Tim White Email & Phone Number

Littleton, Colorado, United States

Alexandria, Virginia, Us

* Reporting to the General Manager of Motley Fool Money, driving technology strategy and execution for Motley Fool Money business at the Motley Fool.* Executed rebrand of The Ascent to Motley Fool Money, including core url changes, in 2.5 weeks.* Drove tech work that increased revenue 70% year over year from 2022 to 2023.* Increased Tech Project delivery rate by 50%.* Work with content leads to develop new content strategies.* Work with VP of business development to drive new revenue streams.* Interface with broader Fool organization to ensure alignment and security.* Co-Host Weekly “This Week in Tech” live video broadcast to Motley Fool members analyzing tech news, trends and making technology predictions.

Alexandria, Virginia, Us

* Reported to the CTO, leading tech teams implementing the Motley Fool’s “New Ventures” products, including The Ascent, Millionacres, The Blueprint, and Soapbox.* Drove tech that brought in $50+ million in revenue for The Motley Fool.* Advised multiple CTOs on organizational design, tech architecture, and process design.* Led the investment by the Motley Fool in enhancing the open source Wagtail CMS, sponsoring features now used by companies worldwide, including content workflow.* Presented at the Wagtail Space 2020 conference.* Drove design of the the devops process in use Fool-wide which automatically creates test environments for feature branches using Docker.* Improved technical SEO in dozens of ways, including leading aggressive use of CDN caching for New Ventures sites to reduce time-to-first-byte by 80%+.* Led merger of The Blueprint product into The Ascent.* Led migration from paper Agile story tracking to Trello then later to Jira.* Architected and led the implementation of sophisticated offline conversion processes that improved paid marketing ROI by 50%+.* Co-Hosted Weekly “This Week in Tech” live video broadcast to Motley Fool members analyzing tech news, trends and making technology predictions.* Recruited and hired many developers.

Alexandria, Virginia, Us

* Built and launched The Ascent product from the ground up in 5 weeks, led tech team that grew it from no revenue 50+ million a month in 4 years.* Built and launched the Millionacres product from the ground up in 4 weeks, led tech team that grew that product from nothing to millions in revenue in less than a year.

Monroe, La, Us

Drove high-level direction with eBusiness, forging both into requirements and implementation plans for short and long-term execution cycles. Architecting roadmaps for transformation the CenturyLink.com external-facing Consumer web presence. 2010 efforts raised revenue from eCommerce channel from 5% to 12% year over year. Leading effort to integrate CenturyLink web properties into CenturyLink's eCommerce platform as part of 2011 merger. Millions of people visit CenturyLink.com every day, and transforming the site to attract and keep a huge variety of customers is an exciting challenge.

Monroe, La, Us

Lead the implementation of the Adobe Experience Manager Platform. Worked daily with the business Product Owner and development team to implement high-visibility external-facing websites under www.centurylink.com. Co-facilitated agile rituals, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, and standups. Created technical user stories, and refine and provide solution direction for business user stories. Built and defined entire implementation architecture for AEM to meet business requirements, following best practices from Adobe. Performed development and testing tasks with the team, including AEM components, templates, HTML/CSS, workflows, Dispatcher/Server, and network configurations.

Lead development of Podiobooks 2.0 in Django, including requirements analysis, migration and cleanup of data from Podiobooks 1.0, user interface design, API design, RSS feed implementation, and hosting/performance engineering. Merged Podiobooks with Scribl.com in 2017.

Parker, Co, Us

Created software and mechanical architecture and led software development of US Air Force Academy-funded satellite simulator. ControlSat enables real-time over-the-air experimentation with algorithms for gyro-controlled satellite motion. Researchers can innovate by writing simple Python code on their laptops that processes sensor data from ControlSat and instantly turns that into physical motion. Worked with a great team of software, mechanical, and manufacturing engineers to deliver on-time and spark the imaginations of USAFA faculty and Cadets.Created software and mechanical architecture and led software development of US Air Force Academy-funded satellite simulator. ControlSat enables real-time over-the-air experimentation with algorithms for gyro-controlled satellite motion. Researchers can innovate by writing simple Python code on their laptops that processes sensor data from ControlSat and instantly turns that into physical motion. Worked with a great team of software, mechanical, and manufacturing engineers to deliver on-time and spark the imaginations of USAFA faculty and Cadets.

Monroe, La, Us

Drove requirements with Large Business team to redefine the nature of the Large Business existing customer dynamic map implementation and convert it to Google Maps. Led sessions with business to drive out core business goals, produced ground-up prototype using Google Web Toolkit and Google Maps to dynamically aggregate customer products and enable real-time drill down into detailed inventory specifications. Architected and coded full initial iteration of project, then led transition of final implementation to offshore resources.

Monroe, La, Us

* Led eCommerce Content Management Team* Invented an end-to-end Dynamic Content Management Product for releasing the front-end web applications without formal code releases. (DevOps) Changes from typos to entirely new dynamic flows went from being released every three months to daily, resulting in +20% revenue and over $1mm in legal expenses.* Architected and led the implementation of the product from business processes, data center design, off-the-shelf software integration, and custom code development with a great team. * Drove system adoption and improvement across the eBusiness team and dozens of IT development teams company-wide, resulting in a 100%+ improvement in SDLC cycle time.

Monroe, La, Us

Team lead for design and development of Product Catalog Renderer (PCATR) system, which provided the entire external facing consumer and small business web presence for Qwest.com. Designed technical stack including content management and Struts implementation, along with connections to product catalog system. Led team of employees and contractors to develop dynamic web presence from scratch in four months.

Monroe, La, Us

Led team that cut the production of "monthly" forecasting and actuals reports from 30+ days of manual effort to 1 day of automated processing. Worked with UNIX Administrators and Oracle DBAs to rebuild Oracle Datamart from scratch from the disks up to enable a 1000x increase in performance. Built automation system in UNIX Shell and giant SQL queries to provide robust, fail-resistant product. Worked daily with business client to refine and improve product, drive direction, and evangelize it's use company-wide.

Monroe, La, Us

Led team to implement Business Objects reporting tool for operations reporting. Administered Business Objects from procurement to post-production maintenance, including server setup, Reporting Universe architecture and user training. Wrote and acted in several professionally-produced videos training people on how to use the tool, and produced numerous user guides and job aids working with technical writers.

Monroe, La, Us

*Led effort to refine business needs and determine architecture for new ticketing system (PCRM) that would subsume numerous other operational reporting systems. * Co-Led software selection of the Vantive platform, and drove business requirements with site visits and user interviews. * Performed Oracle database administration as well as Vantive development, training and PCRM multimedia evangelism.

Monroe, La, Us

* Embedded software developer in the for Network organization* Sole developer for advanced 3270 system client GUI in HyperCard* Sole developers of networked contact synchronization application in HyperCard* Sole developer of complex desktop and telecommunications inventory system in the 4th Dimension RDMBS.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Organization Leadership (Web Technology Focus)

Ba, Russian Lang/Lit, Computer Science, Anthropology