Company Structure and Objectives for 2023 TRIMESTER 2
Executive Summary
Thoth Tech is a software development company currently building from the ground up in Melbourne, Australia. Thoth Tech’s mission is to build, operate, and deploy education technologies creating tools that enhance education outcomes by empowering students, connecting them with tutors, and facilitating personalised learning experiences.
We value our people, and we value excellence. We are people-focused, aiming to produce sustainable products of excellent quality, and provide frameworks that supply a safe environment for learning and support of our team. This report is for stakeholders and investors, and will outline the company structure, charter, objectives–both short and long term, and explore each product’s goals.
Thoth Tech has recruited approximately 63 employees with 5 product leads. Thoth Tech currently runs with five products OnTrack, Courseflow, Splash Kit Courseflow, and Company Operations. The additional projects give a bit more variety to the technology stacks currently in use and ties in nicely with some existing units that students are working on.
Company Operations oversees the entire affairs of Thoth Tech and strives to make things easier. Effective operations are important for maintaining a successful business. As other product teams focus to develop new features and upgrade existing products, we would be working to ensure that appropriate industry guidelines and standards are followed to produce world class products. We document the tools and processes that Thoth tech uses in its daily operations and research new options that could serve the company better.
OnTrack is one of the bigger projects in the company and is a live production system that is in use at Deakin University, it has been consistently improved and built upon to provide an exceptional learning tool for students and staff at Deakin. Its technology stack consists of a Ruby on Rails back end and an Angular JS / Angular 15 front end. There are a variety of projects to enhance and upgrade this product that students can work on.
CourseFlow is a Thoth Tech product that was founded in T1 2023. It aims to assist students and course directors in course planning and in comprehending the requirements of certain courses. It does this by giving users a way to generate a personalized course map that meets the requirements of their course and by providing a tool that allows users to view the requirements of all units (such as prerequisite units) visually.
SplashKit is currently a 2D game development Software Development Kit used to teach object-oriented coding to beginners. It has been identified that SplashKit can be expanded to explore other areas and languages.
The Art Gallery Project is a new project that has been added in T1 2023, it is a web-based API back end written in .NET 7 and C# on a PostgreSQL database and a Vue front end that was developed by several students and a lecturer. The aim is to provide a system to track and sell Art works in smaller communities.
Leadership Team
Company Directors
- Andrew Cain, Managing Director
- Glory Lee, Managing Director
Student Leadership
- Daniel Maddern – Product Lead for OnTrack
- Daniel Maddern & Chloe Hulme – Product Lead for Art Gallery
- Mel David Bugay & Kieron Anthony Boyle – Product Leads for Courseflow
- Phil Williams – Product Lead for Splash Kit
- Onyedikachi Okorie - Product Lead for Company Operations
Roles and Responsibilities
| Roles | Description | Responsibilities | Skills |
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| Managing Director | The role of the managing director is to oversee the Thoth Tech company executive leadership team to ensure they are running the company effectively and value is being added to the Thoth Tech products by the projects they are supporting. |
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| Product Lead | The role of the Product lead is to lead and support delivery leads in projects related to their product to ensure ongoing success. |
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