Stephen Felisan

About Stephen Felisan

Executive in media, entertainment and technology with experience in both start-up and established, fast-growing companies. Technical and operational leadership for new initiatives and technological systems support. Ability to effectively penetrate new markets and expand business models using state-of-the-art strategic planning, project management, research methods and technology. Skilled in developing, directing and motivating strong, cohesive teams in a fast-paced, political environment. In-depth knowledge of state-of-the-art internet/web technologies, information technology operational execution, software applications development, and emerging networking/communications technology.Specialties: Informational Technology: programming, software development, systems analysis, design & development, management of information systems, computer operations, data security, project management, telecommunicationsEngineering R&D: basic research, applied research, product & process development, advanced development, product re-engineering & design, prototype engineering, engineering liaison, project management, technology evaluation

Experience

1. CTO

   Edmunds

   Jun 2019 — Present · Santa Monica, CA, US

   Edmunds is a fast-growing company with a strong startup and innovation-driven culture: Agile, Design Thinking, Dev/Ops, Continuous Delivery, ROWE. Our engineering teams develop across a broad range of cutting-edge technologies throughout the entire technology stack. Infrastructure as Code - full stack automation and datacenter APIs,@EdmundsLabs,@EdmundsAPI. Application as Services - service orientation, complexity at the top of the stack, designing for failure, persistence abstraction, deep instrumentation. Dev/Ops teams - on-call service owners, shared metrics, continuous deployment. Bottom-line: we are looking for passionate technologists to join our team. Check out @EdmundsRecruits, jobs.edmunds.com or contact me if you see something you like and are ready to be accountable to the results.

Education

• UCLA

  Bachelor of Science, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

  1988 — 1993

Skills

• Jquery
• Systems Analysis
• Enterprise Content Management
• Software Development
• Information Technology
• Programming
• Project Management
• Virtualization