Bruce Hitson

CTO, VP Engineering, Data Scientist/Performance Guru at Stealth Mode Startup

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

About Bruce Hitson

Bruce Hitson is CTO, VP Engineering, Data Scientist/Performance Guru at Stealth Mode Startup. Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

Dr. Hitson is an accomplished entrepreneur and businessman. He has founded or helped grow successful technology-intensive companies in verticals including medical, finance/derivatives trading, Internet music/radio, telephony/contact centers, and data science/statistical data mining/warehousing for medical, pharma, and other verticals. Hitson's expertise and passions involve helping define and manage new business and technology initiatives that allow order-of-magnitude changes in the way the businesses operate and profit. He typically manages and directly contributes to high-performing globe-spanning teams and has deep experience as both the primary leader / visionary and also as one of the prime doers to ensure projects are done right even with seemingly impossible time and budget constraints. In summary: Depth and breadth at the intersection of business and complex technical matters/issues, based on education (Ph.D. EE/CS Stanford) and business experience (10+ companies, 6+ startups). Dr. Hitson moves easily between both worlds and brings them together to unlock major opportunities that require solving challenging nearly-impossible problems. ROLES: CTO/CIO/CxO, VP Engineering, Data Scientist, Software Guru, Consultant, Strategic technology screening / assessment, Venture Capitalist, Board of Advisors VERTICALS: finance (credit, derivatives, core sw), medical/pharma (data mining, discovery), new media (Internet radio, audio, video - incl advertising), medical, contact center (productivity, cost). TECHNOLOGIES: big data (e.g., Hadoop/Cassandra), business intelligence/data visualization, streaming media, UWB, distributed/cloud networking, social media, digital ads, ...

Skills

  • Infrastructure
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Strategy

Additional experience

  • Chief Scientist, CTO

    UWB Technologies

    January 2010 – December 2013

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Stanford University