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. |
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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.
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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
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Alex Tew
British, 24, creator of the Million Dollar Homepage and co-founder of PopJam. Based in London.
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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.
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David Langer
Internet entrepreneur. Co-Founder & CEO, GroupSpaces Ltd. Blogger, davidlanger.co.uk