Chief Technology Officer at Zumbox
Greater Los Angeles Area
- Current
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- Chief Technology Officer at Zumbox
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- Chief Technology Officer at Hoodiny Entertainment Group
- VP Technology at Pictage
- Principal at FES Consulting
- Chief Java Architect at Xylan
- Director, Server Software Group at Disney Online
- Education
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- University of California, Santa Barbara
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Fabian Schonholz’s Summary
Technology Executive: Technology Strategy, Internet, eCommerce, New Media
Goal oriented Technology Executive with 19+ years of experience developing leading edge technology projects from idea to market rollout.
• Built top performing teams and provided staff with leadership, resources and motivation to achieve goals.
• Implemented advanced analytics and problem solving skills to identify and effectively address business and operational needs.
• Balanced immediate needs with long-term business and technology strategies.
• Impacted the visibility of companies’ by delivering high quality products focused on user experience
Fabian Schonholz’s Specialties:
Technology Strategy – Product Development and Roadmap – Recruiting – Project Management
Business Modeling – Process Re-Engineering – B2B and B2C – Distributed Services - J2EE – AJAX – LAMP – Oracle/Postgresql/MySQL – Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris – C/C++
Fabian Schonholz’s Experience
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Chief Technology Officer
Zumbox
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
December 2007 — Present (8 months)
Reinventing the world we live in
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Chief Technology Officer
Hoodiny Entertainment Group
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
May 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 8 months)
Private digital media and social networking company featuring web properties targeting primarily the young Hispanic audience. Involved in expansion and build-out of organization including elhood.com.
*Responsible for all aspects of technology and IT, including 24x7 system operations, project management, architecture, development, QA, desktop support and security.
*Responsible for Product Development and Product Roadmap including internal positioning and sales and shared marketing and operational responsibilities with Marketing and Ops.
*Responsible for Customer Service to consumers and clients through email.
*Successfully deployed V1.0 achieving 99.99% uptime and migration from cabinet to cage.
*Grew my team from 1 developer to 35 FTEs.
*Manage a personnel budget of $2.5M and CAPEX of $750K.
*Developed agreements with outsourcing partners in Miami, Buenos Aires.
*Assisted in the development of partnerships.
*Assisted in securing second round funding in excess of $10M. -
VP Technology
Pictage
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
October 2000 — May 2006 (5 years 8 months)
Private web-based application post-production service provider for professional photography studios. Involved from startup to annual revenues of $20M+ and successful sale to $2B private equity firm Apax Partners.
*Responsible for all aspects of technology and IT, including 24x7 system operations, project management, architecture, development, QA, desktop support and security.
*Responsible for agreements with outsourcing partners in Argentina.
*Grew my team from 2 PTEs to 75 FTEs.
*Managed a personnel budget of $4M and CAPEX of $3M.
*Successfully managed the completion of 63 projects of various sizes in 2005.
*Successfully achieved 99.99% uptime of all systems.
*Supported rapid growth of users and clients from a few to 6000 clients and over 2.2M consumers generating annual revenues of $20M+.
*Supported 45Mbs sustain traffic and 250K unique monthly visits.
*Designed and supported a storage architecture to house 150TB+ of high-resolution digital images. -
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FES Consulting
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 7 months)
Consulting company focused on bleeding edge web based projects and strategies.
*Walt Disney Imagineering: Participated in the development of Enhanced TV, an ESPN/ABC product focused on web and TV convergence. Developed all production and operation consoles.
*Hired as a subcontractor to perform technology strategy evaluations and turn around proposals.
*Litronic Corp: Architected and developed a pilot using Smartcard technologies for online banking. Assisted in the development and rollout of the pilot program. -
Chief Java Architect
Xylan
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
July 1997 — March 1999 (1 year 9 months)
Publicly traded provider of networking hardware and network management software solutions acquired by Alcatel in 1999.
*Architected and developed a distributed network management system 100% in Java that scaled to 1M managed ports.
*Developed APIs for web and non-web based clients.
*Developed custom object model and XML messaging layer.
*Developed expansion plug-ins for system.
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Director, Server Software Group
Disney Online
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)
March 1996 — June 1997 (1 year 4 months)
Publicly traded web-based provider of Disney branded entertainment content.
*Responsible for the architecture and implementation of the registration and security systems.
*Responsible for back-end development of 2 products for the Disney Store Online generating $1M in revenue.
*Responsible for a team of 4
Fabian Schonholz’s Education
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University of California, Santa Barbara
BA, Mathematics, 1990 — 1993
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Fabian Schonholz’s Interests:
New Technologies and Technology Innovation, New Projects, Investments, Boating, Fly Fishing, Hunting,
Fabian Schonholz’s Groups:
Technology Council of Los Angeles
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Outsourcing to Latin America member
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