Ivan Louis Gevirtz
3 Birchwood Ct.
Princeton Jct., NJ 08550
(609) 851-9875
ivan@alum.mit.edu
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Overview
Patented, Oscar-awarded, MIT-educated, tenacious technology pioneer with 18 years of professional results-driven leadership.
· Proven executive with a decade of experience leading, managing and coaching technologists.
· Over 28 years experience delivering scalable, high performance, low defect, cross-platform, secure software, services, and sites. Successfully shipped well over a dozen software product suites.
· Deep experience throughout the entire high tech business lifecycle, consistently exceeding expectations even with extremely limited resources. Proven expertise at turning ideas into profitable companies.
· Inventor of several technologies, including patent-pending Connection Reliability Using Stream Handoff (CRUSH) — firewall traversal technology, Analytic Data Organization Refinement Experimentation (ADORE) — analytic web data optimization, AudioKey — keyword extraction from audio, MagicEar — a kind of radio, CIPS — a form of AI, and Vispertek perimeter — a medical device.
· Tenacious, well rounded, and versatile team player with excellent communication, interpersonal, and mentoring skills. Able to perform all the roles required in a growth environment — "Get it done!"
Career Highlights
Wireless Generation New York, NY Mar. 2009 – Current
Director of Engineering.
· Managing 4+ product divisions comprising 10 teams of about 80 people, including 50 developers.
· Reorganized structure of teams to increase productivity and effectiveness.
· Transformed Tier 3 Support organization to workflow based process yielding increased visibility.
· Created Geek Chic team focused on maintaining, propagating and enhancing company culture, recruiting and interviewing processes, and personnel development and retention.
· Enhanved adoption of Agile process, trained employees, and introduced Agile Mantras.
· Started new Reporting Platform Team to consolidate and modernize disparate reporting products.
· Championing new goals for dynamic content creation and production.
· Dramatically reducing siloed knowledge and single points of failure in personnel.
· Created Open Source policy, security reviews, architecture board, tech lead lunches, 5% projects, ...
UpCompany (www.tracked.com) New York, NY Mar. 2008 – Jan. 2009
Chief Technology Officer.
· Led team to build an extremely dynamic, data-driven website, using Agile process.
· Worked with CEO to secure over $6MM in financing.
· Recruited and managed world class team of 16 — engineering, database, IT, QA, and PM.
· Created strategic and technical vision, requirements, roadmap, budget.
· Invented new web analytics methods, including ADORE system.
· Designed horizontally scalable and highly available system using service oriented architecture.
· Worked with team to solve record linkage, data disambiguation, and entity extraction challenges.
· Managed technical aspects of vendor relationships.
Clique Communications Corporation Princeton, NJ Aug. 2005 – Jan. 2008
Senior Director of Advanced Technology.
· Invented, developed and patented CRUSH — a technology for low cost connectivity.
· Provided strategic and tactical leadership through high level talks and blog essays.
· Transformed development organization, resulting in quality products being shipped on time.
· Created design pattern yielding 40x performance with fewer resources. Presented tech talks.
· Co-Invented and managed development of AudioKey — a technology capable of generating advertising revenue through extraction of profile and keyword information in audio data.
Activated Content Corporation Bellevue, WA Dec. 2004 – Aug. 2005
Interim Chief Technology Officer.
· Helped lead this technology restart to acquire investment.
Coco Communications Corporation Seattle, WA Mar. 2003 – Dec. 2004
Vice President of Technology.
· Successfully grew 3 person startup to over 70, with millions in revenue, government and private sector contracts, global alliances with industry leaders, and a comprehensive product suite.
· Led team of 40 devs, PMs, QAs, IT ops, and SEs to successfully execute product roadmap.
· Built organizational processes including: recruiting and interviewing practices; coding practices; developer training; intranet; tech talks. Developed human resource department. Built company culture.
· Testified to Alaska state legislation; Broadcast on TV throughout state. Presented at conferences.
Siaxx Corporation Seattle, WA Sept. 2000 – Mar. 2003
Chief Technology Officer, Founder.
· Provided vision and technical leadership throughout all aspects of business operations.
· Developed software through entire lifecycle, including 6 releases and live customer installations.
· Authored white papers, technology vision, roadmap, use cases, competitive analysis, technology assessment, project plan, customer requirements, MRD and PRD.
· Presented material to industry analysts, partners, investors, advisors, legal counsel, and clients.
· Collaborated with CEO on pitches, business plans, financial models, marketing, and legal.
Amazon.com Anywhere Seattle, WA July 1999 – Sept. 2000
Founding team member, Senior Software Development Engineer.
· Developed the world’s first mobile shopping applications, including international markets. Product won CellMania’s WAPPY Award for Worlds Best Wireless Shopping Application.
· Project manager and lead engineer for mobile auctions. Worked with business development.
· Designed, analyzed and evangelized technical architectures to senior management including CEO.
· Helped invent XML based service technology which became Amazon Web Services.
· Lead technical interviewer. Hired 8 engineers. Mentored interns. Taught technical seminars.
Siaxx Consulting, Inc., MA Brookline, MA Sept. 1992 – Aug. 1999
Chief Executive Officer, Founder.
· Organized and managed all aspects of the business. Selected clients detailed below:
· Convergence Corporation: Instrumental in having the company rapidly acquired by Amazon.com
· Open Media Framework: Worked with clients and partners, including Pixar to solve problems.
· Avid Technology: Led a team of 7 engineers to design and develop comprehensive unit testing framework and tests. MPAA Academy Award ("Oscar") for Technical Achievement.
· Intel Corporation: Led software team, adhering to high engineering standards including ISO 9001.
· Lotus Development Corporation: VP sponsored team lead to design and develop Internet tools.
· Strategic Interactive Group: Collaboratively designed and developed proof of concept for IBM.
Vispertek Inc. (Arrington Research) Cambridge, MA May 1994 – Aug. 1996
Chief Technology Officer, Founder.
· MIT Entrepreneurship $10K competition semi-finalist. Authored and submitted SBIR grant.
· Invented Perimeter.
MarketMAX, Inc. (SAS) Danvers, MA Jan. 1995 – Feb. 1996
Software Architect, Entrepreneur.
· Worked with a small team to develop a new product. Helped CEO with strategic business plan.
Education
Harvard University WorldTeach Quito, ECUADOR Sept. 1996 – Aug. 1997
Volunteer English Instructor.
· Taught at the country’s premier Engineering University, Escuela Politécnica Nacional.
· Summited Mt. Cotopaxi — 20,000 feet.
· Conversant in spoken Spanish.
MIT Infant Vision Lab Cambridge, MA May 1994 – Aug. 1996
Vision Scientist, Research Assistant, Software Developer.
· Lab results written up in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
MIT Lowell Institute School Cambridge, MA Sept. 1992 – June 1996
Laboratory Instructor, Teacher Assistant: Microprocessor Systems: Basic Principles.
· Managed class sizes of up to 60 students.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA Aug. 1991 – Dec. 1994
Bachelor of Science in Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Pre-Med.
· Graduated in 3½ years.
· Varsity Basketball player — 4 seasons.
· 99th Boston Marathon runner.