Practical, Hands on Chief Technology Officer
Greater Salt Lake City Area
- Current
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- Founder at TM Ventures, LLC
- Past
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- Vice President of Operations & Support at Berkeley Data Systems
- CTO at Symbiot Business Group
- VP of Engineering at Echopass Corporation
- Director of Development at Sento Corporation
- Quality Assurance at Wordperfect Corporation
- Education
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- Brigham Young University
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Tyler Whitaker’s Summary
I'm currently the Vice President of Operations & Support at Berkeley Data Systems, the leading provider of next genereation online backup solutions. Founded in 2005, Berkeley Data Systems is a software company focused on building the technology behind successful backup solutions like Mozy.com, and MozyPro.com. I'm responsible for building out and managing the data centers as well as all of the technical support functions of the company.
Prior to Berkeley Data Systems, I served as the Chief Technology Officer for Symbiot Business Group, a top provider of integrated property services throughout the United States. I was responsible for delivering technology solutions and designed and deployed a network wide service management system that enabled the company to streamline its operations from 85 people down to 16. I was also able to restructure and reduce the R&D / IT budget by 75%.
At Echopass, a leading provider of hosted contact center solutions, I served as Vice President of Engineering. I guided the engineering of leading-edge products and services for deployment in the Echopass Hosting Center. In this position, I served as the core architect with responsibility for molding a range of application features into seamless services.
At Sento Corporation I was the Director of Development, where I helped design and build what has become the Echopass core technology foundation. In that role, I helped give Sento the technological advantage to land technical support contracts with several Fortune 500 companies, including Gateway Computers and Network Associates.
I has been the CIO in several technology startup companies in fields ranging from biometrics to home security to business consulting. I also worked for WordPerfect Corporation in its VAX/VMS mini-mainframe division, where I headed up the WordPerfect 4.2 quality assurance team.
I have a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young University.
Tyler Whitaker’s Specialties:
Business:
Systems architecture, practical low cost IT solutions, rapid product prototyping, process mapping and improvement, vendor contract negotiation, site selection and planning.
Technology:
php, Visual Basic, SQL, D/HTML, ASP, C, C++, Java, .Net, Win NT/2000/XP, UNIX, MS SQL 2000, MySQL, VAX/VMS
Tyler Whitaker’s Experience
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Founder
TM Ventures, LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2004 — Present (5 years 4 months)
TM Ventures, LLC is a holding company for a number of small business startups that I've been working on. The focus is on information technology services for individual and business needs. PremiereWebPages.com is one of our successful ventures that launched in September of 2006, offering affordable web hosting and other office automation tools. Other areas of focus include: VoIP/Call Center Telephony, Video/Podcast/Blog technologies, and e-commerce web properties.
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Vice President of Operations & Support
Berkeley Data Systems
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2007 — August 2007 (7 months)
Berkeley Data Systems provides remote online backup tools for the popular websites: Mozy.com & MozyPro.com. I'm responsible for the Data Center Operations and Technical Support organizations. We have been tasked with building out the petabyte storage architecture to store billions of our customer files as well as handling all technical support functions of the company.
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CTO
Symbiot Business Group
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Facilities Services industry)
July 2004 — June 2006 (2 years)
Symbiot Business Group, Inc. provides “bundled” property maintenance services to national clients through a consortium of local and independent companies who have various Symbiot programs and resources available to them to improve their efficiencies and profitability.
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VP of Engineering
Echopass Corporation
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2000 — July 2004 (4 years 5 months)
Echopass Corporation provides advanced IP-based call and contact center solutions as a service for mid-to-large enterprises and government agencies through its unique EchoSystem™ service integration platform. Echopass is backed by venture capital firms Canaan Partners and New Enterprise Associates and is a recipient of the Red Herring Top 100 Companies award.
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Director of Development
Sento Corporation
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; SNTO; Telecommunications industry)
July 1995 — March 2000 (4 years 9 months)
Founded in 1986 as an IT services & support company, Sento's contact center services and solutions deliver support to industry-leading clients worldwide, including Network Associates, McAfee, Inc., and Gateway Computers. Sento's technology was the successful foundation that spawned Echopas Corporation in March 2000.
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Quality Assurance
Wordperfect Corporation
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 1989 — May 1993 (4 years 1 month)
WordPerfect Corporation was the market leader in the early wordprocessing and office productivity market. It was sold to Novell in 1994.
Tyler Whitaker’s Education
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Brigham Young University
BS , Computer Science , August 1992 — April 1998
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Travel, Real Estate, Spelunking, Gadgets, Technology, Web 2.0, Micro Businesses
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