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.”
