Software Development Engineering

David Taylor

CTO/VP Engineering

805-***-**** *****************@*****.*** Fayeteville, Georgia 30215 PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Dynamic CTO with a track record of scaling VIDAA's TV OS platform, adept in wireless technologies and SaaS. Spearheaded Wahoo Fitness's growth to $800M, honed in agile methodologies and cross-functional leadership. Instrumental in evolving Sonos's engineering processes, blending software development expertise with strategic vision. SKILLS

C (Programming Language) Wireless Technologies SaaS Software Development Agile Methodologies Software Engineering Mobile Applications Cross-functional Team Leadership Cloud Computing IoT Firmware/systems software Large scale SaaS services 3rd party content integrations Data science and services

EXPERIENCE

CTO

VIDAA, April 2022-Present

Built an exceptional TV OS and platform to support all brands of TVs. Responsibilities include managing a large on- shore/off-shore team of engineers, streamlining agile processes for rapid delivery, and leading the technology roadmap and organizational structure to scale in the global ecosystem.

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VP OF ENGINEERING HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE

Wahoo Fitness, October 2017-March 2022

Scaled the software and hardware teams from $5M a year to $800M a year. Focus on creating rapid delivery small teams and simple agile practices to ensure consistent delivery. Built out a team from 6 to 120 engineers, testers, product managers, release engineering, and dev ops.

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• Succeeded in winning the in home training category including integrating partners content in a seamless way SR. DIRECTOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Sonos, Inc., April 2011-May 2017

• Successfully built teams, products, and processes going from $10M a year to $1.4B

• Energized teams and culture to operate rapidly with high engagement and talent management Built the first hack week into our schedule resulting in the top features and capabilities in a fun and exciting environment

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DIRECTOR, TURBOTAX ONLINE

Intuit, January 2005-April 2011

Built all of TurboTax online products, team members, infrastructure, and new processes to win the category from desktop resulting in a jump from $15M a year to $3.2B

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• Created highly engaged teams integrating all skillsets in rapid delivery and removing roadblocks

• Scaled product with the first live automated testing taking scale from 20,000 online users to 10M active SR. DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, MICROSOFT CRM AND VISUAL STUDIO SDKS Microsoft, March 1997-March 2005

• Started as lead engineer grew to development manager shipping V1,V2 products

• Still very active in development and building apps on other platforms as well as Windows

• Built out core platforms and tools for MSN, bCentral, and .net

• We built out the core MSCRM team and technology and i was the second hire for that now 400+ organization

• We delivered a technology and set of products that delight customers and work on desktop and in the cloud

• This was an exciting journey that has resulted in another MSFT flagship product. ARCHITECT

The Walt Disney Company, February 1992-July 1997

• Developed applications for the theme parks that supported a better customer experience Delivered several new capabilities to theme parks as well as home video solutions to make the Disney experience awesome

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Solutions were built on windows and mobile devices using web technologies and device tracking enabling systems to track and recommend the best places to be and at the right time

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Fastpass was an outcome of this work that allowed more predictable routing of people and time to manage flows of heavy traffic.

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USAF F16 PROGRAM

United States Air Force, October 1980-October 1985

• Honored to serve our country as a weapons specialist on F16s.

• Honorable discharge in 1984

EDUCATION

BACHELOR'S OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

Florida State University, January 2001

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Vidaa is a TvOS company building platforms and services for streaming services. Manage a Team of 400 engineers, testers, data, operations across the globe.

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• Grew Wahoo Fitness Teams and Tech taking the company from 10M to 600M in 2 years.

• Grew Sonos engineering from 10 to 135 engineers as well as revenue from 5M to 1.2B over 76 years.

• Grew TurboTax online from the ground up becoming a 3.2B business and largest US Saas service with high quality. Led several Teams and Tech at Microsoft over 8 years, focus on all aspects of high quality software engineering. Accountable for 1.2B in revenue across several products.

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CERTIFICATIONS

40 Years of successful software and hardware

expertise

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WEBSITE, PORTFOLIO AND PROFILES

linkedin.com/in/taylordavidduayne

REFERENCES

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