EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Results oriented IT executive with strong track record managing and delivering creative, versatile technical solutions that provide strategic business value and competitive advantage. Adept at managing IT teams within start-up firms as well as global organizations. Extensive expertise in M A situations, particularly technology and team integration. Experienced developing products and organizations responding to rapidly changing business demands. Skilled in high-performance, high-availability real-time enterprise architectures, and software development. Technology innovation and management expertise created market-leading solutions resulting in acquisitions over 1B.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Chief Technology Officer

BriteBean connects meal planning sites to online grocers with desktop and mobile tools that deliver end-to-end meal planning, preparation, social media and grocery purchase. Company in stealth mode.

Confidential

Director, Market Data Technology

• Responsible for all Market Data systems. Mission critical, real-time systems drove over 1.5B in annual revenue across all company divisions market leading products including: DJ Industrial Average, DJ Indexes, DJ Newswires, MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal, Barron's and mobile apps. Transformed organization to deliver high quality, reliable solutions providing stringent accuracy and high-availability. Managed global organization of IT professionals including Architects, Developers, Engineers .
• Recruited from MarketWatch to formulate/implement strategic vision to address portfolio of 27 obsolete/aging Market Data systems and to engage executive business sponsors to affect the change.
• Lead analysis, architecture and delivery of new high performance, enterprise-wide Market Data Platform. Multi-data center, SOA, grid computing based solution with orders of magnitude more capacity, scalability new base for future products.
• Achieved 100 uptime over 3 years in production.
• Developed complex analytics engine/applications to achieve high-throughput time critical calculations from over 200 global data sources across all asset classes processing over 1 billion ticks/day.
• Spearheaded creation of enterprise wide organization to define data strategy resulting in 2M/year savings.
• Initiated and chaired executive Market Data Steering group. Created short-term tactical and long-term strategic roadmaps to meet current and future needs. Transformed the market data IT infrastructure and organization.
• Rebuilt and mentored development team introduced modern development practices and technologies. Agile and continuous integration methodology engaging teams in multiple geographies.
• Pioneered Open Source usage across firm resulting in licensing fees savings of 5M/year.
• Lead successful 14-month overseas outsourced development project to rebuild WSJ statistics/graphics, saving 1M.
• Represented DJ at industry events due to recognized expertise in market data, data usage, open source.

Technology: Java, C , Redhat Linux, Wombat, LBM, AMQP, GigaSpaces, mySQL, .NET, SQL Server. Agile Development.

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Vice President, Engineering

• CBS MarketWatch was the largest public financial website, serving 14 million registered users. Additionally, company created licensed and hosted financial tools and news to the financial services and media industries. Due to tremendous success, the company became a sought-after acquisition target. Held a key role in maximizing shareholder value through the highly lucrative sale of the company to Dow Jones Co. in January 2005.
• Developed News, Market Data, Portfolio, Alerts, Analytics, Charting and other applications and related systems for destination sites serving millions of users and over 700 licensing clients.
• Established MarketWatch as a market leader, providing innovative, web-enabled tools to meet needs of financial institutions and media firms by redesigning product suite/tools to scale and react to rapid market changes.
• Merged acquired company Pinnacor, itself a three company roll up technology group into unified team. Relocated/restructured/transitioned staff. Team responsible for doubling sales to 80M.
• Built and enhanced real time news systems for news production, workflow, and dissemination.
• Won Thomson as the largest customer due to innovative information tools. Business success ultimately resulted in DJ acquisition for 530M.
• Utilizing cutting-edge Web 2.0 technologies and hosted solutions addressed dynamic workflow needs of customers such as Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, CNN Money, and NY Times.
• Implemented Agile methodology and systems to deal with conflicting business unit priorities.
• Managed international development team/QA in four locations in two countries.

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Vice President, Engineering Acting GM

• Finaline product Virtual Close System VCS simulates a period end close in near real time, making key financial indicators available on demand via Data Warehousing, Relational and Multi-Dimensional ERP technologies.
• Recruited by former Netfish Chairman to lead new company.
• Drove the product vision and released first product in 7 months.
• Grew the organization from 6 to over 40 professionals personally recruited and managed senior managers for Engineering, QA, Product Management, Finance, HR, and Professional Services groups.

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Vice President, Engineering

• Iona/Netfish provided end-to-end B2B solutions. Product suite included security, delivery, workflow and translations between ERP/CRM, EAI, SCM and EDI systems Netfish acquired by Iona May 2001.
• Transformed staff of over 125 professionals from start up into focused team resulting in next generation system.
• Managed all Development, Product Management, and QA. Implemented process and methodology.
• Migrated opportunity focused group to professional engineering team.

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Vice President, Engineering

• DGS core business is e-delivery of professional quality video / audio media to the N. American Broadcast Advertiser, Advertising Agency community. Over 7000 radio and 775 TV stations on line 7X24.
• Productized satellite delivery of 24X7 advertising for guaranteed delivery of broadcast quality media to radio and TV stations, networks, and cable head ends.
• Designed/developed Media Asset Management products. Products quadrupled client base.
• Combined international delivery network of acquired company DCI, Vancouver, BC and merged Development, Quality Assurance, and Technical Support teams in San Francisco and Vancouver.

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Chief Technical Officer

• Meridian specialized in acquisition, creation and distribution of high value fundamental financial data from emerging markets.
• Architecture, design, development of fundamental and derived financial data system. Normalized data across global accounting/currency facilitating investment decisions.
• Built infrastructure, tools, work flow automation to support data collection and collation,
• Created value-added calculations for data from 55 countries in multiple media/natural languages.

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Vice President, Network Systems Development

• DJ produced real-time and historical financial information data acquisition, analysis, dis tribution and de cision support software and systems integration.
• Developed, deployed globally data systems, applications 24 X 7 systems for Equities, Fixed Income, FX, Derivatives, Price History, News, etc. Over 150 staff.
• Transitioned legacy systems to modern client/server, n-tier architectures.
• Ticker Plants, Databases and Data Warehousing Newswires, Price History and Fundamental Data.

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Vice President General Manager

• DJTS provided high availability real time trading room systems for global clients utilizing innovative publish/subscribe technology. Start up acquired by Telerate/DowJones in 1991.
• Managed Product Marketing, Development, Professional Services. Revenue increases 8-fold during tenure.
• Developed Professional Services group supporting dozens of global clients. Over 10M in projects under way continuously.
• Relocated to UK for 1 year developed, then deployed products in Eu rope.

Previous Experience

• Held increasingly responsible Technical and Management positions with Northrop, Kaiser Aerospace, King Radio, MAD Intelligent Systems, and Plexus Computers