Marcel Kornblum

Current

• Creative Technologist at Stink Digital

Past

• Contract Project Lead at thirty3above
• Lead Developer at Glasses Direct
• Usability and Software Engineering Consultant at Marcel &c Ltd

• Senior Interaction Designer at thirty3above
• Production Assistant at First Image
• New Business Development at eXelSat

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Education

• University of Edinburgh

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Industry

Internet

Marcel Kornblum’s Summary

I'm a technical person who can talk to normal people.

In my years of experience as various flavours of web developer, I've run the gamut from coding both client-side and server-side to sysadmin, team leadership and project management. I'm good at seeing the big picture and I've always been outward facing, but one of my strongest points is explaining technical concepts to clients and stakeholders.

My background is in Usability and Software Development, Psychology and Languages. My strengths are in communication, visualisation, planning and considered execution of complex projects.

I am also skilled in many web technologies and a variety of Software Engineering methodologies and techniques. I have successfully led several strong multiskilled teams in pressurised environments, reporting to internal and external stakeholders and clients.

Marcel Kornblum’s Experience

• Creative Technologist

  Stink Digital

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  August 2008 — Present (2 years )

  I act as a technical lead on most interactive projects that come through the door, leading a cross-disciplinary team in figuring out how to address new challenges. I often act as the client's primary technical contact, making sure that our team and our clients are thinking about the same functionality, and that we deliver what's expected.
  
  Since helping to set the company up as an in-house development shop, I've set up the development environment, configured the live and staging environments and set up processes as well as being technical lead and senior PHP developer.

• Contract Project Lead

  thirty3above

  (Internet industry)

  August 2008 — August 2008 (1 month)

  I was brought onto a project at my previous employer in order to develop the structure of an ambitious project, deriving a brief and subsequently Technical and Functional Requirements Documents from a non-technical client contact.

• Lead Developer

  Glasses Direct

  (Privately Held; Retail industry)

  August 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 1 month)

  Leading a team of both contract and permanent staff with either PHP skills or Front End web skills, I entered the department at a time of flux. Initially one of only 2 developers out of a total of 35 staff, by the time I left the company had grown to approximately 70 staff, and I was responsible for up to 11 developers.
  
  I initiated the redevelopment of the core business systems, being personally responsible for overall system design and for coordinating a variety of conflicting requirements from various internal departments, while creating a system that would be capable of meeting the business’ changing needs as it rapidly expanded following VC investment. I worked closely with the User Experience Manager to create the new website and was ultimately responsible for the standard of all code produced.

• Usability and Software Engineering Consultant

  Marcel &c Ltd

  (Internet industry)

  June 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 3 months)

  I ran the consultancy and development company Marcel &c, specialising in Usability Consulting but also undertaking project and technical management and development work for a variety of clients.
  
  The company undertook interface projects in any media but specialised in the web and IPTV sectors, although desktop application interfaces have also been successfully designed.

• Senior Interaction Designer

  thirty3above

  (Internet industry)

  August 2003 — May 2006 (2 years 10 months)

  Designing User Experience for web sites and software interfaces, co-architecting software solutions, managing client accounts, creating accessible XHTML and CSS pages, coding OO ActionScript tools.

• Production Assistant

  First Image

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  July 2003 — September 2003 (3 months)

• New Business Development

  eXelSat

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  July 2002 — December 2002 (6 months)