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Houston, Texas, Us

Consulting (aka "Fractional") Chief Technology Officer reporting to CEO. Roll involves working with all functional groups within the company with a focus on software and controller development. Viking Cold Solutions provides a unique, patented, industry leading Thermal Energy Storage solution that provides energy savings, energy load shifting, resilience, reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and other cold storage use cases.I work 50% of a full-time roll leaving capacity to take on other consulting technologist roles. I've been serving as a fractional CTO for roughly 4 years, in addition to holding full-time roles throughout the last 25 years where I have also held Chief Architect, Chief Privacy and Security Officer,SVP of Technology and other exciting and challenging roles.I work remote from the Greater Boston area. Viking Cold's headquarters are in Houston Texas. I am open for more consulting roles where my unique creativity and history of development excellence deliver value can provide significant value. Whether for a one day speaking engagement, ongoing leadership, personnel mentorship, team building, legal/compliance/IP protection strategy, conflict resolution, due diligence and support for obtaining financing, corporate strategy, and even software architecture or writing code. Specialties include convergence of emerging technologies with high value use cases, cloud, embedded, robotics, edge, mobile, desktop, microprocessor-based, and other exciting and challenging products. Many decades of proven results with best selling, award winning, high customer satisfaction software and systems.

Boca Raton, Florida, Us

Helped CEO to refine software development strategy, team composition, strategic business development, and assistance with technical due diligence for partners, customers, board of directors, and similar.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

I have been using California-based Waverley Software to provide Ukraine-based developers for over 6 years. In this time period I joined the company as their CTO helping to create strategy, find solutions for clients, provided substantial support in launching new regional offices such as South American practice, and developing the role of fractional CTO to offer our clients.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Joined marketing domain experts in this early stage startup as first full time engineering hire.

Boston, Ma, Us

My job evolved with the needs of startup Jibo. I was the company's seventh employee when I joined as Software Architect for Server/Cloud. During crowd funding and prototyping phase I wrote code wherever needed including embedded C++ code on the robot. Became Head of Server where I ran server development, DevOps and IT. My team and I selected AWS, Docker/Container Services, Microservices architecture in node.js as foundation of server APIs. I led the design of the security posture in collaboration with robot platform team.

Needham, Massachusetts, Us

At Turbine, a division of Warner Brothers, I worked as a contractor on a Node.js system for exposing an API for big data consumption by the game, web pages and partner web sites. We used CoffeeScript. Additionally I have had to use my C++ experience to debug and fix modules provided by third-party vendors.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

As Chief Architect I implemented a vision for our software platform that met customer requirements to deliver exceptional value. Had to deliver rapid iterations to close funding and early customers. I was at the company when there were under 10 employees and helped fuel the growth past 50. Affectiva is a fast paced, successful startup with excellent leadership allowing me to work on exciting disruptive technology. Code was written in Grails/Groovy/Java and Python.

Foxboro, Ma, Us

Director of Technology for Quick Hit Sports (formerly Play Hard Sports). I designed the system architecture, developed prototypes for all tiers, and built and served as the Technical Director managing the Core Technology, Web, and game client teams. The system uses a modern n-tier architecture with MySQL as the database foundation, an enterprise Java-based application tier, a LAMP-based PHP web tier, and an Actionscript 3-based game client implemented as both a Flash in-browser game and a high resolution Adobe AIR application. Hired as 6th employee. Game reached half a million registered users.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Product Architect in charge of design of all new products, Work with combination of onshore/offshore teams to build products. Company is in compliance business service space. Company is about 10 years old, profitable, and growing fast.

Boston, Ma, Us

Founding CTO of new generation custom radio company founded by industry big shots. Created first generation technology for early customers and built company infrastructure with Los Angeles radio programming division and Boston corporate headquarters. Hired and managed engineering staff.

Came in as VP-level advanced technologist and ended up as acting COO and later CTO.

Provided strategic product and technology planning, managed large engineering group engaged in both legacy/income producing systems development and designing next generation platform, and performed executive staff duties reporting to the CEO as Chief Technology Officer.

London, Gb

Vendaria was a challenging role. I was striving to help this young and growing startup to define a clear niche in the ecommerce space. It was another chance to work with a venture capitalist I had worked with on several companies now. Building that relationship and understanding the needs of his portfolio companies was my greatest accomplishment during this short stint in Seattle.

Founding CTO of VC Funded online radio network which created custom programming for major online websites and brands. Chief architect of all technology systems from radio production tools to web-based player with interactive metadata and calls to action. Created custom radio for majors brands such as Lycos, Earthlink, Scour, A&E Television, About.com... Hired and built entire technical team and technology infrastructure. Reported to CEO and assisted in fundraising and other business development activities.

Managed software development and Quality Assurance teams.

San Jose, California, Us

Researched emerging technologies, worked with product groups and field offices around the world, reported to executive staff on intersection of emerging technology and user needs.

San Jose, California, Us

Invented, designed, built prototype, and championed integration of innovative LiveUpdate technology. Awarded 2 US Patents related to LiveUpdate. Managed developers and QA teams. Held Acting Director of Shared Tech after existing Director promoted to General Manager, ACT! group.

San Jose, California, Us

Joined the collaborative "Bedrock" project between Apple and Symantec. Shortly after merged into the devtools team responsible for Visual C++ and Visual Cafe. Acted as Development Manager and Product Manager in addition to software design and development.

Working at TurboPower Software was a dream come true for a young man interested in the powerful platform Turbo Pascal. Working under the guidance of the brilliant Kim Kokkonen and fellow programmer Brian Foley created a team that provided Turbo Pascal programmers with the finest development tools available at the time. We each had to define our own software, implement it, document it, support it and take sales calls. It set me up for a lifelong focus on customer success that continues to be my focus. We worked on the most cutting edge problems and delivered unprecedented productivity tools for our customers.

Articulate Publications was a small vertical market medical software firm in Los Angeles. I started in a tech support role where I spoke directly with the usetr of the software. I quickly rose to a Director level role where I assisted the CEO in meeting needs of the burgeoning medical software industry.