With over 15 years of experience in leading product and technology development in both startups and Fortune 100 companies, AJ Bubb excels at bridging the gap between technical capabilities and customer needs. Formerly a startup CTO, practice leader in Accenture's Emerging Technology and Innovation group, and Global Lead Innovation Advisor in AWS Healthcare and Life Sciences, AJ has a proven track record of guiding teams through fast-paced development cycles and launching pilots and products that have generated $2 billion in revenue across over 100 initiatives.
AJ's leadership style emphasizes inclusivity and teamwork, fostering an environment where open exchange of ideas leads to peak team performance. His diverse industry experience spans entertainment, hospitality, aerospace, manufacturing, and healthcare/life sciences. Currently relocating to the DC metro area,
AJ is open to collaborating on new product initiatives and digital transformation engagements.
Working with AJ was an intense but incredibly rewarding experience. His extensive knowledge was invaluable in guiding my team in the right direction (even when the path wasn't always clear). He has a remarkable ability to cut through complex technical jargon and articulate the most effective course of action.
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Michael McShaneDirector, Liquid Studio, Accenture
Work
Accenture Liquid Studios - Pioneering Augmented and Virtual Reality
Augmented and Virtual reality are quickly becoming the focus of many enterprise clients looking to improve the effectiveness of their worker. At the Accentur...
Applied research and innovation studio offering advisory, engineering, and design services, utilizing AI-driven digital twin advisors and expertise from seasoned practitioners.
Executive advisor and Agile coach, specializing in team development, product roadmap, technology architecture, and strategic planning, achieving an average of 20-50% reduction in time to market and feature development.
Jan 2020 — Mar 2023
Amazon Web Services
Global lead, HCLS Innovation Advisory
Led cross-functional customer product and engineering teams responsible for maturing early-stage initiatives from ideation to pilot product 24-36 weeks.
Drove substantial revenue growth across diverse projects, industries, and business models including B2B, B2C, B2B2C.
Served as liaison between executives, business, and technology organizations to accelerate the delivery of proof-of-concept and products, achieving time to market reductions as high as 75% in highly regulated markets.
Sep 2014 — Jan 2020
Accenture
Director of Innovation, North America
Held multiple leadership roles requiring $25-50M yearly P&L oversight, resource management, sales, and delivery responsibilities.
Established joint delivery and go-to-market partnerships with cloud, technology, GSI, and product companies.
Emphasized experience and customer first philosophy, advocating for modern architectures, cloud native, and managed multiple internal engineering teams, partners, and offshore teams.
Delivered $100M+ engagement pipeline across North America, and managed $2M/year internal innovation fund successfully building proof of concepts across multiple computer vision, AI, AR/VR, and IoT use cases.
Featured speaker at industry and technology conferences, leading C-level workshops on emerging technologies.
Drove strategic architecture and solution designs across enterprise-wide initiatives.
Jan 2013 — Sep 2014
CV
Crown Venture Group
Founder, President
Founded and scaled a retail chain specializing in bespoke connected lighting solutions, achieving zero to $200k monthly gross receipts across three locations by month three, hiring and training a team of sales representatives
Built proprietary IoT signal exhaust sensing hardware enabling customer trend analysis, enhancing sales via targeted promotions and personalized interactions, achieving a 75% return customer conversion rate.
Jan 2010 — Sep 2014
LineRocket Entertainment
CTO
Developed a proprietary HD streaming platform in partnership with Nasa JPL and Amazon Web Services, supporting over 40,000 concurrent viewers across web, mobile, and broadcast, using cloud based real time transcoding network, CDN, and deployed using Cloud
Deployed proprietary tap to pay systems, content distribution and management, and variable event pricing models, generating and aggregate of $5M in revenue.
Apr 2008 — Sep 2014
Claims Compensation Bureau
Principal Engineer
Developed the Global Class Action Platform, performing complex securities trading analysis, achieving >60% reduction in manual effort.
Developed a sophisticated dynamic SQL solution enabling custom big data queries and algorithms from a point-and-click interface to analyze over 500 million rows of financial trades.
Developed industry leading proprietary options trading analysis, improving accuracy of trading analysis by 50%.
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