Leon Kotovich
About
Leon Kotovich is from Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Leon is currently Chief Executive Officer at TerraManta, located in United States. Leon also works as Member at LA CTO Forum, a job Leon has held since Jan 2015. In Leon's previous role as a Chief Operating Officer at e-PlanSoft, Leon worked in Orange County, California Area until Jan 2016. Prior to joining e-PlanSoft, Leon was a Vice President of Engineering at OpenText and held the position of Vice President of Engineering at Washington D.C. Metro Area. Prior to that, Leon was a President and CEO at agileSEQUENT, Inc, based in Orange County, California Area from Jan 2006 to Sep 2013. Leon started working as Vice President of Product Development at TMA Resources in Washington D.C. Metro Area in Jan 2004. From Jan 2001 to Jan 2003, Leon was Senior Director - Products & Services at Cordiem, based in Washington D.C. Metro Area. Prior to that, Leon was a Director - Worldwide Professional Services at BroadVision, based in Greater Atlanta Area from Jan 1999 to Jan 2001. Leon started working as Senior Associate - Strategic Technology Practice at A.T. Kearney in Greater Atlanta Area in Jan 1996.
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Leon Kotovich's current jobs
Founder and CEO of TerraManta, a Techstars company. TerraManta is a platform for forecasting commodity prices using machine learning, starting with crude oil and corn futures. Our business plan is to manage outside capital and trade crude oil futures in a separate trading entity with TerraManta providing an exclusive license. Advisor to several early stage technology companies. Open to Board level roles.
The LA CTO Forum is a vibrant, private, by-invitation-only network of 250+ CTOs that meets once a month in Santa Monica, CA.. This is an amazing group of the top technical minds in Los Angeles and I’m proud to be a part of its success. More at www.lactoforum.org. As a member, I assist the Los Angeles and Orange County startup ecosystem by providing help to startups and VCs as business mentor and technical advisor.
Leon Kotovich's past jobs
Responsible for leading and growing e-PlanSoft, an enterprise software company in hyper growth phase. e-PlanSoft is a leader in electronic plan review solutions. Designed by construction and civil engineering experts, the patented suite of SaaS (Software as a Service) products includes: e-PlanCheck: enables municipal, county, fire, and permitting agencies (including 3rd party plan review firms) to electronically accept, review, markup, and approve plans submitted by an authorized individual or a company. Multiple agencies can review the plan at the same time, manage notes & corrections, and quickly generate correction letters. With e-PlanCheck, the plan review process is both quicker and more accurate, saving time for both the customer and the permitting agency. e-PlanReview: enables side-to-side and overlay review of project drawings. See differences? Add notes, comments, and even images for other team members to review in real time. e-PlanAssessment: enables facility assessment teams conducting structural, civil, mechanical and plumbing site assessments to record comprehensive field notes, comments, images and supporting documentation.
Information Exchange business unit (formerly GXS) is a global B2B e-commerce and integration leader, delivering B2B e-commerce integration solutions to approximately two-thirds of the Fortune 500 companies. Information Exchange solutions simplify document exchange, enhance supply chain visibility and enable faster and more accurate collaboration with business partners. Revenue: approaching $1B (2013). Leading talented engineering teams in the US, UK, and India responsible for: . Orchestration Engine - a scalable cloud infrastructure which orchestrates global business processes between trading partners . Service Containers - services executed by Orchestration Engine, including a framework for creating and offering new business services . Core Services - including document translation services . Visibility Applications - featuring capabilities to monitor the execution of global business processes, including process states, document flows, alerts, notifications, recovery and reconciliation procedures Building next generation data management & data visualization foundation for launching new analytic services using NoSQL technology: Cassandra, Hadoop, Hive, Hawq. Goal: 90% of analytic services provided by near real-time data access.
Founder of agileSEQUENT (http://www.agilesequent.com), a software & consulting company. Primary mission: CTO-for-hire - leading complex software engineering efforts with strategic value (new products, new markets, new sources of revenue) and transforming global software engineering organizations (from good to world class). Selected highlights: . Engaged to launch a new company - www.mediasolvcorp.com - focused on integrated digital evidence management systems for law enforcement agencies. Led market assessment, product roadmap development, and software engineering efforts. The product has been installed in 5 largest cities in N. America. The company was sold to a group of private investors and acquired by Taser International for $13M in May 2015. . Worked with 2 outsourcing companies in Eastern Europe and India to create a differentiated product & services strategy . Performed several engagements for Fortune 500 companies to select and establish a dedicated software engineering center in Eastern Europe . Defined product roadmap & partner marketing strategy for a growing SaaS software company . Transformed 2 software engineering organizations and refactored 3 product lines: from average talent to stellar talent, from hundreds of defects to zero defects, from supporting hundreds of users to thousands of users My clients always ask me to stay after each CTO-for-hire engagements. I can, if these are true: there is market opportunity, the product to be built can become a market leader, the management team is laser sharp / with extreme focus on the mission.
Led product management and software engineering organizations in an enterprise software company focused on the non-profit industry. Product portfolio was based on Microsoft .NET architecture and offered as a fully hosted SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solution. . Refactored product platform which provides a common API for 3 product lines . Designed and built new product architecture based on .NET 2.0 . Implemented continuous integration, automated testing and deployment practices . Built Web Services integration layer
Led product management and product development activities at Cordiem, a startup software company formed by the world's 9 largest airlines and aerospace manufacturers. Cordiem eventually discontinued operations after tragic events of 9/11/2001. . Launched 3 industry leading Web based SaaS products which generated $25M in annual revenues in the first 2 years of operation
Built and managed a regional professional services and software engineering organization, including a small creative / brand design studio. Grew the team from 0 to 150 employees. . Launched 2 large scale, high volume Web properties: www.homedepot.com and www.aa.com (American Airlines).
Led large scale business and technology transformation programs: operational improvement, supply chain re-engineering, IT organization consolidation & redesign, post merger integration, IT project portfolio rationalization.