Simon Yost - Founder, Glued Network

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Network Power<100 people

Roles

🔥66%

Startup Founder

🧑‍💼50%

C-level Executive

✔️33%

Geos

🇧🇷16%

Brazil

🇨🇱16%

Chile

🇮🇳16%

India

Work Background

Glued NetworkFounder & CEO

Jan. 2023Greater St. LouisPut Your Data to Work. Convert Challenges into assets that disrupt industry. I enhance operations by converting operational challenges (ex. spreadsheet mazes) into data assets that save time and push industry transformation.

InStrideData & Platform Engineering Manager

Jul. 2022 - Jul. 2023St Louis, Missouri, United States• Hired to generate a unified and accurate picture of user engagement data sets, rebuilding customer trust and boosting the user base by 48%. • Transformed operational data into a cohesive analytics platform, enhancing data quality by 29%, which elevated customer experience and expanded existing accounts. • Securely incorporated sensitive financial data into the analytics framework, enhancing forecasting and saving 205 analyst hours monthly. • Integrated user behavior data into a unified analytics picture, yielding insights that reduced development costs by 21%. • Harness customer dashboard analytics to showcase program success patterns, driving a 26% surge in contract renewals. • Created and launched a billing system that scaled recurring monthly billing from 25 to 3,000 customers.

MastercardData Engineering Manager

Nov. 2021 - Jul. 2022Greater St. Louis• Hired to improve Mastercard's payments network's performance, security, and scalability. • Pioneered advanced tech that boosted credit card transactions to 2.5k/sec, gaining a competitive edge and reducing risk by speeding up daily clearings. • Improved scalability and flexibility by enabling global edge computing operations, ensuring timely updates and efficient resource utilization, leading to a 29% performance gain and 14% cost savings. • Enhanced security measures led to a 9% drop in reported fraud by reducing data transmission, making it more challenging for attackers to intercept.

1904labsClient Partner

Dec. 2019 - Oct. 2021St. Louis, MO, United States• Hired to deliver data-use innovations to boost account revenues from Fortune 500 clients. • Created a greenfield unified data picture of transactions and reported fraud data that trained predictive fraud technology, resulting in a fifth-year renewal of a $10 million annual account. • Optimized the unified data picture, which reduced time-to-insight from 1 day to 1 minute by tuning the system to process 7k+ transactions per second. • Increased revenue on a Fortune 500 telecom account by implementing a data governance strategy that ensured GDPR and CCPA regulatory compliance and increased customer trust. • Accelerated the launch of a next-gen tech offering with an internal playbook, securing the offering’s first paying customer.

SlalomSenior Data and Software Engineer

Mar. 2018 - Nov. 2019Greater St. Louis Area• Hired to deliver high-profile digital transformation initiatives for Fortune 500 customers, resulting in the market and beating its annual revenue goal. • Drove a $250k monthly project that accelerated data insights for a Fortune 500 healthcare company. • Enhanced customer service for an international chemical company by creating its first digital project, providing $1M in monthly revenue. • Boosted the firm's stature with thought leadership, leading to multiple conference speaking invitations.

ThreatBlockr, Inc.Vice President of Product

Jan. 2017 - Mar. 2018Greater St. Louis Area• Promoted by the CEO to create and execute a product strategy to support mid-market growth and drive revenue. • Renovated hardware appliance user interface, creating a turn-key setting that accelerated sales conversions by 12%. • The company gained a competitive edge by integrating hardware appliance technology into the Google Cloud Platform, broadened its market reach, and unlocked a new sales channel. • Streamlined customer data center management by creating a Cloud Management Product that offered a unified picture of appliances, virtualizations, and policy, which increased sales by 20%. • Effectively tackled a niche staffing challenge by securing and retaining top-tier technical experts, boosting the hardware appliance's throughput tenfold.

Spry DigitalTechnical Project Manager

Nov. 2015 - Dec. 2016Greater St. Louis Area• Recruited by the CEO to grow the firm by leveraging current accounts and growing into the government sector. • Doubled account revenue on Fortune 500 telecom account by driving the eCommerce portion of their merger with an international telecom group. • Expanded into government contracts by creating a Program Cycle (PC) Dashboard for the U.S. government's primary international development agency, driving a 90% increase in data capture. • Optimized PC Dashboard with a unified picture of data sets to drive international decision-making for the above agency resource allocation.

Greater Goods LLCDirector of Creative Operations

Feb. 2015 - Nov. 2015Greater St. Louis Area• Recruited by the CEO to enhance the development pipeline for connected consumer products and unlock sales channels. • Crafted a tiered connected consumer product line, establishing the company's debut presence in Target and Bed Bath & Beyond. • Developed a revamped customer website, boosting direct-to-consumer sales by 30%.

Washington University in St. LouisAdjunct Instructor

Sep. 2012 - May. 2016Greater St. Louis Area• Recruited by Associate Dean to scale WashU School of Engineering & Applied Science’s cash-cow course by including students from two other colleges that grew revenue and demand. • Transformation of course curriculum attracted students from the business and visual arts schools that grew revenue. • Grew course enrollment for 5 consecutive semesters.

The JourneyChief Technology Officer

Feb. 2009 - Feb. 2015Greater St. Louis Area• Promoted to lead digital transformation and enhance customer experience with simplified solutions and interfaces that accelerate customer adoption. • Boosted vital communication for nonprofit success by launching a content syndication application, ensuring consistent messaging across website, mobile app, digital signage, and print mediums. • Introduced the organization's inaugural native mobile apps using a configuration-driven strategy, reducing costs by 95% compared to custom application development and maintenance. • In 2014, when it was still challenging, I engineered and deployed a cutting-edge HD video system that facilitated real-time streaming across six distinct locations, reducing the need for a large, centralized campus.