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  • CTO Vantage LLC

    Fractional CTO Consulting

  • What is a Fractional CTO?

    Yes, it makes sense.

    Increase Confidence, Stay Aggressive, Manage Cost.

    In many cases when you think you need a full time technology leader on your team, you're better served with a high quality part-time relationship. Ask yourself why you feel you need to add help in tech or product leadership. Often it's you want a tech-experienced business minded partner, who understands your business, where it is today, where you want it to go, what characteristics it needs to achieve. And someone who cares about those things like you do, who knows where the important choices are and what high vs low quality looks like in context of your mission, and who you have at arm's length. That relationship can be achieved cost effectively on a part-time basis.

    A Familiar Model

    When you need an attorney, sometimes what you need is in-house general counsel, but frequently what you need is a good quality part-time relationship. Technology leadership can work the same way.

  • Where Would The Role Fit In?

    These are some of the key areas of potential impact.

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    Architecture Choices

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    Investment Readiness

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    Roadmap

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    Customer Conversations

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    Delivery Process

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    Team Dynamics

  • About Me

    I'm a practical business-oriented technical leader and innovator. I like thinking big, and I like working with people who think big.

     

    My current industry focus is FinTech and the many directions of great innovations in progress there.

     

    I want to work with teams whose overall mission is to improve lives in their own way, and to continually make the world a better place.

     

    Representative clients and employers below.

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    FinTech School

    Acting CPO | San Francisco

    Leadership responsibility in product, content, and instructor pipeline. The school is pioneering a new kind of practical action-oriented education for fintech practitioners, both retail and through partnerships.

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    Centrallo

    Acting CTO | San Francisco

    Working with founder/CEO and with offshore engineering lead to align priorities and delivery with company needs, and to support sales. Centrallo offers mobile and desktop tools that can fundamentally change how crisis management teams collaborate in real time. Sold primarily to enterprise.

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    Pypestream

    Acting CTO | San Francisco

    Led engineering, product, and platform across SF and NY offices, and globally distributed contractors. Pypestream's platform has been an early player in the hot conversational web space that's on its way to significant disruption to the mobile browser paradigm.

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    StrongView (Selligent)

    CTO | Redwood City

    Led technology roadmap and product management, primarily around big data analytics and cloud hosting strategy. StrongView was a leader in enterprise email marketing platforms. Acquired by Selligent, 2015.

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    SWN Communications

    CTO | New York

    Led engineering and tech operations, architecture updates, for two US locations and an engineering site in Eastern Europe. SWN provides emergency communications tools for many Fortune 500's and government organizations.

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    ContextWeb (PulsePoint)

    Co-founder & CTO | New York

    Co-founded and led build of real-time contextualization platform, originally a navigation product and then an ad platform. Bootstrapped 4 years and then Series A-C venture capital. Merged 50/50 with Datran Media to form Pulsepoint, 2011.

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    Sapient

    Technical Architect | New York

    Worked with Wall Street clients such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, on tech and business process analysis, and tech solution design and implementations.

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    DataKind

    Data Ambassador, Core Volunteer | San Francisco

    Volunteering with DKSF, led teams of 15-20 data scientists on weekend hackathons looking into homelessness prevention programs.

  • Contact

    Happy to chat, either about specific needs or exploratory.

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