Point of Rental Names Matt Gaffin to Lead New Mobile Development Team
Point of Rental Software has furthered its mobile programming push by forming a dedicated mobile development team. Senior developer lead Matt Gaffin heads the team, which will build on the company’s award-winning mobile apps to create a unified mobile experience across its four products.
“We’re proud of what our development team has done with our mobile products,” said Point of Rental CEO Wayne Harris. “As the industry moves further into mobile platforms, we’ve realized the need to have a team focused 100 percent on mobile development. Matt has an insatiable curiosity and desire to improve things, and I look forward to seeing what he and the mobile team are able to do.”
Before the creation of the new mobile team, each product team oversaw its own mobile products. Gaffin, who has been a part of Point of Rental’s Essentials product since its inception, is joined by experienced mobile developers from the company’s other product teams. The company is also hiring new developers to help them achieve their goals.
“This mobile team is globally focused,” said Gaffin. “As we introduce new apps and features, we’ll be working to make them available to all of our products simultaneously. We’re laying the foundation for that process, and we’ve hit the ground running. We’re excited to take on this challenge.”
POR’s new mobile development team is looking for full modern stack developers or experts with Ionic Framework or Angular. Check out pointofrental.com/careers.
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.