Christian Ricci

Christian Ricci Email and Phone Number

CTO at RVLVR | Advisor & Investor | Building High-Impact Teams and Scalable Products in Retail, eCommerce & B2B | BSEE, MSCS, MBA @ RVLVR
Christian Ricci's Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States, United States
About Christian Ricci

A seasoned CTO and executive with a proven track record of leading high-impact teams and scaling technology for transformation and growth. With deep expertise in software design and development, built and led engineering teams that deliver robust solutions for retail, eCommerce, and mar-tech. Specializing in internationalization, supply chain, content management, and catalog systems.Recent roles include advisor and consultant, with successes in early-stage startups and established companies to create and execute product roadmaps that drive efficiency and impact. A former Amazonian and global-savvy technology leader.

Christian Ricci's Current Company Details
RVLVR

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CTO at RVLVR | Advisor & Investor | Building High-Impact Teams and Scalable Products in Retail, eCommerce & B2B | BSEE, MSCS, MBA
Christian Ricci Work Experience Details
  • Rvlvr
    Chief Technology Officer (Cto)
    Rvlvr 2017 - Present
    San Diego, Ca, Us
    A subsidiary to Indigenous Software, RVLVR is now a Forrester- and Canalys-recognized B2B agency specializing in white-glove and 'do it for you' digital marketing for the channel with a focus on syndicatable content, population insights, and actionable analytics. RVLVR's clients include some of the most recognizable entities in hardware, software, and network equipment vendors.
  • Indigenous Software
    Chief Technology Officer (Cto)
    Indigenous Software 2015 - Present
    San Diego, Ca, Us
    Built and managed a development organization, and the technology, for a scratch-built marketing platform used by thousands of businesses, SMBs to Fortune 100 household names. Indigenous is an all-in-one SaaS campaign automation suite for brands, franchise networks, and agencies with built-in content management, email marketing, syndication, personalization, contact management, eCommerce, and analytics. Indigenous is the parent company of RVLVR. Indigenous was an AWS Activate member (2015, 2016) and is currently exploring Machine Learning and generative AI opportunities as a member of the Google for Startups Cloud Program (2023+).° Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/indigenous° AngelList: https://angel.co/indigenous-software
  • Affinitiv
    Advisor
    Affinitiv Aug 2022 - Present
    Buffalo Grove, Illinois, Us
  • Affinitiv
    Senior Vice President Of Engineering
    Affinitiv Sep 2021 - Aug 2022
    Buffalo Grove, Illinois, Us
    Led a 125+ member team including software development, QA and IT functions (in the US, India, Brazil, Ukraine, and Canada) and advised the CTO and President of Innovation through a period of organizational stabilization and restructuring and optimized the product roadmaps and investments for a hybrid multi-cloud footprint.Affinitiv builds and sells integrated SaaS solutions for automotive manufacturers and dealers.
  • Holland & Barrett
    Vice President Of Engineering, Head Of Chicago And India Offices
    Holland & Barrett Jan 2019 - Nov 2021
    Nuneaton, England, Gb
    Built and led engineering organizations in Chicago, London, and India for Holland & Barrett International. Responsible for the Catalog, Price, Promotions, and Search features of a bespoke multichannel commerce infrastructure.UK-based Holland & Barrett is one of the world’s leading health and wellness retailers and the largest in Europe (over 1,300 stores in 16 countries), supplying its customers with a wide range of vitamins, minerals, health supplements, specialist foods and natural beauty products.
  • Dell
    Executive Director, Dell Commerce Platform
    Dell 2014 - 2015
    Round Rock, Texas, Us
    Led the Dell Commerce Platform (DCP) team, a 500+ person heterogeneous and global organization, through a period of transformation and reorganization, innovating on the scratch-built global eCommerce Platform powering Dell.com and a variety of tools for a diverse portfolio of selling and support channels including consumer (Dell.com), Premier and B2B (partners, retail, channel), customer support, and inside sales. As well, managed the middleware and SOA infrastructure shared by business units throughout Dell (MQ Series, Oracle Service Bus, IBM Data Power, and more).
  • Sears Holdings
    Divisional Vice President, Commerce Services
    Sears Holdings 2012 - 2014
    Chicago, Il, Us
    Oversaw software development for a variety of services, including; competitive price and assortment monitoring, catalog content improvement, marketplace offer ranking and selection, and real-time inventory for fulfillment optimization and reliable promise. My teams applied big data, machine learning and distributed caching technologies and techniques for smart decision-making and fast synchronous services in commerce.Sears Holdings (SHLD) - No. 8 in 2012, No. 6 in 2013, and No. 5 in the 2014 US Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide. Brands and companies included; Sears, Kmart, Kenmore, Craftsman, DieHard, (formerly) Lands' End, Metascale, Jaclyn Smith, Joe Boxer, and ShopYourWay.
  • Rangespan (Acquired By Google)
    Chief Technology Officer (Cto)
    Rangespan (Acquired By Google) 2011 - 2012
    London, Not Available, Gb
    Assembled and managed the team responsible for development of a scratch-built SaaS catalog and order management system.Rangespan, founded in 2011 and acquired in 2014 by Google, was a London-based eCommerce startup operating a multi-retailer, multi-supplier transactional order management platform and a uniquely dynamic and scalable catalog system. Rangespan's clients included Argos, Tesco, eBuyer.com, ASDA, Maplin, and Staples.
  • Amazon.Co.Uk
    Senior Technical Architect, Webstore And Enterprise Services
    Amazon.Co.Uk 2009 - 2011
    Seattle, Wa, Us
    Assembled and led a team tasked with support and adoption of Webstore in Europe. Webstore was Amazon's turnkey eCommerce platform. As well, supported Amazon's EU and UK-based enterprise clients and partners including Marks & Spencer, Mothercare, and BT (BT Tradespace and BT Websites).
  • Amazon.Co.Uk
    Development Manager, Kindle And Enterprise Multichannel
    Amazon.Co.Uk 2006 - 2009
    Seattle, Wa, Us
    (Development Manager, Kindle and Digital Technology) Led the team that owns selling and fulfilling all Kindle content and devices. Played a critical role in many Kindle high-points including the expansion of the ebook catalog (from 70,000 titles to more than 400,000) and the launches of Kindle 2, Kindle DX, Kindle for iPhone, Kindle International, and Kindle for PC.(Development Manager, Enterprise Multichannel) Led the team of developers and program managers responsible for launch and operational support of Amazon's applications and services for retail, including a suite of AJAX-rich, hosted (SaaS), tools for in-store and phone ordering, web services for point-of-sale integration, as well as store delivery and store location services. Provided the services necessary for locker-delivery from Amazon.co.jp and Amazon.fr.
  • Amazon.Co.Uk
    Technical Program Manager, Enterprise Services
    Amazon.Co.Uk 2005 - 2006
    Seattle, Wa, Us
    Managed the fulfillment and reverse-logistics deliverables for integration with Amazon’s largest UK retail partner, Marks & Spencer, and the implementation of in-store and phone ordering for Mothercare. Managed the definition, development, and deployment of an enhanced version of Amazon's externally facing drop-ship messaging.
  • Publicis Sapient
    Senior Consultant, Partner
    Publicis Sapient 2000 - 2005
    Boston, Massachusetts, Us
    (previously Sailliant Consulting Group) Managed and coordinated the efforts of Saillant's content management and portal practices. Led, staffed and participated in several high-profile content and knowledge management projects for top-tier clients including: Cingular (AT&T Wireless), Intermountain Health Care (IHC), EAS, MediaNews Group Interactive (now, Digital First Media), Denver Newspaper Agency, Nokia, and:Qualcomm: Technical architect for the customer-facing components of Qualcomm's SecureMSM initiatives including the code-signing portal and tools for distribution of developer keys. Lead Java developer for the implementation of a Documentum extranet application that automated the personalized distribution of CDMA intellectual property and design materials. J.D. Edwards (later Peoplesoft and Oracle): Team lead, architect and developer for Knowledge Garden 2.0, a Vignette-based web, intranet and extranet content management application for content creation, transformation and aggregation, syndication, personalization, internationalization, workflow, and life-cycle automation. Knowledge Garden 2.0 served all J.D. Edwards web and extranet content.
  • Panasonic
    Senior Developer
    Panasonic 2000 - 2000
    Kadoma-Shi, Osaka, Jp
    (Previously, Zapotech, JDA Software, Blue Yonder) Software developer and technical lead for the community features of Ad Plan. Ad Plan was a portal integrating advertising and promotions planning, enabling collaborative budgeting, secondary research, media buying, merchandise content, and trade allowance tracking among a community of resellers, suppliers, advertising agencies, and media companies.
  • Centurylink
    Senior Developer
    Centurylink 1999 - 2000
    Monroe, La, Us
    (Previously Level 3) Software developer and technical lead for the marketing department, responsible for build-out of a Vignette-based content delivery platform that hosted Level 3's global marketing sites, tariffs, and promotional materials. Level 3 built and operated one of the largest global voice, transport and IP networks in the world, 19,600 miles of the world's first continuously upgradeable network.
  • Alliance Data
    Software Developer
    Alliance Data 1997 - 1999
    Columbus, Ohio, Us
    (Previously, Orcom Solutions and en.able, a KN Energy and PacifiCorp partnership) Helped to establish Orcom's Denver office. Software design, development, and support of Orcom Solutions' customer and billing services to the utility industry. At peak, the company employed about 400 people and generated more than 1 million utility billing statements per month.
  • Fourgen (Now Dematic, Previously H.K. Systems)
    Software Developer
    Fourgen (Now Dematic, Previously H.K. Systems) 1996 - 1997
    Atlanta, Georgia, Us
    Software development for accounting, warehouse and supply chain systems. Design and development of customizations for a GE Supply engagement. Fourgen supplied a comprehensive suite of software applications for wholesalers, retailers and manufacturers with distribution operations. Fourgen's CASE Tools were bundled with Informix-4GL.
  • Alliance Data
    Software Developer
    Alliance Data 1995 - 1996
    Columbus, Ohio, Us
    (Previously, Orcom Solutions) Software design and support for users of Orcom's utility services and billing solutions. Worked specifically for and with Orangeburg DPU (South Carolina), KN Energy (Colorado), and Cobb County EMC (Georgia).

Christian Ricci Education Details

  • University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Entrepreneurship And Global Studies
  • University Of Colorado Denver
    University Of Colorado Denver
    Computer Science (Mscs)
  • University Of Washington
    University Of Washington
    Electrical Engineering (Bsee)
  • University Of Colorado Boulder
    University Of Colorado Boulder
    Engineering Management

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