Phil Scales

Current

CEO at Banzai Labs Inc.

Past

Chief Architect, Senior Director R&D at Kapow Technologies
Director, Mobile Applications: Content Services at Volantis Systems
Principal Architect at Powered Inc.

Senior Developer at 360Commerce
Banzai Labs Project: Consulting Architect at Internal Machine Industries
Banzai Labs Project: Consulting Architect at Rocksteady Networks
Senior Developer at Motive Communications
Support Engineer at Dazel Corporation
Geophysical Analyst/System Administrator at Western Geophysical
Research Assistant at Nanofabrication Lab, Texas A&M University
Student Programmer at NASA
Programmer at Houston Advanced Research Center: Texas Accelerator Center

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Education

Texas A&M University

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Phil Scales’s Summary

Experienced building new products in a startup environment and working with established companies to enter new markets and design and develop new products. Areas of expertise include mobile web and on-device applications, iPhone apps, Direct-to-Consumer web applications, social networks, retail software, communities and SaaS/OnDemand products.

Extensive experience building and operating SaaS and Managed Service platforms. Proven ability to integrate agile technologies, such as Ruby on Rails, with legacy Java platforms to accelerate product lifecyle while maximizing re-use of existing technology investments. Successful track record of taking Enterprise platforms to a SaaS and/or Managed Service model.

Phil Scales’s Specialties:

Ability to design and develop complete products including collaborating with other teams to complete early stage product marketing and requirements gathering, design, development, deployment and sales in a wide range of markets and technologies.

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, iPhone, AJAX, Javascript, Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, EJB, SQL, Swing, C/C++, XHTML, CSS, Perl, PHP, ActiveX/COM, Linux.

Phil Scales’s Experience

CEO

Banzai Labs Inc.

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

December 2008 — Present (1 year )

Focused on iPhone App development and mobile application consulting.

iPhone Apps:
- Launched over 40 successful iPhone Apps including several Category-Top 50 apps.
- Launched 12 art gallery apps in partnership with artists from around the world.
- Developed the two top selling binaural brainwave entrainment apps in the app store over the last year.

Web Projects:
- Designed and developed the ONRatings Social Ratings and Reviews platform built using Ruby on Rails and AJAX.
- BanzaiApp.com: Mobile application rating and review community.
- CareerVote.com: Ratings and Reviews of companies and employers based on the ONRatings Platform.

Consulting Clients:
- iLoop Mobile - Interactive mobile marketing
- Internal Machines Industries: Interactive mobile focus group/usability platform.
- Tengo Internet: WiFi ISP
- BlueSpace: Secure E-mail Platform
- Rocksteady Networks: Secure WiFi ISP Platform
- Kapow Technologies: SaaS Webservice Enablement
Chief Architect, Senior Director R&D

Kapow Technologies

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 5 months)

Started, as part of 2 person founding team, the Austin sales, support and R&D office of Kapow Technologies to create Kapow's first OnDemand product offering and to develop Kapow's community offerings.

Created Kapow's first OnDemand commercial offering, a complete webservice-enablement and media syndication platform. Developed Kapow's first Ruby on Rails applications, integrating them with legacy Java applications to maximize re-use of proven technologies while accelerating the development of new applications with Ruby on Rails.

Responsible for the OnDemand business operation, product direction, architecture, design and development, producing sales and marketing collateral, and for managing the OnDemand R&D team.

Also significantly involved with direct Sales and Marketing efforts and defining new market opportunities and positioning for Kapow's products. Brought in multiple customers and helped make the business profitable within 2 quarters of product launch.
Director, Mobile Applications: Content Services

Volantis Systems

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

August 2005 — July 2007 (2 years )

Worked closely with customers, partners and sales to drive the design, architecture and user-experience of Mobile Web Applications, Mobile Storefronts, Social Media Applications and Mobile Client Applications for global media companies, television networks and wireless network operators.

Architect and Project Manager for Volantis Content Services Mobile Video Platform, which manages and syndicates video content and delivers optimized mobile video transcoded to support thousands of mobile devices.

Projects include:

- CBS Mobile Video
- Oscars Mobile, wap.oscar.com, for ABC.
- Fully functional Mobile AJAX applications for Amazon.com and eBay.
- Content and media syndication platform for mobile operators
- Mobile Homescreen applications integrating phone features with realtime updates, news and video.

Previous roles at Volantis included Senior Researcher, Special Projects and Senior Technical Consultant, Global Services.
Principal Architect

Powered Inc.

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

June 2004 — July 2005 (1 year 2 months)

Together with a small team of developers released the 7.0 and 7.1 of Powered's Education-based opt-in Marketing framework for creating and deploying consumer education portals combined with sponsorship and opt-in campaign management. In addition to product development also implemented portals and enhancements for clients such as CNET (courses.help.com), HP (www.hplearningcenter.com) and Atkins.
Senior Developer

360Commerce

(Computer Software industry)

April 2003 — June 2004 (1 year 3 months)

As Senior Developer and Team Lead helped design and develop a complete end-to-end Production Management application for Fedex/Kinko's using Java/Swing, EJBs, and Java Web Services.
Banzai Labs Project: Consulting Architect

Internal Machine Industries

(Computer Software industry)

January 2002 — December 2003 (2 years )

Worked with Internal Machine to develop their Interactive Market Research applications based on their Interactive Cinema product currently deployed in movie theaters in Austin. Application involved a web-based console to conduct the focus groups while participants provided feedback on Windows Mobile devices.
Banzai Labs Project: Consulting Architect

Rocksteady Networks

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)

2001 — 2002 (1 year )

Worked with the Rocksteady Networks team to develop a secure Wireless ISP Platform to market to ISPs and merchants. The product was a complete platform including secure, managed wireless nodes and a central billing system.
Senior Developer

Motive Communications

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; MOTVE; Computer Software industry)

1998 — 2001 (3 years )

As a member of the Motive Labs team developed new products for wireless, embedded, and web-based platforms. Developed a rich customer care client application for Windows Mobile. Also developed a guided user experience combining contextual information from a users PC with relevant support content.
Support Engineer

Dazel Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1997 — June 1998 (1 year 6 months)

Handled support cases and developed support automation tools for the maintenance of global print, fax, and email systems for Fortune 500 companies. Developed a platform that allowed support engineers to view visual maps of customer deployments, usage patterns and configurations to quickly identify and resolve problems.
Geophysical Analyst/System Administrator

Western Geophysical

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Oil & Energy industry)

January 1996 — August 1997 (1 year 8 months)

Supervised a 24x7 real-time Geophysical data processing team on board on a Seismic Oil and Gas Exploration Ship. System Administrator for IBM SP2 systems.
Research Assistant

Nanofabrication Lab, Texas A&M University

(Nanotechnology industry)

May 1995 — December 1996 (1 year 8 months)

Researched applications of nanotechnology for the development of highly efficient solar cells.
Student Programmer

NASA

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

May 1991 — September 1991 (5 months)

Developed software to measure, profile and track space debris based on data from ground-based optical telescopes.
Programmer

Houston Advanced Research Center: Texas Accelerator Center

(Research industry)

May 1990 — August 1991 (1 year 4 months)

Started as an intern in the particle physics group and moved into a programming role developing applications to analyze data and particle mass from particle collider experiments. Learned how to program and make coffee.

Developed applications using wavelet mathematics to generate optimized pulse forms for MRI devices, as well as applications to graphically render the waveforms.

Phil Scales’s Education

Texas A&M University

BS , Physics , August 1991 — May 1995

Areas of advanced study included Solid State Physics, Mathematics, and Electrical Engineering.

Activities and Societies:

Research Assistant, Nanofabrication Lab
Teaching Assistant, Physics Dept (Taught Electricity and Magnetism labs for Engineering students)