Bill Seitz

Startup Product Development exec/consultant

Greater Chicago Area

Current
  • member at New York CTO Club
  • Owner at Fluxent
Past
  • CTO at DailyLit
  • CTO at Living Independently
  • CTO/COO at Axiom Legal
  • CTO at Medscape
  • Finance/Project Manager at SCP Communication
Education
  • Columbia University - Columbia Business School
  • Cornell University
Connections
299 connections
Industry
Internet
Websites

Bill Seitz’s Summary

Product Manager and CTO with track-record building agile
product-development teams for start-ups,
actively seeking senior role in entrepreneurial organization
building disruptive Internet-driven products. Bringing MBA perspective to hands-on product management and product development.

Start-ups: DailyLit, Living Independently, Axiom Legal, Medscape: all still in operation.
Other past employers: CBS, NY Hospital, URS Corp, Science Management.
For more details, see http://webseitz.fluxent.com/career

Bill Seitz’s Specialties:

Internet/software product management, agile/iterative product development, lean startups, project management, collaboration processes. Start-ups. Wiki.


Bill Seitz’s Experience

  • member

    New York CTO Club

    (Internet industry)

    2006Present (3 years )

  • Owner

    Fluxent

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

    January 2000Present (9 years 11 months)

    Develop wiki-based hosting services for teams (teamflux.com) and individuals (wikilogs.com).

  • CTO

    DailyLit

    (Publishing industry)

    December 2007January 2009 (1 year 2 months)

    Develop web-based software for subscription to serial-delivered ebooks via email and RSS. Write code, manage offshore dev team.

  • CTO

    Living Independently

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

    August 2003December 2007 (4 years 5 months)

    Inherit prototype software, turn into scalable product/business. Manage software, user-hardware, and field logistics teams. Technologies: Python, Zope, PHP, PostgreSQL.

    Build development team.

  • CTO/COO

    Axiom Legal

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Legal Services industry)

    August 2000March 2002 (1 year 8 months)

    Developed intranet-focused technology. Microsoft Exchange-based applications and web applications.

    Designed customer feedback/account development process.

    Applied MBA to strategic planning.

  • CTO

    Medscape

    (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

    January 1995January 2000 (5 years 1 month)

    Developed 1st generation technology, built team to develop 2nd generation for early targeted web content site.

    Customized Verity, NetGravity. Custom development with Java, ColdFusion, NSAPI.

    Coordinated many cross-departmental projects.

  • Finance/Project Manager

    SCP Communication

    (Internet industry)

    19921994 (2 years )


Bill Seitz’s Education

  • Columbia University - Columbia Business School

    MBA , Finance, Marketing , 19891990

    Activities and Societies:
    Working on the side.
  • Cornell University

    BS , Industrial Engineering , September 1980May 1984

    Activities and Societies:
    Fraternity; concert band.

Additional Information

Bill Seitz’s Websites:

Bill Seitz’s Groups:

New York CTO Club

  •    PC Forum 2005
  •    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
  •    Columbia Business School, in New York City
  •    New York CTO Club
  •    Startup Specialists
  •    SHAPE Alumni
  •    Columbia Business School Alumni Network
  •    Emerging Technology Leaders' Network

Bill Seitz’s Contact Settings

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  • career opportunities
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  • new ventures
  • job inquiries
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