Particle41 is a global software consultancy that offers end-to-end product development services. We use a flexible, fast-paced approach that delivers results to better compete in your industry and outpace the market. Our purpose is to increase your business's real-world value by strengthening your process and differentiating your offering.

As CTO of Dockworks, I led the development of our cutting-edge, web-based marine management software solution tailored for small marine shops and boatyards.- Architected dockworks' robust work order management system, vessel tracking, billing, and other vital features to streamline operations for our customers.- Oversaw successful launch and growth of dockworks, attracting a thriving customer base of over 100 marine businesses within 2 years.- Provided vision and leadership in the design, engineering, and deployment of innovative software features that drove Dockworks' competitive advantage.- Executed dockworks' acquisition by DockMaster in 2023, integrating our solutions into their suite of marina management software.- Transitioned to DockMaster through the acquisition process to ensure continuity for customers and enable combined product roadmap.- Contributed dockworks technology and expertise in web-based software systems to strengthen DockMaster as an industry leader.

Aqui-hired from Legalinc I took on an additional role at LegalZoom. - Revamped a Robotic Processing Automation (RPA) strategy - Created excellence in Document Automation - Nurtured data acquisition relationships with the US Secretary of States.- Developed a Company Name Check algorithm that predicts State acceptance of company names with 98% accuracy. - Designed a Unified Business Profile to support helping small businesses expand jurisdictions.

Legalinc Corporate Services, Inc. is modernizing Enterprise Legal Services and automating every aspect of the LLC life cycle. It was a pleasure to grow Legalinc from the ground up accelerating the company to an exit to Legalzoom Inc. in 3 years. - Built a Platform API for processing legal filings, the only API of its kind it secured partnerships with Stripe Atlas, Yahoo Small Business, Amazon, and many more. - Created a white label "Shopify" style product for allowing brands to deliver Legalinc services alongside their existing brands. Product included customer pricing and packaging and custom digital experiences. - Innovated ways to automate data entry and document generation making the company operate with speed and quality.- Delivered a highly scaleable digital scanning solution that converted physical mail documents to digital copies and matched them to their user accounts.

• Developed Chef Automation stack to manage 125 servers across 3 data center locations. • Created Custom Recipes for at least 15 different server roles allowing global expantion.• Implemented Scalr for auto-scaling capabilities to prepare for rapid growth.• Executed security standards that exceed guidelines, including data encryption (Rest/Transit)• Delivered a password vault for service accounts and sensitive information.• Rolled out Continuous Delivery options, code is deployed when committed. • Provided Vagrant containers to avoid time delays setting local dev environements. • Lead postmortems around failure events and documented leassons learned.• Managed a sprint plan around non-functional requirements.• Completed Monitoring coverage and upheld 99.9% uptime promise. • Trained DevOps, team can now successfully add automation features independently.

While serving as technology advisor Ben worked with the tech team to optimize the core ad technology, resulting in a 70% reduction in cost and a 10x increase in performance. A complete chef automation layer was added for increased manageability. As well as a complete migration to AWS.

Ben served as Technology Advisor for Arrivalist. Arrivalist ™ is patent-pending marketing technology that anonymously measures changes in a user’s location after various types of media exposure. Ben setup first version data collection system and data visualization dashboard.

Ben joined Savoya because they are ground transportation company that thinks differently. Savoya transports VIP travelers in 60 countries worldwide, and they are driving customer satisfaction in a whole new direction. With extraordinary people available 24 hours, 365 days a year, Savoya has earned the confidence of companies big and small simply because they are responsive, reliable, and easy to use.Lead technology team through a $750K infrastructure renovation while maintaining business continuity. Created and implemented a cloud based strategy that improved mobility and levels of service while maintaining costs. Facilitated management team reviews over global priorities to increase visibility and accountability and enforced the company product roadmap. Lead direct reports to create Middleware software platform with customer portal in Ruby on Rails and SalesForce.com, maintaining 99.9% uptime.

Served interim role as Scrum Master and Dev Ops Lead. Created comprehensive chef project for Rackspace and Google Compute Cloud. Deployed office infrastructure for over 50 people after office move. Maintained 99% uptime on software services.

Joined IC to help bring a background of growing technology and infrastructure that will take the company to even greater heights. I am truly impressed with the founders. Their combination of street smarts, finance industry pedigree, and media experience will push the vision behind technology. We are a leading Media Platform for the finance vertical. Allowing advertisers to reach a focused audience of affluence. We combine interactive Display Ads, Email List Rental and Co-Reg to our list of advertising opportunities. While also helping publishers with the CMS platform that includes Paid Content Subscription capabilities.

Leading all aspects of IT and software development in this sales oriented company. Components include managing ad server, inventory management, and CRM.

Created Travel Booking Engine for Air, Car and Hotel Products. used C++ and Cold Fusion to bring all three products to market in less then 1 year. Also developed internal data management applications and reporting interfaces. Allowed me to develop skills in MS-SQL, Stored Procedures, XML, and JavaScript and HTML, as well as Cold Fusion. I later migrated the platform to .NET.

Created a PDF to HTML system that reduced the per unit generation for a product registration form from 2 hours to 15 minutes. Was then able to charge a 200$ per unit. Sales team was then able to generate orders with assurance of customer satisfiaction. Data collected was then sent to a SAS database for Experian later use.