Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of three, successful, multinational, venture-backed, companies (two IPO, 1 sale, total $2.3B returned to investors). Equally at home discussing architectural details with engineers or business strategy with the CEO.
Experience: Pioneering real-time, big data, credit card fraud detection systems. Enterprise scale e-commerce systems (virtual and physical goods.) High volume SaaS/PaaS API design. Dynamic content management, real-time content normalization and reformatting.
Simultaneously managing multi platform, multi location, teams (iOS, Android, Win, Mac, Web).
Scaling engineering/DEVOPS/QA teams from seed to IPO. Delivering for four nines uptime. Strong Security, P2P, Video, Content, and Networking background
I'm responsible for the full technology stack. Managing integrated engineering, QA and DevOPS teams, in multiple locations, across all platforms (Web, Cloud, iOS, OS X, Android and Win).
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Focused product strategy, doubled size of engineering and operations dept, oversaw transfer to reliable infrastructure, added process and QA to engineering.
Managed all technical aspects of the company: Engineering, DEVOPS, QA, IT from inception past $100 million revenue and IPO. Including large scale e-commerce, fraud management, content distribution, 3rd party vendor integration.
CTO & Co-Founder CyberSource.Founded the company (as software.net/beyond.com) with Bill McKiernan. Wrote all the early credit card fraud detection system. Together with partner, took the company public. CyberSource was subsequently acquired by VISA in July 2010 for $2 Billion
Founder, Board Member, Specialix Inc and Specialix PLC. Developers of I/O cards for Unix/Xenix based systems. Bootstrapped by the founders, the company attained multi-millions in revenue with offices in the UK, US and Singapore. Acquired by Pearle Systems.
A preview of what LinkedIn members have to say about John:
John is one of the best engineering leaders I have had the pleasure of working with. His insight and technical depth help him quickly identify the most effective solution to problems rapidly. John is very adept at evaluating not only technical considerations but also business, team, and (most importantly) customer impact.
His nimble technical mind coupled with solid leadership and communication skills helped our team deal not only deal with a number of technical issues rapidly but really helped advance all of the products forward efficiently.
John's genius for operations management and logistics was obvious in the years I worked with him on the Black Rock Ranger Council. His intelligence and wit made the many long meetings more bearable.