Vangos Pterneas Transforming good ideas into awesome products

Ruby developer

Serial Actionpreneur. Enjoys mentoring youth in Entrepreneurial quests, contributing to Mastermind meetings, and giving talks on Business & Tech.

I'm a digital strategist, technology director, software architect and cross-functional team leader who’s helped many big brands and small startups succeed with web, mobile, and social media. I have a strong entrepreneurial drive, a passion for all things digital, and a uniquely balanced acumen for business, technology and user experience design. My career has been highly focused on emerging digital technologies, which has cultivated an intuitive awareness of opportunities to embrace and pitfalls to avoid. I am passionate about integrating cross-functional teams and agile methods to drive innovation with out-of-the-box thinking and rapid iteration. I believe solutions should be driven by user experience and business value, and technology should be an enabler. My balanced perspective enables me to quickly establish affinity, trust, and respect among colleagues, partners, and clients to produce innovative solutions and quality results with high-performing cross-functional teams. My extensive consulting career has provided a breadth of exposure to many industries, solution domains, and technologies. Some of my high-profile clients include Microsoft, Southwest Airlines, American Airlines, Chase, JCPenney, Dell, and Texas Instruments, among many others. For these and other clients, I've led projects for interactive marketing, social media marketing, community management, CRM, B2B & B2C e-commerce, business intelligence & analytics, project management, and LOB operations. I have experience with nearly all mainstream web, mobile, and cloud platforms and technologies and I am highly adept at evaluating, mastering, and implementing new technologies. The majority of my experience has been with customer facing products and services that require a high degree of polish and reliability.