# Colin Knapp - Team Leadership

**Focus:** Team Leadership & Management  
**Location:** Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada  
**Contact:** https://motherboardrepair.ca/contact.html

## Professional Summary

Experienced leader with a proven track record of managing distributed teams of 45+ personnel across multiple timezones. Strong background in executive mentorship, fostering collaboration, and implementing efficient workflows using Kanban/Agile methodologies. Skilled at building high-performing teams and guiding organizations from startup to significant revenue growth.

## Key Achievements

- **Large Team Management:** Managed a distributed team of 45 personnel at Nitric Concepts, fostering collaboration across multiple timezones (2018-2021).

- **Executive Mentorship:** Provided strategic guidance to CEO/Founder Andrew Karvelis, helping scale from side project earnings to $4M gross revenue with strong profit margins.

- **Open Source Leadership:** Led and coordinated global contributor community for PlotSquared and FastAsyncWorldEdit, birthing a sustainable 10-year open source brand that continues today with paid maintainers.

- **Project Coordination:** Utilized Kanban/Trello to coordinate distributed teams and project workflows, enabling efficient collaboration across multiple projects and timezones.

- **Talent Development:** Managed software development and talent acquisition for contractors worldwide, building effective remote-first team culture.

## Leadership Experience

### Chief of Operations / VP / Co-Founder | Nitric Concepts | 2018-2021
- Managed 45+ contractors worldwide across multiple timezones
- Provided executive mentorship to CEO/Founder Andrew Karvelis
- Bootstrapped company from zero to $4M gross revenue
- Used Kanban/Trello to coordinate distributed teams and project workflows
- Set up partnership with Microsoft for official Minecraft Marketplace
- Built and kept a remote-first team culture for high performance

### Open Source Project Lead | IntellectualSites (PlotSquared & FastAsyncWorldEdit) | 2013-Present
- Co-created and led development of major open source projects with 10M+ downloads
- Coordinated global contributors spanning multiple countries
- Set up Jenkins CI/CD infrastructure in 2013 that still runs today
- Built sustainable open source brand with paid maintainers keeping it alive
- Created tools used by companies in the $5 billion Minecraft ecosystem

### Co-Founder | MotherboardRepair.ca | 2019-Present
- Co-founded sustainable electronics repair company
- Established operational processes and team workflows
- Built partnerships for component sourcing and service delivery

### Project Lead | Oh My Form (Open Source) | 2020-2024
- Led development of privacy-focused form builder with 1.5M+ Docker pulls
- Coordinated contributor community and managed project roadmap
- Successfully sunset project and transitioned users to Formbricks

## Leadership Competencies

- **Team Management:** Distributed team leadership, remote-first culture, cross-timezone coordination
- **Mentorship:** Executive coaching, talent development, career guidance
- **Project Management:** Kanban, Trello, Agile methodologies, workflow optimization
- **Communication:** Stakeholder management, client relations, technical documentation
- **Strategic Planning:** Business development, operational scaling, partnership building

## Leadership Metrics

- **Team Size:** Managed up to 45 contractors simultaneously
- **Revenue Impact:** Guided growth from $0 to $4M gross revenue
- **Project Scale:** Open source tools with 10M+ downloads
- **Community:** Global contributor network spanning 10+ years