PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Director of Software Development and Data Warehousing

Responsibilities:

• Successfully implemented a new data warehouse that supports the larger enterprise and serves as the essential source for core sales and commerce KPI reporting, single view of the customer, product performance and engagement analytics, and campaign segmentation and tracking
• Integrated open source platforms such as Hadoop and Hive with a traditional data warehouse and BI platform to improve and extend analytical and predictive capabilities and scalability
• Implemented a new campaign marketing platform (Unica) that integrates with the data warehouse to enable automated and ad hoc campaigns that support over 1000 campaigns each year to millions of prospects each day
• Managed and developed with many market and industry leading tools and software such as Unica, SAS DataFlux, DataStage, SPSS, Mongo, Hadoop, Hive, Impala, Amazon AWS (S3, Redshift, EMR), Cognos, Tableau, Strongmail

Confidential, New York, NY

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Responsibilities:

• Successfully led the development and deployment of 2 major website releases and numerous updates, providing significant hands - on input and support as needed
• Increased monthly pageviews by over 1,000% to an average of more than 8M per month, and grew unique visitors per month to over 2M
• Optimized and utilized SEO best practices to increase organic traffic by over 800%
• Utilized and integrated with a wide variety of web services and APIs from companies such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, Orkut, and IMDB
• Evaluated and integrated with multiple digital media streaming providers for secure streaming and sharing of both original and aggregated digital video and audio content
• Created numerous social networking applications for multiple sites including Facebook, Orkut (opensocial), and MySpace
• Created websites and web services using a diverse set of web and enterprise based technologies including PHP, XML, Perl, Soap, Curl, Flash, Javascript, AJAX, Java, Linux, XHTML, Apache, MYSQL, memcached, Codeigniter, Sphinx

Confidential, Cupertino, CA

VP / Director of Software Engineering and Product Development

Responsibilities:

• Successfully led the development and deployment of over six major multi-product and cross-platform releases with a team of over 30 software and QA engineers
• Designed and led the implementation of a new Agile-based product development lifecycle that increased cross-functional collaboration, decreased time to market, and dramatically reduced the number of bugs by over 200%
• Led the design and development of a sophisticated SOA based ecommerce engine and content delivery service as well as a full set of supporting web and enterprise services including digital content management, downloads to PCs and mobile phones, carrier billing integration, and an elegant rich internet application (RIA) and web 2.0 driven interface.
• Created products using a diverse set of web and enterprise based technologies including Java, J2EE, XML, XSLT, Xpath, Xquery, Flash, Flex 2.0, AJAX, Lazlo, LAMP, servlets, ActiveX, C++, HTML, XHTML, Fedora, Apache, Tomcat, Windows IIs Server, Oracle DB, Berkeley DB XML, Ipedo XML DB, MYSQL, and Crystal Reports XI

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the development and on-time and under-budget release of first major post-merger PeopleSoft/JD Edwards integrated CRM product
• Designed and implemented an innovative "whole enterprise", Agile-based development lifecycle and methodology for the entire Enterprise One product line of over 400 developers, QA Testers and product managers
• Consolidated development processes across the organization including geographically distributed development teams
• Directed development with a practical and applied understanding of the latest web development tools and enterprise application integration techniques including XML, Java, J2EE, PHP, Perl, Python, WebSphere, three-tiered architecture, and application servers

Confidential, Tulsa, OK

Director of Software Development and Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented an innovative “whole product” development lifecycle and methodology that measurably increased the quality of each release and reduced the time between major releases by over 33%
• Grew software development team from 4 to over 50 employees including engineering, QA, support, and product management
• Created and facilitated Confidential ’s first Customer Advisory Board to both grow relationships with current and potential customers and to provide insight into market needs, industry trends, and the potential for integrating new technologies and tools
• Designed and implemented a dynamic organizational structure that specified role definitions and reporting relationships
• Created and implemented a 360° performance evaluation process to rate and improve performance as well as provide consistent mentoring

Confidential

Senior Software Architect

Responsibilities:

• Created an innovative operational accounting module for Confidential RightAngle that drastically reduced costs and is still considered the benchmark for operational accounting modules in the Enterprise Trade Management software industry
• Established and led monthly code and design reviews to mentor good design and development practices
• Introduced new QA practices that included the use of automated scripts and a dedicated QA environment
• Created common objects, methods, and reporting tools for use in debugging and implementation of critical modules and transaction architectures that have since become standard product tools
• Mastered and developed in multiple tools and platforms including ISun Unix, Microsoft Windows OS, Oracle Server, Oracle PL/SQL, Oracle Forms,, Microsoft SQL Server, ERWIN, PowerBuilder, C, C++, Rational Rose

Confidential, Tulsa, OK

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Served as Software Development Manager and Technical Lead. Designed and developed enhancements and interfaces to an Energy Transportation System that was ported across Microsoft Windows and Unix. Managed an Oracle Database and wrote PL/SQL based stored procedures to in corporate business logic in a separate tier from the user interface. Earned highest rating (top 5%) for technical abilities and s for consultants.