Ross Wright

Pross Co is just me, and as Pross Co I provide fractional CTO services, independent software development services and software team formation services. I have had great success helping companies and non-technical founders build their own development teams. Sometimes I stay on to run it for them more hands on, sometimes I just advise and help them get an operation working and move on. A big part of my work building teams for my clients with Pross Co has been evaluating, mentoring and leading developers of all levels.

As CTO of Ask.Vet, I built a team of 23 developers, testers and designers to build, release and support AskVet's mobile and web platform. I started as the sole developer, designed the architecture from scratch and built the platform, hiring and training developers as the company grew.

Co-founder and CEO of FrogSlayer Software (now known as simply Frogslayer) our strategy was to hire student developers in their freshman or sophomore year, teach them how to write real-world code using .NET over the summer and then put them to work competing with off-shore dev shops, and it worked. I was the CEO and later the CTO/COO, but also the lead developer, architect and lead mentor. In addition to boring paid project, we also started FrogSlayer Studios and released a couple X-Box 360 games using C# and XNA! Eventually the business grew beyond the student-outsourcing model, and I moved on.