Rick Roty

Currently, I am managing a few teams of software engineers responsible for the development of the following products:

Quick Blogcast®
SmartSpace® (including, MySmartSpace)
Video.me™

In the midst of the ".com bust," I gained the opportunity to work at this division of Apollo Group while it was experiencing explosive growth. Applying tenets of agile development, I took on the responsibility to architect, develop and maintain several highly available and scalable enterprise web applications, including eCampus (student portal), Doctoral Mentoring Web, and Apply Web. I hired and mentored several junior developers and was eventually responsible for the interviewing and hiring of all .Net engineers for this division.

Assembled and managed engineering teams of independent contractors to develop applications for Chicago area clients including Gladson Interactive and Exelon Corp.

I took the opportunity to lead this company into the Internet age by founding their IT department. I hired a staff of operators, systems engineers, DBAs, and software engineers to create a series of internal desktop and customer-facing Web applications, including Gladson Online®, an online data delivery system for the Gladson Universal Database®. These efforts culminated in Gladson becoming the worldwide leader in the collection and distribution of retail product data and images for use in retail space planning.