Phil Smy

Current

CTO at FilmAmora
Consultant at RailsAssist

Past

Senior Developer at LVS
Technical Director at Speirtech
Senior Developer at WebArana

Participant at feature workshops
Senior Macintosh Developer at Gouden Gids
Senior Macintosh Developer at Agfa Gevaert
Macintosh Developer at ResRocket
Senior Macintosh Developer at Everyware
Macintosh Developer at MacXperts

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Education

Mohawk College

Recommended

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Connections

66 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

Phil Smy’s Summary

Development:

Over 15 years commercial experience in software development. From C to C++ to Java to Ruby on Rails.

* Extensive experience developing web applications using Ruby on Rails
* Thorough knowledge of web standards like XHTML, CSS and Javascript (including Prototype and JQuery)
* Strong data structure and design skills, including SQL with both MySQL and Oracle
* experience creating production quality, high-traffic web site

Management:
Experienced team and project leader

Business:
A Serial Entrepreneur.
* Founder/Partner, Speirtech [Ireland]
* Founder/Owner, FilmAmora [Spain]
* Founder/Owner CostaFilma SL [Spain]
* Partner LotteryCanada.com [Canada]

Phil Smy’s Specialties:

Software design, Website design and implementation, team leader, commercial awareness

Phil Smy’s Experience

CTO

FilmAmora

(Internet industry)

July 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

FilmAmora.com is Spain's leading online DVD rental company (think NetFlix or LoveFilm)

Fully responsible for the design, architecting and implementing of their multi-lingual, Ruby on Rails website.
Consultant

RailsAssist

(Computer Software industry)

July 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

RailsAssist is the name of my on and offsite Rails Consulting company.
Senior Developer

LVS

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 2000 — February 2008 (7 years 8 months)

Responsible for the design and implementation (as part of a technical team) of several high end bespoke websites in the gaming sector.
Technical Director

Speirtech

(Computer Software industry)

April 2002 — July 2006 (4 years 4 months)

Speirtech developed the first gaming platform (not individual game!) for mobile devices - specifically mobile telephones. Java as well as browser based single player gambling games such as Blackjack and Roulette were supplied along with the ability to write and release custom games.

I was the technical lead and developed the platform server that supplied the games and maintained game state, etc etc.

Java, (x)(c)HTML, CSS, Mobile delivery, DoCoMo
Senior Developer

WebArana

(Computer Software industry)

February 2002 — November 2002 (10 months)

Responsible for developing WebArana, a bespoke internet-spidering solution for creating a customized marketing database.
Participant

feature workshops

(Computer Software industry)

2001 — 2001 (less than a year)
Senior Macintosh Developer

Gouden Gids

(Publishing industry)

September 1999 — July 2000 (11 months)

Architecting and developing a solution to permit Yellow Pages around the world share advertising elements
Senior Macintosh Developer

Agfa Gevaert

(Computer Hardware industry)

July 1997 — September 1999 (2 years 3 months)

Architecting and developing software to enhance scanned images.
Macintosh Developer

ResRocket

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

April 1996 — February 1997 (11 months)

(Co-)Responsible for architecting and implementing an innovative distributed composition tool that allowed player to collaborate in real time around the globe
Senior Macintosh Developer

Everyware

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

1994 — 1996 (2 years )
Macintosh Developer

MacXperts

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

1993 — 1994 (1 year )

Developing a bespoke application for Philip Morris Tobacco to be used to track advertising placement in physical locations (like convenience stores).

Written for the Mac OS using MacApp