Chief Technical Officer

Teknika Corporation (TeknikaCorp.com)

Teknika was created by Steve, Frank, and I to fulfill a need for software development in the Panhandle of Florida. We wanted to create a blend of cheaper overseas development combined with America ownership and project management. This company was based out of Panama City with a sister office in Ukraine (Yup, Ukraine, certainly makes for some interesting experiences). My primary role was everything technical related to the company. I ran multiple teams of Developers, Designers, Quality Assurance, and Project Managers simultaneously throughout tenure at this company. Most teams consisted of 5-8 people depending on project size, this included 2-4 developers, 1-2 designers, 1-2 QA, with a single project manager with me as product owner. Throughout my tenure at this position I worked in every role mentioned above, though I found that I excelled at the project owner role, and as the teams got built out I settled into this role primarily, only falling into other roles only as needed. In this role I could own 2-4 projects (with each project having a separate team) at once, and assuming no major issues could simultaneously deliver those projects. At the peak of development I managed over 30 people under me making up 3-5 of these teams. During this time I also had extensive knowledge and execution on all on boarding processes in Teknika’s Portfolio. As we never got a sales team in place during my tenure, Frank and I where the sales team start to finish. We landed the contracts, and I drove it home by delivering on the technical side of things (Frank never got involved on the technical side unless there was hardware). There is no way that I could possibly list all the things I did during my tenure here, so please ask on anything here. I will not be listing projects in this resume, as that would be too long. Please see teknikacorp.com/portfolio/ for a list of projects I created. As of Oct 2024 all projects on this page are projects I created from scratch. Please ask about any of them.

Key Accomplishments:

• I created processes and procedures needed to run development teams of 4-8 people effectively and efficiently. This was done through the intelligent use of Wiki websites and cloud based file services. I wrote thousands of pages of manuals and best practices ranging from roles and responsibilities (for all roles mentioned above) to best practices for committing code, pull requests, and basically everything else needed to run a software company. Honestly this list of manuals is huge.
• I architected efficient processes for managing large scale endeavors during the life cycle of that project. This included procedures for handling project management (Using software), Frontend development, Backend Development, QA, Design, using an iterative scrum based approach to software development. This style of development kept customers directly involved in the development while ensuring that all money that was spent was tracked and demoed direct to the customer. This allowed a high level of transparency while still delivering high quality code at a fast rate of development.
• I handled the full on boarding process for all projects at this company. My primary role during on boarding was to provide a technical presence during initial discovery periods while then delivering a full technical project proposal to customers that included a comprehensive estimate directly tied to technical user story’s split up into different epics. This could range from small estimates in the $20-40K range all the way up to half a million or more. This was all done while working closely with customers on nailing down exactly what they want. Using this process we managed to get are estimates to be accurate within 10-15% margin of the final project time and cost.
• I architected and created multiple projects ranging in budgets from a $100k up to $1m with scopes taking a couple of months to 3+ years of development. This was all done using the above scrum based approach to software and using the estimates and proposals given to customers while working closely with them on scope creep.