Winston Fassett

Current

CTO / Director of Product Development at RaceNation.com
Mascot at WinstonWorks

Past

Software Engineer at NewsFutures
Manager of Application Development at ORIX USA
Associate at Perot Systems

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Education

Baylor University

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Financial Services

Websites

Winston Fassett’s Summary

Obsessive technologist with application architecture, product strategy, and development experience in endurance sports (RaceNation), crowd-sourcing (NewsFutures), and Android applications (ShopSavvy).

Winston Fassett’s Experience

CTO / Director of Product Development

RaceNation.com

(Internet industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Driving the design and construction of a niche social network built from scratch on the ASP.NET platform by a team of exceptional developers with extraordinary cross-functional skillsets. Beyond managing all technology initiatives down to the lowest level, as member of the executive team, I play a key role in defining and enacting business strategy, marketing and branding, launch and operations.
Mascot

WinstonWorks

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2005 — Present (4 years )

Technology and strategy consulting for businesses of all sizes. Product strategy & design, project management, business process design and automation, technical architecture, full lifecycle development, information architecture, document and content management, UI design and usability.

Technologies include: .NET 1.1-3.5, Java, Ruby, web, windows, MS Office add-ins, Android, iPhone, CRM, SEO, data warehousing / business intelligence, Sharepoint, and the Facebook Platform.
Software Engineer

NewsFutures

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Market Research industry)

2006 — 2007 (1 year )
Manager of Application Development

ORIX USA

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Financial Services industry)

June 2001 — December 2007 (6 years 7 months)

Manager of Application Development reporting to the CIO. Managed all application development projects and resources in order to deliver quality application solutions all lines of business, which spanned the globe and included finance, real estate, and investment banking.

Architected, managed, and personally developed many web and desktop applications from scratch in both Java and .NET, as well as customized and extended 3rd party applications for document management (iManage, Sharepoint), asset management (Wall Street Office) and CRM (SalesLogix).

Custom applications included:

OCM Online - A rich, web-based business intelligence portal for investors.

S3 - A large web application for managing all aspects of the special servicing process including property management, foreclosures, litigation and reporting.

ValAut - an Excel Add-In enabling analysts performing public company valuations to share research findings with each other.
Associate

Perot Systems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PER; Information Technology and Services industry)

1998 — 2001 (3 years )