Simon Quick

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Experiences

As part of the integration team at HomeAway , I work with property management software companies around the world and help them leverage HomeAway's integration solutions.
Launched an industry leading Partner program into Australia, giving HomeAway access to several thousand new property listings through revenue share and marketing initiatives.
Project managed the migration of ~200 integrated property managers to an enhanced integration platform, providing extensive technical consultation to partner engineers.
Engineered an integration batch processing system, turning a daily 6-hour manual process into a fully automated system with a process time of minutes.
Helped several hundred property managers successfully integrate and build their business on top of HomeAway integration solutions.
Built several tools to help marketing teams expand the distribution of HomeAway listings to partner sites.

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Sound Shelter gives you personalised music recommendations based on the artists and record labels you love. I perform all product, development and marketing duties as a side project.
Sole product design and development of a complex web application with several thousand global users.
Integrated multiple API’s from market leading music meta-data provider to provide rich content to users.
Developed custom recommendation algorithm to provide personalised recommendations for registered users. Additional algorithm highlights trending releases on the site.
Automated marketing activity across social media, paid Facebook and Google Ads and drip email campaigns. Avg CTR of 6% for FB ads with CPPEng. of $0.02. Average YOY growth of ~80%
Continuous A/B tests, cohort analysis and CRO initiatives. Highlights include a landing page signup conversion rate of 32%.
Tech/Apps used include Python, Flask, PHP, MySQL, Bootstrap, Git, Linux, Mixpanel, Optimizely, Google Analytics, Adwords, Facebook Ads, Mailchimp, Sendgrid, Mandrill.

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Worldwide ownership of a large data feed system that generated over £20m revenue per annum across clients in the UK and US e-commerce markets. Clients included world leaders in the fields of travel, retail and telecommunications such as Ticketmaster, Expedia, ASDA Wal-Mart, Qantas, O2 and 3 Mobile.
Development of custom data feed solutions to accommodate client’s commercial and technical requirements. Creation of web agents to extract product data from client sites.
Worked as part of a team that increased annual revenue by over £4m for a major Travel client through the use of data feeds. Overall revenue in data feed usage increased by over 20% year on year.
Travelled to AOL offices in New York and Baltimore in the US to setup skills and technology swap with other subsidiaries of AOL. Developed substantial technical solutions and documentation to allow Affiliate Window technical teams to integrate buy.at data feed system into their system.
Involvement with the UK IAB Regulatory Sub-Committee in the creation of an educational document on the effective creation and distribution of data feeds within affiliate marketing.
Worked alongside client service teams in educating clients on the technical and commercial benefits of using and developing high quality data feeds.
Troubleshooting a wide range of technical queries from internal and external clients and liaising with the development team on new projects.
Creation of technical documentation and delivery of training sessions to support and educate clients and internal staff on company products.
In-depth analysis of conversion rates, revenue generation and data feed usage to target areas for growth and development.

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Skills

Integration

APIs and Web Services

Advanced
PHP

Advanced
HTML

PHP, Python, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JS

Advanced
CSS

Good
MySQL

Good
Python

Intermediate

Partnerships

Advanced
Project Management

Good
Customer Success

Good
Product Design

Intermediate

Google Analytics

Good
Email marketing

Good
Social Media

Good
Facebook Ads

Good

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Integration Engineer, Partnership Manager and Digital All-Rounder

Sales Engineer / Technical Partnership Manager

Founder

Integration Manager

BSc (Hons) Internet Computing

Northumbria University

Development

Soft Skills

Marketing