Carsten Hess

About Carsten Hess

Accomplished software architect and engineering manager with a strong success record across multiple industry segments. Adept at building teams, enabling collaboration, and improving communication. Comfortable in infrastructure technologies, frontend technologies, and everywhere in-between. Seeking challenging projects in engineering, DevOps, privacy/security, and turnaround situations. Able to operate independently or manage international and/or remote teams with fiscal responsibility.Top Skills: Technology Strategy | Cloud & Software Architecture | Migrations and Modernizations | Change Management | Analytics | Team Building | Remote Management | Process Improvement

Experience

1. Founder CTO CIO

   Bonavend, Llc

   Sep 2018 — Present · Ithaca, NY, US

   Offering subscription SaaS product, and analytics with integration into NetSuite ERP, POS systems to optimize revenue from donations to non-profit organizations. Goodwill, a key client, deployed this in 20 stores resulting in increased worker productivity and revenue of 23% in the first year.

Education

• University of Tübingen

  Masters / Diplom, Computer Science

  1989 — 1998

Skills

• Mobile Applications
• Javascript
• Project Management
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Software Engineering
• Software Project Management
• Object Oriented Design
• Saas
• Enterprise Software
• Software Design
• Xml
• C#
• .net
• Mobile Devices
• Remote Management
• Sql
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Team Leadership
• Java
• Html
• Evangelism
• Technology Evangelist
• Scala
• Strategy
• Cloud
• Integration
• C++