• CTO for a LegalTech company.• Developed legal and technology AI features using OpenAI and Python• Lead an outsourced development team to build and launch the company's initial suite of products in ReactJS, NodeJS, and PostgreSQL.• Lead the design of the User Experience and manage the development of the product.• Manage the DevOps for the platform with AWS, RDS, and Docker.

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• CTO and first engineer on board. Led technical design while building the initial team.• Led Product efforts and designed the User Experience.• Sourced executive and development talent to build the internal team and consulting roster for clients.• Designed and coded using Heroku, NodeJS, and MySQL to run APIs and applications integrating with the Slack API to automate community development, booking time, and billing.

• Scaled the largest SEC-regulated equity crowdfunding platform in the United States• Doubled development’s release velocity within 6 months through new hires, cross-functional team collaboration, process improvement, and product management improvement.• Ran and rebuilt the product management department.• Used ReactJS, NodeJS, AWS, and MongoDB to launch the only legal way to buy company equity with Bitcoin through an escrow API integration with PrimeTrust.• Developed smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain using AWS Lambda, JavaScript, and Solidity to track equity ownership in companies.• Used ReactJS, NodeJS, MongoDB, and AWS to design and build one of the first trading systems for crowdfunded equity.• Supported $5M fundraise. StartEngine went on to raise over $60M.

• Triaged hostile development resource.• Used AWS, LAMP, Bootstrap, and proprietary data feeds to reset the technology platform• Built an outsourced development team (5 people in Morocco) from scratch• Stabilized data analytics platform in a 1-year period to become a leading entertainment analytics provider• Trained local business team to manage and work with remote developer resources• Enabled new feature development and traffic growth when both were not previously possible.

• Used Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, ReactJS, PostgreSQL, and WebGL (3d/VR) to architect and build the company’s flagship MVP (RoomEditor) in 8 months.• Assembled and led a highly skilled and dynamic cross-functional team of developers (8), designers (3), and high-end technologists (4). Used local and remote resources (India, Hawaii, Southern California).• Leveraged 3 DevOps and Technology teams in India and California to deliver historic one-off projects to meet aggressive deadlines for the Design Synthesis Application.

• Built, trained, and managed development teams for over 10 startups, small- to mid-sized businesses, and large-scale enterprises.• Launched, scaled, or triaged companies by architecting, building, and managing technology teams and products.

• Resolved major performance issues in AWS, iOS/Android applications, and a proprietary Android Media Player to enable the business to add more clients.• Restructured the entire development team (3 people in Los Angeles) from scratch.• Used AWS, ReactJS, MySQL, and HTML5 to rebuild the entire platform to address major performance and scalability issues in 6 months.• Redefined music processing processes and standards to streamline new song and playlist production.• Developed the first open-source based HTML5 music streaming engine for legal, streamed music for business.• Enabled the company's next round of funding for $8.5M.

• Sourced local technology architects, developers, UX designers, and project management team members to design, build, and manage the company's flagship product.• Worked with the development team to build and iterate the MVP several times.• Launched in early 2014.• Since launch, the company received two rounds of funding for $15M.• Stack: AWS, LAMP, and Google Apps.

• Conducted a comprehensive technical audit to uncover and document technical debt in a private Data Center with Virtualized Windows Servers running Microsoft.NET and SQL Server 2005/2008 applications.• Developed a year-long technology roadmap to address significant technical debt.• Resolved outages and moved technology out of emergency mode.• Developed and deployed significant people-, process-, and technology- related improvements to restart new product development.• Managed development and data teams (6 people in Anaheim), including team members (and areas of the product) that required security clearance.

• Sourced a local development shop to build the MVP.• Worked with the development shop to build and iterate the MVP several times.• Built the internal development team and transitioned technical development and management from the development shop, iterating the product several times during the process.• Launched in early 2014, targeting SXSW 2014 as a major opportunity.• Stack: AWS, LAMP, and Bootstrap.

• Joined with the co-founders to source a world-class CTO.• Worked with the CTO to build the development team (of 8 at the time).• Oversaw the company's people, processes, and technology to make sure everything was running according to plan (or better).Stack: AWS, MEAN, PostgreSQL, Python, and Bootstrap.

• Used AWS, Microsoft.NET, MySQL, and MVC.NET 4 to rebuild the entire product with third-party developers (7 people in Los Angeles and Belarus) to build the new platform in 4 months.• Original prototype supported 10 cities (clients).• One year later, after Sales was enabled, the platform supported over 120 cities nationwide (1,200% improvement).• Supported $4M funding raise and oversaw the technical acquisition of VoterTide.com. By year 3, 600 cities across the United States, including 8 of the top 10 cities by size, used the service (500% improvement).

• Used AWS, Microsoft.NET, MySQL, and MVC.NET 4 to rebuild the entire product team because the original prototype never launched.• Sourced an entirely new outsourced team (7 people in Los Angeles and Belarus).• Leveraged third-party developers to build the new platform in 4 months.• After launch, over 6,000 companies offered internships to over 18,000 students.• In the next year, over 15,000 companies (250% improvement) offered internships to over 75,000 students (>400% improvement).

John founded the company with two partners and worked with the CEO to raise the company’s angel round of equity financing ($1MM) and first institutional round of equity financing ($4.5MM).Mota was selected as one of Business Week's "Most Promising Startups" for 2009. Mota was also chosen as a Tech Crunch 50 Finalist for 2009.Mota Motors provides a new and better way to sell or buy a car online. Mota’s automotive market network provides a one-click, instant access to the largest used car marketplaces. Mota’s groundbreaking technology makes transactions faster and more profitable by generating real-time market data that delivers fine-tuned pricing and optimized advertising. As CTO, John designed and architected several large-footprint, highly scalable components to enable the Mota platform. The platform is comprised of the following components:• Marketplace management tools to integrate with Pep Boys, eBay Motors, cars.com, AutoTrader, GoogleBase, craigslist, oodle, Vast, AOL autos, and more. Integration was in both directions: for populating each of these services with vehicle data and for pulling dynamic updates from these services• Pricing tools that scoured the Web for dynamic, real-time automotive pricing. Proprietary algorithms enable greater accuracy than exists in the competitive landscape• Robust and modular seller and buyer experiences that enable rapid redesign and release to optimize customer throughput and sales• Data transformation and translation tools to maintain data integrity and enable third-party integrations• Custom functionality like CARFAX vehicle history reports, third-party inspections, shopping cart functionality, extended warranties and financing, and moreJohn led a team of over 10 engineers, developers, product managers, project managers, information architects, designers, copyeditors, and administrative staff.

At Hilton, John led the effort to re-architect Hilton’s Intranet and Extranet systems. The new system, HiltonNet, supports several thousand corporate users and tens of thousands of hotel owners and employees. John designed the technical architecture, successfully project managed a cross-functional team and external resources, assisted programmers with development tasks, and fixed architecture-level bugs in third-party software. As of January 2009 Hilton brands encompass 3,200 hotels with 545,000 rooms in 77 countries. Hilton is ranked as the 36th largest private company in the United States by Forbes. The company owns, manages or franchises a portfolio of brands, including Hilton Hotels, Conrad Hotels, Doubletree, Embassy Suites Hotels, Hampton Inn, Hampton Inn & Suites, Hilton Garden Inn, Hilton Grand Vacations Company, Homewood Suites by Hilton, Home2 Suites by Hilton and The Waldorf-Astoria Collection.John was also the technical architect for a pilot program of Hilton’s Customer Relationship Management and Data Integration strategy. His primary responsibility was to architect a solution for Hilton’s Quality Assurance and Guest Assistance business units.

John founded the company with four partners and worked with the CEO to raise the company’s angel round of equity financing ($2MM) and first institutional round of equity financing ($10.5MM).Bigstep.com provided tools and services to enable small business owners to create and manage a Web site, market their business online, sell products with secure ecommerce, promote events, display a portfolio, send email newsletters, and more. Bigstep was acquired and is now a Hostway company, combining forces with a world leader in Web hosting to offer the widest selection of industry leading online services. With over 600,000 customers across the globe and serving more than 2 million Web sites, presence in 11 countries and over 750 employees, Hostway is in the top of its class. Hostway offers numerous services including Domain Name Registration, eCommerce Hosting, Search Engine Optimization, or Online Backup, and more.John designed a fundamental and scalable information architecture, interaction design and visual design systems to support 300,000 customers and 50+ co-branded partner including AOL Time Warner, Compaq, NBCi, and Office Depot. To accomplish this feat, John hired and managed a team of 15+ people, including engineers, information architects, designers, Web developers, usability analysts, editors and writers. After launch, Bigstep.com went on to win the majority of awards available for customer satisfaction and quality of service offering in on-line small-business industry. Post-launch, John drove the creation and implementation of company-wide processes to optimize development efforts moving forward.

Construct was a boutique Internet design agency with a focus on seamlessly combining visual aesthetics with technical wizardry. John's worked focused on advanced user interfaces for clients such as Bigbook, Microsoft, Netscape, NTT, and Silicon Graphics, among others. John's core work focused on integrating VRML environments with back-end computing platforms (Java, PERL, HTML).John developed Stratus, an online 3d art gallery, where visitors could upload their own artworks into their own customized, 3d galleries. John also participated in the Nerve Garden for SIGGRAPH 1996. The Nerve Garden is a biologically-inspired multi-user collaborative 3D virtual world designed to provide a compelling experience of a virtual terrarium which exhibits properties of growth, decay and energy transfer reminiscent of a simple ecosystem.

John rebuilt the GeoCities site from top to bottom in order to support over one million (1M+) members and optimize revenue for the company. At the time, GeoCities was the fourth largest site on the Internet. John introduced a simple Content Management System to the production team that enabled them to standardize and accelerate the development and launch of new neighborhoods (the primary mechanism for users to sign up and start generating content). In addition, GeoCities was unable to monetize most of its users' content. To enable monetization, John invented pop-up ads and increased GeoCities' ad inventory by over 10,000%. Months later, countless sites were launching pop-up ads to generate revenue. Less than two years later, GeoCities was purchased by Yahoo for over $3 billion dollars.

John was a founding member of Wired Digital’s engineering team (aka HotWired). HotWired was the first commercial web magazine, launched on October 27, 1994. At HotWired, John created some of the first instances of dynamic content on the Web - from threaded discussion forums to dynamically generated homepages with rotating content. In addition, John pioneered one of the first instances of personalization on the Web by developing a system which presented content based on a reader's preferences and past reading activity. John's final project was Adrenaline - an interactive database of play spots with a map-based graphical interface. Real-time surf data, climbing data and locations (latitude/longitude), ultimate teams, mountain bike trails, and rafting locations were mapped and posted to the dynamic, real-time interface.