Ben Gilman Email & Phone Number

Raleigh & Charlotte, North Carolina, US

We partner with clients to build quality software. We are seasoned technology veterans with a long and proven track record of building new products and re-platforming legacy systems.

Mooresville, NC, US

PetScreening is a no-charge service for housing providers and property managers in multi-family, single-family, student housing, and vacation rentals. Our service provides an easy and standardized way to hold all new applicants and renewing residents accountable to your pet policies - including your No Pet policies.

Charlotte, NC, US

RealRecruit is the country’s leading and most comprehensive culture and risk management platform for universities. We enhance your student-athlete experience and decrease risk. Enhancing the student-athlete experience is not just a buzz phrase to us and our partners — it is what we are putting into action daily.Our focus is to streamline the feedback.

Raleigh, NC, US

Acquired by Instructure (NYSE: INST)Lea(R)n™ connects educators, decision-makers, and technology to raise the bar on learning tools, save money and improve outcomes for learners. Currently serving US K-12.Educators make tools better. Companies make better tools. Winner - 2014 Techstars Kaplan Edtech AcceleratorWinner - 2014 NC IDEA AwardEducators sign up.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

We build digital platforms, products and services. Our clients rely on us to dive deep into their ideas and to deliver game-changing solutions by leveraging our integrated capabilities in agile product development, creative engineering and business design. Through a collaborative, systematic approach, we take care of the technical challenge so completely.

• Acquired by Sure Shot Media
• Led the spin-out of Technekes' technology assets and product development team to Connexio Labs
• Led the commercial viability evaluation of the technology assets and developed the go-to-market strategy
• Led the development of two core products, a cloud-based contact center, and a customer data platform
• Prototype third-party integration strategies
• Manage development teams, vendors, strategic partners, and sales channels

Morrisville, NC, US

• Acquired by Telus Agriculture (NYSE: TU)
• Provided vision and leadership as a member of the executive team in developing and implementing the company’s strategic and operational goals
• Led the design and implementation of the company’s technical architecture strategy which included: SOA, APIs, open source technology, AWS, data standardization and productizing existing services
• Led the development of a proprietary marketing automation system that integrates traditional and digital marketing tactics and reduced campaign implement time by more than 90%
• Transitioned the organization from a Microsoft development environment (.Net / SQL Server) to an open source environment (Ruby, Postgres, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Ember.js, Puppet)
• Migrated the organization from a colocation deployment environment to Amazon Web Services and realized a 20x performance improvement, reduced downtime, and reduced risk; all with minimal cost increases

Morrisville, NC, US

• Led the development, implementation and measurement of marketing strategies for the account teams and their clients
• Prototyped new marketing capabilities, scaled them, and deployed them across the company
• Evaluated moving the organization from Microsoft technologies to open source technologies
• Evaluated moving the organization from a colocation deployment environment to a cloud environment
• Began building a product development team

Morrisville, NC, US

• Led the design and development of several custom software systems in a variety of industries ranging from financial services to agriculture
• Manage a team of 5 software engineers, responsible for resourcing, compensation and talent development
• Responsible for balancing the team’s workload as we developed multiple solutions simultaneously
• Solved a major scaling problem that led to significant growth in a core incentives program

San Francisco, California, US

• Designed and built custom applications for the Balance & Controls team using Microsoft.Net
• Lead developer on a team of five
• Responsibilities include: application & database architecture, interface integration, code design, code review, and mentoring junior developers

• Developed custom software applications for multiple clients in several industries including: financial services, real estate, legal, service, and professional sports
• Targeted platforms included Windows, web, and mobile devices
• Responsible for full life cycle development including requirements definitions, technical design, development, installation, maintenance, and support
• Extensive experience dealing with the daily needs of clients, contractors, and customers

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bs, Computer Science