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Master Burnett joins BraveNewTalent in a role dedicated to formulating boundary breaking products that radically rethink how the world's employers relate with and leverage the world's workforce. Prior to joining BraveNewTalent Master Burnett spent 15 years in progressive talent management related roles most recently serving as a global talent management adviser to the leadership of Global 500 organisations. Having engaged with organisations in more than 42 countries and on every continent, Master Burnett brings knowledge and understanding of the world's emerging workforce issues that will be vital in informing next generation solutions.
Outside of work, Master Burnett "geeks out" on a variety of topics, most notably those related to empowering society through application of technology, global cuisine (he cooks it all), wine, global travel, and early childhood development. Master Burnett is an active foster parent and leads fundraising activities for a variety of charitable organisations that benefit children.
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Robert has held CTO positions since 2004 and has over 15 years development experience. He was previously CTO & CIO of The David Allen Company. Robert grew up in California, studied at Berkeley and then relocated to London to join the BraveNewTalent team. Robert is, above all, a highly creative, innovative, big-picture thinker who values practicality, elegance, and keeping his word. Outside of his development experience, he is a published poet.
Prior to the existence of the internet, Robert wrote games in Hypercard and posted files to BBSes using xmodem. With the advent of the web, Robert began writing interactive educational software using the CGI interface in C. As interpreted languages became popular, he shifted to PHP and began writing about how to bring software design best practices to the web. His expertise ranges from providing technical guidance for web programming books from O'Reilly to having innovative new software featured on Slashdot.
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Previously Product Manager at Webjam Ltd., Janna brings years of experience working with social and engaging user experiences to the table. Janna is also the founding organiser of ProductCamp London, a fast-growing community of product managers around a dynamic, attendee-centric conference.
Janna is passionate about using new technologies to solve old problems. At BraveNewTalent, she's applying her skills to the recruitment and education sectors in order to help people be the best they can be at work.
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Finance and Operations Manager
Karen has been active in the Private Equity and Venture Capital sector since 2006 and was part of the H.I.G. Capital team in London as well as DN Capital. She holds two Master Degrees from Cambridge in Mathematical Modeling (Management Science) as well as Finance.
During her time at H.I.G. in 2009 she raised funds for the Save the Children charity group by running 250km through the Atacama desert in Chile.
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Jimmy has spent his whole professional career in digital media, and in the last 9 years has held various successful senior management positions within the online recruitment sector including TheLadders, HCareers, HotOnline and Fish4Jobs. Spending so much time in the recruitment space has taught given him first hand experience about people & relationships, giving him clear insight into why social media and recruitment are so well matched.
He is passionate about the evolution of media technology, and is continually impressed by young innovative companies that are regularly emerging in this space. Jimmy's other passions include music & photography.
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Head of Marketing UK and Talent Words
Ramon is a Product Marketer who grew up and started his career in Brazil working in Publishing and Advertising, ending up in Consumer Marketing for Brazil's largest DIY retailer. Started working with technology in India with Satyam and moved to the UK with Tata Consultancy Services before joining a number of London startups.
Graduated in Advertising, Music (guitar), MBA, and a Masters in Digital Culture & Technology, he’s mostly interested in learning why people behave the way they do. While he consumes an unhealthy amount of books and football (often at the same time), he helps develop and market products based on consumer’s creative insight, data and feedback.
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Senior Back End Developer - Team Lead
Fabrizio has both practical and theoretical knowledge in computer sciences acquired through work experience and his university Bachelor studies. He combines this with his business and economics skills derived from his Masters university studies. In the past Fabrizio has worked with PowWow and TimeOut.
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Senior Back End Developer - Team Lead
Peter joined us from the Antipodes. He cut his teeth working as contract web application developer in New Zealand & Australia for many years before arriving in the U.K. in 2010. He has built web applications for Nokia & TimeOut, commercial websites with Bliss Media & Inject Design; he is a social coder and an avid contributor to open-source projects.
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Senior Back End Developer
Karol has been working in the web industry since 2003, in various development and management roles. He joined from Affiliate Window where he used to be Head of Development aka "the General".
He's passionate about Agile and contributes to building a great development team at BraveNewTalent.
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Gordon has spent the past 5 years working in medical informatics. He has a BSc. in Computer Science and a MSc in Applied Artificial Intelligence from the University of Exeter. He comes with a solid background in object orientated PHP and he is a strong advocate of design patterns.
His main focus at BraveNewTalent will be to develop the recommendation engine for the user base. Out of work Gordon loves to snowboard and he'll either be on the slopes, or dreaming about being on the slopes!
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Dan's an iPhone developer, mainly focused on data driven applications, utilising social network features. He classifies himself as a bit of the following mix: iOS Developer / Doctor / Engineer / English / Human
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Simon combines backgrounds in web start-ups with academic research. He holds a PhD in artificial intelligence, specifically in genetic algorithms for optimisation, from the University of Birmingham. For fun, he likes practice photography and juggling.
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Perry has over 4 years experience as a front-end web developer with previous projects ranging from small catalogue websites to multi-national e-commerce sites.
He specialises in HTML, CSS and Photoshop with a touch of jQuery and Javascript. When people ask him what he does for a living, he tells them "I do colouring in". It leads to less embarrassing silences than "I'm a web developer".
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Aaron (usually considered as the guy with the polar bear) is handcrafting wonderful pixels for BraveNewTalent. Having quite a few years experience of creating working user interfaces and delightful user experience he is here to make things look precisely style-tuned.
Aaron is also doing great photography and can lift up your mood with his ever banging music taste.
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Obsessive-compulsive refactorer of javascript code, locked in an eternal battle against one more layer of abstraction.
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Born and bred in Milan, Tancredi has a professional background that mixes Development and Design. In love with both technical an graphic sides of the web, he started playing around with HTML and Photoshop when he was about 8 years old, even though he was about 14 when he started understanding something of those.
He's still not completely sure he does by now, actually.
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Dheeraj has over 20 years experience in Talent Management, Education, Business Development and Product Support. He has been a community and organisation builder and has successfully led transformational startups like Andale Inc. in India, and Global Enterprise Product Support teams in large technology companies like Symantec Corp and Microsoft Corp. In his most recent role, he was heading the education business segment at Microsoft India.
An industry leader, he founded the Enterprise Product Support Group under NASSCOM, a national association for software companies in India. He also chaired an India Talent Community under TSIA (Technology Services Industry Association), a world wide industry group for technology services companies. He has been a regular contributor on themes such as Talent Reclamation, Talent Staging and Emerging Careers in national dailies and international journals.
Dheeraj is passionate about communities, co-creation, education and youth power. He was awarded by Microsoft with an MVP Award for Management Excellence for his contributions in strategic thinking and deployment of Management Development initiatives and building the Community for Management Excellence.
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Interim Director of Product
Dave has over 13 years experience building online products and online commercial strategy. More recently Dave has been an evangelist keynote speaker focusing on rapid growth of Mobile Internet.
His expert experience and knowledge spans across social media, online recruitment, mobile applications, mobile market, mobile business, web business models, strategic delivery, project management, product development, product launch and business development. In previous experience he has worked on high volume search products through to local news services supporting 300 newspapers.
He is a leading mobile Internet expert with the strategic and hands on project experience to drive online business forwards into the next decade of media consumption. During the start of the mobile growth he supported Monster.com, TotalJobs.com, PepsiCo, Nestle and many other firms in the adoption of the mobile channel for recruitment.
Dave is obsessive around the link between mobile and social conversation. Working at BraveNewTalent he is able to join social and mobile within the recruitment landscape.
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User Experience Consultant & Interaction Designer with 10 years experience, both client & agency side, helping clients realise their business objectives by focusing on user requirements & bringing companies and customers closer together through smart strategies and inventive design.
Specialising in services to investment banking and energy clients, applying UX design process and methods to the b2b capital market-space, Justin has explored strategic concepts for energy trading, commodities mapping and trading, single dealer platforms and temporal multi-dimensional trading apps across multiple platforms.
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James has fifteen years experience in the resourcing & recruitment sector. Originally in continent recruitment, he subsequently diversified into managing process and technology change projects, mostly in the Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) sector, for the world's leading pureplay provider: Alexander Mann Solutions.
More recently, James has focussed on social recruiting technologies, particularly Twitter. His previous venture was also a start-up firm with a strong technology aspect, with involvement including concept design, technology requirements and raising angel investment. Dad of two, outdoors as often as possible. Camping, cycling and snowboarding all feature!
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India Marketing and Platform Evangelist
Gautam is the India Marketing Lead and Platform Evangelist for BraveNewTalent. He has worked as a HR Generalist and a Learning and Development Executive in firms like Deloitte, Dell, Hewlett Packard and Satyam Computer Services. He's also been a freelance trainer and consultant on Social Business and HR . Gautam is an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur.
One of India’s earliest bloggers (since 2002) – he’s blogged about HR, work, Career issues consistently for the last 8 years and is seen as a thought leader in these areas. Gautam has given talks on Social Media at Conferences and Organisations. He’s frequently quoted in the Indian press as an authority on business blogging and HR / career issues. He was named as one of the top 25 HR Digital Influencers of 2010, No. 2 in the list of top 25 Influencers in Talent Management by HRExaminer.com, Top 25 influencers in Enterprise Social Media and has been featured as one of the 100 Influencers in HR.
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Charlie is a content and community champion. Having started out in print magazines, moved through to digital and now digital communities, Charlie is a digital engagement specialist with a background in print and digital magazines, journalism, editing and B2B communities.
A self-confessed 'twaddict' you can find her as @charlie_elise. She's your go-to girl on the site, so feel free to reach out anytime. Here to help guide you through your career journey, when she's not online Charlie loves baking, making and triathlon training.
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Senior Back End Developer - Team Lead
Elvis is a Zend Certified, experienced PHP developer. Previously, he was a Team Leader at MarkoMeadia, and holds a MSc (Computer Science) from the University of Bologna, Italy.
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Senior Back End Developer - Team Lead
Linus is a Zend Certified Engineer with a passion for programming, software design and simplicity. Previously working as Lead Developer at MyTrainTicket he has an excellent track record of delivering large applications using PHP, Java and JavaScript.
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Senior Back End Developer
After over 12 years developing the platform and products for one of Europe's largest hosted speech solutions provider Neel brings his knowledge of building and scaling large PHP applications with Zend Framework as well as machine learning techniques and data driven systems.
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Senior Back End Developer
Originally Swiss, Ralph is stranded on the UK Island, in the bay of BraveNewTalent. He likes good looking backends (as in IT systems), using his creativity in designing applications and databases rather than in fancy graphics (even though he loves good design). In the past, he's worked for Time Out London, on-idle and youngculture among others. He very much believes in reduce to the max.
In his free time, he's engaged in a young church/charity where they try to fight human trafficking, among other things.
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Despite being relatively young, Andrew brings years of web development experience spanning from freelance client work to application backends. He currently works on a number of side projects and continues to contribute to open source software such as WordPress and Zend Framework.
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Matthias used to be a competitive rower and is now applying his stamina to heavy code lifting at BraveNewTalent. He also likes to get involved into the visual side of things by contributing to UI and UX innovations.
In his spare time he loves to travel, be outside and work on personal projects. The latest one: a mobile app in the making.
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Rowan dreams in code. Has a good knowledge of more development languages than he has the time to count and is pretty darn quick at picking up new ones. Likes to think he's got a good eye for design (for a developer anyway).
His favourite beer is Doom Bar, he's got two cats, reads a lot and enjoys a good film.
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Sam's been working in sunny Brighton for the past 6 years, earning her crust as a Designer, although her real passion lies in front end dev (HTML/CSS). She's driven by the desire to create simple, enjoyable user experiences for the web that aren't just great to look at but accessible and user friendly.
When not geeking out over the latest web technology or trend you'll find her geeking out over her music, tearing around the countryside on her mountain bike or planning her next big adventure.
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Ed Kendall is born and bred Derbyshire, but he was drawn to the bright lights of London after making himself indispensible during an internship in 2010 while he was studying Computing. This makes him a veritable veteran of the team. He works with product and developers in his role as QA and his pool game is progressing nicely in the BraveNewTalent league.
When he's not at work you're most likely to find him exploring his new city or with his head in a book.
