Jim Haughwout's Biography | Lagrangian Points

About Me – Jim Haughwout

My Passion: Creating creating web and mobile products and platforms that change how people live and work
Grew up in NJ. Lived in the North East (USA), South East (USA),
NorCal and SoCal, and the United Kingdom. (I currently reside in Boston)
Graduate of MIT (SB in aeronautical and astronautical engineering) and
Harvard University (MPP)
Began writing software: 1982 (building & hacking games in Grammer School)
First Internet use: 400-baud, half-duplex modem in 1985 (Middle School)
First Mobile and Tablet use: That’s Classified (I’m not kidding, circa 1994)
First Big Data use: That’s Classified too (Petabyte-scale systems circa 1993)
First Elastic Computing use: Building always-on, horizontally scalable services in 1998
First job: Staff Scientist (programming satellite navigation software) at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
(in the interestingly-named “Surveillance Techniques” group for SDI–a.k.a. “Star Wars”)
Now: SVP of Engineering & Operations @ CustomMade, a Google Ventures portfolio company.
Also: General Partner, Early Stage Advisor and Consultant @ Oulixeus Ltd
Twenty years turning new and emerging technologies into award-winning products, applications and services. My teams have won 16 technology and product awards, seven in the past five years.
Hands-on technology experience: 10 years as a Software Engineer, Sys-Admin, DBA, and Chief Architect.
Management experience: 13 years (R&D, Architecture, Product, Engineering, QA, Professional Services, Operations, General Management) – including eight years at the executive level.
Employment experience: 2/3 creating award-winning tech for business : 1/3 driving tech as a business owner;
2/3 Fortune-500 : 1/3 Early Stage
What I do for fun: Travel, cooking, photography… take a look

Contact Me For: New ventures; advisor, board membership and consulting requests; expertise and due diligence analysis; blogging, panelist and public speaking requests. If you are social media-inclined, you can connect with me via Twitter, LinkedIN. I can also be reached at Haughwout [at] alum [dot] MIT [dot] edu. You also subscribe to receive email updates of new Lagrangian Points via FeedBurner.