Sean Johnson

Current

President at Snooty Monkey, LLC

Past

Open Source Software Engineer at International Business Machines
Director at 3volve Technology, LLC
Product Manager at IBM

Lead Software Architect at IBM
Lead Architect & Technology Strategist at Venetica
Senior Software Engineer at Strategic Technologies

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Sean Johnson’s Summary

I'm a driven, and passionate technologist. I have a rare combination of deep and broad technical skills combined with a range of business experience in corporate, start-up and entrepreneurial environments. I'm an expert in product design and software architecture, and development.

My specialty is taking ideas from back of a napkin, through version 2.0 and to profitability. I've done this consistently throughout my career at places as diverse as IBM, VC-backed startups, consultancies and bootstrapped entrepreneurial ventures.

I'm available for consulting work on the right projects. I get my hands dirty and I get it done.

Contact: sean@snootymonkey.com

Sean Johnson’s Specialties:

Business: Taking ideas from conception to product launch, early stage software development, product design, product management, consumability, ease of use and user experience

Technology: Cloud computing (Amazon EC2, S3, EBS), Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Objective-C/Cocoa Mac and iPhone development, Java, J2EE, Object-oriented Databases

Sean Johnson’s Experience

President

Snooty Monkey, LLC

(Computer Software industry)

January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

Snooty Monkey, LLC is a product development consultancy that specializes in taking your idea from the back of a napkin, through version 2.0 and to profitability. I have a long history of conceiving, creating and launching new, successful products, and with Snooty Monkey I put that experience to work for you.

In addition to dozens of products for others, Snooty Monkey makes BubbleTimer.com, the best way to achieve your goals through better time management.

I'm the President and Founder.
Open Source Software Engineer

International Business Machines

(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2008 — January 2009 (1 year )

Worked on the technical strategy and the implementation of IBM's open source activities in the area of text search with the Apache's Lucene, Solr and Tika projects. Helped create an embeddable text search component from open source and IBM assets for use across all IBM products.
Director

3volve Technology, LLC

(E-Learning industry)

August 2007 — June 2008 (11 months)

Exploratory venture. Researched, conceived and built a beta quality proof of concept product in the area of syllabus creation and management in higher education. This was a result of work I'd done at the School of Information and Library Sciences at UNC.
Product Manager

IBM

(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2006 — February 2008 (2 years )

Product Manager for Search and Discovery in IBM's Software Group. Responsible for the conception, approval, development and launch of IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition, an award winning product that re-invented what product consumability means at IBM.

Mentored other product groups across IBM in the areas of consumability, user experience and how to make the IBM elephant dance.
Lead Software Architect

IBM

(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2004 — March 2006 (1 year 6 months)

Led the technical activities of the engineering team as Venetica was integrated into the IBM organization. Worked across IBM product teams to embed Venetica's Venice Bridge product capabilities into various existing IBM products. Led the effort to align the product architecture to the IBM technology stack including internationalization, localization, accessibility, and hardware and software platform support.
Lead Architect & Technology Strategist

Venetica

(Computer Software industry)

May 1998 — October 2004 (6 years 6 months)

Founded the software product group at a small consultancy and led product strategy and architecture for what then grew to become a 50 person VC funded startup. Conceived and built 3 successful, profitable products in the area of content management and process automation.

Invented a new market segment, Enterprise Content Integration, that grew to be recognized by all the top analyst firms and sprouted numerous competitors.

The 3rd product, Venice Bridge, resulted in a lucrative acquisition by IBM. Was the main technical point of contact with IBM during the acquisition process.
Senior Software Engineer

Strategic Technologies

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1995 — May 1998 (3 years )

Designed, developed and deployed enterprise imaging, content management, workflow automation and product data management systems for Fortune 500 manufacturers and banks.

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Sean Johnson’s Interests:

entrepreneurship, technology, software, consumability, user experience, philosophy, hockey

Sean Johnson’s Groups:

ACM, Raleigh-area Ruby Brigade

The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
Pragmatic Marketing Alumni
Clemson University Alumni (4000+)
Cocoa Touch - iPhone Technology Users Group
UNC Alumni
iPhone Developers - www.iPhoneintouch.com
iPhone Dev Team
Cocoa and Cocoa Touch Developers
iPhone Developer's Group
iphone developers worldwide
iPhone Developers Connection
Raleigh Ruby Brigade (Raleigh.rb)
Mac & iPhone Developers Association