scholar (British Computer Society)\n<li>Fluent in many programming languages\n<li>StackOverflow score of 20,000+\n<li>Patented server technology for scalable SaaS-style backends\n<li>Contributed chapters to two books on Game Programming\n<\/ul>\n<p>CV available on request &#8211; or have a look at my LinkedIn for basic career history. Email address: adam.m.s.martin @ gmail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR: experienced CEO\/CTO\/TechDirector with long background in programming, sales, and business management (Corporate, iPhone\/Android, Games, Education) looking for strategic roles in USA, UK, and Asia. After a year-out to do a post-graduate degree in Education, I&#8217;m looking for something new and exciting to do next. 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