Jason Byrne

I lead the technology team at this connected fitness company, doing hundreds of millions in revenue. I manage the software engineering, QA, Cloud Infrastructure, and Data/BI teams. On a day-to-day basis I work hand-in-hand with product management and stakeholders in other departments. I am part of the exec leadership at Echelon Fitness, regularly working with membership, marketing, content, music rights, accounting, information technology, and other teams. I work with vendors, outsourced teams, create budgets, hiring and on-boarding, career development, hold one-on-ones and skip levels. I still get my hands dirty with code or help developers through issues. I create architecture documents and proof of concepts and occassionally pick up side tickets myself to keep the team focused.

Spent 8 years as VPE at this D2C broadcaster, growing the product/engineering team from two to 60, over multiple rounds of funding. I managed with various software engineering teams and the network operations center. My role also encompassed cheif architect and head of R&D. New initiatives typically started at my desk. I oversaw training and career development and was part of the senior leadership team. My efforts kick started QA automation, our sports data initiatives, graphic overlays, and all things related to video production, streaming, and content delivery.

Founded the Florida Runners and MileSplit in college. Grew to become the #1 track & field website in the country, before my 2013 exit to join FloSports. The network has journalists around the country with portals in every state. The database includes virtually every high school runner for the past two decades, with hundreds of millions of performances across tens of millions of athletes. That data can be efficiently crunched to produce rankings with granular filters. We were pioneers in covering high school sports online and were one of the earliest sites to successfully sell subscriptions to end users, starting in 2005.

Developed CRM application that managed the entire business: payables, receivables, inventory, sales pipeline, orders, and service. It synced wirelessly to a companion application running on tablets in the field. We ended up spinning it off as a separate company; it was sold to others in the industry for $10,000-30,000 per installation. In addition ran IT operations including servers, network, VPN to branch offices, support, backups, web site, and updates.