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

Good Fortune

Writing about sustainable startups and interviewing Impact Founders to inspire your next impact project, startup, or side hustle. 

Good Fortune will help you:
🌱 Discover sustainable businesses
🧠 Learn from Impact Founders
🌍 Meet likeminded change makers

Swinburne Design Factory Melbourne

Developing new products, services, and experiences for the innovation world.

Working with Industry, Government, and Individuals to better understand their world and design new solutions to make it a better one.

Senior Product Development Manager

Create Kaizen

I design tools, workshops, and learning programs for tech leaders to:
- Build innovative teams
- Improve creative collaboration
- Build human-centered organizations
- Create systems to navigate uncertainty
- Develop creative problem solving practices

Strategic Designer & Facilitator

Designit

- Lead discovery research, persona building, and journey mapping for transformation projects
- Designed and facilitated AI enablement workshops for exploration and implementation
- Partnered with BizDev to identify customer needs across partner orgs
- Implemented Design Thinking to tackle creative business transformation problems

Strategic Design Lead

NOBA

NOBA partners with companies to build and launch new products, services, or business models.

I supported digital, innovation, and marketing teams in different stages of the development and launch of new products:
- Defining the value propositions and business model for new products and services
- Testing and learning through business prototyping - building and launching an alpha version of the business, gathering metrics, and iterating with real customers
- Driving a soft market launch to start growing the customer base before scaling

Business Designer

NerdWallet

- Software development planning and visibility at all levels of management
- End to end quarterly planning for cross-functional pods
- Manage communication touchpoints between Product, Engineering, Design, Data
- Agile coaching for NerdWallet feature teams
- Program Management for Content Design team

NerdWallet is on a mission to provide clarity for all of life’s financial decisions. We provide consumers with expert, personalized, and actionable guidance across a range of personal finance topics. Whether you’re shopping for a new credit card or mortgage, hoping to refinance a student loan, interested in learning more about investing, or just want to stay on top of your money, we do the homework for you, simplifying complex ideas so you have the information and tools you need to make the right decision for you.

Backed by IVP, RRE Ventures, iGlobe Partners and Silicon Valley Bank, among others, NerdWallet has been certified a Great Place to Work and named one of the Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™ 2020 by Fortune. We’ve been recognized for our stellar benefits, too, from world-class health, vision, and dental insurance to our matching 401(k) program to our generous time off and parental leave policies. 

Based in San Francisco, we have more than 400 passionate “Nerds” around the country, and we’re growing every day. Whether you’re committed to helping consumers or  excited about working for a profitable tech company or interested in growing professionally—or all of the above!—we’d love to hear from you. Check out our job openings here: http://www.nerdwallet.com/careers

Program Manager

- Project manager for Content Design team, creating graphics, illustrations, animations and editorial videos
- Certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Alliance
- Refine and streamline department processes to maintain efficiency and scalability in a fast growing startup environment
- Facilitate projects for a stakeholder team of 90 Content Strategists, Assigning Editors, Copy Editors, and Writers in team operations and communication
- Develop and oversee quantitative success metrics and key performance indicators for Content and Content Design teams
- Advise Content team on institutional knowledge, the fluid inner workings of startup company operations and their position in it

Content Operations and Project Management

Interscope Records

- Coordinated photo shoots and graphic design work for 100+ artist roster
- Oversaw and refined end to end project portals for photographers, stylists, graphic designers, etc.
- Created and resolved photography and art contracts for all creative services provided to Interscope artists
- Organized and facilitated all travel, setup and production operations  for Interscope directors, photographers, producers, and stylist  teams
- Refined organizational strategy, including artist archiving, scheduling, and soliciting promotional materials

Creative Marketing

Opus Bank

- Consulted high net-worth banking clientele, managing accounts $500k-$1mm in balances
- Spearheaded sales team who aquired $50mm in deposits since inception 10.17.2011
- Integral part of opening and growing de novo banking office
- Integrated new sales, appointment, and follow up pipelines for Opus Bank de novo offices
- Generated qualified large acquisition meetings for VP/Retail Banking Manager

Client Services

Want to build a business that makes money AND makes a difference?

I break down exactly how successful impact founders are doing it.

Through conversations with founders and detailed case studies, I uncover the strategies and tactics that actually work in social impact.

At Good Fortune, I'm creating:
🎙️ Deep-dive conversations with impact founders sharing their playbook
📧 Weekly newsletters breaking down successful impact businesses
🛠️ Free, actionable tools for bootstrapped teams (like our Tactic Cards)

Everything I make is designed to help you:
- Validate your impact business idea
- Find and connect with your first customers
- Grow sustainably while maximizing impact
- Navigate the unique challenges of social enterprise

Want actionable insights for your impact business?

→ Subscribe to my weekly newsletter
→ Download free Tactic Cards
→ Listen to the latest founder deep dives


A bit more about me and why I love doing this:
🏄 I've always been an "experience channel surfer" (look at my work history)
💭 I love finding the overlap between creativity, strategy, and impact
🙏 I want to create things that enable others to do their best work

Give me a follow 🔔 for free content and learnings shared daily, or reach out if you want to talk strategy and social innovation (whatever that means to you).

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