Sage Technology Advisors is a private technology consulting firm dedicated to helping small to mid-sized organizations manage and develop the right technical solutions for the business. Through years of industry experience, we specialize in helping with cyber security compliance projects such as PCI, HIPAA, HITRUST, etc. We are you partner in assessing gaps, selecting and working with auditors and managing compliance efforts. Sage also excels in IT strategy needs in the areas of AppDev, DevOps and Hosting including Cloud and On-Prem technologies. We also provide fractional CTO capabilities.

America’s largest outsourced remittance processor, one of the largest outsourced billers, and a finance industry leader in innovative multichannel billing and payment solutions • Responsible for all IT Infrastructure, Data Center Operations and Quality Assurance Testing managing a team of 75 talented IT professionals.• Managed large PCI Level I recertification project and upgrade to PCI v3.1.• Redesigned enterprise scale network reducing OpEx by $100K/mo.• Built new QA department, significantly reducing impacts to customer with proper function, regression and validation testing as well as a mature change management process.• Successfully transitioned company from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Office 365.• Created new strategy to eliminate $1 million worth of data center power system upgrades.• Consolidated wireless spend and reduced cost by $10K/mo.• Engineered data backup solution eliminating $250K in CapEx.• Designed and implemented strategy to transition over 100 legacy Sun servers to virtual Linux servers.• Retired and consolidated several legacy custom billing platforms that service customers.

Started in 2002, GTBN connects the Georgia Tech community with Atlanta business and technology leaders, facilitating discussions of current and relevant issues from a wide variety of industries while fostering ideas and networking. GTBN was created to give Atlanta ONE place where Georgia Tech business people could connect. GTBN is attracting all-star speakers and great support from Atlanta’s business community, which has led to a lot of growth and sold out events.

Connecture is a Health IT company which develops online enrollment portals for the health insurance industry. Responsible for IT infrastructure and data center operations• Responsible for IT infrastructure and data center operations.• Led company through initial PCI Level I compliance certification.• Moved large Atlanta office to new downtown location with no service interruption.• Reduced telecom expenses 20% by switching carriers and simultaneously increasing bandwidth.• Virtualized office data center servers and cut physical count by 60% prior to move.

iHealth Technologies provides full service Payment Policy Management, helping clients to select, customize, configure and administer the correct coding of professional, outpatient facility and DME claims • Directed department of 50 engineers and technicians in US and India offices responsible for all global IT and data center operations.• Managed IT effort in gaining HIPAA compliance.• Responsible for data center environment consisting of over 600 virtualized servers and 500 TB of storage running on IBM P-Series servers, HP Blade Systems and Hitachi VSP SAN storage.• Created IT help desk in India office to provide 24x7 tech support to employees, reducing response time from hours to minutes for Level 1 and Level 2 issues.• Oversaw network consisting of fully redundant, diverse routed global MPLS WAN, OC48 SONET ring and OPT-E-WAN fiber circuits.• Moved DR data center from Atlanta to Dallas to create geographically disparate topology and reduce exposure to disaster scenarios. • Installed commercial monitoring solution to ensure 100% of systems monitored in real time for quick detection and resolution of all system issues.• Installed commercial issue tracking solution for unified view of all IT operational issues, allowing the generation of accurate metrics for continuous improvement.• Created knowledge management platform based on Microsoft SharePoint and retired Lotus Notes.

Snapfinger provides an industry-leading solution for online takeout ordering for restaurants • Responsible for directing the architecture, development and hosted environment of Snapfinger’s online ordering software based on ASP.NET technology. • Led company through PCI Level I compliance certification. • Took company from a struggling startup with fewer than 100 installations to the leading online ordering company with over 20,000 live sites.• Snapfinger is the unsurpassed industry leader primarily because its advanced technology has allowed it to install more corporate restaurant chains then all competitors combined. • Architected new system for delivering orders from online web application to local POS. New solution requires less stress on servers and reduced labor costs by 20% for call center ordering.• Managed development of new mobile iOS and Android applications for placement of restaurant orders.• Designed and directed implementation of entire hosted environment including production and disaster recovery solutions in separate data centers.• Responsible for High Availability hosted server infrastructure for entire takeout ordering solution.• Led company through PCI Level I compliance certification. • Designed continuous integration system allowing rapid testing and deploying of new features to meet demanding customer rollout schedules.• Managed development of credit module with certified integrations into a dozen different processors including RBS, First Data and Mercury Payments.• Managed development of new AJAX based call center application to reduce response times for call center agents.• Extensively used virtual machines for testing to reduce cost and create portable test systems.• Coordinated development efforts between offshore development companies in Ukraine, Russia and India.

• Managed development of a new version of Radiant’s POS application.• Took over delayed project during beta test. Organized defect tracking, installed process controls, and provided consistent leadership to get project on-track.• Successfully managed development of three iterations of this product on time and product was installed at over 1000 customer sites.