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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

  • Sr. Director of Engineering

    2014 - 2015

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Software Engineer II

    2005 - 2006

  • Software Engineer

    2003 - 2005

  • Software Developer

    2001 - 2002

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