Richard J. Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Not quite ready to shout from the rooftops, but it's time to start letting folks know what we've been working on for the last several months. For those of you who have worked with me before or are eager to do so in the future, feel free to reach out directly. Otherwise watch this space. We are on a mission, a real mission that I think everyone will find.

London, GB

Key advisor to ad-tech startup Lolly as it emerges from stealth mode and starts the process of delivering its MVP. Building out the software engineering team, product roadmap and processes. Fractional CTO.

San Francisco, CA, US

Re-architected & refactored a jumbled codebase and data models not fit-for-purpose:- implemented solid code design and engineering best practices- modularized code- reduced excessive coupling- enforced code boundaries- optimized database normalization/denormalization- markedly improved overall performance- closed glaring security holes- moved off an.

Los Angeles, CA, US

Joined pre-lauch as head of engineering for bankruptcy claims trading platform Xclaim. Built platform that grew $0-100million GMV in the first year- Led the engineering team- Designed & architected the platform and applicationsManaged two full-stack teams- managed two team leads each with multiple direct reports- built a learning culture- mentored and.

Culver City, CA, US

Led software engineering for SnackNation.Re-architected the technology into a scalable platform & applications architecture - Inherited a messy legacy system hitting serious performance issues and delivery challenges- Reduced latency on internal badly-architected micro-services setup from 30+ seconds to < half a second- Remodeled inventory system- Built.

Let Voy as founding President & CTO, a stealth-mode travel rewards startup spun out of regional airline Surf Air (IPO 2023).Rapidly built a high-quality engineering team of a dozen engineers and contractors.- Built team of 12 with two leads, front end and back end, in six weeks from kickoff- Delivered MVP of rewards platform- Ruby/Rails and React- Led.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Recruited to join small team as just the third engineer, pre-launch in a hot startup founded by two Silicon Valley legends.- Ruby, Rails, React- Designed, built out and managed APIs both internal and third-party.- Built integrations to AT&T Legacy systems and with Shopfiy- Scaled the platform as the company grew to a thousand people & 8-figure revenues

San Franciso, CA, US

Joined Ycombinator darling Teespring as a Full Stack Software Engineer, as it was starting and then going through its hyper growth period (double digits percent per month growth at tens of millions of dollars per month run-rate).- Built both back end and front end features.- Ruby, Rails, Angular- Built out graph database-based system to track tee-shirts in.

Contract roles with a number of startups and established businesses, primarily in Ruby (and Rails). Developed Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) for prospective startups, including:- Built neo4j based graph database for evaluation of complex data sets, for prediction and diagnosis of medical conditions (evaluated other graph databases including Titan on.

Los Gatos, California, US

Active member of the advisory board to ad-tech start-up AdSemble, an online marketplace matching Digital Out Of Home signage networks (DOOHs) with ad buyers who need access to highly localized inventory.

Co-founder of AppWhirl, later renamed App.Co, which was founded on the simple premise of 'make your own app free, in about five minutes'.- Led product development and launch at DEMO 2010- Took over as software development lead after technical co-founder departed, returning to coding full-time.

Stiki Digital Promotions enabled large brands to give away video games and other digital content as promotional gifts and point of sales rewards.- Raised VC funding for startup from A-list venture investors- Led Product Management- Led Marketing & Sales

GB

Built a system for delivering video and sold it to IncaGold shortly after their IPO. Shifted to the COO position of the acquirer and sat on the board of the public company.- Product management- Strategy & business development- Worked with the board & CEO on restructuring following collapse of discount boxed games retail market- Implemented oversight.

US

- Spent brief 6 month stint at helm of Business Development function for this start-up in a crowded space (similar business model to previous Aligo & Xora)- Built relationships with key strategic partners.

San Francisco, California, US

- Led product design to fit new product to channel- Built channels for ultimately unsuccessful startup- Initial sales efforts

Mendota Heights, MN, US

Took Xora GPS TimeTrack to market and from zero sales to market lead inside 6 months, with over 50% market share.- Created the specs for this new product (Xora was originally a middleware platform) for a small engineering tiger team to build, and it was so successful that the entire company pivoted to this one product- Built sales channels by creating.

Co-founded and ran White Rose Entrepreneurship Program which brought UK undergraduates in STEM disciplines and placed them in summer internship roles with a number of startups, supported by various VC firms.

- Marketing, communications, PR- Product management- Technical white papers

- Trying to be Dropbox almost a decade before Dropbox, during the dotcom years- My First Silicon Valley Startup, started initially in London- Real Business magazine “Entrepreneur of the Month” July 1999- Product management, sales & marketing- Business planning, financials, investor pitches

Houston, Texas, US

- First management role, built and led technical team that eventually grew to over 40 people- Ran IT support for 26,000 desktops in Europe & Africa- Nominated for Chairman's Award for Performance- Improved first line fix rate from 17% to 70% in six months- Delivered cost savings of $8-10million per year

Supported self during university and afterwards with miscellaneous short termIT contracts including:- Built first multi-lingual website for Brent Regeneration Agency- eCommerce site for London-based travel agency- IT & Networking for private hospital in London*dates overlap with degree study

- First job out of university, working in MBNA as it started up its European operations- Gained great experience working with an outstanding team of professionals and mentors.

Bsc. (Hons.), Physics

Education record