Shannon Clark

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San Jose, California, United States, United States
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About Shannon Clark

My role as a consultant and interim CTO gives me an opportunity to work across a wide range of industries and technologies. I led development teams, manage technology transitions, design products and business strategies, evaluate technologies and service providers, and help define business and technology goals. I work for companies ranging in size from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 or equivalent sized private firms. I balance business needs with technical and business constraints. As necessary I select vendors, hire teams, build sales and fundraising plans. In 2000 I started my former software and consulting firm, JigZaw Inc, in Chicago and raised a $1M round of Angel funding. In 2005 we moved from Chicago to the Bay Area. After working on a few early stage startups, in 2014 I joined Coupons.com (later renamed Quotient Technologies) as a senior project manager. After Quotient, I explored a few startup concepts and resumed my consulting practice. In 2005 I co-organized and founded MeshForum, an early conference on the study of networks. We held a second MeshForum in 2006 in San Francisco and followed that conference with a series of one day MeshWalk events in 2007-2009. These events brought together an interdisciplinary group of experts on networks from academia, industry and the government. We were an early conference to make podcasts of our sessions available freely online. An active networker and event organizer, I have run monthly networking events and conferences and facilitated and organized many Open Space events including BarCamps and Hackathons. In recent years, I have served as a Track Chair of the Entrepreneurship Track for TiECon.As a writer I have contributed to many technology industry sites over the years as well as had an active presence online for decades.

Shannon Clark's Current Company Details
Shannon Clark Consulting

Shannon Clark Consulting

Transforming ideas into business
Shannon Clark Work Experience Details
  • Shannon Clark Consulting
    Head Of Products
    Shannon Clark Consulting Aug 2019 - Present
    Since August of 2019 I have served as a business and technology consultant primarily for early stage startups, in many cases serving as a contract CTO and COO. These roles have been varied based on the needs and stage of each company. I craft the technology plan, implement it, manage and source teams building the products, and provide business strategy and modeling. As necessary I help with fundraising and early business development and initial sales. While many of the my past clients have been early stage companies often lacking a technical co-founder, I will work with companies at any stage and am open to full-time opportunities at any size of company. I am technology and platform agnostic focused on matching technical solutions to the team, company, budget, and stage of the company. Past projects have included global development teams, multi-cloud deployments, agile and scrum management and development from idea to production deployment.
  • Mentor Bureau
    Mentor Catalyst
    Mentor Bureau Mar 2019 - Mar 2020
    Austin, Texas, Us
    I was one of the founding mentor catalysts for Mentor Bureau. Mentor Bureau is a professional collective of founders, entrepreneurs, investors and experts in an array of respective fields. We provide turnkey, trustworthy mentoring and coaching assistance to promising startups around the globe. We believe good mentoring requires the right combination of trust, skill and chemistry, and right-size and customize our approach to fit your company’s needs, goals and resources.We remove the guesswork associated with finding trusted counsel, integrated insight and reliable adviceLeverage a diverse network of mentors with expertise in everything from series funding and IPO to strategy, operations, human resources, marketing, digital, research, product development, and moreIdentify the best ways to scale, grow and drive profit, as we help lessen your risk of burnout and failureBuild a sustainable business and practices that benefit the customers you serve, as well as society.Wherever you are, engagement with Mentor Bureau is easy. We provide remote and on-site assistance for startups that are already selling and in pre- or post- series A funding positions.
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  • Hatubank
    Founder And Cto
    Hatubank Nov 2016 - Mar 2019
    In 2016 we explored opportunities to innovate on banking practices to meet the needs of retail businesses. While we believe that we identified massive opportunities to build mission-driven banks serving retail businesses the regulatory challenges in 2018 to start or acquire a bank led us to shelve our plans to start or acquire a new bank. We worked on building tools to serve retail businesses. In 2019 as my other consulting roles grew we shelved Hatubank for now.
  • Quotient Technology
    Senior Technical Project Manager
    Quotient Technology Mar 2014 - Feb 2016
    Jersey City, Nj, Us
    I joined Quotient Technology (formerly Coupons.com) in March 2014 as a Senior Technical Project Manager leading projects as part of the engineering group. The primary product I managed, RetailerIQ reached every household in the US powering digital offers for the mobile and retail point of sale systems for many of the largest retailers and grocery chains in the USA. 

I led an agile team of 20 developers and QA testers primarily in California with a small team in India. While at Quotient we moved from quarterly product releases taking over 48 hours to complete to regular bi-weekly releases taking just a few hours. We achieved this while replacing every core system across our application stack and migrating data centers. We also expanded our use of cloud services building up a development and testing stack within AWS.
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  • Jigzaw Inc
    President And Founder
    Jigzaw Inc Mar 2000 - Mar 2014
    I founded JigZaw, Inc in March 2000 to build intelligent tools. We raised a $1M seed round in 2000. I hired and led a small team in Chicago from 2000 to 2005 and moved the company to San Francisco in 2006. We developed AI based techniques for automatic data extraction, initially demonstrated in a calendar capable of automatically updating itself from any web published calendar. Other products included Decisa Contract Compliance software to help manage complex supplier contracts. In 2004 we shelved our software products and focused on business and technical consulting. We provided implementation and consulting support in deploying AI based applications and technology to a variety of large clients. Our services included expert witness work; technology vendor evaluation and research; management consulting; and contract software development. I led the product management of new applications for select clients. We worked with a global network of development teams. Clients included Fortune 500 firms, startups, large law firms, and select investors. My advisory services to founders and investors helped with strategy and prioritization of their resources and funding. At times this included search engine optimization, technology assessment and selection, social media consulting, and business development.
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  • Playtell Inc
    Director Of Marketing
    Playtell Inc Mar 2013 - Apr 2013
    I joined PlayTell in March of 2013 to manage their marketing and growth strategy. PlayTell was a company about communication and play. Our app offered busy parents and grandparents a way to read and play along with children aged 3-7. After I joined the founders chose to pursue of other projects and shutdown the company in April of 2013.
  • Beyond Age
    Co-Founder, Strategist
    Beyond Age Aug 2011 - Aug 2012
    Advisory and consulting services with a focus on business strategy and customer development. Beyond Age focused on working with companies offering products and services to older adults.
  • Meshforum
    Founder And President
    Meshforum Dec 2003 - Jan 2010
    MeshForum (http://www.meshforum.org) was a conference and website on the study of networks, focused on bringing together an interdisciplinary group of experts to share knowledge and collaborate. MeshForum brought together academic researchers in the field of Networks with leaders dealing with Networks for in person learning and discussions. MeshForum topics ranged from cell biology to transportation networks to social networks and social network analysis. Networks are key to the 21st century. MeshForum included artists, government experts, academics, and business leaders to apply a wide range of perspective to the study and management of networks.Sessions from MeshForum 2005 and MeshForum 2006 are available for free from IT Conversations (http://www.itconversations.com) and have been downloaded 1000's of times and used as part of classroom curriculums.
  • Venturebeat
    Freelance Writer
    Venturebeat May 2009 - Dec 2009
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Venturebeat is a top-100 blog focused on covering technology and venture capital. For Venturebeat I contributed a series of articles on startups for their Entrepreneur Corner blog as well as occasional articles for the main blog. I also helped Venturebeat cover a number of technology conferences in the Bay Area including live coverage via Twitter of the TechCrunch 50 conference.
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  • Radioki
    Founder
    Radioki Apr 2009 - Jul 2009
    Us
    A project to reinvent radio schedules for the web, Internet and digital radio age. Formed a small team to explore the project and built an initial prototype.
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  • Nearness Function
    Founder And President
    Nearness Function Feb 2008 - Feb 2009
    I co-founded nearness function with David Spector to build a new advertising network focused on brand marketing opportunities at the intersection of new and old media. Our plans arose out of needs we identified in the development of our NELA.mobi application. After a year of negotiating with publishers and advertisers we both left to pursue other opportunities. We developed innovative ways to achieve geotargeted advertising at large scale.
  • Centernetworks
    Freelance Writer
    Centernetworks Apr 2007 - Dec 2008
    Centernetworks was one of the leading blogs covering the web and technology with a strong focus on the NYC technology scene. On a freelance basis I covered a number of topics and events for CenterNetworks including multiple AdTech conferences in NYC and San Francisco. My writing focused on the lessons for startups and entrepreneurs from such events as well as ongoing trends in the Advertising and Web industry.
  • Nela Partners
    Founder And President
    Nela Partners Nov 2006 - Nov 2008
    Lahr/Schwarzwald, Baden-Wuerttemberg, De
    Co-founded NELA Partners to pursue a range of business opportunities. Initial project was Never Eat Lunch Alone (nela.mobi) a mobile application for traveling business people. In the course of building that application evaluated existing advertising network options for publishers of rich applications and found them lacking. Projects arose out of a need and opportunity my co-founder and I identified and combined work we had been exploring individually. NELA Partners pivoted and turned into Nearness Function, an advertising network focused on helping Brand advertisers place their messages in rich experiences, including Web 2.0 applications, mobile and select desktop applications.
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  • Business Performance Management Inc
    Consultant
    Business Performance Management Inc 2002 - 2003
    For a large financial services company, installed, configured and extended AI based enterprise risk modeling system for near realtime data warehousing and fraud detection. As part of a test implementation wrote C++ code for data acquisition components and performed data analysis. Modified reports and functions in SQL.
  • Sayers Group
    Senior Consultant
    Sayers Group Aug 1999 - Mar 2000
    Vernon Hills, Il, Us
    Managed software product line and support Sun Server sales and service business for Sayers Group, a privately held System Integrator based outside Chicago. Turned around a client engagement from near cancellation of contract to over $750,000 in revenues and many additional opportunities. Handled testing and support for Y2K related issues with application which was a client server Oracle based application for a large government client. Support client through a data center redeployment and migration.Sun Certified as a system engineer.
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  • Perot Systems
    Associate
    Perot Systems Oct 1997 - Jul 1999
    Round Rock, Texas, Us
    Provided support to 1000+ developers at UBS (SwissBank). Worked closely with development managers on project management, development tools, and build/release procedures. Trained Perot and UBS staff globally based on training plan I created and organized. Served on Technology Operating Team which negotiated with vendors, set budgets for all development and set standards for development bankwide.Prior to my work for UBS (Swissbank) I worked as an onsite consultant for the Chicago offices of a global architecture & engineering firm for whom Perot Systems provided outsourced IT services.
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Shannon Clark Skills

Start Ups Social Networking Social Media Research Web Development Management Consulting Innovation Strategic Consulting Idea Generation Calendaring Writing Workshop Facilitation Open Space Event Management Software Development Project Management Mobile Applications Product Management Mobile Devices Social Media Marketing Crm Venture Capital Seo Business Development Blogging Entrepreneurship Business Strategy Strategic Partnerships Marketing Strategy Strategy Management Online Advertising Leadership Digital Strategy Advertising Online Marketing Content Strategy Content Management Marketing Web Analytics Community Management New Media Digital Marketing Integrated Marketing Publishing E Commerce Web 2.0 Digital Media Analytics Mobile Marketing

Shannon Clark Education Details

  • University Of Chicago
    University Of Chicago
    Medieval Near Eastern History

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