CEO at Ikayzo
Hawaiian Islands
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- CEO at Ikayzo
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- Global Head of Development at lastminute.com
- SVP of R&D (and interim SVP of Product Marketing) at ValueCommerce
- XOL Group Lead at Xuma
- CTO at Tollan
- Education
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- University of Southern California
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Daniel Leuck’s Summary
I am a software development executive with management experience in the US, Japan, Russia, and the UK. As a technologist I serve on various standards boards and organizations including the groups standardizing the Java language and platform, Java Modules, Scientific Units, and the Swing Application Framework. I am active in the Java and .NET open source communities and give lectures at universities and various conferences on social media, software architecture, UI design and managing technical teams. Details can be found on our websites: http://www.ikayzo.com, http://www.ikayzo.org, http://www.javaui.net and http://www.techhui.com
On twitter: @dleuck
Daniel Leuck’s Specialties:
J2EE software development, Swing development, .NET software development (specializing in desktop technologies), UI design, usability analysis, offshore development, technical team management, project management, software development and project management lecturing and instruction, localization, internationalization, Japanese online marketing
Daniel Leuck’s Experience
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CEO
Ikayzo
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
October 2004 — Present (4 years 10 months)
Ikayzo (http://www.ikayzo.com) is a boutique IT professional services, software auditing and outsource consultancy. We have a core group of developers in the US, and offshore developers in Russia and Argentina. Our team includes Pat Niemeyer, the well known author of O'Reilly's Exploring Java and Learning Java titles, and Sam Joseph, PhD, who is well known in the areas of artificial intelligence, P2P networking, and mobile computing in the UK, Japan, and the US.
We provide end to end web and desktop application development services including product definition, design, development, testing, localization, and online marketing in the US and Japan. We have specialists in rich (thick) clients including Microsoft .NET WinForms and Java Swing.
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Global Head of Development
lastminute.com
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; LMC; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year)
In this capacity I managed over 100 developers and project managers in the UK, France, Germany, India and Argentina for Europe's largest B2C web company. I implemented formal processes for product definition, project management, software development and quality assurance. Additionally, I created a more thorough hiring process for developers to boost productivity and increase software quality.
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SVP of R&D (and interim SVP of Product Marketing)
ValueCommerce
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
2002 — 2004 (2 years)
In this position I oversaw all aspects of product development for Asia's largest online marketing company. I managed more than sixty developers, testers, program managers, and product marketing managers in Japan and Russia. I implemented formal processes for product definition, project management, software development and quality assurance.
I also oversaw creation of the Russian development office which allowed us to create multiple highly efficient product development pipelines. Our annual retention rate for developers, testers, and PMs was 98%, which is very rare in a technical organization. -
XOL Group Lead
Xuma
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years)
In this position I managed a team of 21 software developers working on a common set of business class libraries. Prior to leading the XOL group I worked in Xuma's product development group on a variety of projects.
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CTO
Tollan
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years)
In this position I managed all technical work at Tollan including IT services provided to the Navy, USIS/USIA, and Department of Transportation. During this time I developed a number of complex internet and intranet related systems including a web application used by the United States Information Agency to manage diplomatic communication transcripts.
Daniel Leuck’s Education
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University of Southern California
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Daniel Leuck’s Interests:
music (composition & performance), hiking, technology, theology, linguistics, politics, open source programming
Daniel Leuck’s Groups:
JCP (Java Community Process) expert group member for JSR-270 (Java 6), JSR-277 (Java Module System), JSR-274 (BeanShell), JSR-296 (Swing Application Framework) and JSR-275 (Scientific Units Specification), Honolulu Java User's Group sponsor, Ikayzo.org founding member (open source community), TechHui, Global Pau Hana, Manoa Innovation Center
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Daniel Leuck’s Honors:
Technology News Bytes' High Tech Leader Award, State of Hawaii Letter of Commendation for 2008, High Tech Leader, Mayor's Award of Recognition, 2008, Hawaii State Senate Certificate: Hawaii's Top High-Tech Leader Award, Hawaii House of Representatives Certificate: Hawaii's Top High-Tech Leader Award
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