Jesse Wolgamott

Past

President and Chief Operating Officer at Travis Software
Vice President, Technical Services at Travis Software Corp.
Director, Software Development at Travis Software

Software Developer at Travis Software
User Interface Engineer at promoOrder
Intern at Austin Technology Incubator
Owner at InnerGrafix Management (Self-employed)

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Education

University of Houston
The University of Texas at Austin

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Jesse Wolgamott’s Summary

I am Smart and I get Things Done.

Learn more about me at http://jessewolgamott.com or email me at [jesse dot wolgamott at gmail]

A Software Developer by trade, I have 3 years of experience in executive management. I have 10+ years experience developing software for the web, including high performance and high availability, distributed systems. That's honestly just a fancy way of saying I write things that work - even when stuff breaks.

I have worn most of the hats you can wear in a company; I prepared Travis Software's internal Financial Reports, led the marketing effort and championed the use of permission based marketing. I also ran the product development, IT, and customer service functions of the house as well.

With sales -- I have contacts at some of the largest insurance agencies in the country: Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Tennessee, United Healthcare, Unicare, etc. I just name-dropped because while Travis Software was small, our clients were the largest in the country.

I have significant technical expertise and thrive in both the Microsoft stack (C#/SQL Server) and the Free stack (Ruby/Rails/MySQL). I believe strongly in Agile Software Development and have ported its philosophies to general business management.

Jesse Wolgamott’s Specialties:

Agile Software Development, Social Media, Internet Marketing, Contract Negotiations, Proposal Development, Change Management, IT Strategy, Web Design

Jesse Wolgamott’s Experience

President and Chief Operating Officer

Travis Software

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

January 2009 — August 2009 (8 months)

Grew revenues 80% in 2 years of executive management, delivering 99.99% system availability. Key player in technical design and business management of flagship product, WebCOBRA, representing 75% of sales.

Accountable for IT strategy, product management, internal systems, customer support, financial reporting, and order fulfillment. 7 direct, 14 indirect reports.
Vice President, Technical Services

Travis Software Corp.

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

January 2008 — December 2008 (1 year )

Head of research and development for small (25 people) company firm specializing in benefit administration. Designed, coded, and launched a rewrite of existing product line which has become the largest revenue growth for the company. Upgraded Travis's IT environment and created data-center for new e-services.
Director, Software Development

Travis Software

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

January 2005 — December 2006 (2 years )

Managed all software development efforts of Travis, including 7 developers. Managed the deployment and launch of WebCOBRA.
Software Developer

Travis Software

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

January 2002 — December 2004 (3 years )

Hired to create a web-based replacement for a 20+ year old desktop system. Spent 3 years learning and writing code to launch in Feb 2005 on budget (and only 30 days late)
User Interface Engineer

promoOrder

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2000 — January 2002 (1 year 6 months)
Intern

Austin Technology Incubator

(Computer Software industry)

2000 — 2000 (less than a year)
Owner
InnerGrafix Management (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

1998 — 2000 (2 years )

Small to medium business website design - mostly static websites that listed contact information. Some database driven websites, but without the resources of a corporation, little interactively was possible (it was 1998). Taught myself programming and learned that there was much I needed to learn.

Jesse Wolgamott’s Education

University of Houston

Computer Science 2007 — 2007
The University of Texas at Austin

Management Information Systems , 1997 — 2001

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Jesse Wolgamott’s Websites:

Jesse Wolgamott’s Groups:

Inbound Marketers - For Marketing Professionals
Twitter
Social Media Today
Online Media Jobs -- Work in Internet Marketing, E-business, Web Analytics, etc.
Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) Houston
Social Media Success Summit
Senior Executive Network