Head of Engineering, BookingSuite @ Product development in e-commerce and distribution area to enable accommodation partners to grow their businesses and brands through innovative cloud-based software and services
� From June 2014 to Present (1 year 7 months) CTO/Chief Data Scientist @ buuteeq provides SaaS based marketing automation solution for hotels. Since launching in early 2011, the company has helped thousands hotel customers in more than 50 countries to provide a cost effective platform to build and maintain a consumer-facing web site, manage Facebook pages and mobile sites, booking engine, analytics and more.
As CTO, I'm responsible for planning and development of technology direction and SaaS platform to server both external customers and internal operations. As Chief Data Scientist, my focus is to effectively manage data and data sources as mission critical asset; and develop technology and process to unlock business values. From April 2010 to June 2014 (4 years 3 months) CTO, co-founder @ Evincii is a venture-backed startup and industry leader that enables a cross-channel search-based product advisory service to consumers in brick-and-mortar and online retail stores. The service is available for kiosk, online and mobile devices such as iPhone. Evincii also operates a pay-for-performance online/mobile advertising network for consumer package goods manufacturers. From December 2004 to April 2010 (5 years 5 months) Co-founder @ Co-founded an online mobile marketing company that created a mobile coupon network (SMS/MMS based) for local merchants with frequent promotion needs. The service featured personalized coupon search for mobile users as well as coupon delivery and permission marketing for advertisers. From February 2003 to November 2004 (1 year 10 months) Engineering Manager/Researcher @ Initiated and led several software research projects and transformed them into high-impact systems that significantly increased Overture’s business scalability and advertiser's ROI. These projects applied machine learning algorithms to enable automated relevance evaluation for ad listings and keyword suggestion. From 2002 to 2004 (2 years) Engineering Manager @ - As a founding engineer of Cadabra, an online comparison shopping site. Help build and grow company to a $250mil acquisition by Overture in 2002.
- Managed an engineering team to architect and build a back-end system to automated price and product spec. retrieval and integration. From March 1998 to June 2002 (4 years 4 months) Lead Architect @ Designed and implemented Informix Web Integration Option, an add-on for Informix object oriented database. From January 1997 to March 1998 (1 year 3 months) Senior Software Engineer @ SQLNet: network transport and control layer for Oracle server/client. From March 1993 to January 1997 (3 years 11 months)
MS, Computer Science @ Stanford University From 1991 to 1993 BS, Computer Science & Information Engineering @ National Taiwan University From 1985 to 1989 Dennis Wu is skilled in: Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Online Advertising, Mobile Marketing, Large Scale Systems, Ad Networks, Mobile Applications, Start-ups, Databases, Leadership, Scalability, Cloud Computing, Product Management, SaaS, E-commerce
Websites:
http://www.buuteeq.com