Robert Hyde
Mountain View, CA 650-996-1324 robhyde@gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robhyde/
SkillsHTML CSS REACT Node.js Javascript PhP SQL SEO Unix/Linux MySQL/ Maria PHPMyAdmin Apache GIT
EducationBA(Hons) in Communications Southampton University, UK, 1998
CertificationsAmazon Door Desk Award
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Experience
React Engineer - Front End Developer/PayPal.com January 2022 - September 2022 Updating and maintaining the PayPal front end website.
Founder and Managing Director/ I042September 2009 - 2018, London, UKGrew IO42 from a sole operator to a end-to-end digital marketing agency, with 10 FTE & $1.5M turnover. In addition to heading up the organization and assisting the Director of Sales in driving new business, I functioned as a CTO and worked to identify new areas of opportunity. These included preparing prototypes and MVPs for newly seeded start-ups (both for payment and stock holdings) and developing and offering SEO consultancy and execution, in addition to our core business of building marketing and feature-rich websites for SMBs and start-ups. Sold client base in 2018 prior to my move to California
Senior Front End Developer / eBay January 2007 - June 2009, London, UKDeveloped a bespoke Project Management system to track customer-facing launches and communications. Was lead front-engineer for twice-annual Seller Communications launches for eBay Europe. Implemented a streamlined go-to-market process, including enhanced quality checks, leading to a significant reduction in bugs and time to market. Developed and maintained new and existing features and quality assurance tools for eBay.co.uk
Web Developer / AmazonDecember 1999 - October 2006, London, UKDeveloped front end for Auctions & ZShops (precursor to Amazon Marketplaces). Lead UI developer for UK launch of Amazon Associates and UK Borders partner site. Led development and introduction of Google Ad placements on Amazon.co.uk Primary maintenance engineer for three European sites: Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de and Amazon.fr
Owner/saltypopcorn.co.ukDec 2004 - present500,00 hits monthly (2019 average) Designed, built and maintain www.saltypopcorn.co.uk, a film website that curates and distributes news and information on Box Office facts & figures. The front-end is built on HTML, CSS and PHP, underpinned by a MySQL database. The site is maintained daily, traffic is wholly organic as the result of continuous SEO optimization and experimentation, and was consistently close to a half million visits a month pre-COVID
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