Jim P.

About Jim P.

Unique, experienced technical executive with hybrid personality of technical expert, analytical thinker and true natural problem solver, contained within the framing of customer and end user needs and use cases. Especially adept at taking complex technical issues and breaking them down to “plain English”, with 20 years experience working hands-on in full stack development, technical product support, product management, client service, and executive team leadership. My favorite phrase is,\"A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one\" and have generally built my career around being knowledgeable in a lot of different areas.

Experience

1. Vice President, Head of Technology, Product & Engineering

   PadSquad

   Jan 2023 — Present · Atlanta, GA, US

   Responsibilities• Lead the global Data Analytics, Ad Product, Design, Platform Engineering, and Product Management teams (USA and Dominican Republic)• Identify tool and service overlaps, manage and optimize company technology costs• Provide high level prioritization direction to product and development teams• Identify staffing needs to maintain expected company growth• Translate product and development updates back to CEO and financial board• Responsible for \"all things technology\"- IT support for all platforms (Office365, SalesForce, Atlassian, Slack, Zoom, AWS, Sharepoint, you name it.) Accomplishments• Drove the functional integration of technology and staffing acquisition, Source Digital’s Kurator platform, to existing product suite – enabling us to turn the investment into revenue generation inside 2 months.• Led the company’s largest engineering effort to date – eliminating the need to rely on outside technology stacks to deliver campaigns and reducing media costs by over 80%• Implemented proper usage of SCRUM/AGILE practices –measurable and understandable project scope and sizing techniques, proper sprint planning and estimates, and roadmap generation• Reorganized a long-standing divisional structure with complete buy in from previously resistant team• Personally architected and implemented backend infrastructure for ad performance tracking

Education

• Wm. Rainey Harper College

  General

• Northern Illinois University

  Bachelors of Science, Computer Science

Skills

• Unix
• Crm
• Php
• Extjs
• Analytics
• Online Advertising
• C++
• Html
• Javascript
• Sql
• Software Development
• Python
• Integration
• Xml
• Css