John Knapp

Experience

Founder 2020 - Present (over 4 years)

Pioneering a new approach to career discovery, transition planning, hiring and talent development throughout the enterprise. Follow us here and on Twitter to learn more as... more

Scope AR

Senior Architect 2019 - 2020 (9 months)

My role was to insure Scope AR has clean and logical core APIs to serve our growing family of web and mobile clients and provide the organization with an extensible foundation... more

Hoverlay

Principal Architect & Engineer 2017 - 2019 (over 2 years)

Hoverlay operates a platform that powers practical uses of augmented reality including marketing, e-commerce, product visualization and more. I built the Hoverlay Mixed Reality... more

Incisive:Labs

Principal Solutions Architect 2020 (3 months)

Incisive:Labs designs and builds apps and cloud native solutions with a laser like focus on solving your toughest challenges.

Our clients say we’re extraordinarily... more

Startup Alliance

Founder 1999 - Present (over 25 years)

Startup Alliance is a global community of committed entrepreneurs who are driving innovation and creating value worldwide. We provide our members with success assurance tools... more

Incisive:Labs

Founder

Arts Row

Advisor

HowZone Learning Communities

Board Member

Momentum

Mentor

Incbase

Interim CTO 2018 (3 months)

Working with the CEO to implement the vision and launch an enterprise decision support platform.

HowZone Learning Communities

Founder 2014 - 2016 (about 2 years)

HowZone is evolving.

As we begin our journey to create a billion dollar online learning company, we have launched a new way to learn and a unique product that will... more

Exit

Boatbound

CTO 2013 - 2014 (9 months)

Turned this ship into a high performing and seaworthy craft to rule the waves. Provided technology leadership, re-engineered large scale production application and executed... more

Brash Insight

Founder CEO/CTO 2008 - 2011 (over 3 years)

Brash Insight is the worlds leader in Feedback Advertising™ conversational advertising tools and strategies. Our clients enjoy 3x to 5x better results and deep consumer insight... more

Procurement Sciences

Founder, Cofounder and CTO 2022 - 2023 (11 months)

Founder

Procurement Sciences, Incisive:Labs

Employee

Boatbound, HowZone Learning Communities, Brash Insight, Incbase, Startup Alliance, Incisive:Labs, Hoverlay, Scope AR, SkillBank.io

Advisor

Arts Row

Board Member

HowZone Learning Communities

Mentor

Momentum

Projects

Competency Insight Platform

Revolutionary approach to fix hiring.

Concept, vision, branding, design, validation, development, architecture · Team leadership, cloud architect, lead engineer

The SkillBank… · More

With Christopher Riley, Abdelhay Najjar, Nicolas Robbe

SkillBank Competency Insight Platform

Entreprise SaaS for HR professionals

Concept, vision, branding, design, validation, development, architecture, PostgreSQL, Javascript, Redis · Helping your company make better talent… · More

Startup Alliance - Essential tools and resources helping committed entrepreneurs connect, overcome challenges and win.

Collaboration toolbox for committed entrepreneurs

Founder. Creative Vision. Lead developer. · I built it from the ground up.

Startup Alliance is a collaboration toolbox where global… · More

With Nina Robin

SkillBank Job Discovery App

Inspiring job ideas for workers in transition

Concept, vision, branding, design, validation, development, architecture, Ruby, PostgreSQL, Javascript · Inventory your competencies then discover… · More

About

Achievements

Currently part-time:
- Building a disruptive recruiting platform @ skillbank.io

Other achievements:
- Built an Augmented Reality location awareness and content distribution API.
- Invented & built distributed content syndication platform and received 3 patents.
- Invented & led the team to build conversational advertising technology which drove 5x lift in all KPIs.

My superpower:
- I love to help entrepreneurs take action to turn ideas into intuitive applications customers will pay for.

I've got years of experience gathering market requirements, designing, developing and delivering intuitive and effective software products as well as assembling and leading development, UX/UI and QA teams. My experience also includes SW architecture, data models, system design, HA and scaling.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Ruby Redis Intellectual Property Strategy Business Strategy Application / Platform Architecture Software Development Software Architecture SaaS User Experience Design Product Development PostgreSQL Amazon Web Services Lean Startups Product Management Back-End Development Frontend Development Full Stack Development Web Development Machine Learning Python Natural Language Processing HTML CSS Javascript Agile Agile Software Development Apple Business Plan Business Strategies Data Modeling Fault Tolerance Git Heroku Leadership Management Recruiting Ruby on Rails Software System Design Test WEB Web Applications Web Technologies Augmented Reality Elixir Creative Writing Technical Writing Technical documentation Artificial Intelligence Data Analysis

Locations

San Mateo Seattle Vancouver New York City

Education

Q&A

What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

Badass, Making Users Awesome - Kathy Sierra

What's your favorite non-business book?

Drag Device Database.

If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?

Mentoring entrepreneurs.

What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?

LinkedIn or Email

What's the most creative thing you've ever done?

Repaired the head of my mainsail en route from Honolulu to British Columbia, 1000 miles from land.

John Knapp

Startup whisperer, software architect, inventor, writer, musician, photographer, sailor & man of integrity.