Johnny Negretti

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Flint Digital -- @jnegretti

Location: New York, New York (Greater New York City Area)
Industry: Marketing and Advertising

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Johnny Negretti's Overview

Current

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Flint Digital
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT, User Experience / Ecommerce / Social Media at Johnny Negretti (self)

Past

CHIEF STRATEGIST, Emerging Technologies (Social Media) / User Experience at Verizon
CEO / CTO / Startup Co-Founder at SocialSimple, LLC (social networking startup)
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, Global Web Operations / User Experience / SaaS at Hitachi

DIRECTOR, Creative Media & Web Development at Interactivate
SR. MANAGER, Web Creative & Web Engineering (SaaS) at Modern Postcard
MANAGER, Global Web Marketing & Web Services at ViaSat
SR. WEB DESIGNER, Web Marketing (contractor) at Cox Communications
MANAGER, Web Marketing / Ecommerce at KFKI Systems, Inc.
LEAD ECOMMERCE ENGINEER, Product Evangelist at MIVA
LEAD ENGINEER, Web / Marketing at Varigon Inc.
PRO SURFER, Team Captain at San Diego Surf Team

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Education

University of California, San Diego
San Diego Mesa College
Point Loma High School

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33 people have recommended Johnny

Connections

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"Be the change you want to see in the world." ~Gandhi

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** 15+ year career (combined): Managed 140 employees (personally hired 30+), worked on 300+ projects, 650+ websites, 200+ web applications, 30 products.

** Co-founder CEO of a successful startup in personalized ecommerce user experiences via social media data mining and analytics.

** Sr. Product Management and Lead Engineer of award winning ecommerce platform Miva Merchant with 300,000+ installations.

** Consistently reduced operational costs and improved project efficiencies in large corporations, small startups, and digital agencies.

** Involved in marketing, technology, and social media communities, technical advisory boards, and executive leadership roundtables.

** Active video blogger on new and emerging technology trends, social media statistics, market insight, and industry forecasting.

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Flint Digital

Partnership; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry

2011 – Present (1 year) New York, New York

Johnny Negretti serves as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Flint Digital providing leadership in the areas of technology, mobile, social media, and industry insight into the latest trends and innovations in web. Johnny is a seasoned web enthusiast with a 17 year career as an award winning innovator in e-commerce, co-founder and CEO of a successful social networking startup in personalized user experiences, held corporate executive positions with Fortune 100 companies, and most recently was Chief Strategist, Emerging Technologies for Verizon.

PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT, User Experience / Ecommerce / Social Media

Johnny Negretti (self)

Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry

1995 – Present (17 years) Boston, MA / New York, NY / San Diego, CA / Los Angeles, CA

I am VERY passionate about user experience, interactive ecommerce, social media, and emerging web/mobile technologies.

I consult/advise (for FREE) to my personal network of professional executives, entrepreneurs, digital agencies, startups, universities, and friends within the web industry.

CHIEF STRATEGIST, Emerging Technologies (Social Media) / User Experience

Verizon

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; VZ; Telecommunications industry

2010 – 2011 (1 year) Boston, MA / New York, NY (1 year contract)

Chief Strategist / Architect portfolio/project management, user experience design, web development, and “Enterprise 2.0” projects utilizing emerging technologies, social media, ecommerce, mobile applications, cloud computing, web infrastructures, SaaS.

Analyze, identify, forecast, and plan long-term growth solutions, innovation recommendations in emerging technologies (Web 2.0 & Web 3.0) for enterprise web properties in collaboration with corporate stakeholders and technology partners.

Verizon Communications, $106 billion/yr company (270,000+ employees) – Forbes #13, Largest US Companies.

CEO / CTO / Startup Co-Founder

SocialSimple, LLC (social networking startup)

2008 – 2010 (2 years) Greater San Diego Area

Co-founding CEO and hands-on CMO/CTO of a successful social networking startup developing a high volume SaaS product that personalized ecommerce user experiences (in real-time) and targeted advertising/marketing using social media data analytics through various API web services (Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn/YouTube/etc).

Raised venture capital investment ($2.4 million). Personally hired all staff and formed a new company from the ground up.

Full P&L responsibilities.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, Global Web Operations / User Experience / SaaS

Hitachi

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; HIT; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry

2008 – 2008 (less than a year) San Diego, CA / San Francisco, CA (left to pursue startup)

Reporting to the CIO office, established an executive sponsored (C-level) web department to lead and unify all web IT/marketing resources throughout the enterprise web/SaaS systems. Successfully accomplished executive charter to improve the online user experience and streamline web operations through cross-departmental collaboration.

Successfully accomplished executive charter to improve the online user experience and streamline enterprise web operations through cross-departmental collaboration.

Campaign support for social media (Web 2.0), emerging technologies, and educate through industry trends and research.

P&L forecasting.

Hitachi, $112 billion/yr company (400,000+ employees) – Forbes #35, Largest Global Companies.

DIRECTOR, Creative Media & Web Development

Interactivate

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry

2007 – 2007 (less than a year) San Diego, CA (company folded due to housing market crash)

Reporting to the CTO, lead and manage web portfolio of all interactive media and web development projects for clients and business services. San Diego’s largest digital agency.

Hands on technical management of an onsite / offshore team (India, Argentina, Russia) of web engineering, interactive flash, web infrastructure and QA departments (25+ developers) for a global $45 million/yr interactive web agency.

Worked closely with account executives and clients on projects including marketing strategies, requirements planning, project plans, innovating legacy infrastructures to scale with growth and new technologies, pricing of services and ROI.

Campaign support for social media (Web 2.0), emerging technologies, and educate through industry trends and research.

SR. MANAGER, Web Creative & Web Engineering (SaaS)

Modern Postcard

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry

2006 – 2007 (1 year) San Diego, CA

Reporting to the CIO, lead and established first consolidated e-Business group of all web resources (web development, web creative/design, IT engineering, QA) for Modern Postcard, a $40 million/yr direct mail and marketing agency (320+ employees).

Generated 50% of the company revenue ($20+ million/yr in online sales).

Provide hands on technical management and leadership in the areas of interactive design, web development, ecommerce innovations, strategic planning, customer trends, competitive research, variable data printing (VDP), and direct marketing campaigns.

Project management of multiple complex business and client initiatives throughout the entire project lifecycle from concept, proposal, ROI planning, execution, delivery, QA, and maintenance.

Campaign support for social media (Web 2.0), emerging technologies, and educate through industry trends and research.

MANAGER, Global Web Marketing & Web Services

ViaSat

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VSAT; Defense & Space industry

2003 – 2006 (3 years) San Diego, CA

Established and managed first web development and web marketing departments for ViaSat, a global $930 million/yr technology company (2,000+ employees).

P&L responsibilities for web operations.

SR. WEB DESIGNER, Web Marketing (contractor)

Cox Communications

Privately Held; 10,001+ employees; Broadcast Media industry

2002 – 2002 (less than a year) San Diego, CA

Senior web designer and web engineer on all corporate Marketing campaigns and websites.

MANAGER, Web Marketing / Ecommerce

KFKI Systems, Inc.

2002 – 2002 (less than a year) San Diego, CA

Reporting to the CEO, responsible for management and leadership of an international ecommerce development team of web designers, web engineers, product marketers, QA.

LEAD ECOMMERCE ENGINEER, Product Evangelist

MIVA

Public Company; 51-200 employees; VTRO; Internet industry

2000 – 2002 (2 years) San Diego, CA

Reporting to the CTO, Sr. Product Management and Lead Engineer of multi-award winning ecommerce platform Miva Merchant (300,000+ installations). Ecommerce choice for eBay, Monster.com, PayPal, MapQuest, Honeywell, Yahoo, Dell, Nautica, Flowers.com

Community representative and evangelist for various company products, including providing programming guidance to community developers through forums and speaking at ecommerce conferences.

LEAD ENGINEER, Web / Marketing

Varigon Inc.

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Semiconductors industry

1995 – 1999 (4 years) San Diego, CA

Lead and managed design of ecommerce portals, websites, print, and marketing materials.

PRO SURFER, Team Captain

San Diego Surf Team

1992 – 1994 (2 years) San Diego, CA

Professional surfer, competing in local/national events. Sponsored by Rusty Surfboards.

Team went from being state ranked from #19 to #2 in California (during my leadership).