Mark Fussell

Current

CTO / VP Engineering at Vive Solutions, Inc.

Past

VP Engineering at FooMojo
VP Engineering at Winster, Inc.
CEO, VP Engineering at Velidom

CTO, VP Engineering, Director of APT at Evant
President at ChiMu Corporation
Architect (CC) at Island Pacific
Development Manager and Architect (CC) at Crowley Maritime
Architect (CC) at Cambridge Technology Partners
Architect (CC) at OOCL
Software Engineer at Third Point Systems

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Education

California Institute of Technology
UCLA

Recommended

5 people have recommended Mark

Connections

141 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

Mark Fussell’s Summary

Hands-on engineering leader who enables companies to build valuable software faster and better.

Mark Fussell’s Specialties:

Launching ventures, growing teams, software engineering, overall system architecture, technical product strategy, cloud-computing, modern (web 2.0+) UIs, global delivery (especially India), server hardware, virtualization, architectural infrastructure, business analysis & domain modeling, and distributed information systems

Mark Fussell’s Experience

CTO / VP Engineering

Vive Solutions, Inc.

(Privately Held; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)

Vive helps you take control of your health, by providing virtual coaching in your pocket.

Vive delivers virtual coach through the iPhone, BB, SMS, and web. Our goal is to provide exceptional capabilities and and engaging user experience running on portable devices. Deployment technologies include Grails/Spring/Hibernate, EC2, YUI, LAMP, iPhone native, and Flex/Flash. Development tools include IntelliJ, Eclipse, Hudson, RPM, Git, YSlow, and the like.
VP Engineering

FooMojo

(Computer Games industry)

2008 — 2009 (1 year )

Mark led engineering at FooMojo. The FooMojo engineering and art teams produced top-ranked iPhone apps ($50K in first month sales), created a 3-D virtual world, and continually enhanced the FooPets animals and web site. The team also automated 3-D art processing to be more rapid, reliable, and agile. Product technologies include Flex, Unity, Maya, AE, RoR, EC2, and MySQL.
VP Engineering

Winster, Inc.

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

2007 — 2008 (1 year )

Building and growing a cooperative casual game site where members can play, socialize, and help each other win real prizes.

Lead both engineering and hosting operations. Technologies include Flex (RIA), Java, MySQL, Apache, Linux, Tomcat. These plus our underlying architecture produce a highly scalable site, fast feature development, detailed instrumentation, and a positive & capable user experience.
CEO, VP Engineering

Velidom

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

December 2004 — 2007 (3 years )

Velidom has two products:
* Now U R ( http://nowur.com/ ) -- Computers as a Service and Virtual Appliance Marketplace
* Your Forge -- Software Development Factory
CTO, VP Engineering, Director of APT

Evant

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2003 — November 2004 (1 year 9 months)

Led engineering for Evant (now part of Manhattan Associates), a 200-person organization that sells enterprise applications to the Retail and Wholesale Industries. Mark oversaw a 60-person development team, four product lines, and three development offices (San Francisco, Atlanta, and Bangalore). While at Evant, Mark directly handled the launching of core product development activities in Bangalore for Evant and IBM, which went from conception to operational in four months.
President

ChiMu Corporation

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1997 — March 2003 (6 years 3 months)

ChiMu builds development tools for the Java marketplace and provides team and architectural leadership to other companies who need to improve their business value productivity.
Architect (CC)

Island Pacific

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

1998 — 2000 (2 years )
Development Manager and Architect (CC)

Crowley Maritime

(Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

1998 — 1998 (less than a year)
Architect (CC)

Cambridge Technology Partners

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

1996 — 1998 (2 years )
Architect (CC)

OOCL

(Public Company; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

1994 — 1996 (2 years )

Architect for the overall system and unified business model of a 3-tier global shipping operations system. Created, documented, and disseminated the system designs throughout a 30+ person project and supported the teams implementing the infrastructure and applications.
Software Engineer

Third Point Systems

(Computer Software industry)

1992 — 1993 (1 year )

Mark Fussell’s Education

California Institute of Technology

BS , Computer Engineering , 1984 — 1989
UCLA

Business, Chinese, Graphic Design

Additional Information

Mark Fussell’s Websites:

Mark Fussell’s Groups:

Caltech Alumni Association
Executive Suite
Ruby on Rails
The Enterprise Architecture Network
Grails User Group
Open Source Universe
Spring Users
Retail Industry Professionals Group
Retailers Industry Management Group: Merchandising, Finance, Supply Chain, E-commerce, IT Technology
iPhone Developers - www.iPhoneintouch.com
Health 2.0
Squeak
Smalltalk
Unity
Rubyists
Scala enthusiasts
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