Tim W.

Specializes in fractional CTO consulting, focusing on digital publishing, content management, and startup technical advice.

• Expanded the marketplace to over a thousand members within the talent community across various disciplines such as product, design, sales, marketing, legal, HR, and finance.
• Instrumental in facilitating a fractional marketplace for companies and C-suite leadership seeking consulting opportunities, helping seed to series C startups and larger, well-established companies across various industries.

The Motley Fool provides free and premium investment guidance to millions worldwide, aiming to make the world smarter, happier, and richer through financial advice.

• Led the development of GenAI-powered tools for compliance, vastly reducing manual oversight needs.
• Boosted tech project delivery rate by 50%, enhancing operational effectiveness.
• Contributed to ~50% of Motley Fool's total free cash flow via strategic technology initiatives.
• Executed the rebrand of The Ascent to Motley Fool Money, including core URL transitions, within 2.5 weeks.
• Achieved significant revenue growth through strategic tech initiatives: 70% YoY increase from 2022 to 2023 and 30% YoY growth from 2023 to 2024.
• Invented an edge-based conversion attribution framework, improving attribution time from 3-4 days to 3-4 hours and increasing fidelity by 20%.

• Designed and deployed The Ascent product within 5 weeks, directing the tech team that expanded it from zero revenue to $50M+ monthly within 4 years.
• Engineered and delivered the Millionacres product in 4 weeks, leading the tech team to scale it from inception to millions in revenue in less than a year.

• Designed, coded, and deployed The Ascent product within 5 weeks, directing the tech team that expanded it from zero revenue to $50M+ monthly within 4 years.
• Engineered and delivered the Millionacres product in 4 weeks, spearheading the tech team that scaled it from inception to millions in revenue in less than a year.

CenturyLink is a telecommunications company providing broadband, voice, and wireless services to consumers and businesses.

• Increased eCommerce channel revenue from 5% to 12% year-over-year through strategic enhancements in 2010, significantly boosting online sales.
• Led the integration of CenturyLink web properties into the eCommerce platform as part of the 2011 merger, enhancing the company’s digital presence and customer reach.

• Led the implementation of high-visibility, external-facing websites on the Adobe Experience Manager platform, ensuring successful project execution.
• Co-facilitated agile ceremonies, including sprint planning and daily standups, in collaboration with the product owner and development team, enhancing team efficiency.
• Authored technical user stories and refined business user stories for the AEM platform, aligning solution directions with project goals.
• Designed the complete implementation architecture for AEM according to Adobe best practices and business requirements, resulting in seamless integration and functionality.

• Led the design and documentation of web ordering systems for consumer and small business products, improving customer experience and streamlining business operations.
• Partnered with Marketing and Engineering VPs to define priorities, develop annual roadmaps, and manage workstreams, facilitating hundreds of projects that drove significant business impact.
• Drove revenue-boosting projects worth millions by building and refining prototypes, ensuring their success through strategic collaboration and technical expertise.
• Produced hundreds of UML diagrams and thousands of requirements within the enterprise requirements management system, conducting detailed walkthroughs with global development teams.

• Drove requirements with the Large Business team to redefine and convert the existing customer dynamic map implementation to Google Maps, enhancing real-time data visibility and interaction.
• Architected and coded the full initial iteration of a ground-up prototype using Google Web Toolkit and Google Maps, aggregating customer products and enabling drill-down into detailed inventory specifications.
• Spearheaded the transition of project implementation to offshore resources, ensuring seamless knowledge transfer and project continuity.

• Led and innovated within the eCommerce Content Management Team by developing a Dynamic Content Management Product, significantly improving the frequency of content updates from quarterly to daily.
• Architected and implemented an end-to-end solution, integrating off-the-shelf software and custom development, resulting in over $1 million in saved legal expenses and a revenue increase of 20%.
• Achieved a 100%+ improvement in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) time by driving system adoption and enhancements across the eBusiness and IT development teams.

Colorado Satellite Services specializes in consulting, system design, satellite-Internet gateways, education, software design, development, and test, telemetry systems, and security setup for control links.

• Led the creation of software and mechanical architecture for the US Air Force Academy-funded satellite simulator, ControlSat, enabling real-time over-the-air experimentation with gyro-controlled satellite motion.
• Collaborated with a multidisciplinary team of software, mechanical, and manufacturing engineers to deliver the project on time, sparking innovation among USAFA faculty and cadets.
• Developed Python-based software allowing researchers to process sensor data on laptops and turn it into physical motion of the ControlSat, facilitating hands-on experimentation.
• Secured a patent for the architectural design and software development of the satellite simulator, marking a significant contribution to educational tools in aerospace engineering.

• Led the design and development of the Product Catalog Renderer (PCATR) system, enhancing the web presence for Qwest.com's consumer and small business segments.
• Architected the technical stack, incorporating content management and Struts framework, and integrated connections to the product catalog system, facilitating dynamic web experiences.
• Managed a team of employees and contractors, successfully developing a web presence from scratch within an ambitious four-month timeline.

• Led a team that dramatically reduced the timeframe for producing "monthly" forecasting and actuals reports from over 30 days of manual effort to just 1 day through automated processing.
• Collaborated with UNIX Administrators and Oracle DBAs to completely rebuild the Oracle Datamart, achieving a 1000x increase in performance.
• Developed an automation system utilizing UNIX Shell and extensive SQL queries to create a robust, fail-resistant product, enhancing product reliability and efficiency.
• Engaged daily with business clients to refine and enhance the product, driving its direction, and promoting company-wide adoption.

CenturyLink is a telecommunications company providing broadband, voice and wireless services to consumers and businesses.

• Led team to successfully implement the Business Objects reporting tool for operational reporting, overseeing the entire lifecycle from procurement to post-production maintenance.
• Administered server setup, designed Reporting Universe architecture, and conducted comprehensive user training for Business Objects.
• Produced and acted in professionally-produced tutorial videos, collaborating with technical writers to create user guides and job aids for Business Objects usage.

• Led the architecture definition and business needs refinement for a new ticketing system, PCRM, consolidating multiple operational reporting systems.
• Co-led the Vantive software selection process, conducting site visits and user interviews to define business requirements.
• Performed Oracle database administration, Vantive development, and training, alongside multimedia evangelism for PCRM.

• Led the systems engineering team for CenturyLink's e-commerce platform, managing $40 million worth of projects and ensuring successful delivery.
• Oversaw a team of 200 engineers (100 offshore and 100 onshore) to design and implement comprehensive e-commerce solutions, involving a wide range of technologies and platforms.