Wade Arnold

Current

CEO at T8DESIGN

Past

CTO at T8DESIGN
VP Internet Sales at TEAM Technologies

Education

University of Iowa - Henry B. Tippie College of Business
University of Northern Iowa

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Connections

120 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

Wade Arnold’s Summary

Wade Arnold is the CEO of T8DESIGN a rich media and application firm located in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Arnold is responsible for strategic planning, product development, and creating an exciting and rewarding corporate environment. Arnold has been selected to be a speaker at several national software development and security conferences. Arnold has an active dialog with Adobe and actively participates in prerelease beta development of Flash, Flex, and Air. Arnold is passionately involved in open source flash/flex development and aligns T8DESIGN behind these initiatives. Arnold is the lead developer of AMFPHP and open source implementation of Flash Remoting. In 2008 Arnold co-authored The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development. Arnold has a degree in Computer Science emphasizing intelligent systems and an MBA from the University of Iowa. T8DESIGN works with hundreds of community banks and medium to enterprise customers including Nike, McDonalds, John Deere, AT&T, Lindsay Corporation, Best Buy, and the Department of Defense.

Wade Arnold’s Specialties:

Lead developer AMFPHP.org
VMWare Certified Professional (VCP)
Certified Flex 2 Developer

Wade Arnold’s Experience

CEO

T8DESIGN

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

February 2008 — Present (6 months)

Work to implement CAFE-U (COGS, Authentic, Focused, Equality, Unity) working environment at T8DESIGN. Oversee the production strategy of creative design, RIA's, developer tool sets, and enterprise high availabilty hosting for community banks nationally along with several Fortune 500 companies.

Responsible for profitability, accurate forecasting of P/L, and operational integrity. Report directly to Chairman of BOD.
CTO

T8DESIGN

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 2004 — January 2008 (3 years 4 months)

Responsible for for software life cycle and the development of future technologies at T8DESIGN. Lead the selection of the Flash Platform as the core technology for all service offerings at T8DESIGN.
VP Internet Sales

TEAM Technologies

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

TEAM Technologies has developed a world-class enterprise Data Center in the Midwest. The Data Center provides wholesale collocation services and bandwidth. The N+1 engineered facility provides for a cost-effective high availability solution for corporate IT infrastructures and IT service providers. Wade Arnold was a founding member of TEAM Technologies where he worked with Internet growth companies to analyze benefits of performing system migration and new development in the TEAM facility.

Wade Arnold’s Education

University of Iowa - Henry B. Tippie College of Business

MBA, 2005 — 2007

I learned a lot and gained confidence in my decisions from this program.
University of Northern Iowa

BS, Computer Science, 1997 — 2001

Activities and Societies:

Cedar Valley Linux Users Group
2600 Club
Young Life