Co-founded and developed all aspects of company and its proprietary e-commerce services suite. Defined and implemented processes and operations for sales, service, logistics, merchandisers, advertising, marketing, financing, accounting, data analysis, and business development teams. Built, directed, and retained team of 150+ despite competitive recruiting tactics during booming dot-com era.✔ Raised $300M+ presenting the company’s technology vision as founding employee and lead engineer; grew organization to ~1,000 employees and contractors servicing millions of customers. ✔ Closed $120M+ in investment from Paul Allen/Microsoft/Vulcan Ventures and Fred Smith/FedEx.✔ Executed $180M IPO after passing a comprehensive audit of company’s systems and infrastructure, which was much more stringent and thorough due to level of custom logistics and technology found in a new internet frontier.✔ Orchestrated development of ground-breaking ERP and e-commerce systems that processed $2.5M+ in daily sales, managed 4 million products, and handled accounting and fulfillment with 1,000+ manufacturers and distributors.✔ Provisioned and maintained $18M data center buildout at time when hosting services did not exist.✔ Solidified partnerships with high-profile enterprises such as Yahoo, Intel, Citibank, Visa, IBM, HP, FedEx, and many more via holding strategic meetings and acting as an advisor to high-level executives within those organizations.✔ Drove strategy and initiatives to enable international business expansion; implemented technology and processes to enable multilingual and multicultural functionality, handle complex tariffs, and manage country-specific product and shipping restrictions.✔ Built technology team that met all requirements well ahead of schedule with 30% less resources than budgeted despite increased demands of hyper-growth and dynamic e-commerce environment.