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New York, NY, US

Revolutionizing virtual staffing for solopreneurs and boostrapped startups with AI-powered teams

Colima, Colima, MX

Merged Kickass Partners' consulting business and MagmaLabs in January 2020 with the objective of creating Latin America's most powerful web design and development agency. My new role at Magma is Director and Chief Consultant, with availability for limited consulting engagements, primarily in part-time CTO roles.

New York, New York, US

My passion and creative ideas fueled the startup success of Andela in myriad ways, but my proudest accomplishment has been to mastermind the educational approach currently used by Andela to train our world-class software developers. Before my arrival, Andela was training young Africans to work lowest-common denominator, commoditized coding jobs via Odesk.

New York, New York, US

Andela is a global talent accelerator that produces world-class developers and connects them with top employers. As CTO I am in charge of our Recruiting, Training and Technology departments, in addition to lending my lifetime expertise as a world-class professional consultant to the rest of the company and the executive team.Over the course of nine months.

US

Planning and recruitment of authors for technical titles for the series. Represent and market the series online and at public speaking engagements. Mentor and assist series writers.

Let The Music Pay is the parent company of RCRDSHP. RCRDSHP is a curated digital collectibles platform, built by and for the electronic music industry, and validated by technologies like the blockchain and non-fungible tokens. Most other platforms are based on auctions or fixed-price sales, but RCRDSHP surprises and delights by curating and dropping.

I am a change agent available for short and long-term consulting contracts providing CTO-level advice, solutions architecture, mentoring, and other forms of technology-driven leadership. My boutique agency, called Kickass Consulting, consists of myself and a handful of experts in UX, Ops and Project Management/QA. As a group, we specialize in helping.

New York, NY, US

Joined Lean Startup Machine as Chief Technical Officer and Co-founder after 2 years as advisor. During my tenure, the CEO Trevor Owens and I got LSM accepted into the prestigious Techstars NYC accelerator program, pivoted and rebranded the company to focus on software products as Javelin, and co-authored an acclaimed book about applying Lean Startup.

We make DueProps, a web and mobile platform for business that uses game mechanics to foster great employee performance and increase retention, at half the cost of traditional incentive compensation programs. Our RightBonus feature turns peer recognition data into the basis for fair and transparent bonus pool distribution.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Provide technical and business guidance.

Jacksonville Beach, FL, US

Serving as Advisor to the executive team as I remain very interested in the ongoing success of Hashrocket.

Jacksonville Beach, FL, US

Executive manager of the best web design and development company in the world. You may hire me for personal consulting subject to very limited availability.

Alexandria, VA, US

I am responsible for creating, planning and executing quality local learning events that provide chapter members with the tools to grow in both their business and personal lives.

Chicago, IL, US

Built-up the world's leading Ruby consulting practice, with fifty-plus consultants and a dozen billable Ruby projects representing millions of dollars in revenue for 2006, from scratch, while fighting to topple the very strong Java/.NET status quo.Travel the world helping ThoughtWorks clients deliver high-risk, high-rewards projects using agile.

New York, NY, US

Designed and implemented most of MediaOcean's client software. Inventor of their unique browser architecture, which leverages Java Plugin applets and DHTML for a rich client user experience and rapid application development.

US

My responsibilities include architectural advice and support of teams leveraging Silverstream's application server software.

Custom software development, primarily using Perl and Java-based technology.

US

Programming and development of custom software implementations using diverse technologies such as Powerbuilder, Microsoft Visual Basic, Forte and Java.