Nima Gardideh

Co-founder, President, CTO

Pearmill

Jan 2019 - Current (7 years 6 months)

We're hiring –> https://pearmill.com/careers Pearmill is a young agency structured to excel in digital performance marketing. We’re a group of designers, marketers, and engineers working together to help grow some of the most iconic startups in the world. Our goal is to shift advertising towards a more trustworthy industry by producing beautiful, honest, and high-performing ads. Say hello: https://pearmill.com

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Chief Technology Officer

Suto

Mar 2016 - Jan 2018 (1 year 11 months)

We worked on a product helping consumers make better purchasing decisions. Its name was Suto. We had a lot of fun making it, and thousands of people used it for a while. Unfortunately, it wasn't a viable business. Suto was a text-based product recommendations engine and given the state of NLP at the time, it wasn't good enough to be fully automated and lacked a strong scalable business model so we shut it down.

Head of Product

Taplytics

Jan 2015 - Mar 2016 (1 year 3 months)

Product Manager, Mobile, API, Retail

Frank And Oak

Sep 2013 - Dec 2014 (1 year 4 months)

ENGINEERING Designed and lead the architecture of the underlying API layer of the company. Lead the engineering teams to build APIs to handle physical retail POS systems. Created a cyclical AppStore release strategy within the mobile team in order to streamline release cycles. Helped create an agile software development culture within the organization. PRODUCT MANAGEMENT Helped create a product management organization within the company alongside our Head of Product. Lead the ideation and fruition of a unique POS for the business that launched in Nov. 2014. Lead the ideation and fruition of a centralized API to support web, mobile and POS systems. GROWTH Increased percentage of revenue from mobile by 2X. Doubled the total user base of mob

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Interim CTO

Extreme Startups Cohort Company ECommerce

May 2013 - Aug 2013 (4 months)

Growth - Kept track of metrics such as: ARPU, CAC, LTV, Churn Rate and Growth Rate - Iterated on messaging, design and customer experience of the website - Defined multiple channels of traffic and calculated CPA per channel - Experimented with different price points and increased ARPU - Focused on optimizing CAC per channel by running specific A/B tests - Tripled conversion rates by A/B testing layouts and messaging Engineering - Developed an e-commerce platform - Setup automatic shipment processes

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Founder and CTO

Venio Inc

Feb 2012 - Apr 2013 (1 year 3 months)

Co-Founded the company in April '13 as CTO. Did everything from product development, engineering to customer growth and recruitment. Engineering & Design: - Managed a team of up-to 6 engineers and 2 designers - Created an agile software engineering process within the organization - Lead the architectural design of the platform within the company - Created the first iteration of the iOS and web apps - In charge of creating an agile engineering culture - In charge of recruiting and hiring technical talent Product Engagement: - Lead the execution of: - - iOS Meal Planner App - - Recipe Discovery Web App - VenioHealth.com - - Internal product for recipe contributors - Followed the Lean Methodology and used an iterative process of hypothes

Nspire TV Managing Director

Nspire Innovation Network

Dec 2011 - Apr 2012 (5 months)

Lead the design and implementation of the Nspire TV website: a multi-media website in order to distribute the videos within the organization to the members. Helped create, and implement NSpire's Nteract 2.0 product.

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Agile Software Engineer

Xtreme Labs Inc

May 2011 - Feb 2012 (10 months)

Engineering: - Implemented iOS, Android, WebOS and web (Javscript/HTML) apps within the company - Hosted multiple seminars on engineering architectural design within iOS and Android applications - Gave recurring talks about agile software engineering and pair programming both internally and externally Projects: - Worked on products that reached thousands of people - Worked of projects valued at more than $1-2M - Helped with pitching to potential clients by doing market research and competitive analysis - Created white papers on analytical tools used for mobile platforms Other Responsibilities: - Created product specs and stories and managed designers and engineers to execute on product requirements - Managed engineering, QA and design

89 Chestnut Residence Director

Woodsworth College Students Association

Oct 2010 - Apr 2011 (7 months)

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Finance Executive

Chestnut Residence Council

May 2010 - Apr 2011 (1 year)

Server Administrator

Exophase

Feb 2009 - Aug 2010 (1 year 7 months)

Assured the integrity of servers and maintained the infrastructure. Helped build the forums and constantly gave feedback on the website's use-cases and content.

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Content Curator and Moderator

MforMaturenet

Apr 2008 - Feb 2009 (11 months)

Helped setup the blogging and forum platform. Managed multiple bloggers and made sure a certain quota was met every week for content. Curated and moderated relevant content to the industry. Helped organization merge with eXophase.com and joined the eXo team along with the management team.

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