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Steve Weiskircher

CIO
ThinkGeek

Steve is currently serving as the Chief Information Officer for specialty retailer ThinkGeek.com (#180 IR500). He joined the ThinkGeek team in February 2013. Prior to this he spent five years as the CIO of licensed sports apparel and specialty retailer Fanatics.com (#43 IR500). During his tenure, Fanatics experienced extremely rapid revenue growth while supporting over 200 ecommerce storefronts.

Steve earned a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech and Masters of Science in Management Information Systems from the University of Virginia. He has spent the last twelve years exclusively growing and leading e-commerce teams.

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UX, Merchandising & Design Summit - Monday Feb. 22nd

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017

11:40 Case Study Revolution And Live Demo: Web Site Performance: Realizing How Page Load Time Impacts Conversion (For Better Or Worse)

• Knowing that there is a huge conversion factor with page load speeds

• Optimizing your site performance (delivery of images, use of CDMs for both site and mobile, etc.)

• Learning your sweet spot for load times

• Monitoring it as you are making updates

• Getting your team thinking about front end performance (image optimization, remarketing efforts, ad delivery and use of tracking pixels)

• Making updates manageable to make sure your site performance isn’t hurt

Mobile Summit- Monday Feb. 22nd

Monday, October 2nd, 2017

14:35 Mobile Application Design – How ThinkGeek Delivered Its First Mobile App In Four Months

Your customer has gone mobile faster than you planned and your strategy is playing catch up. Responsive, Adaptive, Native, and Hybrid. It is a complicated world. You made the decision to go native but do not know where to start. In this session you will hear about ThinkGeek’ s journey from mobile web to a native IOS experience. They will cover partner selection, project management, and the decision to go hybrid. Most importantly, they will share how they leveraged the Design Sprint approach to move from ‘blue sky’ discussions to a converged prototype in four days.

• Mobile app user design

• Mobile app development in a mixed-team environment

• Structuring your mobile app project when the development is split between internal and external teams