I’m currently the CTO/COO/Co-Founder of L2L.com (Leading2Lean) the industry-leading Connected Worker Platform for leading manufacturers. We started the L2L in May of 2010 and it’s been a rocket ship ever since. We’ve grown from a handful of customer manufacturing sites in the early days to hundreds of sites and a couple hundred thousands of users located all over the world.
Before L2L, I was the Vice President of Operations and Support at Berkeley Data Systems (Mozy.com & MozyPro.com). While at Mozy, we experienced some tremendous growth (over 300%) in nearly every metric in the Ops and Support teams. We managed petabytes, pushed gigabits, and watched revenue go through the roof. Mozy was successfully sold to EMC in October of 2007.
Before Mozy, I served as the Chief Technology Officer for Symbiot Business Group, a top provider of integrated property services to commercial, retail, hospitality, and industrial clients throughout the United States, managing landscape, interiorscape, full-service pest control, snow & ice removal, and parking lot sweeping. At Symbiot, I was responsible for delivering technology solutions to the property service industry. I designed and deployed a network-wide service management system that enabled the company to streamline its operations from 85 people down to 16. I was also able to restructure and reduce the R&D / IT budget by 75%.
At Echopass, a leading provider of hosted contact center solutions, I served as Vice President of Engineering. I guided the engineering of leading-edge products and services for deployment in the Echopass Hosting Center. In this position, I served as the core architect with responsibility for molding a range of application features into seamless services.
At Sento Corporation I was the Director of Development, where I helped design and build what has become the Echopass core technology foundation. In that role, I helped give Sento the technological advantage to land technical support contracts with several Fortune 500 companies, including Gateway Computers and Network Associates.
I have been the CIO of several technology startup companies in fields ranging from biometrics to home security to business consulting. I also worked for WordPerfect Corporation in its VAX/VMS mini-mainframe division, where I headed up the WordPerfect 4.2 quality assurance team. I have a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young University.
Tyler Whitaker’s Specialties:
Business:
Systems architecture, practical low-cost IT solutions, rapid product prototyping, process mapping and improvement, vendor contract negotiation, site selection, and planning.
Technology:
Python, javascript, jQuery, Amazon AWS, Google App Engine, SQL, Java, .Net, MS SQL, MySQL, PHP, VAX/VMS (For those old enough to remember)
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