David Wolfe Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Product Strategy, Growth, Software Development, Analytics consultancy

Jackson, Wyoming, Us

Leveraging advances in computational advertising, I spend most of my time focusing on marketplace design (matching & auctions), machine learning, reinforcement learning, and very large data sets. Objective: connect the right ad to the right person in the right context at the right time.

New York, Us

My focus: helping make Goldbellly the largest online food marketplace ever. Period.

Focus: Product, Growth, & Strategy- Served as CEO through and post MVP and early stage growth- quadrupled the size of the subscriber base- increased CLV by 200%- secured over $1M in angel investment- developed the financial model & operating plan- launched Screambox with Amazon Video Subscriptions- released the Screambox Sony PS3, PS4 apps

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

New York, Us

Brightwire provides financial information services to hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, and other institutions that require real time access to emerging market, industry, and corporate information. Key investors include Matrix Partners and Mark Gerson (Co-Founder of GLG).David's role was to build the online portion of the business. His primary responsibilities included creating and driving the operating plan for the online business, managing online customer acquisition and retention, defining and implementing customer facing web and mobile experiences, and leveraging natural language processing technology to evolve BrightWire's technology platform to identify and summarize market behavior information emerging on the deep web.

New York, Ny, Us

o BuyWithMe was a social commerce provider with a mission to connect consumers with local merchants through the delivery of online services where consumers could discover interesting local merchants and get great deals from them. Matrix Partners and Bain Venture Capital were key investors in the organizationo David’s role was to manage the product development, production, and operations parts of the BuyWithMe organization, define overall product strategy, develop the operating plan, and drive the performance of the organization against key performance indicators.o David was hired to build the product development and marketing organizations and drive the development of BuyWithMe’s product offerings as well as its customer marketing and life-cycle management optimization strategy. Some of his accomplishments include• Built the engineering, user experience, business intelligence and product management organizations from scratch• Re-structured the marketing organization around the channel portfolio construct.• Rebuilt the web-site and re-defined the core consumer experience by injecting real social contexts into the deal discovery and purchases processes• Defined the companies go forward mobile product strategy and delivered its first IPhone application• Defined the company KPI set across consumers, deal performance, merchants, and key operational metrics• Was a key member of the team that raised 16 million dollars in venture capital in 2010.• Sold BuyWithMe to Gilt in 2011

London, Gb

• Member of the executive team responsible for product strategy & implementation, business operations, and business intelligence• Responsible for top 10 social network, BlackPlanet.com• Responsible for multiple content verticals including “Urban Daily”, “Hello Beautiful”, “NewsOne”• Responsible for 52 local radio station websites• Defined roadmap and traffic plan across all web properties• Managed team of 75• Reorganized product and technology organization into cross-functional teams that delivered products in an iterative, feedback driven fashion• Redefined production process supporting multiple marquis branded advertisers• Implemented re-design of social network platform including the implementation of the OpenSocial specification• Implemented a portfolio approach to product management where individual product teams where mapped to different parts of the product portfolio• Brought Quality Assurance in house• Reduced dependency on external development firms• Built Ad Products team to serve as bridge between Sales organization and Product organization

• Member of executive team responsible for selling Napster to BestBuy for 121 million dollars in 2008• Co-responsible with COO for defining and articulating product strategy and roadmap• Responsible for technology & platform strategy and roadmap• Managed a team of 65 including product design, application development, database administration, and systems/network administration• Transitioned product development team from a command-control, waterfall, & highly functionalized entity into a collaboration-leadership, lean/agile, cross-functional organization• Results included; increased focus on valuation and prioritization, 2 week dev cycles across 8 teams, and 4 quantitative measures per team to evaluate performance• Transitioned database team of 7 from New York to Los Angeles• Moved engineering organization from being component based to being feature based

Us

• Member of executive team• Responsible for defining and articulating product/technology strategy and roadmap• Managed a team of 65• Product and Technology initiatives were primarily responsible for moving the company from 4 million $ in revenue in 2004 to over 50 million $ in revenue in 2007.• Defined core consumer experience, media-partner APIs and tools, and email product and communications strategy• Created semi-autonomous cross-functional groups with responsibility for delivering new product initiatives on a 4-8 week release schedule• Significantly improved morale and productivity in the product management and web design group after assuming responsibility for their oversight• Implemented user centered design and frequent usability testing• Implemented an effective portfolio management process for identifying and prioritizing high value, low risk initiatives, ensuring portfolio diversification, and mapping product initiatives to strategic objectives• Defined a product consideration cycle to fold competitive analysis and business case development into the consideration, choice, and commitment cycle• Key player in the acquisition of Good Contacts Software• Directly involved in the rebranding of Reunion.com to MyLife.com• Integrated User Experience team effectively with the engineering team• Instituted software development best practices including design & code reviews, pair programming, continuous integration, more formal modeling practices, and formal build management and release processes• Rebuilt data-center and its topology• Build high performance in memory search web-service. Provided sub 250 millisecond search results to MSN, Yahoo, Lycos, USSearch, PeopleFinders and others• Designed and implemented a highly personalized email engine allowing for the delivery of over 150 million emails weekly

Irvine, Ca, Us

- Taught working professionals and graduate students various J2EE and Java related technologies.- Consistently rated between good and excellent in all evaluated areas by students.

New York, Ny, Us

- Designed and was responsible for the implementation of a high-volume consumer facing web application, Entertainment.com, for discovering discounts using location and categorically based searches.- Architecture involved complex caching and geo-spatial techniques.- Responsible for analysis, design, and implementation.- Managed a small team of engineers.- J2EE/Oracle including web-services interface to multiple providers.

Us

- Responsible for the conceptual definition, design, and implementation of a web-based expert system used by investment banks for M&A activity, a digital equipment corporation for complex sales process, & law enforcement groups.- Designed and built the inference engine, the expert system design tool, and the expert system client interface- Managed 2 groups of 5 engineers, 2 quality assurance engineers, and 2 database engineers/administrators- Responsible for all project planning and tracking activities.- Defined and tracked quantitative metrics to assess software quality.- Implemented pair-programming, continuous integration, & unit-testing practices. Lead to on-time delivery and a less than 3% logical defect rate in released software.- Worked with CTO to define and plan product and technology roadmap.- Interfaced with CEO and CTO to discuss scope vs. time to implement trade offs.- J2EE (including EJBs and JMS)/Oracle

- Responsible for the design, development, and release of all consumer and enterprise application development.- Managed a team of 32.- Designed the Enterprise Knowledge Management Platform which allowed TheBrain’s patented semantic net interface to map to complex, heterogeneous datasets. (used by GE, Prudential, Ford, Netian, Department of Defense and others).- Transitioned the engineering team from a staff of 4 to 32.- Built a professional services team and worked with the CTO to hire a PSO manager.- Established interfaces between enterprise sales and development.- Created cross-functional groups with requirements definition responsibility.- Established the LAJUG user discussion group as a vehicle for engineer professional development and as an opportunity for recruitment.- Build a componentized architecture for distributing software to clients and easing integration pain.- Established project management practices.