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Texas, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas Area

Austin, Tx

Austin, Tx

Constructed a multi-channel media-centric platform designed to support the growing demands of regional faith based organizations. Oversaw strategic and tactical roadmap for said platform and was an active participant in the construction process. Built alliances with strategic partners who could provide content or services.● Restructured corporate infrastructure to meet growing organization. Identified an on-going organizational growth challenge; hired a support organization to manage internal corporate infrastructure; adjusted relationships with carriers and data providers. Reduced productivity outages due to infrastructure problems to less than 0.1%.● Transitioned the organization from private to cloud-based hosting. Identified the private-hosting model as a potential bottleneck; put together a cost-analysis of the private vs. cloud-based model; presented competitive arguments to the executive team; and executed a successful transition to a cloud-based environment. Aligned infrastructure costs with usage, increased overall capacity and reduced operational expenses by 50%.● Converted video production to SEO-based cloud platform. Saw a need in our organization to reach people through multiple video delivery platforms; established publishing pipelines that included YouTube, Vimeo and Edgecast. Improved ability for targeted SEO to reach audience and provided a better overall consumer experience.

Austin, Tx

Captured the business and technology "blueprints" of the organization. Worked with organizational leadership to craft a plan for a game-changing personal finance management platform. Introduced best practices and processes that were foundational to accurate and consistent product delivery.● Instituted security practices and partners. Reviewed the products, practices and partners for the organization; brought in a firm that specialized in security threat assessment; and changed practices and products that we used in the organization. Reduced organizational exposure and lead the organization through SAS-70 and PCI-DSS compliance exercises.● Introduced architectural discipline to the enterprise . Reviewed the information and processes of the existing technology department; made specific recommendations about adjustments to technology and process associated with delivery; and assisted in the execution of said recommendations. Product delivery to target was increased and time to market was decreased by 20%.● Established a roadmap for technology leaders within organization. Spoke at length with executive leadership about the need for a technical leadership track; established groups within the organization to represent various technical leadership disciplines; and personally mentored several key personnel. Clarifying the technical leadership track, increased morale and loyalty among several key members of the organization; this in turn lead to an increase in retention.

Austin, Tx

Captured the business and technology "blueprints" of the organization. Lead efforts to transform business vision into tangible deliverables. Directed engineering, quality assurance and operational teams in executing the business mission and objectives.● Managed the technology portion of a merger acquisition. Identified the technology components and personnel we required as part of the merger; transitioned personnel roles into organization; and assisted with integration of acquired technology into our product. Purchased the technology component for a fraction of market value and acquired key personnel necessary for strategic efforts.● Captured the enterprise architecture for trading firm. Examined the business & technology architecture of the organization; highlighted areas where the architecture was misaligned and not delivering value; made specific recommendations about adjustments to efforts. This effort resulted in resources being focused to efforts that were strategically aligned with organizational targets (e.g. revenue, growth, retention).● Performed due diligence on a technology acquisition. Worked with company being acquired; analyzed their product for functionality, maintainability and general valuation; and analyzed their management organization to understand their intellectual capital. Acquired products and intellectual property that were critical to successful management of the trading floor.

Created custom software solutions according to customer specification.● Lead engineering efforts on online player system. Worked with customer to design the world's largest online gaming environment; assisted in identifying the technical resources behind the effort; and lead engineering efforts on the network. Launched one of the world's largest gaming environments, supporting millions of online and concurrent gamers.

Houston, Texas

Lead technology efforts across multiple lines of trading business. Supported cross-functional development teams in delivery of strategic deliverables.● Established network presence and availability for Enron Capital & Trade . Examined several infrastructure carriers; lead efforts to test the viability of said infrastructures; and assisted in the selection of the infrastructure provider. Provided a cost-effective and efficient vehicle for Enron personnel to access resources away from the office.

New York, New York

Lead design and implementation of proprietary custom software and hardware solutions for the equity derivatives desk. Supported global efforts around strategic development.

Troy, Ny

Developed custom software solutions for select clients. Provided technical operations support for a small office environment.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Aeronautical Engineering