About
A flexible individual with vast experience in various IT sectors as well as 15 years of management experience and a genuine interest in software, mobile and IT related topics.
CTO
I have a combination of software development skills across all platforms from mobiles to servers, client relationship and consultancy, sales, management, and entrepreneur skills and experience of running a number of businesses. As such I was asked to join and become CTO of 4 start-ups, while running a number of my own companies:
- Cotown B.V. (NL) 2019-2023
- Mobs Ventures (UK) 2012-2023
- Blender (IT) 2022-2023
- Tohcan (UK) 2015-2019
- AppsForce B.V. (NL) 2018-2023
- AppsForce Ltd (UK) 2017-2023
- Codeten Ltd (UK) 2006-2015
- Velidub doo (CRO) 1997-2000
During this time I learned many business and technical skills, gaining unique experiance in understaining how to acheive business goals through technology, and as such become respected consultant for many SMEs and organisations.
Track Record
I have completed over 70 projects, developed almost 150 websites, mobile and other apps, got awarded over 10 grants and worked with hundreds talended parter organisations, companeis and individuals.
Grants Awarded in the EU and UK
Projects completed for customers from USA to Sweden and UK to Tunisia
Apps and Web Sites succesfully launched
Employees trained and employed
Skills
With my insatiable thirst for knowlege and reletness work drive, I become jack of all trades and master of most of them. In addition to all the below skills, I really love to understand cross industry applications of knowledge, collection of big data, machine learning and artifical intelligence.
Resume
It is very hard to compress 25 years or learning and working in many countries, companies and industries, so here are some highlights. Full CV can be downloaded here.
Sumary
Andre Fabris
I thrive in innovative and highly technical environments.
- Highly motivated and organised individual and a team player
- Ability to communicate with internal and external individuals on all levels
- Proven track record of managing, organising, and delivering projects
Education
Mechanical Engineer Degree (Hons)
1993 - 1998
University of Split, Naval Faculty Dubrovnik
Various Courses
1991 - 1993
Glendale Community College - Glendale, UCLA - Los Angeles, University of Zagreb
Computer Technician Degree
1986 - 1990
Computer & Mathematics School Sarajevo
Professional Experience
Executive Director
2017 - Present
AppsForce Ltd & BV, London & Maastricht
- Developed our own product with over 50 distictive applications
- Awarded 11 EU and UK grants for innovation
Executive Director
2006 - 2015
Codeten Ltd, London
- Developed over 100 projects for various customers in the USA and Europe
- Clients include The Times, Blackberry, Worldpay, Extreme, Amnesia and many others
Application Development Consultant
2008 - 2011
Reasearch in Motion (Blackberry), London
- Advised over 200 organisations how to develop mobile apps
- Worked with: HSBC, Barclays, KLM, Skype, Spotify, Sky, BBC etc.
Portfolio
I proudly present a selection of projects I created:
Services
I am currently considering my next long term project and commitment. I am opened to full time employment, freelancing, consultancy, partnerships and investment.
Employment
I am opened to join highly innovative and technical company in a role of CTO, Project Manager or even Senior Developer in some cases.
Freelancing
I would be interested in helping building your project. Preferences to projects resolving global or local issues.
Consultancy
Getting to know your business, its bottlenecks and issues and being able to advise you how to overcome those is my speciality.
Partnerships
I am often invited to join a startups or SMEs. Depending on realistic and rock solid business plan, ethical and moral goals of the business this could be my preffered option.
Investment
I own quite impressive collection of IP, just waiting for the right investor to scale up. Business plans and other documentation avalaible on request.
Teaching
I love teaching, presenting and inspiring people to learn programming and would welcome any opportunities to do so.
Testimonials
Andre was there for us when we had nothing, he invited us to participate in his digital innovation hub when we had only just started a development project together. He and the rest of the AppsForce team were vital to the success of our project. Their support went beyond simple troubleshooting, Andre's deep knowledge base served as a sounding board to parse technical questions and find innovative ways to do more with less. His mentorship and guidance allowed the team to focus on building minimum viable products instead of getting lost in the weeds of feature creep.
Tanner Carder
CEO and Managing Director at NestEgg Labs
Andre played a vital role in guiding our platform's successful delivery and managing our technical projects. His expertise, leadership, and strategic direction ensured alignment with our business goals and strategy. His ability to train junior developers and foster collaboration were also very helpful for our long terms objectives. We highly recommend André for his valuable contributions and dedication to our team.
Grégoire Piette
Co-founder of CoTown
I've known and worked with Andre for many years across varied projects, ranging from apps on the Blackberry platform to tech events and EU innovation projects. In relation to Slenky, Andre has led the technical development of our R&D platforms and mobile apps, helping us deliver a productised and easy to use solution to a very complicated and heavily nuanced issue. Andre has always been great to work with, and I would classify him as one of the best team leaders or team members I've collaborated with. He has a great depth of knowledge and is able to apply it to projects that involve others without a technical background who then feel confident and supported to input.
Cec Richards
CEO of Mobs Venutures (Slenky)
Andre thinks of giving the full solution which is exactly what a startup needs. He has a quite unique mentality in coding which comes from vast experience with innovative companies and decades of hard work with a vision to make the software development for small and medium enterprises fully scalable by modular elements that have been developed over the years.
Mehrdad Seirafi
CEO of Neurotech | Alpha Brain Technologies
Contact
The best way to contact me is email. I tend to reply to all within 24 hours, and if needed we can arrange a conference call or meet in person.
Location:
Generaal Marshalllaan 1, 6224XK Maastricht, The Netherlands
Email:
af@appsforce.co.uk
Call:
+31 6 38 114 270