Rick Garvin
Managing Director
Rick focuses on product development acceleration and product management for growth-oriented technology companies. Most often, he performs product and technology assessments as well as executes turnaround and technology acceleration for companies that create products or use technology as a key component of their service offerings. He frequently works as fractional CTO, VP of Engineering, or VP of Product Development.
He began his career at BTG working in signals intelligence and worked his way up to become VP of Engineering. After BTG, Rick was the CTO for two technology startups that had successful exits. Rick has worked on internet-based application architectures for 35+ years and holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
He began his career at BTG working in signals intelligence and worked his way up to become VP of Engineering. After BTG, Rick was the CTO for two technology startups that had successful exits. Rick has worked on internet-based application architectures for 35+ years and holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
EXPERTISE AREAS
- Architecture
- Cloud Architecture
- Digital Asset Management
- Digital Transformation
- Fractional CTO
- Product Development
- Product Management
- Rights Management
- Royalty Management
- Scalability
- Security
- Software Development
- Strategy & Innovation
- Technology Assessments
INDUSTRIES SERVED
- Edtech
- Fintech
- Healthtech
- Investment (Private Equity, Venture Capital, Investor)
- Media
- SaaS
AWARDS & CERTIFICATIONS
- Author of “Sessioneer: Flexible Session Level Authentication With Off The Shelf Servers and Clients”, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Vol. 27, No. 6, April 1995 - first published paper defining web browser cookies
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- Microsoft-certified Systems Engineer (expired January 1, 2021)
- Sun-certified Enterprise Architect (expired December 2018)
BOARD & CTO ROLES
- CIO, BHTA
- CTO, eFashion Solutions
- CTO & VP Product Development, BuySAFE
- CTO & VP Product Development, iDEFENSE
- VP Technology Advisory Services, Adrenaline Group
- VP Product Development, Opion
- VP Internet Engineering, Telecomputing
- CTO, Electronic Business (e-biz)
- VP Engineering, BTG