Todd Pinkerton

Current

• Director at MyHappyPlanet.com
• startup consultant at independant consultant (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

• Chief Technology Officer at RadioSherpa, Inc
• Senior Software Engineer at Locamoda, Inc
• Senior Engineer at Orange SA

• entrepreneur at TVminder
• QA engineer / program manager at atg

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Education

• Harvard University
• Case Western Reserve University

Recommended

2 people have recommended Todd

Connections

125 connections

Industry

Telecommunications

Websites

• Orange Scribble
• My Blog
• My Portfolio

Todd Pinkerton’s Summary

My passion is creating innovative consumer services. Previously I have developed :

voice services for mobile phones
web services for television viewers
mobile handset software
enterprise web application software



experience includes :
IBM
atg (Art Technology Group)
Orange SA (www.orange.co.uk)
tvminder.com
locamoda, inc
ringfo.com

Todd Pinkerton’s Specialties:

rapid prototyping
mobile applications
web 2.0

Todd Pinkerton’s Experience

• Director

  MyHappyPlanet.com

  (Telecommunications industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year)

• startup consultant

  independant consultant (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  October 2006 — Present (2 years 10 months)

  I provide software development services for a variety of clients. I enjoy working with the latest web technologies and methodolgies, including Ruby on Rails and social networking.
  
  More than just developer-for-hire, I work closely with my clients to deeply understand their business and develop software that solves their problems. We offer programming, product and project management, and design services to provide a complete out-of-the-box development solution.
  
  I practice agile development methodologies to deliver reliable software. This means you will see progress from start to finish, so there are no surprises. And we will work closely together, incorporating your feedback as we build the product that's right for you.

• Chief Technology Officer

  RadioSherpa, Inc

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  April 2006 — October 2006 (7 months)

  Led development of online and embedded solutions for High Definition radio listeners.
  Managed a team of 8 hardware and software developers, specified requirements, developed software components. Established and enforced major pieces of software engineering process for growing company, including source control, bug tracking, etc. Liased with vendors and industry groups to establish partnerships. Engaged investors for fundraising and staffed advisory board.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Locamoda, Inc

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  July 2005 — April 2006 (10 months)

  Conceived, designed, and developed applications connecting mobile phones to outdoor screen networks. Developed network infrastructure to support such applications. Liased with design agencies from concept to launch of product. Built relationships with telephony vendors to deliver voice and data content.

• Senior Engineer

  Orange SA

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; ORGEF; Telecommunications industry)

  January 2002 — April 2005 (3 years 4 months)

  Conceive and prototype new services for mobile phones;
  develop handset software and network services
  evangelize projects to encourage company-wide adoption
  organize and support small internal and externall trials
  develop business case and roll-out plan for projects
  manage third party application development and deployment of services into the Orange network

• entrepreneur

  TVminder

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  April 2001 — January 2002 (10 months)

  designed and developed TVminder.com.
  Tvminder sends you email when a movie (or actor, director, etc) you want to see is on TV.
  Service and website development
  integrated with hundreds of third party fan sites

• QA engineer / program manager

  atg

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; ARTG; Telecommunications industry)

  May 1999 — July 2001 (2 years 3 months)

  1) Quality Assurance (testing) of Dynamo Application Server.
  -wrote test plans and test cases
  -wrote Java code to exercise DAS features
  -wrote JSP pages to exercise DAS features
  
  2) Led certification program for atg's J2EE-compliant server.
  
  3) Later, became program manager for entire J2EE server team (approx 12 people). Managed entire product lifecycle from spec to release and support.

Todd Pinkerton’s Education

• Harvard University

  A.L.M , IT, Management , 2002 — 2008

  Harvard Extension School Master of Liberal Arts
  in Information Technology Management
  
  Classes include :
  - Web database applications
  - Internet marketing strategy
  - Internetworking
  - Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  - Security, Privacy, and Usability
  - E-commerce strategies
  - Trends in enterprise information systems
  - IT Project Management

  Activities and Societies:

  Harvard Extension Student Association
  Harvard Entrepreneurship Club

• Case Western Reserve University

  B.S.E , Computer Engineering , 1994 — 1999

Additional Information

Todd Pinkerton’s Websites:

• Orange Scribble
• My Blog
• My Portfolio

Todd Pinkerton’s Interests:

Professional networking, travel, startup companies, web and mobile technology, investing, softball, independent films.

Todd Pinkerton’s Groups:

MIT entrepreneurship club
Harvard Entrepreneurs
Harvard Extension Student Association

•    The Personal MBA Community
•    Harvard University ALM-IT Master's Degree

Todd Pinkerton’s Honors:

France Telecom Innovation Prize, 2003
awarded for: OrangeScrible ( http://scribble.orange.us )

Todd Pinkerton’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch