Graham Lutz

Graham Lutz, LLC

The World is BONKERS!

Between AI, layoffs, misinformation, polarization, chaos, and constant change, it's harder than ever to create the environments where you, your leaders, and your teams can perform their best. 

I help you build the mental architecture to maximize creativity, effectiveness, and performance in the face of constant change at every level of the org chart.

Professional Keynote Speaker | Author | Educator | Coach

Southeast Coalition of Psychadelic Practitioners

Our Goals:

- Educate and inform the public about the efficacy of psychedelic-assisted therapy through workshops, speaker engagements, public presentations and marketing.

- Fundraising to provide a pool of funds to be divided as 80% toward financial cost of psychedelic-assisted therapy to individuals, and 20% to be provided to therapists seeking assistance with training that facilitates psychedelic-assisted therapy. Types of training include but are not limited to; Internal Family Systems, EMDR, Somatic-Informed Therapy models, Trauma-Informed Therapy models.

 - Provide a Southeast hub to assist psychedelic assisted therapists and practitioners with a network for consultation, staffing, and partnership.

 - Legislative watch of states in the Southeast region and active participation in the formation of supportive legislation.

Board Member

VMware Tanzu

- Streamlined and automated release process for Tanzu Application Service from 5 FTE to <1FTE
- Led Kubernetes learning week for the Tanzu organiation
- Reduced total CVEs in TAS by 88%
    - Developed standardized CVE tooling to shift-left on scanning for CVE identification and mitigation

Engineering Leader

Plethora

Senior technical employee, part of the executive leadership team reporting directly to the CEO.

Managed Vendor relationships and Reduced infrastructure spending by 29%
Hire, manage and mentor direct reports
Subject matter expert for internal and external systems
Design and implement software architecture for critical new projects
Maintain released systems ensuring internal and external customers are supported
Lead daily standup
Product leadership/planning
Work closely with leadership and the cross functional team to develop/manage project timelines and deliverables.
Guide projects towards most efficient path, considering implementation
Clarify project interdependencies to aid in sequencing
Use knowledge of context of system to help clarify project designs
 Led the creation and building of UX/UI Design System, utilizing Figma, Storybook, and Chromatic.
 Consistently drove our engineering culture forward with highly tested, performant typescript

Director Of Engineering

Monstro

Senior technical employee, part of the executive leadership team reporting directly to the CEO.
 
- Laid the framework for a complex TypeScript React/Redux application in the fintech space, focussed on ultra-high-networth wealth management. 
 - Lead the creation and building of UX/UI Design System, utilizing Figma, Storybook, and Chromatic.
 - Consistently drove our engineering culture forward with highly tested, performant typescript
 - Achieved 100% code test coverage with Jest and React Testing Library
 - Engaged in weekly training/mentoring sessions with employees to increase skills and encourage/facilitate developer growth.
 - Built the team’s Agile/Scrum process from scratch, utilizing Jira and showing consistent velocity improvements sprint over sprint.
 - Streamlined weekly meetings to protect team members development time and avoid unnecessary context switching.
 - Managed product definition and design process, allowing for engineering feedback early in the process to achieve increased clarity and development velocity. 
 - Lead SOC1 and SOC2 planning and implementation as it related to engineering requirements. 
 - Implemented technology management software and streamlined the onboarding/offboarding process.

BCD Travel

Oversaw front-end and back-end engineering operations supporting start-up company’s business travel management application managing $27B in travel bookings, leading 9 teams of engineers in building and improving data-heavy software product to align with individual requirements of global business clients and regional regulations while meeting ambitious revenue goals.
Led highly complex upgrade project to replace legacy React 16 codebase to React 17, completing 1 month early. Provided strategic direction to engineering teams to ensure efficient update of 10s of thousands of lines of code, and ensured consistent team commitment to project through impactful influence and leadership.
Increased code test coverage by 19% by adding processes to automatically decline code that reduced test coverage.

Lead Software Engineer

Georgia Tech Professional Education

I'm teaching a 6 month, full-stack web development coding bootcamp course featuring 250+ hours of in-class full stack web development exposure and a curriculum using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Git, GitHub, Heroku, Node, Express, React, MongoDB, MySQL, C#/.NET, Python, Ruby.

For more information, see https://codingbootcamp.pe.gatech.edu/

Lead Instructor - Full Stack Web Development Coding Bootcamp

- Supported the Instructors of the inaugural GT Cohort of 55 Students
 - Provided instruction, tutoring, and code review  in 1-on-1 and group settings
 - Acted as “team lead” for group projects, giving technical and architectural direction
 - HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, Express.js, React.js, Node.js, Database Theory, Bookshelf.js, MongoDB, MySQL, Command Line, Git, computer science basic, and more

Coding Boot Camp - Primary Teaching Assistant

Currently working on an internal framework, MDF, that creates views in React from JSON configuration files or a wysiwyg admin editor.  Technologies include React, Redux, Webpack, Node, and others. 

Created custom, flexible, extensible,  and semantic React components for applications in use by 50,000+ client companies. 

Created command line interface tool with Node to streamline new app creation with our internal framework, MDF 6.

Lead Application Developer

Brain Bytes Creative LLC

- Directed full life cycle  projects ($200K+) from SOW through delivery and support.
 - AWS infrastructure transition using EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, RDS, and other AWS products
 - Built and deployed SMS Contest for a national retail chain using Node, Javascript, SQL, and Twillio
       - Used in shadowbox on website with over 3MM views per month
 - Implemented a product feed API using Node, Javascript, and SQL - deployed on Amazon EC2
       - built front end, including Wordpress Shortcode for use by client’s internal marketing
 - Lead the Marketo integration for all customer sites, using PHP, Javascript & RESTful API

Director, Web Development

I provide full-stack development using HTML, CSS, Javascript,  PHP, C#, SQL, Google's BigQuery, and more to create dynamic, responsive websites and web applications.  

 - Built and maintained ecommerce and lead generation websites, using Javascript, PHP, SQL, HTML & CSS
 - ETL project with Google Analytics Data using SQL, Google BigQuery,  and PeriscopeData
    - denormalized day-separate data to get sums and averages across across 10 unique fields 
    - made graphs filterable by device, domain, medium, geolocation, date range, etc.
 - Built Continuing Education Single Page Application for The CDC, using Angular 1.4 & MediaElement.js

Web Developer

Formula Athletics

Formula Athletics is not a gym.  We are a training facility. We don’t compete on cost, we compete on quality; quality staff, quality training, quality customer service, quality PERIOD. If you are looking for bargain priced fitness, please check the others out before visiting our community so that you can see and feel the difference.

Our packages come with the support and training of our coaches along with our wonderful community that will motivate and help you to reach your goals. Our training packages provide all this at a fraction of the cost of a private session at a typical commercial gym. Training packages are determined depending on your dedication and commitment level.

We lift heavy things.  We work hard.  We cheer each other on.  We Get Results.

Owner/Head Trainer

Actionable science-based strategies to build exactly the life you want | Professionally Curious | Author | Keynote Speaker | 166K on TikTok

I am a builder. 

I build beautiful software.
I build cultures that propel organizations forward. 
I build software teams who achieve more together than they ever could separately. 

If your engineering department were a rock band, I'd be the producer who turns talented individuals into chart-topping legends. I've got the technical chops to lay down killer tracks, the vision to create anthems that resonate, and the leadership skills to keep the band together when egos and deadlines clash. Ready to make some noise?

Founder

On Location

Director, Ticketing

CC Consulting

Owner/Consultant

MoonStay

Initiate founding and drive business expansion of operations and operational procedures for start-up elite residence company, leveraging business development expertise and operations leadership to define strategic direction. Establish SOPs and select technology architecture to optimize business functions, fostering and maintaining strong relationships with business partners. Oversee financial functions and financial planning, performing due diligence to ensure financial health of business.

Director Of Operations

Mercedes-Benz Stadium

Oversaw business operations and planning strategy for all major events representing millions of dollars in annual revenue. Transformed strategy into daily operations, programs, and projects to drive sales and ensure seamless customer experience. Led employee hiring and development activities, training and guiding team of 70. Provided strategic event-preparation leadership, managing all backend functions, including establishing budget and defining revenue goals based on event cost, and serving as key decision-maker to provide high-level guidance to events team. 

Planned programming with 3rd-party vendors, collaborating with promoters to drive sales, and strategized logistics of hosting events with 70,000+ attendees. 

Selected by National Football League (NFL) to lead large-scale fan experience for 45,000+ attendees in 2019, leading hiring of staff and strategic direction of operations for historic event.

Ticket Operations Manager | Project Manager

Ticketmaster

Led customer-facing sales operations, maintaining consistent availability of inventory for client venues. Provided high-level operational and strategic guidance to ensure smooth client experiences. Developed subject matter expertise in event programming and operations strategy by gaining experience traveling and leading successful ticketing operations for numerous large-scale events. 

Provided critical strategic and technical support for planning and execution of nation’s largest college football event hosting 160,000 attendees.

Event Support Specialist

Gwinnett Braves

Managed staff of 25 in overseeing successful sales operations for venue hosting events with 10,000 attendees. Oversaw revenue reporting and coordinated internal and external ticket requests. Provided financial and operational leadership to monitor budget and spending, introducing accurate reporting to improve sales staff commission structure and transparency and enhancing financial forecasting for sales management team. 

Collaborated with sales team to obtain and analyze fan behavior data, identifying opportunities to better align events with customer preferences.

Ticket Operations Manager

Atlanta Braves

Mail Order Assistant

Georgia State University

Assistant Ticket Manager

Ticket Operations Trainee

As a strategic and detail-oriented operations leader with extensive experience in project management and business strategy, I empower and guide high-performing teams while driving organizational efficiency and generating opportunities for significant growth. A trusted advisor and strategic partner, I cultivate and leverage robust relationships with key business partners to create mutually advantageous opportunities, embodying my unique, holistic approach to operational strategy. A few notable accomplishments of which I am incredibly proud include:

Leading a modernization strategy to achieve a 100% digital sales and tracking system within three years to improve sustainability, decrease costs, optimize operational processes, and drive digital marketing revenue. 

Coordinating the successful planning and execution of numerous high-profile, large-scale events throughout my career, including organizing entertainment for over two million attendees between 2016 and 2021. 

Serving as core strategic member of team planning self-promoted events to build and implement strategy focused on reducing reliance on external promoters, decreasing promotion costs, and increasing revenue by approximately 70%. 

A creative and driven operations leader, I am always looking for opportunities to expand my professional network. If you would like to connect, please contact me at crystal.a.church@gmail.com.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE 
Financial Planning & Management
Relationship Management
Strategic Communication
Operations Leadership
Program Management
Project Management
Strategic Direction
Business Strategy

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