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Nora Ryan
Nora Ryan

Nora Ryan is a managing director at BeanLight consulting with over 25 years of experience leading technology products from startup to enterprise scale. She has held executive roles at several major companies, guiding products from concept to successful acquisition, sales, or turnaround. Ryan has expertise in product management, engineering, architecture, business development, and general management across industries including online gaming, software, mobile, and more.

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Nora Ryan ( 6 5 0 ) 2 0 6 - 9 2 0 5 n r y a n @ a l u m . m i t . e d u S t a n f o r d H i l l s , M e n l o P a r k , C A Managing Director, BeanLight, LLC, Consulting Practice 1999 - Present Startup to Enterprise Growth Leadership Technology product and team builder. Led products to awards at TED, TechCrunch and showcasing at $B++ industry events inc. ESRI, NG. Products have won most relevant industry and tech magazine awards as product of the year. Many successful acquisitions, sales, startups and turnarounds. Revenues to $1B+. Product Management, Engineering, Ecosystem Alliances, Architecture, Business Development, GM Portfolio Snapshot Online Gambling Company, SVP Engineering and Product (consultant). Bay Area, NV, HI. 2011 - Present Delivered product, development team and strategy through sale for ASP OLTP solution spanning junction between gaming, social graphs, media and advertising. Rearchitected monolithic architecture to flexible, MVP-based platform. Real money, virtual currencies and tournaments. Instituted agile across international team. Oversaw responsive HTML5 UEX across desktop, iPad, iPhone, Android. DELUXE, Executive Director, SM Business Tools and Services. Minnesota. 2010 - 2011 Melded numerous acquisitions into product platform in $xxxM company re-spin. Specified, designed, melded and built teams to launch core architecture, product platform and services. Platform interwove social marketing, advertising, metrics and branding tools, a rich library of curated, current best practices, with simple end-user social and business analytics dashboard. Mobile and browser. Professional services team provided personalized product services to SMBs. Channels: Telcos, financial and consumer. YAHOO!, Executive Consultant, Platform Technology Group. Sunnyvale. 2009 - 2010 Delivered root cause analyses, trends and delineated solutions to address lifecycle success and market-limiting, systemic product development issues to Executive Team. Issue areas spanned Open, Social, Content Agility, ID, Analytics and Mobile Platforms. Provided deep dive, end to end forensics and triage of specific failure cases thru architecture, dev, product, process, communications, resourcing, and strategy . Issues included operational pipeline insufficiency, DB and platform silos, partner planning and integration (Zynga, FB) and platform adoption rate. RSPORTZ, CTO/CPO (consultant), Startup Revitalization and Sale. Los Angeles, 2007 - 2008 Reinvented SaaS company. Conceived and designed solution, co-raised investment, architected product, hired and led virtual agile teams to deliver TechCrunch50 startup. Individualized, activity, identity and role-based tools, events, grouping, and ad serve. Tested live globally including Summer Olympics. Geolocal, social graph-based personalized services and communication vehicle for large heterogeneous groups before, during and after large real-time events. TOUCHTABLE, GM, Co-Founder. Profitable $30M spinout from ThinkTank. Pasadena, 2004-2006 Created Newco including products, teams, infrastructure, partners, sales channel, ecosystem, funding. Platform provided joint data visualization, analysis and navigation from mobile to command centers. TED-acclaimed, ESRI and NG plenary sessions and showcase for years. A public and private sector solutions platform. Diverse patents for group multisensory, multitouch, gesture, multiple screen workflows. Integrated with ArcGIS. APIs. For world governments, emergency forces, insurance, medical and entertainment. Partnered with most of the major System Integrators. PALM, Head of 3rd Party Partners (consultant), Complete Renovation. Milpitas, CA, 2002 - 2004 Crafted new Partner processes, procedures and standards to turnaround highest risk, acknowledged failing Palm product area to companys best in months. Spearheaded strategic partner end-to-end redo including contracts, core Palm functionality, specifications, plans and led each project throughout delivery. Co-introduced Palm Developer online App Store as skunkworks KNOWLEDGEFIRST, VP Engineering, Operations. Startup turnaround. Sale. Foster City, 2000 - 2001 Created, engineered and shipped first virtual financial exchange serving the $80B student loan market. Our XML shaped industry-standard. Platform adopted by top US banks. Co-wrote middleware, schema, backend and respecified front ends. Hands-on direction and design, build out of production, development, QA, tech support, IT/Ops, Doc, and Professional Services. Doubled resources, halved delivery time, reduced run-rate.
Nora Ryan ( 6 5 0 ) 2 0 6 - 9 2 0 5 n r y a n @ a l u m . m i t . e d u S t a n f o r d H i l l s , M e n l o P a r k , C A J2 GLOBAL (JetFax became eFax, acquired by J2) 1996 - 1999 Senior Director, Product Development, Strategic Accounts and Partners, Menlo Park Co-drove entity transition from CE and SMB systems to award-winning SaaS, eFax Gained first 1M subscribers in 6 months Grew original company from $3-$30M revenue, $300 OEM revenue in first year for successful IPO XEROX Connected Personal Products (PARC spinout) 1993 - 1997 Senior Director, Product Development, Strategic Accounts and Partnerships, Palo Alto Created disruptive CE products and full life cycle support for PARC spinouts first multifunctional SOHO systems. Billed $150M new revenue, first quarter, post launch. Crafted business plan to secure $15M investment to originate platform for profitable $1B business Designed end-to-end logistics, global supply chain for high volume market Hands on management of proprietary ASICs, firmware, drivers, network, desktop and telecomm software including color imaging codecs. Patents filed. Personally implemented one-touch fax to email prototype to validate feature value APPLE Chairman, Software Issues Forum and Sr. Software Engineering Manager, Cupertino 1991-1993 Chairman, Software Issues Forum and Sr. Software Engineering Manager, Cupertino Founded and chaired productive Apple-wide architecture, issues leadership decision body Formed and led Continuation Engineering to remove enterprise Apple-wide deal killers Redesigned Apple Consumer Software for immediate 5x reduction in returns/support costs Led Macintosh Performa CE Systems team BORLAND Product Line Manager, Databases and Languages, Scotts Valley 1989 - 1991 Jointly founded and led team to deliver PC Magazine, PC Computing MVP, first object-oriented Windows RDBMS, compiler and developer IT platform. Won over, converted developer community EDUCATION MASTERS OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Technology Experience Snapshot Multi-Screen Design: 1 to 84 Operating Systems: Linux, Mac OS X, iOS, Solaris, Win, VMS. Distributed, Multi-task, Embedded RTOS Languages: Java, C++, C, Objective C, Javascript, SQL, XML, HTML 5, XHTML, UNIX shell scripting, JSON, CSS, Perl, PL/I, Pascal, Fortran, Assembly, dBASE and more Tools: Eclipse, Xcode, Git, Subversion, Maven, Make, JIRA, innumerable SDKs, APIs, tools Servers: Apache, Tomcat, NGINX, JBOSS, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, MongoDB, Hbase, Hadoop
Nora Ryan ( 6 5 0 ) 2 0 6 - 9 2 0 5 n r y a n @ a l u m . m i t . e d u S t a n f o r d H i l l s , M e n l o P a r k , C A Cloud Services: AWS, Rackspace, GitHub, MailChimp, Facebook OAuth, OpenGraph, SalesForce, PayPal, etc. Networks: Wired and Wireless incl. 802.11, Bluetooth, TCP/IP, Ethernet, ATM Methodologies: Test and behavior driven development, OOP and functional programming, RESTful and SOA architectures, Threading, Concurrency and Big Data, Scaling, Clustering, and Caching, MVC and MVP architectures, HTML5 responsive design, Agile and Scrum, Waterfall, Continuous Integration and Deployment

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  • 1. Nora Ryan ( 6 5 0 ) 2 0 6 - 9 2 0 5 n r y a n @ a l u m . m i t . e d u S t a n f o r d H i l l s , M e n l o P a r k , C A Managing Director, BeanLight, LLC, Consulting Practice 1999 - Present Startup to Enterprise Growth Leadership Technology product and team builder. Led products to awards at TED, TechCrunch and showcasing at $B++ industry events inc. ESRI, NG. Products have won most relevant industry and tech magazine awards as product of the year. Many successful acquisitions, sales, startups and turnarounds. Revenues to $1B+. Product Management, Engineering, Ecosystem Alliances, Architecture, Business Development, GM Portfolio Snapshot Online Gambling Company, SVP Engineering and Product (consultant). Bay Area, NV, HI. 2011 - Present Delivered product, development team and strategy through sale for ASP OLTP solution spanning junction between gaming, social graphs, media and advertising. Rearchitected monolithic architecture to flexible, MVP-based platform. Real money, virtual currencies and tournaments. Instituted agile across international team. Oversaw responsive HTML5 UEX across desktop, iPad, iPhone, Android. DELUXE, Executive Director, SM Business Tools and Services. Minnesota. 2010 - 2011 Melded numerous acquisitions into product platform in $xxxM company re-spin. Specified, designed, melded and built teams to launch core architecture, product platform and services. Platform interwove social marketing, advertising, metrics and branding tools, a rich library of curated, current best practices, with simple end-user social and business analytics dashboard. Mobile and browser. Professional services team provided personalized product services to SMBs. Channels: Telcos, financial and consumer. YAHOO!, Executive Consultant, Platform Technology Group. Sunnyvale. 2009 - 2010 Delivered root cause analyses, trends and delineated solutions to address lifecycle success and market-limiting, systemic product development issues to Executive Team. Issue areas spanned Open, Social, Content Agility, ID, Analytics and Mobile Platforms. Provided deep dive, end to end forensics and triage of specific failure cases thru architecture, dev, product, process, communications, resourcing, and strategy . Issues included operational pipeline insufficiency, DB and platform silos, partner planning and integration (Zynga, FB) and platform adoption rate. RSPORTZ, CTO/CPO (consultant), Startup Revitalization and Sale. Los Angeles, 2007 - 2008 Reinvented SaaS company. Conceived and designed solution, co-raised investment, architected product, hired and led virtual agile teams to deliver TechCrunch50 startup. Individualized, activity, identity and role-based tools, events, grouping, and ad serve. Tested live globally including Summer Olympics. Geolocal, social graph-based personalized services and communication vehicle for large heterogeneous groups before, during and after large real-time events. TOUCHTABLE, GM, Co-Founder. Profitable $30M spinout from ThinkTank. Pasadena, 2004-2006 Created Newco including products, teams, infrastructure, partners, sales channel, ecosystem, funding. Platform provided joint data visualization, analysis and navigation from mobile to command centers. TED-acclaimed, ESRI and NG plenary sessions and showcase for years. A public and private sector solutions platform. Diverse patents for group multisensory, multitouch, gesture, multiple screen workflows. Integrated with ArcGIS. APIs. For world governments, emergency forces, insurance, medical and entertainment. Partnered with most of the major System Integrators. PALM, Head of 3rd Party Partners (consultant), Complete Renovation. Milpitas, CA, 2002 - 2004 Crafted new Partner processes, procedures and standards to turnaround highest risk, acknowledged failing Palm product area to companys best in months. Spearheaded strategic partner end-to-end redo including contracts, core Palm functionality, specifications, plans and led each project throughout delivery. Co-introduced Palm Developer online App Store as skunkworks KNOWLEDGEFIRST, VP Engineering, Operations. Startup turnaround. Sale. Foster City, 2000 - 2001 Created, engineered and shipped first virtual financial exchange serving the $80B student loan market. Our XML shaped industry-standard. Platform adopted by top US banks. Co-wrote middleware, schema, backend and respecified front ends. Hands-on direction and design, build out of production, development, QA, tech support, IT/Ops, Doc, and Professional Services. Doubled resources, halved delivery time, reduced run-rate.
  • 2. Nora Ryan ( 6 5 0 ) 2 0 6 - 9 2 0 5 n r y a n @ a l u m . m i t . e d u S t a n f o r d H i l l s , M e n l o P a r k , C A J2 GLOBAL (JetFax became eFax, acquired by J2) 1996 - 1999 Senior Director, Product Development, Strategic Accounts and Partners, Menlo Park Co-drove entity transition from CE and SMB systems to award-winning SaaS, eFax Gained first 1M subscribers in 6 months Grew original company from $3-$30M revenue, $300 OEM revenue in first year for successful IPO XEROX Connected Personal Products (PARC spinout) 1993 - 1997 Senior Director, Product Development, Strategic Accounts and Partnerships, Palo Alto Created disruptive CE products and full life cycle support for PARC spinouts first multifunctional SOHO systems. Billed $150M new revenue, first quarter, post launch. Crafted business plan to secure $15M investment to originate platform for profitable $1B business Designed end-to-end logistics, global supply chain for high volume market Hands on management of proprietary ASICs, firmware, drivers, network, desktop and telecomm software including color imaging codecs. Patents filed. Personally implemented one-touch fax to email prototype to validate feature value APPLE Chairman, Software Issues Forum and Sr. Software Engineering Manager, Cupertino 1991-1993 Chairman, Software Issues Forum and Sr. Software Engineering Manager, Cupertino Founded and chaired productive Apple-wide architecture, issues leadership decision body Formed and led Continuation Engineering to remove enterprise Apple-wide deal killers Redesigned Apple Consumer Software for immediate 5x reduction in returns/support costs Led Macintosh Performa CE Systems team BORLAND Product Line Manager, Databases and Languages, Scotts Valley 1989 - 1991 Jointly founded and led team to deliver PC Magazine, PC Computing MVP, first object-oriented Windows RDBMS, compiler and developer IT platform. Won over, converted developer community EDUCATION MASTERS OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Technology Experience Snapshot Multi-Screen Design: 1 to 84 Operating Systems: Linux, Mac OS X, iOS, Solaris, Win, VMS. Distributed, Multi-task, Embedded RTOS Languages: Java, C++, C, Objective C, Javascript, SQL, XML, HTML 5, XHTML, UNIX shell scripting, JSON, CSS, Perl, PL/I, Pascal, Fortran, Assembly, dBASE and more Tools: Eclipse, Xcode, Git, Subversion, Maven, Make, JIRA, innumerable SDKs, APIs, tools Servers: Apache, Tomcat, NGINX, JBOSS, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, MongoDB, Hbase, Hadoop
  • 3. Nora Ryan ( 6 5 0 ) 2 0 6 - 9 2 0 5 n r y a n @ a l u m . m i t . e d u S t a n f o r d H i l l s , M e n l o P a r k , C A Cloud Services: AWS, Rackspace, GitHub, MailChimp, Facebook OAuth, OpenGraph, SalesForce, PayPal, etc. Networks: Wired and Wireless incl. 802.11, Bluetooth, TCP/IP, Ethernet, ATM Methodologies: Test and behavior driven development, OOP and functional programming, RESTful and SOA architectures, Threading, Concurrency and Big Data, Scaling, Clustering, and Caching, MVC and MVP architectures, HTML5 responsive design, Agile and Scrum, Waterfall, Continuous Integration and Deployment