A CTO 4 You

John Gwinner's Resume

I’ve been leading Technology and Teams for over twenty years.

I solve problems via people, technology, and code. 

Let’s get together and solve your problems.

Chief Technology Officer to Senior Director

Technical Leader | 0-1 Innovator | Product Development | Startup Specialist

Managing developers is like “herding cats” only if you don’t speak the language. I do.

A results-driven CTO & technology executive with 15+ years of experience scaling startups, leading global teams, and driving $75M+ in revenue growth. Proven track record in technical leadership, product innovation, and strategic growth for companies from Series A startups to Fortune 500 enterprises. Adept at turning around failing products, reducing costs by millions, and managing global engineering teams (50+ direct reports, 75+ offshore resources).

I still stay hands on to work with hard core developers, DBAs, IT specialists, and customers.

 

Experience

FastCTO

Fractional CTO

2019 - 2021
Fractional CTO work for startups, through FastCTO.Com. Two major projects/clients; Squip.com and Trio Supply Chain Solutions.

Care Labs Healthcare

Startup CTO

2018 - 2020
Designed architecture for a medical product for childhood epilepsy and sleep apnea; advised CEO, built a team, delivered milestones on time. On track, but disbanded during COVID due to founder working during Pandemic

C3 Business Solutions, Inc

Chief Technology Officer

2016 - 2017
Oversaw all technical aspects of C3 Biz; Managed and mentored all (45) employees in programming and technical support departments, established strategic technical roadmap, technical sales strategy, cloud vision and strategy, and project management.

CompuServe Information Service, Inc (ISV)

ISV

1994 - 1998
Independent Software Vendor for CompuServe; built a public prototype of one of the first 3D "Metaverses"

Education

Bachelor’s of Science, Electrical Engineering – Cornell University

  • 2 years of master’s level Computer Engineering as an undergrad (all graduate level courses)
  • Competitive merit based full academic scholarship.

Writing (Certificate program) (2013) – UCLA Extension

Veteran

Information Systems Management Officer for 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, and Assistant ISMO for the 4th Marine Division. Civilian title would be “CIO”. Organization of over 20,000 personnel in 47 states.

Several major IT projects, completed on time and under budget:

  • $13M project to modernize wide area networking
  • $1M project to modernize word processing equipment for deployed units

CISO for all Marine Corps logistics/supply chain. Billions of dollars of inventory. 

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