Todd Ellermann

Current

• VP of Engineering and I.T. at VirtualTourist.com

Past

• Director of I.T. and Web Development at lynda.com, Inc.
• Acting CTO and Director of Development at Empowher.com, Inc.
• Director of I.T. Services at IPower, Inc.

• Senior Solution Architect at Forever Living.com
• President at Sysix Consulting
• Co-Founder and President at Jandx, LLC.
• Java Consultant at A.J. Boggs & Co
• Contractor at Informative Graphics
• Unix System Administrator at Biotech Computing Facility ARL
• Denim Specialist at The Gap
• Assistant Manager at Eegees

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Education

• Arizona State University
• Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of Business
• University of Arizona

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• Webagogy, LLC
• Virtual Tourist
• Better Web App

Todd Ellermann’s Summary

Objective: To attract, lead, grow and develop teams of talented technical resources, and to guide them into the successful delivery of global enterprise-class software systems, while delivering on profitable and sustainable business growth.

Experience: Extensive experience architecting, designing, and developing enterprise class software systems using object oriented software development technologies and processes with extensive experience applying Java, design patterns, and J2EE technologies to complex technical environments. With nine years of verifiable Java development experience implementing business applications, doing research and development of new products, designing multi-tiered systems as well as stand alone SWING applications.

Possess strong leadership skills in locating, organizing, motivating, and developing talented technical resources both professionally as the lead architect of a java development teams as large as fifteen developers, as the president of a consulting organization with more than thirty consultants, and personally in community as a leader of the Phoenix Java User (www.phxjug.org ) group with over five hundred members.

Worked closely with stake holders, business, technical, and customers, to capture and develop supportable, expandable, stable and user-friendly software applications. Provided continuous feedback and communication with stakeholders throughout the software lifecycle to ensure that the end product closely met the needs identified.

Completed extensive objective research into the industry leading web application technology platforms, and evaluated the research using the CMMI DAR process. Research to be published soon.

Todd Ellermann’s Specialties:

* Programming Languages – Java, SQL, XML, XSL, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Perl, C++, FIX
* Packages/API –J2EE, EJB, JDBC, JSP, J2ME, JMS, Struts, Hibernate, Aspects, AWT, SWT, SWING

Todd Ellermann’s Experience

• VP of Engineering and I.T.

  VirtualTourist.com

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; EXPE; Internet industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year )

  Transition technical leadership from the co-founder and technical leader Tillman Reissfelder. Responsible for Engineering, enterprise architecture, development, and I.T. Implementing Groovy on Grails to replace existing web objects/JBOSS/EJB application. Introduction of service oriented architecture concepts. Transitioned to VP of Engineering as part of the Expedia/TripAdvisor acquisition of VirtualTourist.com and onetime.com. Participated in technical due diligence of the acquisition.

• Director of I.T. and Web Development

  lynda.com, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; E-Learning industry)

  October 2007 — April 2008 (7 months)

  Hired to rapidly turnaround a failing I.T. department and struggling engineering organization. Provided guidance in strategic planning, developed complete budgets for both I.T. and Engineering, development of product roadmap, made architectural decisions for both I.T. and engineering investment, and evaluated failing Cold Fusion project and current website (ASP/.NET) infrastructure in an environment where revenue is doubling every 12 months. Reporting to President.

• Acting CTO and Director of Development

  Empowher.com, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

  June 2007 — October 2007 (5 months)

  I joined empowher as a short term contractor to help get them off the ground, establish their technical team and help them launch the initial site. 4-6 first employees were people who had previously worked for/with me at past organizations, and I believe are contributing heavily to the success of the project. I participated heavily in the definition of health events.com and the empowher.com business strategy. I believe that when they launch healthevents.com you will see them make a serious splash in the marketplace. It was a pleasure working with Mrs. Robson and Alan McCann.

• Director of I.T. Services

  IPower, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2006 — May 2007 (9 months)

  As the director of I.T. services I have both the development team and all the senior systems administrators reporting to me. Effectively, I am leading the strategic resources of IPower's I.T. department. In the first six months I have coordinated an I.T. Reorganization, improved customer satisfaction by 6-10%, reduced the complaint volume by 40%, added 5-10% to the bottom line and reduced the I.T. budget by 1/3. We have succesffully implemented version control, unit testing, UAT, code reviews, and have rolled out 2 major versions of our core product. In addition, we have standardized the farm of over 700 shared hosts, making it possible for us to begin to automate portions of the deployment process. Currently in the process of introducing UML (Use Cases, and Class Diagrams) as well as standardizing our teams knowledge of core web application technologies.

• Senior Solution Architect

  Forever Living.com

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

  April 2002 — June 2006 (4 years 3 months)

   Saved a Websphere Commerce Suite project from failure. The project was over budget and 9 months late. Under my direction, the project was successfully completed and launched in 90 days.
   Managed the web development team, applications, and systems to growth of online sales in the United States from $300,000 per month to $1.5 Million per month. Additionally, I have produced the successful overhaul of all networking components, security initiatives, process improvement and integration between all external applications with the AS400 system. This includes the successful on time delivery of twelve brand new applications serving various business units. These accomplishments recently culminated in a successful launch of a multi-lingual, multi-currency, multi-national, content managed, fully integrated, marketing and e-Commerce platform.

• President

  Sysix Consulting

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2000 — 2002 (2 years )

• Co-Founder and President

  Jandx, LLC.

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 1998 — 2000 (2 years )

• Java Consultant

  A.J. Boggs & Co

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1998 — 1998 (less than a year)

• Contractor

  Informative Graphics

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1997 — 1998 (1 year )

• Unix System Administrator

  Biotech Computing Facility ARL

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1995 — 1998 (3 years )

• Denim Specialist

  The Gap

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1992 — 1995 (3 years )

• Assistant Manager

  Eegees

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1989 — 1991 (2 years )

Todd Ellermann’s Education

• Arizona State University

  MEng , Software Engineering , 2005 — 2007

  Expected Graduation Dec 2007. GPA 4.0

• Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of Business

  MBA , Software Engineering Certificate , 2005 — 2007

  Tech MBA with Software Engineering Certificate, May 07
  GPA 3.97

  Activities and Societies:

  Student Advisory Board for the MBA Program.

• University of Arizona

  BS , Computer Engineering , 1990 — 1998

  Resident Assistant for 3 years

Additional Information

Todd Ellermann’s Websites:

• Webagogy, LLC
• Virtual Tourist
• Better Web App

Todd Ellermann’s Interests:

Java, Software Development Methodologies, Entrepeneurship, Corporate Cultures, Marketing, Magic the Gathering, PC Games, MMORPG, OS X, Working Out, Ballroom Dancing, Landmark Education,

Todd Ellermann’s Groups:

IEEE, ACM, Phoenix JUG

•    University of Arizona Alumni
•    Grails User Group
•    W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University
•    Gap Inc. Networking
•    Los Angeles Java Users' Group [LAJUG]
•    Arizona Wildcat Biz Network
•    PHXJUG

Todd Ellermann’s Honors:

Beta Gamma Sigma 2007
Phi Kappa Phi 2007

Todd Ellermann’s Contact Settings

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