Tony Karrer

Current

CEO at Browse My Stuff
Founder at Work Literacy
CEO at TechEmpower

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Past

Consultant at LRN
Consultant CTO at Harmoney
Consultant at PacifiCare

CTO-for-Hire at eharmony
Associate Professor at Loyola Marymount University
Director of Systems Development at Knowledge Stream Partners
Director of Systems Development at IEC
Director of Systems Development at Quisic
Director of Development at IEC / Quisic
Research Assistant at University of Southern California
Student at Loyola Marymount

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Education

Loyola Marymount University
University of Southern California
Loyola Marymount University

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Recommended

9 people have recommended Tony

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

Tony Karrer’s Summary

Expert in strategy, planning, integration and development of systems. Significant experience in helping start-ups develop their technology including eHarmony. Also, background in using technology to improve human performance. This often involves HRIS systems, performance management systems, learning management systems (LMS), e-learning, 360 surveys, customer satisfaction surveys, etc.

Frequent speaker and writer on eLearning and ePerformance. Ph.D. in Computer Science and fairly well known in the industry as one of the top technologists in the field.

Founder of Work Literacy (www.workliteracy.com).

Have consulted with numerous companies including: Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Hilton, Warner Music, Universal Music, Memec, Alamo, Adaptec, Capital Group, Toyota, PacifiCare, New York Life, Granite Construction, Digital Insight, WellPoint, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies, SHL Systemhouse, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, RotoHog, MyShape, Luna Imaging, LivePlanet, Project Greenlight, Boook.com, PhotoZone, GKM Ventures, Greenlight Jobs, DesignAShirt.com, LoanToolbox, PDSI, Senn Delaney, World Shoe Association and many others.

I'm fairly open to invitations and discussions. You can contact me or invite me at: akarrer@techempower.com

Tony Karrer’s Specialties:

CTO-for-hire, web 2.0, eLearning 2.0, e-learning 2.0, start-ups, software, web site, e-commerce, e-business, eLearning, e-learning, ePerformance, technology to drive human performance improvement

Tony Karrer’s Experience

CEO

Browse My Stuff

(Internet industry)

October 2008 — Present (10 months)

Browse My Stuff is a start-up company that provides an interesting solution used by companies, associations, nonprofits, causes and publishers to create topic hubs around topics in a way that provides a good user experience and creates traffic. There is also an interesting aspect of network building and community creation through working with bloggers. This can be an interesting part of social media marketing.
Founder

Work Literacy

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

I founded Work Literacy (www.workliteracy.com) to address the fact that with the growth of new technologies, explosion of new information, and accessibility of experts around the world, there’s a growing gap between the work practices and skills that most knowledge workers possess and the resources available to them. In fact, we all have blind spots. Why is that? It's just coming at us too fast to continue to acquire in an ad hoc fashion. We need something to help us make sense of all that is happening that changes how we do our knowledge work.

Work Literacy is a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work.
CEO

TechEmpower

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

October 1997 — Present (11 years 10 months)

TechEmpower is the leading firm in helping organizations use technology to improve human performance. We provide strategy, design & integration and implementation services around e-business, e-learning, performance management, learning management, succession planning, 360 assessments, and many other kinds of systems. Our success has derived directly from producing exceptional solutions, targeted to specific business objectives.

TechEmpower has worked for a wide range of customers from start-ups such as Luna Imaging, eHarmony, ExecGlobalNet, and LivePlanet to midsize companies such as Symbol Technologies, Universal Music Group and Digital Insight to large companies including Microsoft, HP, IBM, National/Alamo, Xerox, New York Life, Nissan, Lexus, WellPoint and PacifiCare. We’ve worked on a wide variety of solutions—from hotel web sites to a subscription-based marriage-matching site; from asset management systems to high-end content management solutions.
Consultant

LRN

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2005 — 2006 (1 year)
Consultant CTO

Harmoney

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2004 — 2005 (1 year)
Consultant

PacifiCare

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; PHS; Hospital & Health Care industry)

2003 — 2005 (2 years)
CTO-for-Hire

eharmony

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1998 — 2001 (3 years)
Associate Professor

Loyola Marymount University

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

August 1990 — May 2000 (9 years 10 months)

Full-time faculty position teaching graduate and undergraduate Programming Languages, Operating Systems, Software Engineering and an award winning Multimedia Design and Development course.
Director of Systems Development

Knowledge Stream Partners

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1995 — 1997 (2 years)
Director of Systems Development

IEC

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1990 — 1996 (6 years)
Director of Systems Development

Quisic

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1990 — 1996 (6 years)
Director of Development

IEC / Quisic

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1991 — 1995 (4 years)
Research Assistant

University of Southern California

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1987 — 1994 (7 years)
Student

Loyola Marymount

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1983 — 1987 (4 years)

Tony Karrer’s Education

Loyola Marymount University

BS , Computer Science , 1988 — 2006
University of Southern California

Ph.D. , Computer Science , September 1987 — June 1993

Tau Beta Pi Fellow - Top 30 Engineers in Nation
Dissertation on Software Engineering
Loyola Marymount University

BS , Computer Science , September 1983 — May 1987

Valedictorian

Activities and Societies:

Golf team

Additional Information

Tony Karrer’s Websites:

Tony Karrer’s Interests:

e-learning, performance improvement, software development, subscription based business, web-enabled start-ups, e-commerce, e-business

Tony Karrer’s Groups:

Software Council or Southern California (SCSC), Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP), American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), Facebook, CTO Forum, Web405, Startup LA, South Bay Internet Entreprenuers, Safari Dinner, eLearningGuild

ExecTec
Entrepreneur Mentor Society
Technology Council of Southern California
LinkedSEO
On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
Linked:HR (#1 Human Resources Group)
Learning, Education and Training Professionals Group
The Convergence Technology Council
OCEAN - Orange County Executives And Networkers
TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
ASTD National
First Tuesday
Trojan CEO Network
(E-)learning network
E-Commerce Solutions
Southern California Venture Capital Community
SpeakerMatch
CIO Exchange
Social Media Today
West LA Tech CxOs
Public Speaking Network
ASTD Chapter Leaders Group
Linked CEO
KM Edge
The eLearning Guild
Marketing & Communication Network
FOLIO: MediaPRO -- Magazine & eMedia Publishing Professionals
SoCal Tech Group
Event Peeps: For Live Event Industry Professionals
LinkedWorking Los Angeles
Learning 2.0
ASTD Los Angeles
Work Literacy/E-Learning Guild: Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals
So Cal Sushi - Southern California Open Networker & Professional Group
Community Group for IFFPS - International Federation For Professional Speakers
Linked Orange County California
Metacognition: "Learning to Learn"
LA CTO Forum
Sales and Marketing Professionals Promoting HighTech and Technology in Los Angeles and its Vicinity
Twittering
4EVRiders.org
Ed Tech Start Ups
South Bay Tech Group
#smchat