William Allison Email & Phone Number

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Leader of engineering, product management and emerging technology at the top-ranked U.S. public research university ($3B enterprise with 50k students, 15k employees).• Leading an enterprise-wide digital transformation to expand use of cloud computing across all lines of business and implement new energy efficient infrastructure in support of key priorities for AI and data science research.• Leading cross-organizational effort (technology and change management) to establish standards for software and systems development and deployment in partnership with technology and functional leaders.• Created and led a cross-functional rapid-innovation program to develop smart campus and digital education. The program directly impacted ~6,000 students (~$50M revenue) delivering results in <6 months via small faculty and infrastructure grants and support.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Engineering leader for middleware/APIs, platforms, architecture, and collaboration. (~$10M budget, 4 teams), known for rapid delivery and multiple award-winning DevOps/Agile teams. Recognized for inclusive culture (40% women; 50% female managers), ranking yearly in the top quartile of Berkeley’s Gallup workplace culture engagement survey. Recognized with UC Berkeley’s Excellence in Management Award, 2015.• With CFO sponsorship, developed end-user automation product vision. Hired the team, built roadmap, driving adoption to 20,000+ users in <2 years for a cost savings of >50%/year. The DevOps team was awarded a Chancellor’s Outstanding Staff Team Award, and the manager received Berkeley Excellence in Management award in 2014. • Launched the UC Berkeley Mobile app with the CMO and led product strategy for platform. Team recognized with a 2019 UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Outstanding Staff Team Award.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Built and led a new engineering organization for Middleware/APIs, Platforms, Architecture and Collaboration to improve the customer experience through automation.• Developed strategy and product vision for an API data service, conducting customer interviews and chartering a DevOps team to build, launch, and grow the service to 5M+ transactions/day.• Developed Berkeley’s cloud strategy and led its implementation, including starting and growing a now 900+ member Berkeley Cloud Computing Meetup, a Cloud Resource Center and a Community of Practice to support staff and foster culture change associated with moving hundreds of applications from campus datacenters to SaaS, PaaS, IaaS.• Implemented campus-wide tools to support Agile development including Atlassian Suite (Jira/Confluence), GitHub Enterprise and migration of email and calendar to GSuite.• Built a revenue-generating Cloud SaaS product and grew enterprise subscribers to >130 universities globally ($1M revenue). Awarded the 2012 UC Silver Sautter Award for Innovation in Information Technology.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

• Established an application development program, conducting customer interviews and requirements simplification to generate $2M savings and improve customer experience by merging five software development units and establishing standard dev lifecycle practices.• Led a 30-person unit with a portfolio of mission critical systems including a $90M campus e-commerce operation. Introduced Agile methodology for projects and launched new features to drive engagement and lower costs by 25% while achieving PCI compliance.• Implemented workflow and metrics to automate change requests to Berkeley’s Peoplesoft ERP system, reducing average delivery time for service requests by 1 month (~75%).

Startup Advising | Business/technology strategy, go to market, systems architecture and product development• Voiceform | Advised CEO and team on go to market strategy, acting CTO with system design to scale a monolithic PHP application via moving to microservices and horizontally scalable database and cloud storage. (2021-present) • Blackbook | Advised and mentored CEO on product development and go to market strategy, helped co-founders redesign and reprioritize mobile app development roadmap to achieve initial product launch. (2021-present)• BioXplor | Helped reshape product offering and technology design. Participated in sales meetings, helping BioXplor close their first Fortune 500 contract. (2018-present)• Kiwi Campus | Provided go-to-market, roadmap prioritization and education vertical perspective. Helped Kiwi negotiate sidewalk access for their robots. (2017-2019)• You3DIt | Advised founders of a 3D design and printing as a service company on a major product strategy pivot to a SaaS business model. (2017-2020)

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Screened cohort applicants, held advisor office hours for cohort startups and provided consulting to accelerator leadership. Advising included coaching, go to market, sales, product development, technology architecture, managing growth and regulatory compliance (GDPR, HIPAA, PCI).

Seattle, Wa, Us

• As team lead and full stack engineer for product and Agile software development, designed and developed a 20,000-user system to automate the management of an $800M/year grant proposal.• Developed reporting requirements by interviewing key campus stakeholders and becoming the first application onboarded into the new campus data warehouse.

Education record

Cio Institute