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• 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.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• 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.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• 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.

San Bruno, California, US

• 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.

Los Angeles, California, US

• 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.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• 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.

Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, US

• 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.

Culver City, CA, US

• 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.

Kansas City, Missouri, US

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Mclean, VA, US

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.

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.

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.

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.

San Francisco, CA, US

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.

Bs, Computer Science And Computer Engineering

High School Degree, Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program