Associate at Reos Partners
London, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Associate at Reos Partners
- Director of Technology at MobGeo
- Software Designer at datamage
- Past
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- Software Architect at University of Western Cape
- Developer at Apache Software Foundation
- Development Team Leader at Demon Internet
- Education
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- University of Sussex
- University of Oxford
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Sean Legassick’s Experience
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Associate
Reos Partners
(Civic & Social Organization industry)
June 2009 — Present (8 months)
Supporting and building capacity for innovative collective action in complex social systems. Organising, designing and facilitating results-oriented multi-stakeholder change processes with business, government and civil society organisations.
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Director of Technology
MobGeo
(Wireless industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)
Responsible for overall technological direction and architecture of MobGeo's location-aware mobile and online advertising platform.
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Software Designer
datamage
(Computer Software industry)
November 2000 — Present (9 years 3 months)
Web application development in fields including financial trading, retail analysis and bespoke content management systems. End-to-end project design, development and deployment including management of a small hosting facility for development clients and management of teams of subcontractors.
Clients include Winterflood Securities, Flexifoil, Socialight, StoreTech, MJH Recruitment and SHOWstudio (Nick Knight). -
Software Architect
University of Western Cape
(Computer Software industry)
2002 — 2004 (2 years )
Designed the software architecture of the Chisimba framework and e-learning platform, an open source project built using PHP. Trained team in software development and architecture best practices, creating "a new vision" that is now "contributing significantly to software engineering capacity building in Africa and other areas of the developing world." (Derek Keats, now Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of the WItwatersrand)
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Developer
Apache Software Foundation
(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
1999 — 2002 (3 years )
Committer and active developer on the Apache Turbine, Apache Tomcat and Apache Velocity projects.
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Development Team Leader
Demon Internet
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; THUS; Internet industry)
June 1997 — November 2000 (3 years 6 months)
Lead a complete user interface re-engineering of Demon's own email client (Turnpike) as a Windows shell namespace extension. Development experience included C++, MFC, COM and x86 assembly.
Sean Legassick’s Education
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University of Sussex
BA , Artificial Intelligence , 1993 — 1996
Final year project was natural language parsing sound synthesiser written in C++.
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University of Oxford
BA , Politics, Philosophy and Economics , 1992 — 1993
Left in 1993 due to interest in a more technical degree and social incompatibility with the Corpus Christi college environment. Academic performance was not a factor - exam scores were at first-class level.
