John Witchel

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John Witchel’s Experience

Chief Technology Officer

Prosper Marketplace

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)

May 2005 — August 2008 (3 years 4 months)

I co-founded Prosper with my partner, Chris Larsen. I was the lead designer and architect of Prosper.com.

As CTO, I oversaw all product development and engineering.

I was also a member of the Board of Directors.
Creator and Owner

BrowserCam

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

January 2002 — May 2005 (3 years 5 months)

I designed, built and ran BrowserCam.

BrowserCam is a cross-browser compatibility tool for web developers.
Creator of FlashMob Supercomputing

USF

(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)

January 2005 — May 2005 (5 months)

FlashMob Supercomputing was my Master's thesis at USF. We invited the general public to bring their computers and laptops and we wired them all up in one day to try to create a single tightly coupled supercomputer fast enough to break into the top 500 supercomputers. We had 750 participants and it was a whole lot of fun -- plus some really interesting data on heterogeneous supercomputing.

It was the last project I did before I started Prosper.

See my links below.
Partner

USWeb

(Internet industry)

1996 — 1999 (3 years)
Analyst

IPS

(E-Learning industry)

June 1992 — December 1993 (1 year 7 months)

1986 NCAA Team Champion Stanford University Swimming
1987 NCAA Champion 500 Freestyle
1988 American Record Holder 200 Freestyle SCM