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• Associate Director, Development Platforms, 

  Dec, 2018 - Present

  Currently acting as a SWAT/Floating Technical Architect across all of Development Platforms acting as the link between Engineering and Infra. Responsibilities include reviewing overall structure of various programs/systems withing the Wayfair platform, ensuring that the technical vision of initiatives are well vetted understood across the organization. <br> Previously lead the Developer Insights and DevNeXT teams within the Development Platforms team. Our goal is to make software development a delightful experience by focusing engineering efforts, resulting in high velocity. The team acts a force multiplier to thousands of engineers company-wide, and maintains relationships with all engineering teams. We work to build tools, systems, and automation to eliminate toil, make quality the default, and scale engineering activities to help Wayfair become a leader in global markets.

• Vice President of Technology, 

  Oct, 2016 - Nov, 20182 years 1 month

  SavingStar is the only national, fully digital eCoupon service available at 50K+ grocery and drug stores. Responsible for software engineering, quality assurance, and DevOps. Utilized Agile/Scrum and Sprint based product development methodologies to deliver bi-weekly product releases of SAAS and Mobile solutions. As a member of the senior management team responsible for setting up company’s development plan and implementing it.

  • Hands-on as much as possible in development under Ruby, Scala, Python, Oracle SQL, Redshift and more.

  • Hands-on in DevOps management of virtualized environment using AWS infrastructure and data center architecture as a whole.

  • Fostered culture of innovation by leading technology brainstorming and lunch-and-learn sessions.

  • Establishing and implementing company's goals, objectives, and operating procedures

  • Responsible for introducing a new data warehouse / reporting process that cut storage cost by 20%

• Director Backend Services, Support Enginering, 

  Aug, 2015 - Oct, 20161 year 2 months

  Placester is the real estate marketing platform that helps improve the home buying process for consumers, agents, brokers and brands. The company offers cost-effective, responsive websites with MLS integration, along with a suite of tools that include IDX search, mobile optimization, modern design, advanced lead capture, lead management, and turnkey marketing automation. Currently serving over 130K real estate professionals, Placester is the sole website provider for the REALTOR Benefits Program, the official member benefits program of the National Association of REALTORS.

  • Kick-started the "serverless" initiative for the data team resulting in the reduction of servers needed to retrieve and process MLS data.

  • Reduced outstanding bugs/issues in the data team from 350+ down to less than 15 in 6 months.

  • Revamped co-op program

  • Created the support engineer group tasked with internal tools/application creation and bug/issue triage.

• Principal Architect, 

  Aug, 2013 - Apr, 20151 year 8 months

  Recruited to jump-start product development in the lagging application development group. Led a team of 2 local and 10 remote engineers and managed the company’s intellectual portfolio. The company’s premier product is Starfish, an application the enables users to associate metadata with files and directories on any NAS or network file system at the petabyte scale.

  • Reduced the development cycle 30% by streamlining processes, instilling accountability and upgrading tools.

  • Spearheaded re-architecture of flagship product reducing time to market by 50%.

• Principal Engineer, Big Data Architect, 

  Jan, 2012 - Jan, 20131 year

  Focused on data mining and data visualization using the latest in open source data mining / data presentation technology.

  • Designed and built a scalable infrastructure and platform to collect and process large amounts of structured and unstructured data including real-time data streams.

  • Defined and documented the architectural standards used by the organization.

• Development Manager / Architect, 

  Jan, 2010 - Jan, 20122 years

  Brought in to build and lead software engineering team delivering a new application framework, with key role in API design for all software products. Produced SOAP-based API in collaboration with the database and architectural teams.

  • Architected, prototyped and developed a dynamic, high speed web based reporting portal as part of the fund administration suite of products using Flex/AJAX/Sonic ESB/Java/HTML/CSS.

  • Developed backend services in Python to support functionality in the HedgeServ suite of products.

  • Architected and developed a centralized real-time service logging system using Node.js and MongoDB.

  • Developed numerous proof-of-concept solutions, working closely with HedgeServ clients to ensure successful integration of HedgeServ products with their technology platform.

• CTO (Interim), 

  Jan, 2010 - Jan, 20101 day

  Capitalized on engineering background to lead infrastructure planning and maintain company focus in conjunction with CEO, visual designers and third-party software providers.

  • Spearheaded development of digital comic book layout application in PHP used in mobile (iPhone/Android) application.

  • Created Interface layer in Python and AppleScript to iTunes allowing for near-realtime notification of purchases.

• CTO, 

  Jan, 2008 - Jan, 20102 years

  Responsible for all aspects of overall technology vision, commercial software product development, and customer delivery for 15 person company servicing the social networking industry. Lead all aspects of architecture and product development, including all make vs. buy analysis, investment rationalization, and delivery schedule for social networking applications.

  • Capitalized on development background to lead infrastructure planning for internet wide resource collection platform.

  • Lead definition and implementation of product platform in conjunction with the CEO.

  • Spearheaded tasks and requirements critical to securing funding in excess of $2M.

  • Realized a savings of over $500K in software and contractor expenses by championing the use of Open Source software.

  • Developed strategic plans to align technology initiatives and budget dollars to support the needs of the organization.

  • Introduced a number of processes into the organization such as estimating, implementation, staffing, training and support.

  • Designed and developed Hage’s Modus Platform, a cloud-based social messaging and event discovery platform using Amazon’s EC2, SimpleDB, Python and PHP.

  • Architected and developed the backend systems and the Android reference implementation of our mobile product.

  • Contributed to the iPhone development effort by providing any necessary libraries on the front end.

• Senior Principal Architect, 

  Jan, 2007 - Jan, 20081 year

  Collaborative Consulting is a business and information technology services firm that provides full lifecycle support to architect, plan, and implement technology-driven solutions.

  • Guided Business, Usability and development resources in ensuring that stakeholder requirements where properly defined and addressed in multi-tier enterprise wide solutions.

  • Established and provided guidance on Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) used by engineering groups.

  • Assessed the functional capability and extensibility of vendor solutions.

  • Developed strategic plans to align corporate technology initiatives and budget dollars to support mission critical needs of the organization.

  • Aided in the development of the mobile strategy by working on initiatives and architect solutions that required a mobile component.

  • Provided visionary leadership and mentoring to teams of technology professionals to achieve industry advantages by the innovative use of technology.

• Director, Professional Servies, 

  Jan, 2005 - Jan, 20072 years

  Responsible for product enhancement, API development, and professional services (consulting, training and support). Managed all API design and development aspects of ProtexIP API.

  • Administered guidance to development managers, software engineering organizations and in-house attorneys in enterprise and technology companies on software compliance management and intellectual property protection.

  • Drove the west coast due diligence services for M&A actions of both public and private companies, business divestitures and venture capital investments totaling more than $4 billion worth of financial transactions.

  • Drove the implementation of software license compliance practices including code and IP compliance analysis

  • Develop and deliver deployment services, including training, Best Practices and customized deployment plans.

  • Assist customers to successfully integrate IP compliance with their software development process.

• CTO, 

  Jan, 2002 - Jan, 20053 years

  • Designed, and implemented a flagship text-to-speech multi-lingual carrier-agnostic global messaging system.

  • Architected and developed a mobile application that tied to MyVello backend messaging/conferencing system. This was written in Java (J2ME) and ran on Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Danger and Palm.

  • Set the vision and led the development and operations of a business-class virtual conference room.

  • Managed hiring and mentoring senior and junior team members, overseeing and evaluating service providers, and ensuring coordination and collaboration across internal and external partners.

  • Identified the role that specific technologies would play in the future growth.

  • Cultivated and maintained external international partnerships.

  • Initiated and Managed the Intellectual Property portfolio in conjunction with Legal Counsel.

• Senior Application Architect, 

  Jan, 2000 - Jan, 20022 years

  • Provided strategic direction/decision making on key engagements and ensured J2EE compliance.

  • Designed and integrated custom N-tier solutions with 3rd-party packages, such as BEA WebLogic and webMethods.

  • Conducted business development activities, including proposals/presentations, and reviewed all technical deliverables.

  • Instrumental in the development of SLML resulting in company's leadership in XML messaging solutions.

  • Architected and developed a mobile remote file retrieval application. The technologies used were WAP/WML, Java/JSP.

• Director of Tools / Operations, 

  Oct, 1998 - Jan, 20001 year 3 months

  • Managed $1+ million budget, software development, product release schedules, workflow, and alliances.

  • Extended product functionality, ensured unicode compliance, and accelerated time to market.

  • Grew 5-member staff into worldwide department of 20 development/QA engineers and 10 support staff.

  • Fueled 5 integration deals valued at $3 million by cultivating relationships and serving as subject matter expert to top-tier Web portals, premier media companies, metasearch providers, ISPs, and leading online retailers.

  • Boosted software quality 30%; led successful technology transfer within international engineering group.

• Director of Technology, 

  Jan, 1995 - Jan, 19983 years

  • Key in taking startup to $5 million annual sales. Directed $1 million budget and international team of 15 engineers.

  • Developed innovative online trade show registration and lead-retrieval software that increased market share 5%+.

• Director of Technology, 

  Jan, 1993 - Jan, 19952 years

• Technical Marketing Engineer, 

  Jan, 1991 - Jan, 19932 years

• QA/Support Engineer, 

  Jan, 1988 - Jan, 19913 years

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