Angus Cochran

PADI

Instructor • May 2015 - Mar 2018

Full time dive instructor for courses from Open Water to Divemaster and assisting with new instructor training. Responsibilities included planning course logistics, scheduling, safety, and overseeing multiple instructors/courses.

Developer • Aug 2015 - Apr 2016

Designed and developed proof of concept app to streamline customer paperwork and instructor record keeping. Features included:

• Offline first design with client-side caching and conflict resolving sync
• Multi-lingual, cross platform for both iOS and Android devices

Advisor/Teacher

Teacher • 2016 - 2018

Provided free coding classes and workshops to local kids aged 10-18 using both visual block and text-based coding tools. Mentored larger stand-alone app project designed by students to help the local community in Koh Tao, Thailand.

Raok.io - Founder• Jan 2017 - Dec 2017

Non-profit startup enabling sharing positive events in local communities. In contrast to other social networks, platform was designed to have no signup or login, remain totally anonymous with a focus on user privacy. Also used as a teaching project in critical feature assessment, technology evaluation, and project planning.

Advisor • Mar 2013 - Mar 2015

Technical adviser to location based retail startup and several medical technology startups through Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network.

The King Arthur Flour Company, Inc

Vice President, Information Services & Facilities • May 2012 ­ Feb 2014

Member of five person senior leadership team of 220 year old employee-owned company. Responsibilities include planning and providing the infrastructure needed to meet strategic goals of a food company growing through $150M in sales and 450 employees. P&L responsibilities for $2M of expenses and $1-5M in yearly capex spending. Detailed Achievements

• Successful completion of $10M, 14 month renovation on schedule and within 2% of original budget
• Maintained continued operations of Flagship retail store and cafe, production bakery, and baking education center throughout renovation
• Architected and delivered a web-based POS system leveraging existing eCommerce infrastructure
• Installed solar electic car charging stations utilizing state government environmental programs
• Developed managers to enable offloading of project management allowing focus on strategic planning

Director, Information Services & Facilities • Apr 2011 ­ May 2012

Expanded responsibilites to include both Information Services and Facilities needs of the company as well as managing the respective teams. This included four buildings, an offsite cafe, a food manufacturing operation, and a mail order fulfillment center.

Director, Information Services • Sept 2007 ­ Mar 2011

Joined the senior leader team in newly created role responsible for developing and executing the technology strategy for a $70M company. Built a team of seven IS professionals and established IS as partners with all areas of the business through the implementation of new tools, training and development of all users, process improvements, and improved maintenance of existing systems. Detailed Achievements

• Implemented trade promotion, manufacturing, and intranet solutions removing greatest pain points
• Implementation of a company-wide BI tool designed to improve decision making and provide a tool in the development of company-wide analytic skills
• Architected and migrated internally developed eCommerce solution to a fully redundant and scalable infrastructure that has supported an award winning web presence with 20x growth over 4 years
• Improved and exceeded customer service level expectations by cross-training and developing existing staff

Dartmouth College

Manager, Special Projects • 2003 - Aug 2007
Programmer/Unix System Administrator • Sept 2000 ­ 2002

Coordinated the efforts of in­house development team consisting of three full time programmers and two student positions to meet the priorities defined by user groups and IT leadership. Areas of responsibility included middleware infrastructure (directory, authentication, and security) and enterprise web, email, calendar, and file­sharing applications. Detailed Achievements

• Implemented paperless solution for all undergraduate admission applications
• Led cross­departmental team to design and implement an enterprise web authentication system culminating in a successful, on­time rollout to more than thirty applications and 85,000 users
• Represented Dartmouth in the Calendar and Scheduling Consortium to develop the CalDAV calendar standard

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Research & Development Engineer • Oct 1998 - Sept 2000
User Support Specialist • Jan 1997 ­ Sept 1998

Project Manager responsible for the development and deployment of enterprise version control and distribution system for all applications. Planned and coordinated departmental and institutional projects involving handhelds, wireless laptops, and calendaring systems. Provided third level hardware and software support for Mac OS and Windows platforms, and acted as the liaison between the support staff and development teams.