Director of Engineering, Mobile
Jive Software
Oct 2012 - Nov 2014 (2 years 2 months)
Started with a hybrid mobile approach in 2011, the plurality of devices made it expensive to deliver a native experience on all platforms. Delivered a phone-gap enabled Jive experience on Android, iOS, Palm, Windows Phones and Blackberry.
In 2012-2013, iOS and Android became the winners in the mobile phone race. We delivered a great Jive for iOS, Jive for Android native experience, on par with consumer mobile apps.
Hired and coached a +25 person mobile development team.
Created Jive Present in collaboration with an outside vendor.
Contributed various features like external collaboration in our main non-mobile Jive products.
In 2014, transited the mobile team, from being a separate team to being an integrated team