Charles Abbott

Background

About Charles Abbott

Entrepreneurial leader with over 15 years practice building and organizing diverse, high-performing engineering teams at startups and large-cap companies. Experience with high-growth, early-stage, and post-IPO companies such as Cookpad and Medidata. Capable of leading through uncertainty, overcoming adversity, and creating systems of people that scale. My summary in 17 quick (and quirky) facts 1) Full-stack web applications engineer (Ruby, HTML, Javascript, CSS, etc.) 2) Video editor, e-learning (broad|pod)caster 3) MBA graduate, lifelong learner 4) HTWFAIP practitioner (with particular focus on being genuine and sincere) 5) Avid basketball player, competitive sports athlete 6) Entrepreneurial, risk taker, experienced startup hacker 7) Conference speaker [http://goo.gl/RWBih9] 8) Open Source Software contributor 9) Japanese language learner 10) S-0%, C-42.9%, A-28.6%, R-14.3%, F-14.3%. But don't ENTJ me too quickly;) 11) Team oriented, networker, connector 12) Novice long distance runner 13) Author, self-published on Amazon - so novice at that as well :) 14) Event organizer 15) Agile developer, pragmatic programmer 16) Dwarven fighter, Human cleric, expert Dungeon Master 17) Favorite quote:"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge."- Daniel J. Boorstin