Tele Atlas VP Jumps to E-Commerce Company

John Puopolo,most recently the vice president of software and product engineering at Tele Atlas,has signed on as CTO at Massachusetts-based Searchandise Commerce,an eCommerce ad network for product manufacturers. While at TA,the press release notes,“he transitioned his engineering organization to a global structure,streamlined the engineering practices and adopted contemporary development techniques resulting in a substantial decrease in time-to-market for end-products and 100 percent improvement in software quality in just 18 months. Through consistent,on-time delivery to both domestic and international customers such as Google,Microsoft and MapQuest,he helped grow company revenue a combined 58 percent in 2006 and 2007.”