Pete Nystrom

La Jolla, CA *****

858-***-****

https://www.linkedin.com/in/petenys

SUMMARY

Accomplished senior engineer with full-stack web and mobile experience in a wide range of roles, technologies, and markets. Demonstrated success in producing strong, viable products, meeting aggressive goals and deadlines, and working with stakeholders, customers, company leadership and other developers.

Leader of small and medium teams who can focus, inspire, and motivate its members to succeed together. Possessing a strong sense of ownership, confident decision-making skills, and ability to marry technical excellence with practical business goals and constraints.

SKILLS

? Software development with PHP, React Native, Redux, Java, Swift, Node.js, ColdFusion

? Object-oriented design with emphasis on loose coupling, reusability and maintainability.

? Agile software development lifecycles.

? Integration with mature MVC frameworks including Laravel and Zend

? Database design and implementation with MySQL, MongoDB, MS SQL Server, and PostgreSQL. Database programming of replication, functions, triggers, and stored procedures.

? Web development technologies including HTML/XHTML, XML, Javascript, JSON, and AJAX.

? Server side installation and configuration: Linux, Apache, MySQL.

? SCM using Git and SVN.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Computer and Information Science

Radford University, Radford, VA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Founder / CTO (Board Chair) May 2015 ? Dec 2016

TheSchoolDay.com, San Diego, CA

? Developed the web and mobile solution for The School Day, an early education communication platform focused on community building and engagement around young learners

? Took a passion project built to help parent/teacher communication in his daughter?s class and created a SaaS solution being used by daycare, kindergarten and grade school classes across the country

? Architected and implemented the web, mobile, API and server architecture that is built for seamless scale

? Implemented Agile development process for continuous integration on both web and mobile platforms

? Cultivated educator and parent focus groups from application users to ensure a Lean Model for development

? Built and managed financial forecast and projections template that includes transactional revenue modeling, MRR, Churn, staffing, onboarding costs and expense forecasts

? Found a team in SF to transition ownership to and has moved to the role of board chair and technology advisor

VP of Engineering Jun 2007 ? Jun 2015

Classy, Inc., San Diego, CA

? Led the engineering initiative at Classy from the first line of code in a 4 person company through its Series B raise with 130+ employees

? Developed web server architecture that was fully scalable to support a high-volume, transactional website that ran over $100M in donations a year

? Developed the Progress.is platform to manage Classy Awards submissions which has become the largest philanthropic awards show in the country

? Integrated Progess.is into the Classy platform to help organizations seamlessly demonstrate project impact to their donors and enable them to associate their fundraising to projects

? Grew and managed a large team of software developers. Managed timelines and coordinated development projects for near and long term business goals

? Introduced and implemented Agile development processes and practices

? Managed and built many partner solutions into the Classy platform including MailChimp, Constant Contact, Salesforce and Donate Double

Owner / Software Consultant Oct 2005 ? Jun 2007

New Stream Solutions, San Diego, CA

? Worked as a full-stack software consultant on a wide range of projects for startup, mid-size, government and fortune 100 companies

? Consulted regularly with customers on project status, proposals and technical issues

? Proven ability to step into a project, in any phase of the development lifecycle, and quickly make a positive impact in large team environments or building one-off solutions

? Displayed an ability to think outside the box and rapidly prototype ideas to prove feasibility of projects for proposals

Previously Held Positions

Dynamics Research Corporation

Senior Software Engineer

? Technical lead and project manager on variety of large government contracts

? Primary technical writer for project proposals and system documentation that included requirements gathering and system architecture specs

? Led, managed and mentored up 6 developers on different contracts and was responsible for code reviews and performance reviews.

? Displayed the ability to lead projects in a large range of technologies including Java, Struts, ColdFusion, .Net, SharePoint and Crystal Reports.

? ** Project lead on the National Science Foundation website reorganization and rebuild that won the 2006 People's Choice Webby Award

o Project consisted of consolidating all 12 NSF Directorates and stand-alone websites into one system that managed grant submissions for the NSF

o System is responsible for over $5B in grants/year.

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