Managing Partner
Shortbar
Fed up with startup life, I started a consulting group with 3 other guys. I acted as the engineering manager and client-facing partner, managing a full-remote team of between 1 and 4 people. We worked together for 3.5 years, doing operations-focused technology consulting. Our largest project was HOLMS, the "Hotel Operations and Lodging Management System". The project ran--and continues to run--a multi-property hotel chain with ~800 rooms and $XX million revenue/year, with a vast feature scope spanning room supply control (price and quantity), card processing, folios (tax and fee compliance, accounting system integration), groups (e.g. weddings), operations (housekeeping, room assignment), basic CRM, role-based access control, and CQRS/event sourcing-based change control. The client-facing booking app (a small but important piece of the overall system) is visible at https://www.columbusmotorinn.com/Though this work will never make the front page of TechCrunch, it is a secure, high-reliability, fit-to-purpose system deployed in April, 2018. I wouldn't be surprised if it's still in use in 2035. As much as I loved being an indie filmmaker, I felt my true calling was high-budget, envelope-pushing Hollywood blockbusters, so I went back to Silicon Valley, in autonomous robots.