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CAREER SUMMARY
Lachlan is a uniquely qualified Internet Solutions consultant. He has extensive experience as a web developer, CTO and co-founder of numerous start-up businesses as well as with Amazon.com and NTT Japan.
Lachlan has a demonstrative record of delivering innovative cutting-edge web and mobile solutions scale along with business requirements.
Lachlan has also been the driving force behind numerous world-first patents for his clients
Following his graduation from The University of Melbourne (BA Comm/Arts) he moved to Tokyo, Japan where he worked for Amazon.com and NTT Docomo. He is fluent in Japanese and has a extensive cultural knowledge and business experience in Japan.
Returning to Australia in 2004 he continued his development career with Hansen Technologies in Melbourne. He has recently established his own consulting business Kennedia Consulting. He has received notable acclaim for his popular Mac Dashboard Widget Basecamp Widget.
He now lives in Paris, France and is co-founder and CTO of the digital Agency The 88 based in New York and Paris. Since it’s inception The 88 has been responsible for number hit successes like Hey Walkies, Wearcast, Kanon Vodka, Gamestreamer and now Pre Play Sports.
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EXPERIENCE
The 88
Paris 2008 - Present
Co-founder and CTO of digital agency The 88, based in New York and Paris. In the 2 years since it’s inception The 88 has launched numerous successful start-ups including Gamestreamer, Pre Play Sports & Kanon Vodka. Created numerous hit success iPhone applications like Hey Walkies and Wearcast. Some highlights from this role include:
During development of the Gamestreamer platform Lachlan was responsible for the development and subsequent patent for an automated game DRM encoding platform.
The Pre Play Sports iPhone application reached #1 position in the US Apple App-Store "What's Hot" category. Patents have also be submitted as a result of the server-side API development done as a part of this project.
The Hey Walkies iPhone application and accompanying web-site was featured in an Apple Television commercial.
The Wearcast application for iPhone remains in the Apple App-Store top 5 weather applications.
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Mintd
Melbourne 2006 - 2008
Co-founder and Managing Director of Mintd.com which was designed, developed and launched during 2006. Mintd is community driven market-place for indie designers to sell their products to local and global markets.
Mintd has grown steadily since launch and continues to attract many new members and products on a daily basis.
Kennedia Consulting
Melbourne 2006 - 2008
Owner of web consulting business Kennedia Consulting. In 2006 and 2007 Kennedia Consulting developed and deployed a number of large scale and high profile websites. Clients and work includes Evisu International (designer jeans), Allianz (insurance, banking), Melbourne Water and ODD Design London. See the Kennedia portfolio for full details.
It also released a Mac OSX Dashboard Widget which was downloaded 10,000 times in the first week and met much acclaim. To date it has been download about 25,000 times.
Hansen Technologies
Melbourne 2004 - 2006
Full-time position as a senior developer for the HUB (Hansen Unified Billing) .Net Web-Application. An enterprise grade Energy Network and Billing system. [url] Roles on the position included:
Consultant to Toshiba (Tokyo Japan) for project to provide the HUB billing system to the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO).
Team Leader for TEPCO project. (Located in both Melbourne & Tokyo).
Manager of a intranet renovation project to improve adoption of the company’s intranet and process efficiencies.
Led User-Interface and usability development and design initiative for the HUB web application.
Developed numerous web-applications to automate the configuration and creation of the HUB web application.
Freelance
Tokyo, Thailand 2002 - 2003
Developed a number of websites for predominantly Japanese clients. These websites include the following:
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Amazon Japan K.K.
Tokyo 2002 - 2003
Full-time position as a Web-developer, part of the Amazon Japan's retail website production team. [url]
Position involved development, deployment, trouble-shooting and maintenance of one of the world's most trafficked and highest earning websites.
Added value to internal work processes by identifying time-consuming bottle-necks in work-flows and developed a suite of web-based solutions to automate these tasks.
Work was executed in a multi-lingual environment were the ability to present ideas and concepts in Japanese and English was essential.
NTT Docomo
Tokyo 2001 - 2002
Contracted as lead developer to create a server driven back-office music search engine. The application managed the meta-data of music offered as part of the mobile carrier’s 3G network roll-out. Meta-data was sent from the music labels to Docomo. The system would receive and catalog the data making it available to Docomo employees to find and manage the data. The application was successfully delivered and used in production through the life-span of the networks 3G music offering.
NTT Learning Systems
Tokyo 2000 - 2001
Programmer for an XML Research group working for the Japanese government project J-Stage [url].
Developed online MathML rendering system to convert Mathematical equations from TeX/LaTeX to MathML or images for display in browsers. This involved XML, XSLT, and MathML.
Developed GUI based applications with Visual Basic 6 to batch convert SGML and TeX files containing TeX/LaTeX mathematical equations into images.
Developed and deployed a test XML data repository and search engine with eXelon. This involved XML, XSLT, XPath and Xquery.
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EDUCATION
Keio University
Tokyo 2000
Winner of International Scholarship for study of Japanese language and Japanese economics (1 year).
The University of Melbourne
Melbourne 1997 - 2002
B.A., Commerce and Arts. Majors in Economics and Japanese (Language)
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SKILL SET
| Skill | Years | Proficiency |
|---|---|---|
| Ruby (incl. Rails) | 5 | 10 |
| Objective-C (iPhone) | 1 | 8 |
| ASP.Net | 2 | 8 |
| HTML | 11 | 10 |
| CSS | 10 | 10 |
| Javascript | 10 | 10 |
| PHP | 5 | 9 |
| Perl / CGI | 4 | 6 |
| XML | 6 | 7 |
| SQL | 4 | 7 |
| XSLT | 3 | 5 |
| Apache | 3 | 5 |
| OS X | 6 | 10 |
| Linux/Unix | 7 | 8 |
REFERRALS
Provided upon request