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Tom Cabanski

Tom Cabanski

Technology Innovation Executive
Houston,TX

Summary

High energy hands-on leader, agile practitioner, cloud expert and entrepreneur with a successful track record of driving business success.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

President

SnapStream
Houston, TX
09.2020 - Current

Lead SaaS organization that provides real-time audio and video search to news organizations.

Key Accomplishments

  • Implemented company values to drive employee engagement
  • Drove agile transformation that reduced released bugs by 75%
  • Implemented Entrepreneurial Operating System to create culture of accountability
  • Improved focus on customer reducing churn by 500 basis points

Technology Director for Search and Personalization

The Home Depot
Atlanta, GA
12.2019 - 07.2020

Led 80 associates in Atlanta, Dallas and Austin responsible for search, recommendation and personalization both online and in-store. Includes teams engaged in machine learning at scale.

Key Accomplishments

  • Partnered with Microsoft to deliver new ML-based search that improved conversion by more than 1000 basis points.

Chief Technology Officer

GCC (dba Blinds.com), A Home Depot Company
Houston, TX
01.2012 - 12.2019

Led team of 100 associates responsible for technology of online blinds business representing $500M in annual sales, and Interconnected Retail department that delivered solutions online and in-store for The Home Depot.

Key Accomplishments

  • Grew engineering teams from 8 to 80 over three years
  • Drove development of new E-Commerce platform that played key role in acquisition by Home Depot
  • Created agile development culture with fully self-organizing teams that averaged 60 successful deployments weekly
  • Built data engineering team that collaborated with data science team to reduce remakes by 50%
  • Co-founded Interconnected Retail (IR) and drove delivery of online services program for blinds that delivered $20M in sales growth in year one
  • Led initiatives that improved security, reliability and performance of network and phone systems while achieving $1.5M in annual savings

VP Technology

Onpoint On Demand
Sugar Land, TX
05.2009 - 10.2011

Joined Onpoint On Demand after they acquired Objective Advantage.

Key Accomplishments

  • Built technology to automate printing using lightweight AI for Ricoh

Founder/CEO

Objective Advantage, Inc.
Houston, TX
10.1996 - 04.2009

Founded and led technology consulting company that developed into leading global digital printing workflow automation and job definition format (JDF) software company.

Key Accomplishments

  • Built AI technology for youth sports leagues to perfect scheduling
  • Developed a SaaS solution for managing digital printing workflows

Chief Technology Officer

Kinetics.com
Kingwood, TX
01.1995 - 06.1996

Co-founded internet startup targeting the watersports industry.

Key Accomplishments

  • Took company public (NASDAQ small cap)

Education

High School Diploma -

St. Rita High School
Chicago, IL
09.1979 - 05.1983

Skills

Agile team building and culture

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Timeline

President

SnapStream
09.2020 - Current

Technology Director for Search and Personalization

The Home Depot
12.2019 - 07.2020

Chief Technology Officer

GCC (dba Blinds.com), A Home Depot Company
01.2012 - 12.2019

VP Technology

Onpoint On Demand
05.2009 - 10.2011

Founder/CEO

Objective Advantage, Inc.
10.1996 - 04.2009

Chief Technology Officer

Kinetics.com
01.1995 - 06.1996

High School Diploma -

St. Rita High School
09.1979 - 05.1983
Tom CabanskiTechnology Innovation Executive