John Eikenberry

CIO/CTO and technical leader for Webjam, a start-up company focused on bringing social media technologies to large enterprise intranets as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Responsible for the entire product development lifecycle covering product management, development, quality assurance, operations, data mining & analysis, customer care support, and office infrastructure.

Private enterprise focused on digitizing of analog media (Super8 & Normal8 film; VHS; audio cassettes; slides & negatives) into digital media (CD, DVD).

CTO and technical leader for be2, a start-up company in the high-end, web-based match-making market. Responsible for product development group, covering IT architecture, IT development, operations, and infrastructure. Managing both local resources and an offshore development team based in Armenia.

Consultant projects in IT management and web-based product development. Primary service: evaluation of technical and product management groups in fulfilling company's strategic vision and proposing solutions to weak areas.

Selected for the top technology leadership post as company’s first employee besides the CEO. Responsible for the complete technical life cycle, from product development to international rollout to operations. Built the Lycos technical group from scratch. Played an integral role in the growth and development of Lycos-Europe, which has grown to be #1 Internet portal across Europe. Designed and built up the technical infrastructure, technical processes, and communication flows. Budget responsibility €80m.

Senior member of the Field Systems Engineering team with responsibility for managing and resolving pre- and post-sales technical issues. Actively managed partner projects to ensure on-time delivery. Collaborated with partners to discover future requirements while providing 24x7 technical support to international clients. Visited current and prospectiveUS and European partners and to present product architecture and to assist, through rapid prototyping of demos, sales teams to win competitive sales.

Six progressive engineering positions for leading computer systems and software solutions company: Project Manager/Principal Software Engineer (Object Broker Engineering), Principal Software Engineer (Enterprise Systems Engineering), Principal Software Engineer (Quality & Productivity Improvement Group), Senior Software Engineer (Sustainability Engineering), Software Engineer II (Alpha AXP Porting), Software Engineer I (Performance and Test Systems)

Member of the Technical Staff creating proof-of-concept systems for intelligence workstations.

Innovation, Strategy, Technology

Software Engineering

Robotics, Computer Graphics, AI