Eric V
Executive Director, Platform & Technology Strategy
Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Vitale is an accomplished technology leader with 10+ years of experience building and scaling engineering teams and platforms across pharma and commercial sectors, currently serving as Executive Director of Platform & Technology Strategy at Evinova. He spent a decade at AstraZeneca leading science, clinical development, and digital health engineering—adding high-performance computing and RPA to his toolkit—and earlier ran large web, mobile, and BI organizations at The Hershey Company. A Penn State MBA and University of Pittsburgh-trained computer engineer, Eric combines deep operational rigor with product-focused delivery and vendor/contract management. He’s also an active crypto practitioner and founder of Cookster Capital, translating hands-on expertise in mining, node operation, and protocol design into alternative-investment strategies aimed at long-term bitcoin accumulation. Outside work he balances technical curiosity with family life—opening Pokémon cards with his son and tinkering with home automation—reflecting a practical, systems-oriented mindset that informs both his engineering and investment approaches.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Finance, MBA, Finance at Penn State UniversityBitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System at Bitcoin WhitepaperLeadership Development Program
http://www.ccl.org/leadership/programs/LDPOverview.aspx, Leadership Development Program
http://www.ccl.org/leadership/programs/LDPOverview.aspx at Center for Creative LeadershipBachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (46)
python10
open-source10
upnp10
internet-of-things10
smartthings10
lifx10
zwave10
zigbee10
home-assistant10
smartapp9
asyncio9
mqtt9
attribute9
iot9
home-automation9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ericvitale/ST-Z-Wave-Shade
Oct 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
ericvitale/ST-Toggle-Me
Jul 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 9 months
smartappsmartthingslightsdimmersswitches
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