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People
Nick Caramello is principal and co-founder of pod. He is a seasoned
technology executive with extensive experience in defining, planning, building and
managing custom software applications for a variety of clients, from startups to
the Fortune 500.
As co-founder of pod, Nick has overall responsibility for pod's startup strategy,
which involves helping pre-angel startups achieve technical and operational advantage
through leveraging pod's business and technical experience.
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Prior to founding pod, Nick worked at Sapient Corporation as a senior technical
architect. At Sapient, Nick:
- Started and led the Rapid Enterprise Architecture Planning (REAP) practice. A primary
focus of this practice was working with clients whose infrastructure had grown rapidly
due to organic growth or acquisition and helping them rationalize their architectural
legacy while preparing for future growth
- Led the highly successful Microsoft Framework team, which supported the successful
delivery of over $100M in revenue for Sapient's consulting practice.
- Acted as Technical Liaison to Microsoft Corporation as part of Sapient's Alliances
team
Nick has also served as Director of Architecture for Eze Castle Software with overall
responsibility for development of a real-time, multi-tier architecture to support
Eze Castle's trade order management platform, and as manager of IT infrastructure,
hardware purchasing, and office management for the North American operations of
the UK-based technology consulting firm Logica, Inc.
David Wong is principal and co-founder of pod. He is a seasoned
technology architect with 9 years of experience of delivering mission-critical projects
for Fortune 100 clients in the financial services, consumer and packaged goods and
energy verticals.
As co-founder of pod, Dave has overall responsibility for pod's web application
development practice, which focuses on custom web application web development and
high-touch interactive web sites built using pod's content management system
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Prior to founding pod, Dave worked at Sapient Corporation as a technical architect.
At Sapient, Dave:
- Led major architectural projects for Fortune 100 companies, including highly successful
ecommerce web applications in the retail and packaged good vertical.
- Led a critical team responsible for the delivery of a multi-year natural gas pipeline
management project
- Leveraged his extensive software delivery experience to refine Sapient's highly
effective delivery methodology as part of the Sapient | Approach team
Dave's areas of technical expertise include Java, .NET and PHP web development,
Java and .NET middleware, and Oracle, SQL sever and MySQL database technologies
Partners
Christian Donner has extensive experience in IT consulting, both as a senior
engineer providing consulting services, and as a development manager who outsourced
development projects to consulting firms.
He is used to and comfortable with playing key architecture and leadership roles
in complex development projects ranging in size from one-person to fifteen-person
teams and up to several million dollars in volume. Being technology-agnostic, Christian
is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for Java but equally at home in the Microsoft
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Christian joined Pod from Aviva Life Insurance Company where he was Director of
Distributed Systems and managed Aviva’s web, print, and middleware applications
and development initiatives. Prior to Aviva, he was a web application development
consultant and, among other notable accomplishments, led the technical design and
development for sites such as kofc.org (2005), standardandpoors.com (2001-2003),
and law.com (2000). In the 1990s, Christian developed client/server and business
intelligence applications for Sun Life Financial.
He publishes technical articles on the web, in print, and on his
blog, and regularly speaks at conferences about technical aspects of web
development. He holds a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Technical
University in Vienna/Austria.
Jordan Nolan is a seasoned developer and architect with extensive experience
in developing software solutions for Fortune 100 and 500 companies in the financial,
banking, and healthcare industries.
Jordan has considerable experience in user interface design and the development
of complex client architectures. Prior to joining pod, Jordan worked as a senior
consultant and manager for a prominent financial services software consulting firm
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Jordan has:
- Led major architectural projects for Fortune 100 companies, including a highly successful
bank portal application that consolidated multiple departments into a single, unified
loan processing system.
- Led a team responsible for the delivery of an analytical investment tracking and
reporting application for a major venture capital firm.
- Worked as a research and development engineer for Infragistics, the world leader
in user interface developer tools, where he helped develop industry award winning
tools and components for the .Net platform.
Jordan's areas of technical expertise include .Net, Windows, ASP.Net, AJAX, and
user interface design and development.
Jeffrey Licht is an accomplished software developer and technology architect with 12 years of experience of delivering high-volume consumer websites and systems integration projects.
Jeffrey has delivered projects in the United States and Europe, and worked extensively with globally distributed development teams.
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Prior to joining pod, Jeffrey worked at Sapient Corporation as a technical architect. At Sapient, Jeffrey:
- Led a redesign and rebuild for two of the top UK newspaper websites.
- Developed tools and practices to support Sapient's agile globally distributed delivery model.
- Led the redesign and rebuild of an ecommerce web application for a Fortune 500 office supplies retailer.
- Launched a pan-European online travel portal.
Jeffrey's areas of expertise include Java and .NET web development, technology package selection, and development methodologies.
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