Team leader and volunteer with Crag Care Tasmania, an arm of Wildcare Tasmania, providing support and services to ensure safe climbing environments throughout the state of Tasmania.

Volunteer

Computer Science

Responsible for the engineering and product org, leading a team of 8 engineers which rapidly expanded to 70+ engineers. The founding CTO role was largely focused on transitioning from an engineering-lead to a product-lead org.

Grew the engineering team from 8 engineers to 70+, hired first product managers and set the product team up for success, lead the agile process uplift across the company, assisted in vendor selection and management, professional development of engineering leaders within the group, all while aligning the technical landscape to the product vision.

Key Achievements

- Owned the hiring and organization roadmap that scaled the product and engineering team from 8  → 70+. Responsible for hiring engineers at all levels and organization design.
- Set up Product Management team from scratch, including product strategy guidelines, hiring team members, and setting up product and engineering processes.
- Complete agile uplift from scratch, including all practices and proces

Chief Technology Officer

AuditCover is a first of it’s kind business insurance platform specializing in tax audit insurance. AuditCover developed proprietary technology enabling delivery of tax-audit insurance within minutes, replacing incumbent solutions of several weeks.

Leading the product and technical organization this role encompassed managing the product MVP, technical delivery, and operations delivery.

Key Achievements

- Identified, developed and delivered product operations reducing delivery time from weeks to minutes.
- Delivered increasingly automated and simpler solutions taking the product MVP from a low-code Google Sheets backed set of operations to a fully delivered product portal built for integrations and automations.
- Let product insights with customers and partners, created and maintained a comprehensive product backlog resulting in an investible strategy for seed funding.

Head of Product

Mitch lead a team of engineers with a varied technical skillset ranging front-end (React, JavaScript, Redux), back-end (.Net, SQL server, cloud services) and mobile (Xamarin, Native).

Responsibilities included:
 • Managing developer professional development
 • Hiring and performance management
 • Regular developer 1:1 meetings
 • Team resourcing and project planning
 • Hands on development
 • Advising founders and planning for scalability
 • Technical roadmapping and business planning
 • R&amp;D applications and other grants

Head Of Engineering

Senior Front End Engineer

Linktree is the market-leading linking platform that was the first of its kind, creating an entirely new category in tech. Linktree is the identity layer of the internet, allowing users to curate a singular destination housing what’s most important to them, in real time.

After the success of the Linktree Series B transitioned from leading the technical organization to leading Linktree’s internal non-core innovation products. This role owned a portfolio of innovative products at Linktree, as well as being responsible for the delivery of the Linktree mobile application MVP.

Key Achievements

- Built a new business unit from scratch to manage horizontal products within Linktree. Hired 10+ team members across engineering and design in newly formed delivery teams.
- Scoped and delivered two MVP stage proof of concept projects with a limited engineering team, while taking ownership of the mobile application team.
- Negotiated with external consultants (Thoughtworks) and bought in key exter

Group Product Manager

Currently freelancing to multiple early-stage startups leading their product and technology initiatives. I am open to consulting and freelance opportunities, as well as full-time opportunities.

Freelance Consultant, Product & Technology

Product & Tech Leader | Formerly: CTO @ Linktree, HoE @ BlueChilli | Product Advisor & Coach

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