Hands-on technical leader and team builder for web and mobile technology companies. I've co-founded startups, been hired to mold and manage existing teams and worked for a variety of companies doing process and technical consulting. My responsibilities include hiring, training, and overseeing developers, managing agile development processes, architecting large-scale internet applications and fostering an environment of creativity and productivity. I also enjoy working with the students and faculty of UCSB as a guest professor, Capstone project sponsor, and guest lecturer.

Managing Director @ From July 2012 to Present (3 years 6 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaCTO @ SocialStay's products include SocialStay Apps, a customizable HTML5 mobile application platform and Ello, a communication platform enabling texting and online chat between businesses and their customers. Designed, built and iterated on our technology. Responsible for hiring engineering talent, overseeing our agile development process and working with our CEO to translate business goals into technology. From January 2011 to July 2012 (1 year 7 months) CTO, Cofounder @ Lottay is a VC backed startup in the online payments and gifting space. Lottay allows you to make wish-lists, give thoughtful personalized online gift cards and more. Grew the product development team, hired developers, designers and consulting companies. Scaled the application to handle millions of users. Managed day to day operation of the technical side. Coded. From January 2009 to January 2011 (2 years 1 month) Guest Professor @ Co-professor with Klaus Schauser for CS290 Scalable Internet Systems, a graduate level computer science course. Students build, deploy and scale a real web application using ruby on rails, git, PivotalTracker and agile software development methodologies. From January 2009 to March 2009 (3 months) Agile Engineer @ Pivotal Labs is the industry leading rails consultancy responsible for PivotalTracker. Consulted for a variety of startups and tech companies. Built products, built teams, interfaced with clients, trained new hires and anchored projects. From March 2006 to December 2008 (2 years 10 months) Data Analyst @ Business.com is a business-to-business search engine. Responsible for mining analytics data and creating custom reporting applications. From June 2005 to March 2006 (10 months)

BS, Computer Science @ University of California, Santa Barbara From 2000 to 2004 Ross Hale is skilled in: Agile Development Processes (Scrum/XP), Ruby on Rails, Javascript, MVC, HTML5, Mobile Apps, Pair Programming, Test Driven Development, Cloud Ops (Heroku, EngineYard, AWS), Agile Methodologies, HTML 5, JavaScript, Mobile Applications, Ruby, Start-ups