Bradford Smith Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, Nc, Us

I oversee all aspects of technology for the insurance division and IT for all LendingTree divisions and locations.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Acting CTO for LendingTree.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Oversee the Tech teams for QuoteWizard, LendingTree's insurance business.

Seattle, Wa, Us

I oversee all areas of Technology for the company.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Promoted from Director to AVP to have a seat at the leadership table helping to drive strategic decision making for the company.Key contributionsCloud migration• Evaluated the cost, benefits and risks of migrating our production and test environments from a hosted solution to the cloud.• Negotiated with the top two providers on their offerings to select the best option for the company. • Migrating production and test/dev environments into the cloud.• Migrating from IaaS to PaaS services to further cost savings.Addressing technical debt• Re-architecting, refactoring and recoding our production environment to take advantage of cloud technologies and cost savings while also increasing scalability and eliminating legacy code and systems.• Conducting a complete overhaul of the reporting and analytics infrastructure to provide better data for business decision making.• Migrating from Google for Business to the Office 365 suite to reduce costs and provide a more robust set of integrated productivity tools.• Implemented better security tools and processes to protect the company and meet contractual obligations with customers.Cost savings• Reduced operating costs by 850K a year through eliminating unnecessary hardware and software purchasing, rightsizing licensing and renegotiating contracts with suppliers.• Worked with the other leaders in the company and owners on staffing reductions across all business units to better position the company for sustained profitability. Overall staffing was reduced by ~40% company wide.

Seattle, Wa, Us

As the Director of Information Technology I work with the company’s leadership to ensure the ongoing success of the company core business and to the support the growth our new initiatives. I am responsible for setting the direction and future plans of the Information Technology department.

New York, New York, Us

Paul Gauguin Cruises manages the Sales, Marketing, Accounting and IT for the parent company Pacific Beachcomber, a luxury hotelier and cruise business. I was initially recruited by the President to migrate the newly purchased m/s Paul Gauguin and corporate systems from the selling company to the newly formed Paul Gauguin Cruises headquarters. Post migration I stayed on to build and oversee all IT functions including hardware, software, network, telephony, data center management, vendor relationships, technical support, application and websites development, financial monitoring and disaster recovery planning.• Completed the migration of the office reservations and telephony systems, and ships infrastructure from the selling company to the newly acquired Paul Gauguin Cruises headquarters in my first 6 weeks.• Built robust technology organization and infrastructure that supported growth from start-up to $60M+ in annual revenue.• Managed the upgrade of the m/s Paul Gauguin and m/v Tere Moana server, networking, applications, ship management systems and point of sale hardware and software.• Built and sustained multiple company websites and intranets utilizing internal and external development teams.• Led virtualization effort that reduced hardware costs and physical footprint while increasing uptime and accommodating geographic redundancy.• Partnered with business leaders across all Pacific Beachcomber companies on issues related to technology matters for their line of business.• Responsible for staffing, budgeting, hardware, software, vendor selection and management, contracts and negotiations, data security, software development and PCI compliance.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Over the 7 years I was with Expedia my role expanded as we grew from 400 to 10,000 people through acquisition and expansion. Initially I was brought in to take over the corporate infrastructure consisting but as the company grew my responsibilities quickly expanded into global development and management of the Windows, UNIX, AS400, Storage Area Networking (SAN), Network and Data Center teams.• Managed, directly and indirectly, 50 geographically dispersed operational and engineering personnel accountable for the server, storage, networking, application and Data Centers that supported 3B in revenue for the Expedia, Inc. companies.• Responsible for supporting 7,000+ Windows, UNIX and AS400 systems deployed across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.• Oversaw the support of all infrastructure applications and technologies including messaging, remote access, directory services and backups.• Managed all server and storage assets including the request process, purchasing, provisioning, and inventory management.• Responsible for all aspects of the 30 data centers hosting Expedia, Inc. corporate and eCommerce servers and networks.• Designed and built a corporate data center capable of accommodating over 1,000 servers.• Primary business owner and manager of the global data center consolidation and disaster recovery projects to reduce the data center footprint from 30 to 4 and provide active failover between centers in the event of a disaster.• Drove technology integration and standardization of acquired companies.• Maintained a 30M+ CAPEX and OPEX budget.• Co-Chairman of the Security Advisory Committee.

Ocentrix was two companies operating under one roof. The majority of the revenue came from the website development and hosting for Harley Davidson and various small businesses while the other half of the team focused on building a SAAS dealer management system to market to smaller car dealerships as an alternative to the in-house hosting and management of servers and software.I was hired to realign the Information Technology team with the business and provide technical leadership and expertise. Areas of responsibilities include staff management, e-commerce design, implementation, sustainment, networking and telephony.• Executed organizational improvements to aid in obtaining investment capital and successfully managed the IT budget throughout the bridge funding period by utilizing creative cost-effective ideas to accomplish business needs.• Oversaw the server infrastructure migration to a stable platform.• Produced and implemented the guidelines for usage and management of all IT equipment used throughout the organization.• Implemented technology solutions to increase staff productivity and enable continued business growth.

I was hired by, and reported to, the President and CEO to oversee the technology needs for a startup that would become the very first full service Internet pharmacy. As employee #4 I had to quickly hire and build the team, and infrastructure, to support the rapid growth of an Internet startup. Within the first year I had hired a team of architects, engineers, administrators, program managers and in-house developers, built out the technology infrastructure (server, network, telephony, applications), expanded the corporate offices twice, opened a distribution center in Cincinnati Ohio and worked with our ecommerce development contractor to deliver a fully functioning website.By year two I had hired a team of 25, relocated the corporate headquarters to a new building, built an in-house data center to support development and QA, moved the ecommerce data center and expanded the footprint to accommodate new functionality and scalability, implemented an automated fulfillment system for dispensing prescription medication, matured the IT processes, procedures, monitoring, reporting, etc., developed a sophisticated Intranet for staff collaboration and information sharing.In year three we were acquired by CVS Pharmacy and focused on integration and the eventual decommission as they incorporated us into their infrastructure in Rhode Island.• Responsible for aligning the IT and business goals to ensure efficient delivery and management of services.• Built and managed the teams responsible for supporting the corporate and e-commerce environments, Intranet development, and release management for Soma.com and CVS.com including the distribution warehouse and customer call center.• Created and put into practice the policies, procedures, guidelines, standards for usage and management of all information systems, networking, and telecommunication equipment generating increased productivity of employees and equipment.