Peter Voutov

Current

Chief Software Architect/Consultant at Ivory Capital
Chief Software Architect/Consultant at Ivory Investment Management, L.P.

Past

Consultant at Veoh Inc
CTO at La Jolla Digital LLC
CTO at sms.ac

CTO at Spark Networks
Director of Systems Architecture at Akonix Systems Inc
Senior Software Engineer at CollegeClub.com

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Education

Columbia University - Columbia Business School
Harvard University

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Peter Voutov’s Summary

An accomplished IT Strategist and Expert Solutions Provider with 10+ years in product development, project management, technology operations, and hands-on programming.

Verifiable success delivering high-performance, cost-efficient and fully scalable technology solutions to meet diverse and complex business challenges.

Recognized expertise managing and integrating complex systems including hardware, software, databases, networks and telecommunication.

Peter Voutov’s Specialties:

Technology research, development, operations. Microsoft .NET, healthcare systems, online communities, SQL, hedge funds, social networks, videos

Peter Voutov’s Experience

Chief Software Architect/Consultant

Ivory Capital

(Partnership; Investment Management industry)

May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Chief Software Architect/Consultant

Ivory Investment Management, L.P.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Investment Management industry)

May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Consultant

Veoh Inc

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

August 2006 — May 2007 (10 months)

Responsible for data warehouse build-out, business and web site analytics, database administration, and report building. Hands-on position requiring knowlege of .NET and mysql.
CTO

La Jolla Digital LLC

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

October 2004 — December 2006 (2 years 3 months)

• Co-founded company in January 2004.

• Responsible for all aspects of technology development and operations.

• Primary architect, designer and developer of the company’s first product, La Jolla Digital Practice Manager, a web based tool enabling physicians to manage their practices online. Modules include: billing, scheduling, insurance processing, medical records, administration, reports, and a community site for patients to connect with their physicians at www.mdconnection.com.

• Contributed to business strategy and product marketing. Created the initial business plan.

• Managed online marketing and search engine optimizations for corporate web site.
CTO

sms.ac

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

January 2006 — August 2006 (8 months)
CTO

Spark Networks

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; LOV; Internet industry)

August 2001 — October 2004 (3 years 3 months)

• Responsible for ensuring and enhancing the reliability, scalability, and development of technologies for MatchNet’s industry-leading online personals services, including JDate.com.

• Helped grow user base from 1 million registered users to over 20 million, supporting approximately 40,000 concurrent users on 5 web communities.

• Integrated and further developed two acquisitions: facelink.com and collegeluv.com

• Managed Network Operations, Application Development, Desktop Support, and Business Services.

• Recruited, hired, trained, managed and motivated a team of over 60 individuals.

• Budgetary and operational span of control for the technology department.

• Established all departmental policies and procedures to insure the uninterrupted service of the company’s websites, protecting the company’s revenue stream.

• Oversaw the rapid development and deployment of new features and technologies in cooperation with marketing, product management and customer service.
Director of Systems Architecture

Akonix Systems Inc

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

June 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 3 months)

• One of 5 founders of Akonix Systems Inc.

• Helped raise first round of venture capital investment through Mission and Winward Ventures.

• Conceived, designed and implemented a highly scaleable suite of web-based communication applications, including Auctions, Classifieds, E-mail, Reward Points, Personals, Profiles, and Photo Albums.

• Developed coding standards, “best use” practices for Visual Basic, VBScript and stored procedures in T-SQL.

• Managed the Source Control database and release builds.

• Performed on-site client integrations at MatchNet plc. (now Spark Networks), and Utonica.com.

• After a six month integration at MatchNet plc, decided to join the executive team there.
Senior Software Engineer

CollegeClub.com

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

February 1999 — June 2000 (1 year 5 months)

• Lead engineer responsible for development of new products and support existing infrastructure.

• Responsible for completion of each phase of product creation: design phase, data modeling in Erwin, database tables and stored procedure creation, and front-end ASP development.

• Projects completed included: Discount Directory, Online Shopping Directory, Auctions, Classifieds, C-Points reward system.

• Conceived, created and single-handedly launched www.highschoolclub.com as a clone of the main site.

As CTO of Campus24.com (acquired by CollegeClub.com):

• Developed auction site for college students from ground up. Supported one item and Dutch auctions.

• Assembled a development team of engineers.

• Managed the daily operation of the web site, configured all servers and software, provided customer support, fixed bugs, and developed new features. The company was acquired by CollegeClub.com and auctions was integrated into their community.