Richard Wheeler
Chief Operating Officer And President
South Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Wheeler is an operational leader and design-minded executive with 11 years of experience steering mission-driven technology initiatives for government, nonprofits, and industry. As COO and President of The So Company, he leads cross-disciplinary teams that combine human-centered design, research, content, and engineering to improve services for veterans, healthcare, and defense clients. He also brings academic rigor to practice as a long-time UCLA lecturer in Design Media Arts, teaching design culture and color while mentoring the next generation of designers. Richard blends an MFA and MA with hands-on program leadership to translate complex policy and user needs into usable digital experiences at scale. Based in South Pasadena, he is skilled at aligning creative practice with compliance-driven government procurement (including 8(a) SDVOSB experience), a not-obvious strength that helps bridge design and contract execution. Colleagues know him for seeing how things look and making those observations drive measurable improvements in service delivery.
11 years of coding experience
MA, MA at Georgetown UniversityAAS, AAS at Fashion Institute of TechnologyBA, BA at Hunter CollegeUniversity of California, Los Angeles
French
Github Skills (14)
frontend8
csv6
surveillance5
jar5
pdf5
pdf-document4
pdf-files4
pdfium4
excel4
pdfbox3
photography3
tabula3
pdf-generation3
archiving3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ificouldseewhatyousee/ificouldsee
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:55 commits, 8 PRs, 54 pushes in 23 days
photographysurveillanceworkshop
thesocompany/research
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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