John Fox

• Advising Finboot (GreenTech) in blockchain traceability strategy and business development - connecting them with innovation leaders and sustainability-focused organizations across Europe. • Supported clients with AI-native tooling, product development, and integration.

• Launched a platform to boost creative thinking in K-12 and enterprise education, integrating GenAI tools (ChatGPT, Midjourney) and growing paid users by 20% in 2024. • Developed CreativeThinking.ai using OpenAI API, Google Vision, and PythonAnywhere. • Built cloud infrastructure using Auth0 and IONOS; created user-centric flows and visuals.

• Business Model Development & Venture Building: Pioneered new business models and led venture-building initiatives that integrated cutting-edge technology with sustainable solutions, driving adoption across the chemical industry with 15 supply chain partners, including Porsche, Shell and Philips. • Led client workshops, aligning stakeholders to scope supply chain data and delivered 5 pilots for traceability with supply chain partners . • Represented Covestro at Alliance to End Plastic Waste, digital focus

Focused on the commercialization of digital solutions by bridging product development with strategic marketing for Fortune 500 companies. Managed various senior-level stakeholders who needed to align in order to produce the best result. Managed up to 24 designers on numerous projects (as many as 8 projects running simultaneously). I pushed innovation and delivered UX design, architecture and prototypes. Moderated and led design thinking workshops with clients.

Managed the vision, innovation, design and implementation of Bside-Me’s celebrity mobile apps, mobile CMS and web-based management console Google Play - https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Bside-Me iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/de/artist/b-side-me-gmbh/id937152665 www.bside-me.com

• Led Crossgate's expansion in the US, developing strategies that enhanced SAP’s B2B integration solutions across the Americas. • Managed Crossgate’s post-acquisition integration into SAP, maintaining market presence and global marketing consistency. • Transformed a UI-less cloud solution into a marketable tool, driving go-to-market strategies that contributed to a €120 million acquisition. • Commercialized cloud-based EDI solutions, aligning product positioning with growth targets in the NAFTA region.

• Collaborated directly with clients to define project requirements and develop tailored eCommerce solutions, enhancing customer satisfaction and engagement. • Engineered user-friendly interfaces for enterprise software, utilizing Java and Java Server Pages to improve user experience and functionality. • Leveraged conjoint analysis tools to gather critical user preference data, providing valuable insights to eCommerce clients and driving informed decision-making.

When the internet was gaining in popularity, I was hired by NCSU to instruct their professors on how to create their courses online. This included hands on instruction and teaching in a classroom setting. My specialization was online video, graphic design and Perl/Java programming.

As a child I was a "closet computer geek". I landed this Network Administrator job out of school with only limited amount of practice outside of my home office. Soon excelled to the point where Veda promoted me to Developer working on early web applications using HTML front-ends and Oracle/C++ back-end development. Received security clearance - now inactive.

3ds Max, 3D Studio Max, Photoshop, Illustrator, Still life drawing, Figure drawing, Color theory

Advertising, Video/Film Production, Copyrighting, Media Law