Peter Johnson

• Funded startup in London
• Architect, Node.js & Coffee-script Hacker

Connected Ventures is the parent company of two consumer facing online commerce products.
We are building new technologies that connect digital content, brands and online retailers.

Ingredo are the strategic technology partners for Tesco’s add to basket recipe service. Founded by Andrew Sharland (Ex Director at digital agency Clock) and Peter Cowley (ex MD Endemol Digital),

Fresh8 Gaming is a new e-gaming business that connects gambling operators with mass audiences in the digital space. Our products enable operators to acquire and retain customers in the spaces they consume their everyday media.

Our innovative node.js application development team is always on the look out for amazing coders and creative thinkers.

If you'd like to join myself, Owen Barnes, Erik Lundin and Paul Serby to push the boundaries of what the web can do; especially in real-time data driven applications, please get in touch.

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• Personal Project, Online Real-time Gaming Platform
• Architect, Node.js & Coffee-script Hacker

I'm writing a real-time multi-player game engine using nodejs, socket.io, coffee-script, mustache, HTML5 & LESS

Since the initial release in October 2012, openshuffle has grown to over 4,000 registered users with over 25,000 games completed.

The site is still very popular, averaging 50 new user registrations and 500 games completed per day.
http://www.openshuffle.com/stats
http://tinyurl.com/d82dpnv

Tancredi & I are discussing what direction to go next with openshuffle, while we both hold down a full time job.

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• Funded startup in Silicon Roundabout, London
• Architect, Node.js & Coffee-script Hacker

Bizzby is a game changing mobile commerce platform, I wish I could tell you more but then I'd have to kill you.

Watch this space

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• VC backed startup in Silicon Roundabout, London
• Team Leader, Active Coder

I helped interview candidates as we expanded the team from 8 to 22 developers, we ended up with an awesome team of super smart code ninjas.

I led several teams as we overhauled the codebase and worked towards Lucians goals of connecting talented people with organizations in order to solve inefficiencies in the education and human resourcing sectors.

I organised hack days and advocated the use of open source software.

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• Global Publishing Company, London
• Nokia OVI Maps Team, timeout.com operations team

My team was responsible for collating venue and event listing data from 40 cities worldwide in several languages including Cyrillic & Chinese for the Nokia OVI Maps platform.

I re-wrote the deployment procedures and created a cloud based fallback strategy.

I aquired a good knowledge of System Administration, Agile & Scrum processes, i18n and PHP CLI.

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• Data Service Provider, Melbourne
• Contractor, PHP Developer

I created a mobile friendly version of the website and helped with their re-branding.

I helped maintain the busy PHP based Web Service which gets ~1M+ requests per day.

I got exposure to a range of mobile technologies and became interested in mobile and touch interfaces.

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• Digital Agency, Melbourne
• Contractor, Content Management System

I architected, designed & developed of a Zend Framework based proprietary CMS.

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• Home Loan Marketplace, Wellington
• Contractor, Startup

I helped build New Zealand's leading home loan marketplace.

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• Super Cool Agency, Wellington
• Contractor, Casual

I worked with the awesomely talented guys who did design for brands like Hell Pizza & Fat Freddy's Drop.

I wrote Flash, PHP and did HTML / CSS

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• Freelancing

I did lots of small contracts involving Flash, PHP and HTML / CSS.

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I learned the 'gift of the gab' working in a busy inbound call centre. StudyLink is a service of the New Zealand Ministry of Social Development. They are responsible for administering student loans and allowances.

• Inbound and outbound Call Centre Rep
• Assistant Manager of a Games Arcade
• Internet Researcher
• 24 hour shop Till Operator
• Nightclub Barman
• Pizza Arteest
• Paper Boy

I worked for a leading Japanese tech recruitment firm sourcing contact details for highly skilled employees at high tech Japanese manufacturing companies.

The company was founded by industry pioneer Paul Levine in 1993, and thanks to a focused investment in off-shore call centers, was able to build up what was probably the best database of bilingual technology experts in Japan.

At its peak, the company had more than 70 consultants, and was reportedly doing more than JPY1bn of business annually.

On February 20th 2009, the business took a turn for the worse upon the Lehman Brothers collapse and filed for bankruptcy.