Kelly Phillipps

Founder

SMASH

Jun 2014 - Current (12 years 4 months)

In Smash, we find the best talent in Costa Rica to work with your US company. Forget the old contractor scheme and start employing talented and dedicated developers that fit naturally to the culture and work environment of your company. We help your company continue raising the bar with a unified team from two different countries that can work, support, and achieve more than what they ever dreamed of.

We focus on these areas within the tech industry: Talent search, recruiting process, compliance with CR and US laws, employee satisfaction.

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CTO Founder

PurePredictive

Sep 2011 - Jan 2014 (2 years 5 months)

I helped kick off and build the team at PurePredictive, and ultimately landed our flagship customer Western Governors University (WGU). I was tasked with creating the main IP, and am the principal inventor on 11 patents that we filed at PurePredictive for our machine learning engine.

PurePredictive was my introduction to Machine Learning, I met Professor Richard Wellman, a true mad scientists who had spent 13 years building his own workbench for data scientists. I got to build my own team of data scientists and developers, raised investment capitol that helped us bring to fruition a product around Richard’s brain child. There were a lot of great concepts in the idea but most of all I learned that data science was the path for

CTO

Backcountry

Jan 2007 - Apr 2011 (4 years 4 months)

As the CTO of backcountry.com, I helped take it from a small owner operator business to a top 25 e-retailer under the Liberty Media Umbrella. Liberty Media acquired backcountry.com in 2007 and is one of the top 10 Media Companies in the world with over 11 billion in assets.

When I got to Backcountry.com, everything was home grown in Perl which was the right way to start an internet company selling $2M online, but it could not support a $200M+ gro

Director IT

OC Tanner

Jan 2003 - Dec 2007 (5 years)

After 3 years in startups I thought I needed a break. OC Tanner is an 80 year old, well established company and I thought it would be a very different pace but as it turns out every company has the same challenges of keeping up with technology.

At OC Tanner I led the replatforming of every major system including switching the core infrastructure from IBM mainframes to a Linux, changing out the storage infrastructure, redid the entire corporate network and gave the employees a new email system.

In addition to owning the enterprise and internet operations I also got to lead 8 major business initiatives such as implementing Customer Relationship Management across the sales force and call center, a voice recognition sy

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CEO

Center

Oct 1999 - Mar 2003 (3 years 6 months)

Grew the organization from 0 to 160 employees in 9 months. We were the hot place to work and had a long line of applicants for every position. I had a team of top executives who have all gone on to do amazing things. I designed a world class data center.

We had clients paying over 100K a month when we were acquired by Via-west. In fact, they wanted to acquire us to see what are secret sauce was. The sale and the data center assets have returned over $50M. A second business line had an exit of $40M which funded Vintela which was a whole new concept.

Center7 would then become Vintela.

Director Ecommerce

FranklinCovey

Jan 1997 - Dec 2000 (4 years)

I pioneered ecommerce at Franklin where few people really knew what the internet was. I owned every aspect of the effort including sales, marketing, creative, and technology. We launched and within 90 days had grown revenue from 0 to $500K a month. We pioneered the concept of B2B2C by building custom sites for company's employees. We began by focusing on companies that understood the internet like AOL, HP and IBM.

We used a homegrown solution written in Perl which ended up getting open sourced and adopted by Backcountry. I replaced the homegrown solution with Broadvision, they claimed to be able to give every customer a personalized “One-to-One” experience which, due to the lack of machine learning, didn’t quite get there but

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