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I'm Tom Elrod.

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I'm an Atlanta native working in the technology industry for over two decades. I've worked for and with companies ranging from fortune 500 to startups, including my own. Helping companies solve business problems using technology and growing companies is what I enjoy.

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Results-oriented technology leader with a specialized background in software and systems engineering. Expertise in Internet technologies, enterprise software, systems integration, infrastructure, and mobile. Strong strategic and long-range planning abilities; skilled in setting product and technology strategies in B2C and B2B environments. Diverse background covers engineering, innovation, infrastructure, network operations, quality assurance, customer support and marketing functions.

  • Fullname: Thomas M Elrod
  • Job: Chief Technical Officer, Principal Architect
  • Website: www.tomelrod.com
  • Email: hello@tomelrod.com

Skills

Years of experience has not only provided the knowledge to select the best technology for the problem, but also the understanding of how to best apply that technology and manage the process to a successful completion.

  • 85%
    Process Improvement
  • 90%
    Architecture
  • 80%
    Agile Methodologies
  • 75%
    Cloud Computing
  • 90%
    Mobile Applications
  • 85%
    Web Applications
  • 90%
    Software Integration
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More of my credentials.

With a career ranging from product companies to services companies and large companies to startups, a lot of ground has been covered.

Work Experience

Make & Build

CTO / Principal Architect

February 2012 - Present

  • Responsible for all technical personnel to include hiring, professional development, performance reviews and dismissals. Established internal initiatives such as lunch-n-learns, cross-pollination, project Fridays, and internal developmental projects.
  • Developed internal Agile-based delivery process designed to ensure consistent, replicable, high-quality deliverables to clients. The process encompasses all phases of a project - strategy, discovery, analysis, design, development, and launch.
  • Conduct discovery workshops with clients to translate business needs into detailed requirements and provide assessments which include architecture proposals, project plan, and estimates.
  • Technical lead of project teams, ranging in size of two up to ten, through delivery of projects for clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.
  • Design and build out of architecture for projects which range from emerging tech prototypes to production ready native mobile and web apps to enterprise systems integration.

LoopFuse

CTO / Co-Founder

April 2007 - April 2012

LoopFuse

acquired by Salesfusion

  • Signed first 12 customers, generating $360,000 in revenue the first year of business.
  • Raised $1.4 million Series A funding round from San Francisco-based True Ventures.
  • Responsible for product roadmap, project management, QA and delivery based on a continual 45 day release cycle.
  • Responsible for make vs buy analysis and investment rationalization.
  • Managed build-out of private cloud at Network Operation Center (NOC) providing an increase in uptime from 92 percent to 100 percent annually.
  • Sourced and managed offshore development team.
  • Managed migration and operation of customer support portal to Amazon Web Services (EC2 and S3) to reduce operational costs by 30 percent.
  • Responsible for creation and maintenance of multi-tenant software architecture, based on SOA design principles.
  • Designed and implemented fault-tolerant architecture for tracking and processing millions of web based events per hour.
  • Developed RESTFul Web Services API, using Jersey (JAX-RS).
  • Responsible for creating Database schema deployed multiple fault-tolerant MySQL instances which processed over a billion transactions per month.
  • Responsible for performance and scalability tuning of JBoss and Apache Tomcat which processed millions of web based events per hour.
  • Responsible for software and system compliance with SalesForce.com security audits as part of partner certification process.

JBoss

Principal Software Engineer

December 2003 - April 2007

JBoss

acquired by Red Hat

  • Founder and Lead of the JBoss Remoting project, a universal transport framework used to make remote invocations within JBoss Application Server and other internal and external project (JBoss Messaging, JBoss EJB3, JBoss Web Services, JNDI).
  • US Lead for J2EE certification of JBoss Application Server.
  • Represented JBoss as a member of the Sun Java Community Process (JCP) for the Java Management Extensions (JMX) Remote API (JSR-160) and the Java Management Extensions (JMX) Specification, version 2.0 (JSR-255).
  • Development on several components within JBoss Application Server to include JMX, MicroKernel, EJB 2.1/3, and Clustering.
  • Delivered training and consulting services to JBoss Middleware customers and partners, covering JBoss and Apache Tomcat tuning, JBoss Clustering and most products within the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Systems (JEMS) offering.

Vocalocity

Senior Software Engineer

August 2002 - December 2003

Vocalocity

acquired by Vonage

  • Developed flagship voice gateway product including VXML and SALT interpreters, call control logic, and integration with voice recognition and synthesis engines.

Silverpop

Senior Software Engineer

February 2001 - August 2002

Silverpop

acquired by IBM

  • Responsible for the full life-cycle architecture and design of core product sub-systems for second and third generation of products, which could be run as an ASP or installed behind a customer's firewall.

Online Insight

Senior Software Engineer

November 2000 - January 2001

  • Designed and developed Java based Graphical User Interface (GUI) applet for building complex marketing workflows.
  • Developed sub-components for a real-time reporting tool used to analyze and display purchasing trends for e-Commerce sites.

Cysive

Senior Consultant

March 2000 - November 2000

  • Constructed architecture plans and gathered requirements for Fortune 500 Companies.

USWeb/CKS

Senior Consultant

August 1999 - March 2000

USWeb/CKS

Merged with Whittman-Hart to become MarchFirst

  • Architected and designed personalized content delivery framework for an on-line banking system.
  • Developed communications package for large financial investment project.
  • Co-lead in analysis and design phase for project servicing an international staffing company.

ADP

System Architect

May 1998 - August 1999

  • Designed and developed a management server and graphical console for monitoring and configuring application servers.
  • Worked on system architecture to ensure scalability through transparent fail-over safety, load balancing and connection management of application servers.
  • Designed and developed a Java package for making native calls to Windows and Solaris platforms.

Melita

Software Engineer

June 1996 - May 1998

  • Co-lead on Melita OpenClient Access (MOCA) product line.
  • Designed and developed server adapters to convert legacy RPC structures and functions into CORBA objects.

Education

Bachelor Degree

Computer Information Systems

September 1992 - August 1997

Georgia State University

Ranked as one of the top 10 undergraduate programs in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.

Portfolio

Check Out Some of My Works.

Responsibilities for projects included requirements gathering, selection of technology stack, architecture, and management of development team through delivery. In most cases, also provided hands-on contribution to development.

PrimeSport

PrimeSport

Mobile
IBM® Watson™

IBM Watson

Mobile
Clutch

Clutch

Mobile
Wheego

Wheego

Mobile
GetGet

GetGet

Mobile
PGi

PGi

Web / Integration
Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola

Web / Integration
eVerifile

eVerifile

Web / Integration
Cox

Cox Communications

Web / Integration
PGi

DirectStack

Google Assistant

Affiliations & Accomplishments

  • TAG Business Intelligence & Analytics Society - Board of Directors, 2013-2014
  • Java Community Process - Expert Group Member, 2003-2005
  • JBoss Remoting - Founder, HornetQ - Contributor
Fun

What I Do Outside Of Work

Work hard, play easy is more my pace nowadays.

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Projects Completed

7

Product Launches

11

Cloud Deployments

2053

Coffee Cups

Some crazy ideas

  • Slack for sports
  • Chore bounty app
  • Coffee delivery by drone
  • Spelling tester for Google Home
  • GoFundMe for concert gigs
  • Where's my beer app
  • Roomba for lawns

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Crazy Ideas

22

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Atlanta, GA

Email Me At

hello@tomelrod.com

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Phone: (770) 835-5477