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Douglas Ferguson is listed as Chief Executive Officer at Voltage Control, based in Austin, Texas, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Douglas Ferguson.
Douglas Ferguson previously worked as President at Voltage Control and Advisor at Kungfu.Ai. Douglas Ferguson holds Math, Biology, Chemistry from Virginia Tech.
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Douglas is an entrepreneur and human-centered technologist with over 26 years of experience. He is president of Voltage Control, a facilitation academy that develops leaders through facilitation certifications, workshops, and events. He has helped transform leaders, innovators, and creatives from Nike, U.S. SOCOM, Google, the Air Force, Gap, Tesla, MSU, Church & Dwight, Apple, Adobe, Dropbox, Fidelity, Vrbo, Liberty Mutual, Humana, and SAIC.Prior to Voltage Control, Douglas held CTO positions at numerous Austin startups, where he led product and engineering teams using agile, lean, and human-centered design principles. While CTO at Twyla, Douglas worked directly with Google Ventures running Design Sprints, and now brings this experience and process to companies everywhere.Douglas is currently active in the Austin startup community, where he serves on the board of several non-profits, mentors startups, and advises early-stage ventures.Douglas is a thought leader and often writes and talks about facilitation, leadership, collaboration, innovation, culture, meetings, and Design Sprints. He is also the author of four books: Magical Meetings, Beyond the Prototype, How to Remix Anything, and Start Within, He has been published in Forbes, Fast Company, Innovation Leader, and is a regular contributor to The Future Shapers. He publishes a weekly podcast called Facilitation Lab.When not facilitating or coaching facilitators, you might find Douglas patching up his Modular Synth, boxing, doing pilates, and taking photographs. He graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
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20 roles · 29 years
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President
CurrentVoltage Control is a facilitation academy that develops leaders through certifications, workshops, and organizational coaching focused on facilitation mastery, innovation, and play. Today's leaders are confronted with unprecedented uncertainty and complex change. Navigating this uncertainty requires a systemic facilitative approach to gain clarity and.
Jun 2017 - Present
Advisor
Current
Jun 2017 - Present
Partner
Current
Jul 2017 - Present
Mentor
Current
Aug 2017 - Present
Founding Venture Partner
Current
Aug 2015 - Present
Oct 2003 - Present
Member Of The Board, Strategy Committee Chair
Jan 2014 - Jan 2023
Advisor
May 2017 - May 2022
Advisor
Apr 2018 - Feb 2022
Member Of The Board
Health Code
Jan 2014 - Oct 2021
Advisor
Dec 2014 - Jun 2018
Cto
Jul 2015 - Jun 2017
Cto
Famigo, Inc
- Led overall technology vision and strategy for Famigo, a disruptive SaaS platform for mobile devices at school and in the home.
- Defined product roadmap with emphasis on customer experience & revenue growth
- Managed projects & technical relationships with high value customers & partners (AT&T, Samsung, HTC, ZTE, etc)
- Conducted customer research/discovery to validate market and completive analysis
- Conducted rigorous technology audit and ROI calculations resulting in the discovery and correction of numerous security vulnerabilities, unnecessary expense, and costly tech debt.
- Operated a 100% cloud-based IT infrastructure that supported a growing global customer base through just-in-time scaling and provisioning of various infrastructure, platform, and application services.
Jan 2013 - Aug 2015
Development Manager & Software Architect
- Drove a significant technology refactor by identifying fundamentally unmaintainable designs and establishing a transition plan to reduce complexity and bring project back on schedule
- Introduced new technology platforms to streamline development and business process
- Transformed a struggling agile team into highly effective predictable organization
- Automated multiple areas including continuous-integration builds, fully automated nightly build and deploys, scalability and performance testing, and automated unit tests.
- Architected prototype for eventual productized version of health care solutions
- Addressed security vulnerabilities by implemented HIPAA compliant cloud based SaaS architecture
Jul 2011 - Jan 2013
Cto
Buzzstream
- Directed and managed all development efforts for BuzzStream, a SaaS offering for marketing professionals.
- Defined company-wide software development process with focus on lean startup and agile methodologies - selected, installed, and integrated appropriate tools for revision control, build automation, unit testing, and.
- Mentored staff and performed code reviews to ensure conformance with coding standards and best practices.
- Brought in to deliver a v1 product that was drastically behind schedule, had major defects, no test cases and no deployment processes. Delivered the v1 release ahead of schedule and, over time, put systems in place.
- Established a team culture that focused on error prevention and flawless execution to ensure the predictable delivery of high-quality products, including instituting the first unit test plan and mandating a high bar.
- Analyzed requirements and drove the redesign and implementation of the new application platform and production deployment, in order to scale to meet the rapidly increasing demands of a steady growth startup.
Jul 2008 - Jul 2011
Chief Technologist
- Directed the creation of technical requirements and corporate use cases.
- Constructed a detailed technology rollout plan, which prioritized strategic components of system.
- Researched, designed, and managed all technical systems; including data, digital voice and multi-media network for: financial, merchandising, POS, inventory, ticketing, cashless gaming, web, ecommerce, development, and.
- Planned and managed all information infrastructure projects including integrations between vendors, proprietary vendor modifications, migrations, and custom software development.
- Designed solutions, wrote technical specifications, and consulted on multimedia exhibits, automated theatres, interactive kiosks, and website.
Oct 2006 - Aug 2008
Senior Software Engineer
- Developed and implemented technologies to enable disciplined software development processes, including source code control,...
- Trained team members on new technologies and development best practices.
- Evaluated, selected and configured all tools used by web development team for source control, integrated development, continuous integration and unit testing.
2005 - 2006
~1 yr
Senior Software Engineer
Coremetrics
- Designed, developed, tested and deployed multiple mission critical applications for Fortune 500 companies.
- Selected by management to work directly with a key client to identify solutions to problems that were too complex for the client services team. The at-risk client expected a resolution within 5 business days. In each.
- Established a reputation for locating causes of data discrepancies in the Coremetrics 14 terabyte Oracle data warehouse.
- Developed a JAVA API to encourage code reuse and to streamline implementations.
Apr 2000 - Jun 2005
Qa Automation Engineer
Koz.Com
1997 - 1999
~2 yrs
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Douglas Ferguson education
Math, Biology, Chemistry
Virginia Tech
Associates, Recording & Production
Recording And Radio Connection - Osceloa Recording Studios
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Halifax County High School
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Douglas Ferguson works for Voltage Control.
What is Douglas Ferguson's role at Voltage Control?
Douglas Ferguson is listed as Chief Executive Officer at Voltage Control.
Where is Douglas Ferguson based?
Douglas Ferguson is based in Austin, Texas, United States while working with Voltage Control.
What companies has Douglas Ferguson worked for?
Douglas Ferguson has worked for Voltage Control, Kungfu.Ai, Capital Factory, Techstars, and Nextgen Angels.
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Douglas Ferguson holds Math, Biology, Chemistry from Virginia Tech.
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