Ted Nadeau

Current

• President at Dot * Line - Inc.

Past

• Director of Product Management at Root Markets Inc.
• Director of IT at Root Markets Inc.
• Chief Information Officer at American Cash Exchange, Inc.

• CTO at Restricted Stock Systems Inc.
• CTO at Cybersites Inc.
• Senior Technical Project Manager at J.C. Bradford
• President/Founder at Dot Line Inc. (Self-employed)
• Programmer at Tesuji Corp.
• Senior Programmer at Decision Images Inc.
• President at Terrace Club

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Education

• Princeton University
• Marblehead High School

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Industry

Financial Services

Ted Nadeau’s Summary

Broad diverse start-up experience with full life cycle technical development.

Ted Nadeau’s Specialties:

High Speed Technical Project Management.

Ted Nadeau’s Experience

• Director of Product Management

  Root Markets Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  April 2006 — November 2006 (8 months)

  Designing the public/consumer/user-facing product line including Root Vaults, Root Worms & Root Widgets, Root Kibitz & Client. Managing development team. Attention Economy, Mortgage Lead Exchange, Web 2.0 (Identity 2.0) initiatives. Detailed technical work in Postgres 8, MySQL 5, PHP 5, Data Modeling, clustering & scaling, Mac development. Integration initiatives with OpenID, Loyalty Lab, CodeFab.

• Director of IT

  Root Markets Inc.

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

  June 2006 — September 2006 (4 months)

  Assigned management role of IT after sudden departure of prior director. Rapidly audited, stabilized, secured and optimized department, all internal (2 locations) & external IT resources including data center (80 servers), e-mail migration, backups & monitoring. Accomplished with zero lapse in services and zero effort on my own manager. Promoted best practices and higher standards. Added missing resource. Empowered & mentored individuals. Successful hand-off of department to enable concentration on core mission w/in company.

• Chief Information Officer

  American Cash Exchange, Inc.

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

  June 2003 — April 2006 (2 years 11 months)

  Multi-country (US & Mexico) marketing of new financial services international money-transfer product PoniCard. Developed and Managed all MIS & reporting systems. Technical partnerships w/ Hypercom, Ingenico. Detailed management of graphic & text design of all materials. On & Off-site management of remote sales teams. Management of call center, merchant services & customer services.

• CTO

  Restricted Stock Systems Inc.

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

  October 2001 — June 2003 (1 year 9 months)

  Initial member (+ A/B round investor) in ground-floor start-up. Key participation in all realms. Investor relations, Business Development (Business design, positioning, knowledge gathering, competitive landscape analysis, etc.), Technical (built from scratch and maintained internal infrastructure of 20 servers + 15 desktops + 10 laptops, architecture, development guidelines, etc.), Marketing (Branding, Content), Human Resources (Interviewing, Mentoring, Ramp-up, Integration), Client interactions/contract negotiations (esp. SLA) (Financial Firms: Deutsche Bank, Charles Schwab, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, EquiServe, ComputerShare, Bank of New York, ADP, SunGard, etc.), sales support, troubleshooting escalation path, Vendors (Identification, Negotiation) x (WorldCom, IBM Global e-Business hosting, etc.) Provided majority of content for utility Patent Filing. Built production data center. Module design (10B5-1 Selling Plans, Opinion Letter Writer).

• CTO

  Cybersites Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

  1999 — 2001 (2 years)

  Brought in to help stabilize production technical platform (PHP/Apache/Informix), re-architect data models and access pathways for increased stability & performance, manage technical team (10 programmers) & operations/engineering (3 people), consult with sales & management regarding strategy and tactics. VC interactions (Odeon, Arts Alliance), Negotiation w/ potential strategic investors (Cahners, About.com). Architectural vision (Jabber/Muze), Negotiation w/ vendors (Storage Networks, PSINet), interfacing w/ Editorial content providers (20 people)

• Senior Technical Project Manager

  J.C. Bradford

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Financial Services industry)

  September 1999 — September 2000 (1 year 1 month)

  Chief Methodologist (Scope = all artifacts and processes necessary to produce on-time, within budget, reproducible software projects); Project manager of Advisor Workbench (out-sourced project DHTML, Java Applet, Oracle 8i); Assistance w/ Business model. Participant in multiple project design teams including: Client-Facing Web Site - Requirements analysis and Architecture (Pure HTML / JSP / Servlets / WebLogic / Oracle), Remote Advisor (Laptop, VPN, Replication, low bandwidth), Presentation Platform (PowerPoint, MS-Binder, Adobe Acrobat 4.0, Eastman Software Imaging & Workflow, Web Integration, etc.); HR Interviews

• President/Founder

  Dot Line Inc. (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 1994 — September 1999 (5 years 5 months)

  Technical Lead Prudential - Brought in as programmer/assistant/2nd person on project, developed initial prototype, continuously promoted in responsibilities to serve as technical lead / front-end team leader managing team of 10-16 developers from 7 different firms; Primary person responsible for creating MS-Access 97 / MS-VB5 Front-end for client/server workflow automation / custom desktop litigation support system for multi-state class action settlement including Imaging, Workflow, Telephony, legacy/Mainframe i/o, MAPI. 3000+ users nation-wide dedicated private network; Helped create, structure and man production support, testing (automation, performance), backend team (MS-SQL 4.2->6.0->6.5); Provided key troubleshooting analysis (deadlocks, concurrency, etc.); Mentoring of Team members, Shifting of development culture. Moved to new, line-of-business critical De-mutualization project to serve as Subject Matter Expert & Tech Architect

• Programmer

  Tesuji Corp.

  (Financial Services industry)

  1995 — 1995 (less than a year)

• Senior Programmer

  Decision Images Inc.

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

  August 1987 — May 1994 (6 years 10 months)

  Product managed & created MapBox and MapAlgebra an implementation (in lex/yacc) of academic GIS raster modeling language; Increased speed, number of supported platforms, functionality, documentation and clarity of existing code in Resource - an APL & C based multi-spectral image-processing and analysis toolkit/turnkey system; re-wrote major sections of Roots - a vector GIS data entry tool for commercialization of academic software; Managed key custom consulting and development projects; provided technical sales support; Taught off-site training courses; Provided custom client consulting and support; Maintained company’s knowledge of existing hardware and technologies; Represented company at trade shows; assisted in marketing, specifically advertisement creation and implementation.

• President

  Terrace Club

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Think Tanks industry)

  1983 — 1987 (4 years)

Ted Nadeau’s Education

• Princeton University

  BA, Computer Science, September 1982 — May 1987

  Activities and Societies:

  Terrace Club (president)

• Marblehead High School

  September 1978 — June 1982

  Activities and Societies:

  Soccer, Math Team,