Snakk MediaTechnical Lead
Aug. 2011 - Nov. 2016Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaSnakk Media is a next generation mobile advertising company powering the world's leading brands to reach and engage audiences on mobile apps, sites and social media using an innovative and unique portfolio of technology. The company was the first in Australia to serve Rich Media adverts across smart phones. Appointed as a founding staff member to establish the Rich Media ad serving unit, a focus of this role has been to lead the introduction and management of new technology and to provide support to drive market share and growth. The company is now listed on the NZX market. My key projects and achievements include: • Successfully establishing the production team recruiting and training team members in technical skills, production processes Agile and development methodologies
• Successfully managing the development of clients' and publishers' On-Boarding and Trafficking Support System • Decreasing reporting discrepancy between production and client publishers from 45% to 2% • Managing the consolidation of various reporting tools • Establishing a proper ad trafficking pipeline and real time changes inside the platform allowing the business to scale • Leading the development of the ad serving platform SDK to integrate MRAID specifications for Rich Media capabilities
• Leading the development of an expanded range of offerings including new creative ad units, testing and recommending new platform investments, implementing new ad serving technologies