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CETV Now! is an Arizona-based innovator in commercial environment TV marketing, providing clients with a highly effective strategy for reaching targeted audiences via ad insertions. Their services empower businesses and brands to leverage CETV marketing to deliver quality ads within their targeted sector, utilizing strategic parameters to align video ad content with brand experience. Ultimately, the goal of services facilitated by CETV Now! is to target consumers within the buying environment, allowing businesses to connect with prospective customers in the right place and at the right time. Your Partner for Capturing New Revenue & Brand Reinforcement

Uptracker is a web-based inventory management system developed for orthodontic offices. We utilize a global database providing average pricing across multiple products and vendors. Manage your on-hand inventory to allow automated orders based on low stock levels! Unlimited users on unlimited devices including smartphones and tablets.

Livby is a live streaming ecommerce app. It allows brands, influencers, and individuals to create their own infomercial using their iPhone. I was contracted to develop the architecture, build the API, and manage the development of the iOS app.

Engaged to provider expert consultation on the architecture for an application designed to allow streaming video viewers to communicate in sync with the progress of the show.In addition to creating the architecture, I built the backend and managed the team of developer working on the iOS app.

Yoroomie is a roommate and shared rental matching app.Yoroomie was built and made available in the iTunes store in 5 weeks. I built the iOS app and the backend (Ruby, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, deployed on Heroku).

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Codeity is a platform for matching developers with technology jobs.As the CTO, I was responsible for the architecture of the entire technology stack. I built the backend (Ruby, MongoDB, Redis), including the proprietary matching algorithm, and oversaw the development of the frontend.

VidFly was a mobile consumer video app. The app allowed brands to create competitions where fans/customers would submit short videos to share to receive votes; the video with the most votes won.I built both the iOS app and the backend (Ruby, MongoDB, AWS Elastic Transcoder, deployed on Heroku) for VidFly. VidFly was built and made available in the iTunes store in less than 45 days.

iPR Software is a content management platform for large companies. At iPR Software I:• Fixed difficult bugs that could not be solved by junior developers• Managed other developers' workload• Managed an offshore development team• Served as backup dev ops• Oversaw the migration of one of the company’s largest customers to the new platform; the migration included moving terabytes of content, a custom build of the platform, and a new frontend for the customer's site• Architected and oversaw the development of a new analytics platform

Newmediawire.com is a self-serve press release platform. I built the entire customer-facing side of the product, frontend, and backend.

Mogley was a contactless, mobile payment platform that allowed customers to initiate and confirm payment for transactions; similar to the technology used with Starbucks' payment app.I built the entire stack for Mogley: customer iOS app, retailer iOS app, and backend.

I worked in the shop and did some other stuff. Made the coffee.

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