Cedric Ancellin — Résumé (Experience, Verbatim)

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Experience

Company: UrVenue

Employment Type: Full-time

Total Tenure: 18 yrs 7 mos

Roles

Title: Chief Technology Officer

Period: 2025 - July 2026

Duration: 1 yr 7 mos

Location: Las Vegas, NV

Arrangement: Hybrid

Lead: Focused on scaling technology and preparing the company for the next phase of maturity.

Highlights

Engaged external audit of infrastructure, teams, and processes
Infrastructure Hardening and Compliance (SOC-2, PCI)
Closing final gaps between startup and enterprise-grade operations
Driving integration of AI into product and engineering workflows
Integrations into large international hospitality system (Accor, Hyatt)

Summary: Closed the last mile between startup and enterprise while simultaneously driving AI integration across product and engineering, ensuring the company's operational maturity and its technical future arrived at the same time.

Title: Chief Executive Officer

Period: 2023 - 2025

Duration: 2 yrs

Location: Las Vegas, NV

Arrangement: On-site

Lead: Stepped in as CEO during leadership transition and executed organizational restructuring.

Highlights

Expanded into a new market segment with UrResort product with Fairmont and Club Med as early adopters

Group: Reorganized company structure

Items

Sales split into Acquisition and Expansion
Guest Services split into Support, Implementation, and Onboarding
Optimized international team structure

Group: Results

Items

Reduced operating costs by ~$1M
Improved productivity and operational clarity
Structural changes remain in place post-transition

Summary: Focused on organizational design, operational efficiency, and cost structure optimization at scale.

Title: Chief Technology Officer

Period: 2020 - 2023

Duration: 3 yrs

Location: Las Vegas, NV

Arrangement: On-site

Lead: Led transformation from startup engineering practices to a structured, scalable organization.

Highlights

Leading IT and Product organizations growth to 40+ team members, including 25+ engineers

Built cross-border IT operations between Mexico and the United States

Integrations with Hospitality Systems such as PMS and CRS

Group: Implemented full SDLC processes, including

Items

Structured development environments
Product-driven intake and prioritization
QA processes and release discipline
Knowledge distribution across teams

Summary: Led the transformation from startup engineering to a structured, scalable organization with mature processes and cross border operations.

Title: Chief Executive Officer

Period: 2015 - 2020

Duration: 5 yrs

Location: Las Vegas

Arrangement: Hybrid

Lead: Grew UrVenue from a niche nightlife platform into the market-dominant guest-experience system across Las Vegas, bootstrapped and under full operational control.

Highlights

Introduced a presale system that still represents about half of company revenue
Achieved full market penetration; signed and deployed across every major Las Vegas casino group
Expanded the platform into pools and sportsbook experiences
Raised UrVenue's first outside investment in December 2019, after building to market dominance without external capital

Summary: Stepped fully into executive leadership, converting a strong product into a dominant, revenue-multiplied market position.

Title: Chief Technology Officer

Also Titled: CTO & Founder - UrVenue

Period: 2008 - 2015

Duration: 7 yrs

Location: Las Vegas

Arrangement: Hybrid

Lead: Co-founded UrVenue, a reservation and venue management platform focused on nightlife.

Highlights

Built the initial platform with early clients including Wynn Las Vegas
Established engineering and support operations in Mexico (8–10 team members initially)
Designed systems tailored to high-demand, high-volume venue operations
Worked closely with most Las Vegas Casino IT teams to incorporate UrVenue

Summary: Shifted from operator to founder, building a product from the ground up and aligning technology with real world venue operations inside the most demanding venue operations in the country.

Company: RomeRock

Role Type: Side Venture

Employment Type: Part-time

Roles

Title: Founder

Period: 2016 - Present

Duration: 10 yrs 7 mos

Location: Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

Arrangement: Remote

Lead: Mobile app publishing and experimentation lab focused on testing strategies across development, monetization, and distribution.

Highlights

Published 20+ mobile applications across multiple categories
Explored various go-to-market approaches, including organic growth, paid acquisition, and alternative monetization models
Operated as a low-cost experimental environment to validate ideas outside core business constraints.
Achieved break-even while maintaining a continuous pipeline of app launches

Summary: Maintains a parallel experimental environment to test new technologies and business models outside core operations.

Company: Travelnice and Nightclubs.com

Employment Type: Full-time

Roles

Title: Chief Technology Officer

Period: 2005 - 2008

Duration: 3 yrs

Location: Las Vegas

Arrangement: On-site

Lead: Led technology for a combined OTA and nightlife distribution platform.

Highlights

Took over following CTO departure and stabilized technology operations
Travelnice.com sold hotel rooms, shows, attractions, services, and nightlife for Las Vegas
Nightclubs.com sold nightlife inventory across North America
Scaled to 170 employees and approximately $50M in annual sales
Built one of the largest nightlife distribution platforms in the US with over 1,000 partners

Summary: Transitioned into scaling revenue driven platforms, managing larger teams, and operating at meaningful commercial scale.

Company: Transmed Networks

Employment Type: Full-time

Roles

Title: CTO

Period: 2000 - 2005

Duration: 5 yrs

Location: Burbank, CA

Arrangement: Hybrid

Lead: Architected and led development of a web based Electronic Medical Record platform operating in highly regulated hospital environments.

Highlights

Designed a secure, compliance driven system handling sensitive patient data under strict healthcare regulations
Built and managed distributed engineering teams across India and Eastern Europe
Implemented security and access control models required for hospital integration and clinical use
Deployed in live emergency room environments where reliability, data integrity, and confidentiality were critical
One of the first web based EMR to receive certification from Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology
Adopted by leading institutions including Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center

Summary: Transitioned from early web and media projects to building mission critical, highly regulated systems with strict security, compliance, and operational requirements.

Company: Celebrity Village

Employment Type: Full-time

Roles

Title: Chief Technology Officer

Period: 1998 - 2000

Duration: 2 yrs

Location: Los Angeles

Arrangement: Remote

Lead: Built and led development of an early fan web engagement platform providing behind-the-scenes access to film productions.

Highlights

Implemented user accounts, exclusive content access, and early blog and live chat features
Delivered one of the early interactive celebrity fan experiences online
Built on LAMP

Summary: Moved into consumer web platforms, building early interactive experiences and user engagement systems. Ended when the internet bubble burst, along with my consultant career.

Company: Various Companies

Employment Type: Freelance

Roles

Title: Technology Consultant

Period: 1991 - 1998

Duration: 7 yrs

Location: United States

Arrangement: Remote

Lead: Relocated to the United States and built an independent consulting practice leveraging early relationships in media and technology. Initially focused on desktop publishing and prepress, later expanding into early internet and software development.

Selected Projects

Early online image catalog for press distribution over the internet
Distribution of French educational software in the US
Interactive digital content products including a "Digital Bible for Children"
Early print-on-demand systems for online products
Desktop publishing and prepress services for Circus Circus properties
Layout-independent magazine translation workflows
Extreme sports video platform (early web media)
Online casino platform in Australia

Summary: Expanded from publishing technologies into early internet platforms and software development, gaining broad, hands on experience across emerging digital business models.

Company: EasyDoc

Employment Type: Full-time

Roles

Title: Technology Scout

Period: 1990 - 1991

Duration: 1 yr

Location: Paris, France

Arrangement: On-site

Lead: EasyDoc equipped the French media industry with emerging desktop publishing technologies during the transition to direct-to-film and plate printing.

Narrative

While in university in Binghamton, I published a student newspaper using QuarkXPress with direct-to-film output, aligning closely with the technologies EasyDoc was introducing to the French press.
This led to a role scouting innovations in the United States for a French company, initially as a summer position that transitioned into a full time role. I was responsible for identifying, evaluating, and bringing back new publishing technologies to France.

Highlights

Collaborated with leading vendors including Adobe, Quark, Aldus, and Scitex
Collaborated with media organizations such as The New York Times in the US and Prisma Media in France to understand needs and solutions
Organized industry trips for French executives to conferences like Seybold and to meet US counterparts

Summary: Built a foundation at the intersection of media, technology, and international business during the early digital publishing shift.