Chief Geek at SocialCash
Washington D.C. Metro Area
- Current
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- Chief Geek at SocialCash
- Past
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- Vice President, Engineering at Gratis Internet
- Chief Architect at Voxiva
- Chief Technology Officer at Digital Divide Data
- Education
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- University of Virginia
- Connections
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- Industry
- Computer Software
- Websites
Portman Wills’s Summary
Over the last 14 years, Portman Wills has led small engineering teams to deliver over 250 web sites and desktop applications. He has served as Chief Architect, CTO, and VP Engineering at several technology companies.
He currently leads the technology department at SocialCash, an online media and technology company that helps Facebook developers monetize and improve their applications.
Career highlights include: leading the technology department at Gratis Internet which was recognized as the 20th fastest-growing private company by Inc Magazine; deploying communications systems at Voxiva that are used by Ministries of Health across Africa to track disease outbreaks; architecting the software that allowed Digital Divide Data to expand into Laos and Vietnam; building the popular commencement speech archive Fly Little Bird; designing the communications protocols between Liberty Wireless (an early MVNO in the US) and Sprint; and founding the Cavalier Daily Online Edition.
Portman studied mathematics, economics, and computer science at the University of Virginia.
Portman Wills’s Specialties:
Enterprise architecture, software development, information and communications technologies, consumer web properties, business-to-business web services
Portman Wills’s Experience
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Chief Geek
SocialCash
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year)
Socialcash helps top Facebook developers create sustainable businesses from their applications by offering advertising, analytics, and code libraries.
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Vice President, Engineering
Gratis Internet
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
February 2006 — July 2008 (2 years 6 months)
Responsibilities: managed a 20-person team of software developers, test engineers, DBAs, network administrators, and project managers; hire, train and mentor staff; establish and enforce sound engineering policies; oversee back-end architecture and front-end design of all applications.
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Chief Architect
Voxiva
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 8 months)
Responsibilities: oversaw enterprise architecture; managed software engineering teams (15 in Peru, 8 in India); established coding standards; conducted code reviews; mentored developers; represented company at industry conferences.
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Chief Technology Officer
Digital Divide Data
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Services industry)
May 2003 — May 2004 (1 year 1 month)
Responsibilities: supervised all IT operations; administered long-term technology policies such as hardware purchases, server maintenance, software development, information security, and staff training; managed a five member IT team; spearheaded expansion into Laos and Vietnam.
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President
Wills Consulting
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
September 2000 — April 2003 (2 years 8 months)
My independent consulting practice provides software services to corporations and non-profits.
Client list includes: InPhonic (Washington, DC), Capital Investment Group (Cincinnati, OH), Libery Wireless (Largo, MD), World Links (Kampala, Uganda), University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA), The Dropstone Group (Los Angeles, CA) -
Program Manager, MSN HomeAdvisor
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Internet industry)
April 2000 — August 2000 (5 months)
Responsibilities: owned “Prepayment Penalty” feature; researched, cataloged and documented system-wide error handling.
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Managing Editor, Online Edition
The Cavalier Daily
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Newspapers industry)
September 1998 — March 2000 (1 year 7 months)
Responsibilities: Recruited, trained, and supervised staff in developing, designing, editing and promoting web site.
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Web Developer
PSINet
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 1996 — August 1998 (2 years 4 months)
Responsibilities: Designed and implemented over 30 web sites for Fortune 5000 corporations.
