Jessica Rusin
Senior Advisor at Guild Education
Jessica Rusin
Senior Advisor at Guild Education
Golden, Colorado
Overview
Work Experience
Advisor, Fractional CTO, Executive Coach
2023 - Current
Providing advising, fractional CTO Consulting and executive & leadership coaching to professionals helping to enable higher level performance and advancement through uncovering methods and strategies that feels authentic to them.
Senior Advisor
2022
Chief Technology Officer
2021 - 2022
SVP of Engineering
2019 - 2021
VP of Engineering, founding team member
2016 - 2019
Limited Partner
2019
Operator Collective is a venture fund and dream team community of operator LPs. OpCo brings together 200+ of tech’s most exceptional executives from diverse backgrounds to invest in and supercharge the next generation of enterprise tech
Operator Collective is a venture fund and dream team community of Operator LPs.
Sr. Director of Engineering
2014 - 2015
MobileDay provides one-touch access to any conference call or online meeting from iOS or Android devices.
Raised $10,586,001.00 from Techstars Ventures, Uncork Capital, Drummond Road Capital, SoftBank Capital, Google Ventures, Innoventure Partners and Foundry Group.
Co-founder and CTO
2012 - 2014
Life's filled with moments worth celebrating! That's why we created evver. A company dedicated to transforming your moments into memories. • Co-founder and Chief architect for an HTML5 web based and mobile cloud application that automatically generates video from user uploaded photos synchronized to the beat of the music. • Led the development team using agile lean methodologies. Facilitated stand-ups, retrospectives and iteration planning virtually using tools such as Leankit, Trello, Basecamp, Google apps and GitHub. • Setup and managed servers in AWS cloud environment, managed deployments, and prepared application for auto-scaling based on demand. • Built a custom reporting application integrating data using Google analytics APIs and data collected by the Evver platform. Utilized customizable reports to measure success against the business model and Evver's key performance metrics. • Performed role as product owner. Established and conducted customer feedback interviews and surveys. Consolidated data into centralized location and championed using customer feedback to prioritize list of product features and enhancements and fine tune the user experience. • Developed patentable algorithms to automatically generate videos from photos while syncing to the beat of the music and applying effects. • Helped secure round of angel funding by building a working prototype in less than a month. • Doubled user growth month over month. Helped define marketing strategies aligning product marketing with external marketing efforts. Promoted the Evver brand by attending technical and startup focused meetups as well as credible startup conferences such as the Colorado Capital Conference.
Evver is a Boulder-based company that creates videos form its users pictures, synchronized to music.
Raised $150,000.00.
Senior Software Consultant
2012 - 2012
Worked as an independent consultant with small businesses to design and build websites. This included working with back end technologies, front end website design and layout, logo design, content generation, SEO and social media integration. Worked with a variety of technologies, such as Javascript, PHP, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, Wordpress and MySQL.
Senior Software Engineer
2007 - 2011
Global Commerce, Marketing and Payments
Raised $50,000,000.00 from Siris Capital Group.
Software Engineer II
2005 - 2006
tw telecom has delivered managed data, Internet and voice networking solutions to businesses and large organizations throughout the U.S
Software Engineer
2003 - 2005
Level 3 Communications is an international communications company developing IP transit networks in North America and Europe.
Raised $13,700,000.00 from National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
Software Developer
2001 - 2002