William Crawford's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Co-Founder @ BYTE [Boston Young Technology Entrepreneurs] BYTE is a monthly meeting of technology entrepreneurs, engineers working on new products, and early stage investors. It is an informal forum for Boston's technology movers and shakers to meet and help build great companies. Placed on hiatus when both organizers started companies. From March 2009 to December 2014 (5 years 10 months) Chief Product Officer @ SmartSense by Digi Responsible for product management across SmartSenses' combined hardware and software business. My team is focused on our Z-Sensor and B-Sensor hardware platforms along with our cloud and mobile solutions for healthcare, pharmacy, food safety and supply chain. From May 2018 to December 2018 (8 months) Greater Boston AreaSVP Software, Digi Smart Solutions @ SmartSense by Digi SmartSense makes it easy for companies to harness wireless sensors, digital task management, and remote monitoring to improve their operations. Over 2,000 organizations utilize our easy to deploy wireless sensors and powerful remote monitoring software to monitor equipment, manage their fleet, and connect their stores. From August 2017 to May 2018 (10 months) Boston, MAVP Engineering & Boston Office Head @ Fitbit I started Fitbit's Boston office in 2013, and we grew to 130 software engineers, testers, product managers, designers and researchers by early 2017. We started out Boston with a dedicated eCommerce team and built the engine that drives Fitbit's D2C and B2B businesses. That grew into a cluster of engineering teams focused on the customer experience - everything from pre-orders to predictive support and proactive troubleshooting of devices in the field. I also manage our engineering cluster for Fitness functionality, internal Product Management, built Fitbit's first Agile PMO team, and our Big Data/BI/Analytics Infrastructure team, as well as trying to make the Fitbit Boston office a great place for everyone who works here! From July 2013 to June 2017 (4 years) Greater Boston AreaVP, Business Systems @ Fitbit I joined Fitbit in early 2013, and shortly thereafter picked up a dual role running the Business Systems team during our IPO run-up. We hired a core team, created a planning process and medium term strategy, implemented a brand new ERP system, and eventually hired a VP of IT to take over. From October 2013 to February 2015 (1 year 5 months) Greater Boston AreaSenior Advisor @ Pri-Med Advise Pri-Med and AmazingCharts leadership on software as a service EHR platform development and strategy, following the acquisition of Linked Medical. From April 2013 to December 2014 (1 year 9 months) Greater Boston AreaOffice of Policy @ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Healthcare IT Policy Analyst for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. From July 2006 to May 2007 (11 months) Director, Product Technology & Principal Software Architect @ Perceptive Informatics Director of Product Technology at Perceptive Informatics, Inc., the leading provider of clinical trial management software for the pharmaceutical industry. From September 2002 to December 2004 (2 years 4 months) CEO and Co-Founder @ Linked Medical, Inc. Commercialized a range of Health IT products developed at a major research hospital in Boston. Wrote a lot of code, ran a lot of meetings and build a great team distributed across North America. Orchestrated the sale of the company to DBC Pri-Med, LLC and AmazingCharts in April 2013. From September 2010 to April 2013 (2 years 8 months) Boston, MAChief Technology Officer @ Invantage, Inc. Led the software development and technology management activities at Invantage, Inc., a venture-backed startup company providing clinical trial management tools and resources to the pharmaceutical industry. Among other things, Invantage delivered the first web-based intranet appliation product for pharmaceutical companies (in 1998), and the first industry-specific Software-as-a-Service product for pharma. Clients included multiple Fortune 50 companies.As Director of Product Development, worked closely with clients before, during and after the sales process. Managed a multi-disciplinary, distributed software development team that successfully delivered several versions of an industry leading product. From May 1998 to September 2002 (4 years 5 months) Cambridge, MAChief Technology Officer @ Medically Home Responsible, along with a great team, for building the technology platform underlying Medically Home's mission of providing hospital-level care in the home. Hiring for analysts, developers, EHR experts, product managers and medical informatics experts! Greater Boston AreaCEO @ Beacon 16 Software Beacon 16 provided of custom software solutions in the healthcare information technology field. Customers included Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, along with startups, research institutions and biotechnology. Our software has been used by thousands of people and impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of patients. From August 2010 to December 2012 (2 years 5 months) Director, Informatics Solutions Group @ Boston Children's Hospital Responsible for negotiation and management of collaborations between academia, private sector and government entities around Personally Controlled Health Records, pharmaceutical R&D technologies and other aspects of healthcare informatics. Operationally, manages a growing software development organization focused on delivering the core infrastructure for the Dossia Personally Controlled Health Record consortium, which included building out a large team of engineers, project managers, designers, testers and analysts. From May 2007 to August 2010 (3 years 4 months)