GIANPIERO BRESOLIN SUMMARY EXPERIENCE

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1 GIANPIERO BRESOLIN 70 Goble Road, Morningside 4001 Languages: English First Language Afrikaans Second Language Citizenship: South African/Italian DIGITAL MARKETING EXPERIENCE Branding Business Process Modelling Client Liaison Copywriting Developing Training Manuals Digital Strategy Development Facebook Application Development Facebook Pages Management Facebook Integration Functional\Technical Documentation Google Analytics Integration and Management Google Adwords Management Search Engine Optimization Website Accessibility Website Usability Project Management Project Planning Twitter Integration YouTube Integration Vimeo Integration SUMMARY I am a hard working, creative, and passionate person searching for a career opportunity which will allow me to use both my digital marketing experience and my technical ability. I have an Honours Degree in Journalism from Rhodes University with a specialisation in New Media and I ran my own new media agency for eight years. For the last three years, I have worked as a Senior Developer for a large financial services provider in South Africa focusing in particular on systems development. I am extremely passionate about new media and communication and I have the technical ability to deliver on my ideas. I am looking for an opportunity that would allow me to marry all of my skills together If you are feeling like a read there is a longer story at the end of the resume. EXPERIENCE Freelance Contracting Roles, Digital Marketing & Senior Web Developer, March 2014 Present I have been working at The Unlimited, IUA (Insurance Underwriters Association), LexisNexis, Kaleidocode (for SA Home Loans) as a freelance Senior.NET/Web Developer. I have also been doing training sessions in BDD/TDD methodologies with LexisNexis and I am currently awaiting the go ahead to perform the same BDD/TDD training session with Derivco. As far as Digital marketing, I successfully coordinated an IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign and raised R for Guy Buttery s new album using a variety of social media and search channels and tools. The Unlimited, Senior.NET Developer Hillcrest, Durban 2012 February 2014 Accomplishments Managed and assisted with the development of a dynamic system built over eight years which interacts with all major banks in South Africa for over half a million active customers each month. Project Lead on several large successful projects including system integration for a new medical care product. Led and completed the system integration of a national address database of South Africa to significantly reduce the non delivery of client product packs nationwide. Awarded the Future Leader Award in Responsibilities Maintenance of in house ERP solution. Management of projects. Development of new applications/functionality of the ERP system. Documentation of existing system and new functionality. Research new technologies and introduce to team via knowledge sharing/poc. Development of POCs based off concepts. Building consensus with project stakeholders. Job Interviews & Code Reviews. Training of junior developers. System architecture planning/design.

2 General assistance with Digital Team on technical integrations. EXAMPLE PROJECTS te EXAMPLE WEBSITE Good Kid New Media, Owner/Technical Director Umhlanga Rocks, Durban Accomplishments Successfully ran in partnership for 8 years. Worked with International and local brands like Hewlett Packard, The Ford Foundation, Royal Bank of Scotland, Flight of the Conchords, Wonderbra, Playtex and others. Partnered with companies in New York and London, Projects have run the gamut in budget from several thousands of rands, all the way up to hundreds of thousands of rands. Employed and managed junior developers, interns and junior designers. Managed all aspects of project lifecycle from sales, conceptualization, maintenance, go live and online digital marketing thereafter. Responsibilities Building up client base through sales. Liaising with client to build up a set of requirements for the project. Document project requirements and project plan. Development Online Strategy. Developing solution/cms. Digital strategy development. Researching new technical solutions and sharing solutions with our employees. Hosting Configuration and deployment. Management of the business in general. Training of employees in the new system.. Supporting solution after go live. SEO/SMO support thereafter. Otaku, Junior.NET Developer Hillcrest, Durban 2003 Accomplishments Began my professional love of the Internet Responsibilities XHTML/CSS Layouts ASP.net Development of forms. Simple CMS Creation and integration. EDUCATION I.T. Intellect, Durban MCSD.NET 2003 I studied at.net development in Visual Studio 2003 at I.T. Intellect over a 9 week period. Rhodes University, Grahamstown B.Journalism Honours Specializing in New Media, with a minor in General Psychology, I studied a

3 variety of subjects that interested me including Gender Studies, English, History, Politics, Philosophy and Music. Kearsney College, Botha s Hill Matric Exemption I studied English, Afrikaans, Maths, History, Biology, Accountancy and Computer Science. SALES EXPERIENCE Built our business from having no clients at all. Took the lead on many sales, everything from the initial introduction to the client and their business; all the way through to planning, development and implementation. PROJECT CONSULTING EXPERIENCE At Good Kid we were often approached by 3rd parties who may have an idea for a new kind of online development, but may not necessarily have the technical knowledge and or experience to plan the project. I have assisted several clients and agents in the planning stages for a new development, aiding with technical choices as well as concepts for user interactions with a site or project and the subsequent maintenance of that s website s online strategy. PROJECT PLANNING EXPERIENCE Once briefed on the initial project by the client/agency I would be required to draw up a development scope, laying out how the website/application will work and how a user interaction would interact with the website/application. DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE Adaptive/Responsive Web Design Android Application development Adobe Flash Actionscript 3 Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) AGILE/SCRUM Development ASP.net Frameworks , ASP.net MVC/RAZER Syntax Behavioural Driven Development/BDD Content Management System Development. CSS 2 3 C# Design Patterns (Repository Pattern, Dependency Injection/Inversion of Control/Interface, AMD, Abstract Factory, Singleton) Entity Framework Google API Integration IIS Management\Website Hosting JavaScript JSON jquery Knockout JS LINQ MVC / MVVM /Web API Microsoft Office Add in Development

4 Microsoft Sharepoint Foundation Microsoft Server Bus Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft Visio Mobile Development MySQL 4.1/5.0 NodeJS OAuth/OData Relational database design/development SEO Single Page Applications Social Media Integration SQL Server CLR Development Service Orientated Architecture SMS/MMS Integration Test Driven Development/TDD Twitter Bootstrap Integration\Customization Systems architecture VB.net REST Web Services SOAP Web Services SpecFlow Windows Forms Development Visual Studio WebAPI/WCF Xamarin Studio XHTML HTML5/SVG XML INTERESTS I love music, cinema, politics, reading and generally learning more and more about this amazing world that we live in. And I also make a mean cup of coffee. REFERENCES Ewan McPhail, Development Manager, The Unlimited Grant Bresler, Owner, Longview Africa WHO AM I? My life long love of computers began when my parents brought an XT in After breaking it within the first week and then fixing it, I realised that computers were a field that I could spend the rest of my life exploring. When I discovered the Internet in 1996, I knew that I had found my passion. In 2003, I graduated from Rhodes with an honours degree in Journalism having specialized in New Media. That same year I studied an MSCD.NET at I.T. Intellect and worked for Otaku Web Development for the rest of the year as a junior developer. In 2004 I

5 started my own new media agency, Good Kid New Media, which I ran successfully with my partner for eight years. In that time we partnered with companies in New York and London, and worked with clients ranging in size from small business owners to international multi national corporations and brands. Over the years we were privileged to be able to work with brands like Hewlett Packard, The Ford Foundation, Royal Bank of Scotland, Flight of the Conchords, Wonderbra, Playtex and others. Projects have run the gamut in budget from several thousands of rands, all the way up to hundreds of thousands of rands. My roles in the company saw me take on dual roles of lead technical developer, along with project leader/manager on several projects. Many times we would be approached by an agency, or new client who was looking for a company to lead their project through the entire developmental cycle, from conceptualisation of the website's strategy, to planning, implementation, launching the project to the general public and the subsequent maintenance of the website and online digital strategy. Having to guide the project through its entire lifespan from the initial sale to the launch of the project gave me an insight into all facets of a projects planning and development. In 2011, I left Good Kid New Media in the hands of my partner, and began my role at The Unlimited as Senior.NET Developer. My role at The Unlimited is much like the company a varied and dynamic one. My day to day role is the maintenance of the existing key systems within the company and the development of new systems in order to fulfil on business objectives. The Unlimited is a financial services provider underpinned by Telesales and Face to Face sales team. Our system collects every single day of the month from all the major banks in South Africa, and we maintain a system of over half a million active customers. This system is completely custom built over the course of the last 8 years. As such it is an extremely complex system that sprawls many different architectures and technologies, most notably: SQL Server , SQL Service Broker, ASP.NET Web Forms v3.5, ASP.net MVC 4.0, Windows Services, MySQL, Asterisk Telephony Systems, Windows Services, Windows Forms and many other custom applications that have been developed in house over the years. The Unlimited as a company has a very entrepreneurial spirit and as such, the way the company sells has changed many times over the years, and our system has had to adapt over the years to this. The development team that I work with is made up of Web Developers, SQL Developers, a Database Administrator, the Operational team and our testing team, but I work closely with the other members of the IT department, including our business analysts, infrastructure team and business intelligence team. Typically I would take the lead on larger projects and would normally work closely with at least one other developer, and a business analyst. Business Analysts would provide a requirements document from business, which I would

6 then devise a functional/technical document and develop a strategy which would then be discussed with all the other developers in the team. Once a strategy has been agreed upon, I would develop the solution, which would be reviewed by another member of the team to ensure coding standards and quality of work. A final testing/training document would then be produced and it would be handed over to the testing team. Once testing is complete the solution would be deployed by the testing team in consultation with myself as to specific configurations, IIS changes etc. While some projects would be developed based on business needs, many projects are initiated by myself and would be developed in order to take our overall infrastructure forward. In these situations my role would be larger as I would need to develop the overall strategy and requirements documents for the project. Additionally as a Senior Developer my role is not limited to purely to development. I am expected to share knowledge amongst the team and the larger company and I often have often held knowledge sharing sessions with team mates and the broader company. I also conduct interviews with potential staff members who want to join the development team and review all code samples that potential staff submit. Additionally as is expected at The Unlimited I often assist the digital teams when they lack specific competencies in the management of The Unlimited s online strategy.