FreelanceCTO.com

Mr. Shiple has over a decade of Internet experience dating back to the birth of the web itself, where he was a founding member of the HotWired engineering team — the first commercial website. Thereafter, John went on to re-architect the GeoCities front-end (the fourth largest site on the Internet at the time) and then went on to co-found Bigstep.com, an award-winning small business online service provider.

At Bigstep.com, John designed, built and launched its initial service in six months to support over 300,000 customers and over 50 co-branded partners. While there, he staffed and managed a team of over 15 people, including engineers, information architects, designers, web developers, usability analysts, editors and writers.

After leaving Bigstep.com, John rebuilt the intranet and extranet systems for the Hilton Hotels Corporation from the ground up and developed the foundation for the company’s large-scale data integration strategy.

Recently, John was the CTO of Mota Motors, Inc.. Mota provides a new and better way to sell or buy a car. Mota’s automotive market network provides a one-click, instant access to the largest used car marketplaces. Mota’s groundbreaking technology makes transactions faster and more profitable by generating real-time market data that delivers fine-tuned pricing and optimized advertising. With additional advantages, such as our 24-hour answering service, there has simply never been an easier, safer and smarter way to sell or buy a car.

John is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a degree in Computer Science and Computer Engineering and worked at the MIT Media Lab.