Chief Technology Officer
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
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- Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Vice President at Wall Street Journal Digital Network
- Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Vice President at Dow Jones/Enterprise Media Group
- Chief Technology Officer (CTO), MarketWatch at Dow Jones
- Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at MarketWatch, Inc.
- Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Founder at Breakstep, LLC
- Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at MarketWatch.com, Inc.
- Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at BigCharts
- VP of Technology, Co-Founder at WebSpan Inc.
- Technical Coordinator at University of Minnesota
- Education
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- University of Minnesota, Institute of Technology
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Jamie Thingelstad’s Summary
Thingelstad assembles and leads technology teams to build highly scalable, reliable and extensible technology platforms delivering against business objectives and then continuing to operate those with an extremely high level of dependability. Thingelstad is actively involved in the executive management team and able to present the company to potential customers and investors.
Thingelstad enjoys being an evangelist for the organization or project, rallying the efforts of employees as well as getting the support of external stakeholders. Thingelstad has a specific skill at selling complicated technology ideas to non-technical as well as technical individuals alike.
Jamie Thingelstad’s Specialties:
Thingelstad focuses first on the problem being solved before delivering a technology solution. His background has been extensive in the Microsoft Windows platform, as well as a variety of Unix platforms. His passion is in building large-scale real-time distributed message-based platforms and large-scale data warehouses.
Jamie Thingelstad’s Experience
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Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Vice President
Wall Street Journal Digital Network
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; DJ; Internet industry)
December 2006 — May 2008 (1 year 6 months)
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Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Vice President
Dow Jones/Enterprise Media Group
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; DJ; Internet industry)
April 2006 — December 2006 (9 months)
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Chief Technology Officer (CTO), MarketWatch
Dow Jones
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; DJ; Online Media industry)
January 2005 — April 2006 (1 year 4 months)
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Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
MarketWatch, Inc.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; MKTW; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2002 — December 2004 (2 years 11 months)
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Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Founder
Breakstep, LLC
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)
March 2001 — July 2002 (1 year 5 months)
Most recently Thingelstad has been providing both high-level technology and business consulting to early stage companies. Areas of focus have included
• Technology architecture and product development roadmap
• Organizational structure for technology and overall corporate structure
• Business plan, sales forecasts, budgets
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Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
MarketWatch.com, Inc.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; MKTW; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 8 months)
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Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
BigCharts
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 1995 — May 1999 (4 years 2 months)
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VP of Technology, Co-Founder
WebSpan Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
March 1994 — March 1995 (1 year 1 month)
Thingelstad co-founded WebSpan—a regional ISP and Web development firm in 1994. WebSpan was focused on servicing the corporate market for web design services, connectivity and Internet services. Thingelstad was responsible for all technology implementation and operation. Thingelstad also served on the Board of Directors and was involved with raising capital. WebSpan grew to approximately 50 corporate clients and was sold to another ISP shortly after Thingelstad left.
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Technical Coordinator
University of Minnesota
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
June 1992 — December 1994 (2 years 7 months)
Thingelstad served as Technical Coordinator for Disability Service at the University of Minnesota where he built a centralized database to better serve disabled students, faculty and employees—the system is still in use today. In addition, Thingelstad deployed basic office services such as e-mail, calendaring and file services for approximately 75 employees in a number of different offices.
Jamie Thingelstad’s Education
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University of Minnesota, Institute of Technology
Computer Science August 1990 — May 1994
Additional Information
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Jamie Thingelstad’s Interests:
Road cycling, hiking
Jamie Thingelstad’s Groups:
Served on customer advisory boards for F5 Labs and Akamai.
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40 Under Forty Global Alumni Society -
X-5 Alumni (ScreamingMedia / Pinnacor, Stockpoint, Inlumen, CBS MarketWatch)
