Will Ballard Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Leading a global team of product managers, engineers, data scientists, and test professionals working to improve student outcomes in higher education by delivering software products to Students, Advisors, Faculty, and Administrators in higher education.

New York, Ny, Us

Technology executive responsible for technology, product, and operations worldwide. This includes technology governance, designing, delivering, and operating technology for all our audiences with a global team of 180 developers, IT engineers, operations engineers, and product managers.GLG is the world’s leading B2B platform connecting professionals with expertise. We connect thousands of clients to the largest global network of subject-matter experts across every sector. We bring the power of insight to every great professional decision. Headquartered in New York City, GLG’s 2,000+ employees work from offices in 12 countries.Deliverables• Led an Agile/Lean transformation, setting up distributed development in 10 locations• Led a hosted to containerized cloud migration, with continuous release, yielding 40-60 software updates a day across worldwide teams• Engineered an Automated Match / Search using Deep Learning and NLP• Built multiple audience focused apps, mobile, WeChat, and web facing each of our core marketplace audiences of our Council Members (supply), Customers (buy), and our internal service Platform• Automated call scheduling and tracking, unlocking tens of millions in revenue• Launched new transcript and library products as an additional subscription service yielding millions in revenue• Engineered a replacement back office / billing system facilitating transaction billing and contract contextual revenue recognition

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

Technology executive in charge of the largest content creation engine on the Internet, powering the Demand Media Network and Partners peaking at #13 audience share on the internet. Responsible for a staff of 130, in multiple remote offices, and offshore. Demand Media was an 'original unicorn' startup with over a billion dollar venture valuation.Merged in multiple different technology platforms and teams from 30+ acquisitions.Deliverables• Prepped system for our IPO/SarBox, personally participating in the IPO road show, taking Demand Media public in 2011• Built an ‘internal open source’ style development model allowing multiple releases per term, per day, with a personal best of 40 releases on a single day• Coordinated the development pipeline of 12 different teams spanning 130 engineers over multiple business units and P&Ls• Extensive use of large data and machine learning to predict search performance, building the backbone of Demand Studios• Integrated operations and development teams into a modern dev/ops model, building accountability and autonomy, eliminating typical large company excuses

Austin, Texas, Us

Worked directly with company founders to establish an initial architecture, project plan, and product roadmap. Selected and placed development, operations, and QA departments managing a staff of 25. Devised core technology for feature integration and data collection delivering Web 2.0 functionality to existing mainstream sites. Executive in charge of all technology growing from zero to over $10MM in bookings, regularly participating in technical sales and key customer implementations.Deliverables• Development a multiple product, multiple team, cross department parallel development cycle across all product lines Pluck RSS, Shadows, SiteLife, and BlogBurst across the entire lifecycle from inception to ongoing support• Enforced automated test driven development, enhanced with online performance and coverage analysis• Automated system management and provisioning for over 400 SaaS installations• Developed system software, networking, and processes to deliver sustained high volume transactions to name brand web sites in excess of 1,000 requests per second and 1 billion requests per month

San Jose, Ca, Us

Managed the development of the AIIMS network managment platform for multiprotocol, multisystem network and systems managment. Introducted test driven development techniques to the company processes.Granted a US patent on the design (fall 2005).

Launched a new consulting practice area focused on .NET, which was the hot new enterprise technology at the time.

Austin, Texas, Us

Recruited and lead the initial team that created what has become the industry leading prepaid debit card platform, reaching over a billion dollar valuation.

London, England, Gb

Designed a large first generation eCommerce system.

Austin, Tx, Us

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