Carl Fravel – Decentraland District Leader and Advisor

Decentraland.org

Proven experience in strategic planning, building and managing multiple high-performance teams in both startups and larger private and public companies, creating efficient operations, assembling advanced technology research and architecture groups, consulting on organizational development, writing business plans, coaching executives, training managers, defining and developing new products and services, providing architectural leadership, and successfully launching into new markets.

· 30+ years technical and technology management experience, in both software and hardware
· Sharply-honed skills in implementing effective structure within highly creative teams
· Early stage high-tech company executive experience – vision, strategy, business plans, funding, staffing, product management, architecture, R&D, operations, marketing, product launches, boards of directors
· Angel and VC fund raising successfully closed, capitalization, investor relations
· On-time and on-budget product development and IT project management
· Multiple successes with 1.0 and mature products, many full-life-cycle experiences
· Requirements-driven architecture, design, implementation, QA, usability, feature control
· Management of co-development partnerships and OEM licensing, trade shows, and technical collateral
· Domain knowledge in software and service architecture, distributed computing infrastructure, ecommerce, community and collaborative web applications, development tools, IDEs, frameworks, components, public APIs, web services, digital media technologies, software-hardware interfacing, electronics manufacturing, Windows, LAMP, Java, C++, C, HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, XML, Web 2.0
· Leadership style of open communications, consultative decision making, trust, grooming contributors for higher productivity and managers for excellence