Personal details

James T.

Timezone: Pacific Time (US & Canada) (UTC-7)

Summary

Creative and hands-on technology executive with 20 years of Silicon Valley experience and a career track record of $1.1B in successful acquisitions and IPOs. Led 2 startups in the last 5 years to successful acquisitions totaling $110M. Passionate about user experience and building amazing products that customers rave about. Believes that great leadership is by example, and builds organizations that encourage risk-taking to foster innovation. Wide-ranging technology expertise from software development and engineering, to automation, virtualization, cloud computing, machine learning, and web-scale infrastructure and operations. Strong preference for people, processes, and technologies that enable rapid experimentation, iteration, and progress. Writer for Forbes, Network World, Information Week, VMBlog, DevOps.com and featured in ZDNet, CRN, EWeek, The Register, and many more.

Technical skills

Ruby on Rails・12 yrs Machine Learning・6 yrs Data Science・12 yrs Startups・20 yrs

Work Experience

CTO and Founder

Semantiq Technologies | Aug 2017 - Present

Ruby

Python

Ruby on Rails

Machine Learning

Rails 5

Gensim

AI (artificial intelligence)

Founded Semantiq Technologies in August of 2017 using machine learning to combat cyber bullying and other abuse online. Created patent-pending classification engine and cloud API using a combination of supervised learning models (SVM+TF-IDF, Bayes, LSI, using Scikit-learn) and a custom NLP parser paired with unsupervised models for content discovery and classification (Gensim, Tensorflow). Released the WiseMonkey extension for Chrome to automatically block toxic and abusive posts from Facebook and Twitter newsfeeds.

CTO

Hypergrid | Dec 2015 - Aug 2017

Python

Angular

Linux

VMware

Docker

Google Cloud Platform

Product Design

Recruited by the Chairman of the Board, created and executed a bold 2-year strategy to transform a legacy converged infrastructure startup into a revolutionary on-premises public cloud business, raising $35M in new venture capital. * Led and completed the strategic acquisition of 2 private companies, DCHQ and XOcur, and successfully merged them with GridStore to form HyperGrid in 2016. * Achieved rave reviews and awareness from customers and key analysts, increasing ASP from $140k in 2015 to $1M and revenue run rate from $5M in 2015 to $20M in 2017. * Hands-on leadership, successfully scaled and trained a 12-person product team to over 50 engineers in just 9 months, recruiting two world-class engineering and product VPs along the way. * Created a wholly-owned subsidiary in Noida, India, recruiting leadership and a 25 person development organization in 6 months. * Modernized development tools and processes, transforming a slow waterfall-driven engineering team into a world-class agile development team, accelerating feature development and delivery by 600% in just 6 months.