Founder @ We're building Google for talent. Stop reading this and see for yourself at http://hiringsolved.com/explorer From August 2012 to Present (3 years 5 months) Co-Founder @ Created the brand and concept for MLconf. Lead production (marketing, sales, operations) of the initial events in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University and Graphlab. Turned it over in 2013 to Courtney Burton who has made MLconf a leader in data science and machine learning events. I'm now a board member only for MLconf. MLconf hosts full day workshop events focused on Machine Learning, data science and related topics. MLconf has core events in New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Atlanta with more coming soon! From February 2012 to Present (3 years 11 months) Founder and producer @ geekSessions started as a series of deeply technical topical events networking events. Started in 2007, the events featured a technical panel discussion between 3-4 top technologists, an audience Q&A session, followed by an open networking mixer. The event's quickly grew in popularity and featured many of the best minds of the "web 2.0" era. From February 2007 to November 2013 (6 years 10 months) Founder, CEO @ Scaled Wildcog from my living room couch to a profitable multi-million dollar boutique recruiting and staffing firm in 2 years. Recruiting for impossible to find software engineering and devops roles. Clients included Google, Apple, Yahoo, Cisco, Palantir, Box, Digg, and many startups. From March 2009 to March 2013 (4 years 1 month) Founder @ What is bizSessions? 1: bizSessions is a high-end networking event that brings recognized business experts together to speak on a new topic each session. 2: A place where smart people connect and collaborate. From June 2009 to August 2011 (2 years 3 months) CEO @ The Forbin Group is a specialized technical consultancy focused on high scalability systems architecture and security. Created brand and strategy. Lead sales and marketing. Built and trained the recruiting team. Customers include Google, Six Apart, Say Media and may more. From February 2007 to March 2009 (2 years 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaPractice Manager @ Managed the Infrastructure Practice with over 200 consultants and over 80% of total company revenue. Became a primary point of contact for named accounts including Apple, Google, NetApp, and many more. Trained recruiting teams. Managed technical hiring process. Assisted in closing high-value deals with named accounts. From July 2004 to May 2006 (1 year 11 months) Consultant @ Consulting on large scale infrastructure architecture and implementation. From June 2004 to September 2004 (4 months) Founder / Managing Director @ Founded the company in 2000. Acted as President and COO. Responsible for overseeing all aspects of product and software development, service delivery, and daily operations. Recruited and lead the team that built the first automated Workflow Engine for international domain registration. Showcased in ICANN and bought by Verisign. From February 2000 to July 2004 (4 years 6 months) Senior Consultant / SME @ Technical and operational lead for large scale projects with DHL, Cisco, Qwest, Telstra and more. Acted as a Subject Matter Expert in Information Security and Networking Technologies. Played a significant sales role in several project. Mentored and managed projects teams and associated technical staff. Served as a technical escalation point for various projects. From January 1999 to December 2000 (2 years) Global Technology Manager @ Reported directly to the CIO. Manager and technical escalation point for global IT team. Responsible for researching, designing and implementing new technology that would accelerate and assist the business. Implemented a Global VPN with locations in Singapore, London, Newport Beach, and Honolulu along with many new applications and inter-networked technologies. Traveled regularly to oversee global IT operations. From January 1996 to 1998 (2 years) Engineering Liason @ From 1993 to 1994 (1 year)

Shon Burton is skilled in: Mergers, Cloud Computing, SaaS, Start-ups, Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Project Management, Strategy, Software Development, Team Leadership, Business Process, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Mobile Devices, Consulting, Marketing