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| SUMMARY | Experienced technology executive with an entrepreneurial spirit. Over 14 years delivering innovative products with responsibilities for all development, quality assurance, database administration, release engineering and network operations. Expert at delivering solutions to new markets with motivated teams and minimal resources. Award winning products include content portals, search engines, ecommerce engines, online advertising networks, email-lists and systems management platforms sold as enterprise software and ASP. Hands on expertise with distributed systems, object oriented technologies, internet protocols and web development architectures to meet massively scalable, high-transaction requirements. Able to meet business goals through proper team building, outsourcing, aggressive cost cutting measures and vender/OEM relationship management. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| CAPABILITES | Management Technology roadmap, goal oriented, clear communicator, MBO focus, staffing, career development, education, facilitator, budget planning and auditing. Systems Architect Website architectures, Object Oriented Analysis, Distributed and N-tier architectures, Intranet, database, text processing and graphical user interface design. Software Development Project Management, systems and application programming, prototyping, optimization, cross platform development, team organization, development process, SQA, release engineering, coding standards, documentation and tools environment setup. Network Operations Database management, storage solutions, disaster and recovery, backup strategy, security policies, vendor negotiation, 24/7 operations, ticket systems. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| EXPERIENCE | Netkey, Connecticut Nov. 2003 to present VP Product Development (reporting to CEO) Netkey provides the retail industry standard software platform for securing, deploying, monitoring and optimizing applications targeted to kiosks and digital signs. Current customers include Target, BMW and Home Depot with over 60,000 devices under management. As VP of Product Development reporting to the CEO, I oversee the company technology strategy and execution. Head of development, quality assurance, performance, release engineering and network operations. Work closely with the management team to translate business objectives into product while measuring ROI. Optimizing the software development lifecycle and product roadmap. Identify new architectural direction for expanded software capabilities focusing on scalability, cross-platform support and business intelligence reporting. Currently deploying a redesigned platform architecture to enable scalable, cross platform development of their network management product leveraging Struts, Tiles, Hibernate, JBoss, P2P(JADE) and SOAP(Axis) open-source technologies. Oversee a 1.9MM budget. Other responsibilities include fund raising, OEM/partner relationship management, and outsourcing. AcceleratedPartner, San Francisco June 2001 to Oct. 2003 Founder AcceleratedPartner was an early stage startup I founded focused on delivering innovative data integration solutions for companies and their partners, customers, resellers and suppliers. Responsible for the overall business and technology direction of the company. Stopped operations due to market conditions. Topica Inc., San Francisco CTO (reporting to CEO) Feb. 2000 to May 2001 Topica is the leading independent provider of turn-key solutions for email newsletter publishers. Hosting over 100,000 discussion groups and 120,000 newsletters, Topica has a subscriber base of 60 million users and generates over 3.5 billion personalized emails monthly. As CTO, I was responsible for Topica’s overall strategic technical direction to increase subscriber and advertising revenue. Worked closely with external partners and clients to identify new product development opportunities. VP Engineering (reporting to CEO) Nov. 1998 to Feb. 2000 As a founding member of the Topica management team, my role was to build the technology team and launch the Topica’s suite of products. Provided leadership in management, technology, product development, release management, and network operations. Grew technology staff from 8 to 40 members. Managed a 4MM department budget. InterWorld Corporation, New York Apr. 1996 to Oct. 1998 Director, Platform Technology Directed the design and implementation of InterWorld’s advanced technology application server, Oasis. Oasis is an open, scalable, distributed, secure, multithreaded enterprise application server. Oasis runs on NT or Solaris, supports Netscape Enterprise web server or Microsoft IIS and provides transparent database access to SQL Server, Oracle and Sybase. Produced a C++ development API consisting of 7 frameworks and 350 classes. InterWorld’s flagship product, Commerce Exchange, built using Oasis, was named Network Magazine’s 1998 eCommerce Product of the Year. Responsible for 100% of the product definition, product lifecycle and resource management. Supervised product managers and development managers and their deliverables. Managed a 2.4MM departmental budget, department staffing (14 people), company Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and coding standards. Actively spoke at industry conferences and with industry analysts. Matthew Bender, New York Dec. 1994 to Aug. 1995 Manager, Electronic Product Group Managed development team and production staff in building an in-house premastering system for Matthew Bender’s legal content. Processing included SGML text conversion, automatic cross-referencing, and indexing for CD-ROM and online distribution. Directly responsible for turnaround of failed efforts on cross-referencing and successfully delivered high quality system ahead of schedule. Interactive Market Systems, New York Feb. 1993 to Sept. 1994 Project Leader / Senior Programmer Delivered a nationwide radio market analysis system for ABC Radio Networks. Chief architect for all aspects of Sybase client/server decision support system. All programming was done in C++ with an emphasis on Object Oriented Design. Encapsulated database accesses and implemented Model-View-Controller paradigm. Personally responsible for 60% of source code. Managed a team of four developers and two consultants through the entire product life cycle. Worked closely with the client to determine needs and expectations. Product shipped September 1994. The application is currently being marketed to other major radio networks. Ovid Technologies (formerly CD Plus), New York July 1991 to Jan. 1993 Programmer / Analyst Delivered a sophisticated bibliographic search system that represented 100% of the revenue for Ovid. Worked closely with a team of twelve programmers to design a platform independent C++ GUI framework. Managed the port of the application to AIX running on IBM RS/6000. Designed and implemented application configuration system encapsulating user options. Product shipped February 1993. Installed base of over 100,000 users. The software was named 1993 Information World Product of the Year. IBM Corporation, New York Summer 1990 Research Intern, T.J. Watson Research Lab Top 5% of 3000 applicants awarded position. Developed modules for Data Explorer, a real-time visualization software product for the Power Visualization System. Optimized data realization algorithms. Designed and proposed visualization tool for interactive exploration of 3D data sets. Developed visualization utility to map patterns of points onto user-defined geometric shapes. Explored grid generation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TECHNICAL SKILLS | Languages C++ (9 years), Java (2 years), C (1 year), AWK (3 years), SQL (3 years), JavaScript Platforms Solaris, RedHat Linux, AIX, HP-UX, Windows 2003 Server JBoss, Tomcat, Tuxedo, IIS, Netscape Enterprise Server, Apache Databases MS SQL Server 2000, Oracle 9i, Sybase System 10 APIs Struts, JSP, Servlets, HTML, XML, NSAPI, ISAPI, HTTP, SMTP, STL, MFC, Win32 Development Tools Rational Rose(UML), CVS, Visual Source Safe, PVCS, SmartHeap, Great Circle, Visio, BoundsChecker, Purify, Quantify, Bugzilla | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| EDUCATION | State University of New York at Stony Brook December 1991 BS in Computer Science, BS in Applied Math and Statistics Imperial College, University of London, England Spring 1991 Study Abroad Program | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PRESENTATIONS and PUBLICATIONS | Software Development Magazine September 2002 Web Services Tools COMDEX/Fall – Las Vegas October 1998 e-Commerce Best Practices COMDEX/Canada – Toronto July 1998 Architecting, Building and Deploying e-Commerce Sites COMDEX/Spring – Chicago March 1998 Building your e-Commerce Infrastructure using Object Technology | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| INTERESTS | Tennis, Travel, Juggling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||