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Geoff Evason

Geoff Evason

Experienced CTO, Tech Guru


http://geoff.evason.name
+61 421 998 025

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Experience

Apr 2007 – present

CTOMomentVille.com
Sydney, AU
  • Successfully developed personal website builder, planning tools, and community features using Ruby on Rails.
  • Achieved top 5 position on google for key search terms ‘wedding website’, ‘wedding website’, ‘free wedding website’, and ‘free wedding websites’ in US, CA, AU, NZ, UK, IE, and IN.
  • Created scalable, optimized, and fault-tolerant system architecture using EC2, S3, & Cloudfront.
  • Negotiated and implemented partnerships with invitation, registry, photo book, and domain name registration companies.
  • Designed a simple, intuitive, and consistent interface that works unobtrusively in all major browsers.
  • Optimized performance of the application through the use of caching, indexing, and minimizing http, and mysql calls.
Aug 2010 – Apr 2011

Senior Developer (Contract)Westfield.com.au
Sydney, AU
  • Developed a high traffic, multi-retailer e-commerce website (westfield.com.au) using Ruby on Rails.
  • Worked on various areas of the site including transactions, fraud detection, retailer interface/api, and front end.
  • Agile development, including BDD, TDD, and scrum.
May 2010 – Aug 2010

Senior Developer (Contract)RealEstate.com.au
Sydney, AU
  • Building a JSON api for real estate agent data using Ruby on Rails.
  • Building a website provisioning/builder platform in Rails.
  • Agile development, including BDD, TDD, scrum, and extreme programming.
Mar 2006 – Apr 2008

Manager – Technical ServicesSoftection
Sydney, AU
  • Managed reseller training course and material for complex enterprise security product.
  • Created marketing material including technical white papers, website, installation guides, etc.
  • Gave presentations and demos to potential customers.
Apr 2005 – Mar 2006

Software EngineerAltium
Sydney, AU
  • Implemented FPGA device support and embedded debugging within PCB design software.
  • Designed new tests to provide more automated test coverage.
  • Engineered configurable FIR filter component for design software.
June 2001 – Mar 2005

Supervisor, Senior Software EngineerAltera
Toronto, ON
  • Lead a team of 6 engineers in developing detailed power modeling for latest generation FPGAs. This
    required scheduling, co-ordination with other groups and offices, designing new infrastructure, and
    ensuring the team met aggressive deadlines and beat performance goals.
  • Successfully reduced dynamic power consumption of FPGAs by up to 20%.
  • Developed and tested FPGA CAD tools using low level C & C++ for OS optimization, including work
    on place & route, benchmarking, timing models, and power models.
May 1999 – Aug 2000

Engineering Development ManagerRIM
Waterloo, ON
  • Provided technical support for sales to major customers including AOL and Merrill Lynch.
  • Supported 3rd party application development for the Blackberry product with driver and OS coding.
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Skills

Stuff I love and am really good at

Other things I know

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Education

Sept 2003 – Mar 2005
Masters of Applied Science
University Of Toronto

  • Cumulative GPA: 4.0
  • Working on masters part time while working full time. Put on hold for move to Australia.
Sept 1997 – May 2001
Computer Engineering
University Of Toronto

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