Jessica Rusin

CTO

2024 - Current

Wildwood Ventures builds and invests in human technology businesses that make lives better. Wildwood is a venture studio and early stage investor that builds business with dynamic founders in the outdoor and wellness economies

Fractional CTO and Advisor

2023

Providing Technical Strategy, Advising and Coaching

Executive Coach

2023

At Elevate, we've built and designed leadership development programs that equip leaders with practical, science-based management techniques. We have coached and trained hundreds of executives and managers on how to be effective leaders. We help leaders of all levels at some of today's most successful companies become more confident, focused, and effective in their day-to-day through 1:1 executive coaching

Owner, Advisor, Fractional CTO, Executive Coach

2023

Provide advising, fractional CTO services and executive & leadership coaching to professionals helping to enable leaders and teams and reach higher level performance and advancement and achieve stronger business results.

Senior Advisor

2022

Advise current technology leadership and participate in strategic projects

Chief Technology Officer

2021 - 2022

Led a team of over 250+ technologists across Engineering, IT and Information Security. Responsible for the company's product and technology and strategy. Worked cross-functionally to scale the education and employer marketplace, supported fundraises Series A to Series F and helped grow the company from a $10M valuation to an over $4B valuation in 6 years.

SVP of Engineering

2019 - 2021

Responsible for leading the engineering, IT and InfoSec teams through high growth scaling the technology and team.

VP of Engineering, Founding team member

2016 - 2019

Built the engineering, IT and Information Security teams from the ground up. Hired and grew the team from 1 to over 250+ engineers and technologists.

Limited Partner

2019

Operator Collective is a venture fund and dream team community of operator LPs. OpCo brings together 200+ of tech’s most exceptional executives from diverse backgrounds to invest in and supercharge the next generation of enterprise tech

Sr. Director of Engineering

2014 - 2015

One-Touch into ANY conference call on ANY conference provider. The app syncs with your phone’s calendar and auto-detects the conference call details within your meeting invites. MobileDay Business, our enterprise product, automatically connects employees to conference calls using the least expensive phone number based on the company’s existing conferencing service. Employees continue to enjoy the One-Touch experience and companies can save money on each conference call minute. Managed and led the engineering teams focused on web, iOS and Android development.

Co-founder and CTO

2012 - 2014

Life's filled with moments worth celebrating! That's why we created evver. A company dedicated to transforming your moments into memories. Co-founder and Chief architect for a web based and mobile cloud application that automatically generates video from user uploaded photos synchronized to the beat of the music.

Senior Software Consultant

2012 - 2012

Worked as an independent consultant with small businesses to design and build websites. This included working with back end technologies, front end website design and layout, logo design, content generation, SEO and social media integration. Worked with a variety of technologies, such as Javascript, PHP, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, Wordpress and MySQL.

Senior Software Engineer

2007 - 2011