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Jof Arnold

Nuclear robotics, russian spacecraft, motorsport, androids, fuel injections systems and now the web.

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Website: http://www.gymfu.com
Industries: Computing, Gaming, Health, Information Technology, Internet, Lifestyle, Mobile
Skills: AJAX, Business, Chinese, Design, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, Facebook platform, French, Graphic design, HTML / CSS, Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial Engineering, Italian, Javascript, Languages, Leadership, Management, Product design, Russian, Software Engineering, SQL, Web design, Web Development
Location: London
Groups: DrinkTank London, Seedcamp
Interested in: Advising startups, Brainstorming, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding experts, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Helping friends, Internships, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup, Trading services
Tags: facebook, Fitness, iphone, motion-detection, social-network, startup, twitter
Schools: Imperial College London

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: GymFu.com
Position: Founder
Time period: January 2009 - Present
Description: Mobile mini-games to make fitness entertaining.

Employer: BrainBakery Ltd
Position: Founder
Time period: January 2006 - Present
Description: Founder and front-end developer for advanced web tech agency BrainBakery Ltd. Key skills: iPhone, facebook, PHP, Python, AJAX, MySQL, Linux

Employer: i-together Ltd
Position: Founder
Time period: July 2007 - October 2008
Description: i-together created Blogfriends and Buzzspotr. We are experts in social filtering of content.

Employer: Delphi
Position: Technical Lead
Time period: October 2003 - February 2007
Description: As Technical Lead I led a team of 10 design and manufacturing engineers across three countries to build a new innovative and cost-saving line of high-pressure diesel fuel pumps. Inventions include a new manufacturing process that increase performance by >25% enabling Delphi to successfully bid for $b of new contracts.

Employer: Self-employed
Position: Contractor
Time period: August 2002 - August 2003
Description: Motorsport design and engineering for a variety of small racing teams and businesses in the UK and South Africa. Also started a company in Cape Town, but that's another story...

Employer: Moscow Aviation Institute
Position: Spacecraft Design Engineer
Time period: June 2000 - September 2000
Description:

Key task was the design and optimization of spacecraft heat shields using Fortran 77 and developing optimized numerical methods for the solution of 3rd order partial differential equations for thermo-fluid problems.
If anyone asks you the definition of hardcore, tell them that. 3rd order PDEs in Fortran 77 in Russian in DOS!

Employer: BNFL
Position: Robots software and design engineer
Time period: September 1997 - October 1997
Description: Design of robotic equipment and software for the off-load inspection of nuclear reactors. Won lots of awards and evidently did too good a job; blame me for the shutdown of several reactors leading to the power crisis we're about to have.

EDUCATION

University: Imperial College London

PUBLICATIONS

Patents: At least one. I'll turf them out later.

Jof's Startups (1)

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  • GymFu

    Keep fit in your spare time with mobile motion-tracking fitness mini-games.

Jof is Following (1)

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  • Sellekta

    Sellekta offers two key services: (1) Sellekta Data Getter is a simple method to import external website site data to enterprise sites. (2) Sellekta User Interface provides an intuitive white label presentation layer for e-commerce and video sites.

Jof's Contacts (9)

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  • Manoj Ranaweera

    Founder and CEO of edocr Ltd, eveo Ltd and evigon Ltd. Exited as Founder and CEO of ebdex Ltd. Promoter of Digital startups in the North of England

  • Alex Tew

    British, 24, creator of the Million Dollar Homepage and co-founder of PopJam. Based in London.

  • Dave Ingram

    British, 22, in final year of MEng Computing at Imperial, working on a database-backed filesystem for my thesis, and involved in a number of other projects, including Imperial Entrepreneurs and my own company, Retiarius.

  • David Langer

    Internet entrepreneur. Co-Founder & CEO, GroupSpaces Ltd. Blogger, davidlanger.co.uk