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Lake Forest, Illinois, Us

BOUNTE develops world-class software-as-a-service and mobile technologies. The company is teaming up with companies in the hospitality and travel industries to use technology to solve lost and found and inventory management challenges. BOUNTE’s AI-based app with barcode tracking solves three key problems hotels experience using inefficient lost and found procedures – staff frustration, operational inefficiency and a poor customer experience. The BOUNTE app is a great fit for airports, airlines, hotels, casinos, convention centers, car rental companies, ridesharing services, commuter rail or buses, stadiums, ballparks, theaters – plus hospitals or schools — any venue can benefit from the highly scalable BOUNTE.

Chicago, Il, Us

Innovative Chief Technology Officer with over 20 years in the technology leadership and management roles. Entrepreneurially driven and acknowledged thought leader of technical and business solutions in both start-ups and scaled growth companies. Accomplished team-builder, skilled in software development, Agile, technology operations, and business operations. Respected manager and mentor capable of delivering a culture of innovation. Strong domain experience in capital markets, software architecture and managing high-performance teams. Skilled problem solver with excellent communication skills.SUMMARY> Seasoned CTO with 10+ years of leadership experience.> Creative technologist with over 23 years in software design and development.> Proven leadership and talent acquisition.> Strong problem-solving skills in technology and management.> Effective thought leadership and entrepreneurial mindset. > Small business and high-growth corporate environment experience.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Developed high-profile fixed income total return comparison website for the company’s seniorexecutives and top banking clients. The website was featured in numerous banking conferencesnationally and has been presented to top banking clients by the CEO.• Developed and lead technology development team in the creation of many of the firm's core platforms.• Lead technical due-diligence efforts for $20MM software acquisition. PerformedStrength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threat (SWOT) analysis on the acquired company’s market position specifically relating to its technology. • Developed trade desk offering writeup automation tool. Significantly increased trader operational efficiency.

• Alongside Hall of Fame linebacker Mike Singletary, designed and developed state-of-the-art touch-screen learning management system for the San Francisco 49er’s Linebackers and Defensive line. Utilized by the team during summer practice for 2007 season, the team found it to be a valuable and useful learning experience. Presented to CEO of Hewlett Packard.• Designed and developed Playbook design software to generate playbook on newly-released tablet and utilized by 49ers staff for play evaluation and development. Used in the 2007 pre-season.

• Founded parking search engine website to enable retail consumers the ability to find, buy, sell and leaseparking spaces in the Chicago, NY, and LA markets. Established as the first in the parking industry.• Featured in Wall Street Journal, ABC 7 News and Pioneer Press. Achieved 40k unique visitors amonth.• Developed with Microsoft ASP.NET (Beta) and C# (Beta) and SQL Server.

• Founded insurance industry’s first web-based insurance agency management system (“Prospector”)to serve as an alternative to costly client-server systems necessary to run insurance agencies.• Designed and developed the site with asp, SQL Server, Javascript, and DHTML. Mentored thedevelopment team on emerging technology necessary to deliver the service.• Prospector was featured in Windows in Financial Services magazine and showcased at the 2001 Acord conference with Microsoft partners. Live presentation in front of hundreds of industry ITexecutives. One of the first websites to implement SOAP/XML live integration.• Built a team of two developers, marketing, and finance to help grow the business and innovate theproduct and advertising strategies.• Successfully raise first seed round of financing.

Zurich, Ch

Developed and co-managed a global currency risk control system for use by the FX Sales force.Worked on a team that saw the project through entire life cycle. The system managed client risk portfolios of options and subsequently was successfully utilized in front-office sales initiatives globally.• Designed and developed a FX Volatility rate editor for the trading staff. Successfully deployed system and provided coordination and mentoring for the support network. The editor was utilized in conjunction with internal risk-control applications to generate advance volatility driven scenarios and key driver for revenue on the FX trade desk. The software was developed in COM, Delphi and Sybase.

Developed and co-managed a global currency risk control system for use by the FX Sales force.Worked on a team that saw project through entire life cycle. The system managed client risk portfolios of options and subsequently was successfully utilized in front-office sales initiatives globally.• Designed and developed a FX Volatility rate editor for the trading staff. Successfully deployed system and provided coordination and mentoring for the support network. The editor was utilized in conjunction with internal risk-control applications to generate advance volatility driven scenarios and key driver for revenue on the FX trade desk. The software was developed in COM, Delphi and Sybase.