Synthio Is a leading aggregator of marketing contact data. As head of Product and Technology I oversee software development, product development, DevOps, and production infrastructure.• Built and lead a team of 9 developers and analysts working with Cloud, Open Source, and .Net technologies like C#, AngularJs, Dapper, Autofac, Elasticache, MySQL (Aurora on AWS), and ElasticSearch.• Use a Agile DevOps approach to meet weekly / daily improvements to our Data as a Service (DaaS) offerings.• Guide the product roadmap through close collaboration with stakeholders to define new functionality, data products, and additional data sources.• Chief Architect for our technology platform across Development and Operations• Designed and managed the Continuous Integration process using TeamCity and Octopus Deploy, utilizing blue/green channels to provide zero downtime deployments.• Responsible for the operations, deployment, and configuration of the Production Infrastructure on AWS, including RDS Aurora, and the ElasticSearch clusters.

PowWowHR is a collaborative, SaaS based HR solution. • Provided technology guidance for the company and software platform. • Responsible for leading the development group, off-shore development.• Set architectural standards.• Executed the product road map based on guidance from stakeholders.• Configuration and management of the AWS based production infrastructure.• Provided technical due diligence during acquisition engagements.

PowWowHR is a collaborative, SaaS based HR solution. • Provided technology guidance for the company and software platform. • Responsible for systems architecture and software development using C# and SQL Server.• Managed off-shore software development team of 8 in India.• Built key systems integrations using API development.• Configuration and management of the AWS based production infrastructure.

ThePort Network provided a SaaS based collaborative private community platform.• Web and SQL server development using IIS 5, IIS 6, IIS 7, .NET architecture (1.1,2.0,3.5), SQL Server 2000, 2005, and 2008. • Developing an internet application to facilitate social networking features that can integrate with and extend any partner’s standalone web site. • Developing web pages using ASP.NET and JavaScript, stored procedures, as well as component object and system service development using VB .NET. • Responsible for thought leadership in scalable software and database design.• Planning and implementation of physical server infrastructure and scalability considerations for hardware and software interactions. • Major projects have included design and implementation of a distributed caching infrastructure global to or application framework and implementation of an enterprise class site wide search engine utilizing SOLR and Apache Lucene. • My most significant challenge was migrating our entire platform from self-hosting to the cloud in Amazon’s AWS. • Led a re-stack our platform from the ground up based on MVC and IoC (Castle-Windsor). The platform was architected to scale from a single server to full scale datacenter deployment utilizing farms of web servers, cache servers and database servers, with the goal of customer on-premise installation.

(Contract assignments)9/2001-1/2002 Sr. Application Developer for Reliance Trust. Provided client application development using Visual Basic 6.0. Developing a desktop application for importing and conversion of investment trade transaction data into a central accounting system. Developing the desktop application using VB 6.0 and stored procedures with MS SQL Server 7.6/2001-1/2002 Sr. Application Developer for ThePort Networks. Provided web and SQL development using IIS 5 and SQL Server 2000. Developing an internet application to facilitate authoring and distributing a web based advertising for application based on XML configuration files and data transmission. Developing web pages using ASP,JavaScript, stored procedures, and Visual Basic 6.0.1/2001-5/2001 Sr. Application Developer for VerticalIT.com. Provided web and SQL development using IIS 5 and SQL Server 2000. Developing an intranet application for time and project management tools. Developing web pages using ASP,JavaScript, stored procedures, and Visual Basic 6.0.10/2000-1/2001 Sr. Application Developer for Armstrong Laing Group. Provided web and SQL development using IIS 5 and SQL Server 7. Developing an intranet application for data collection and migration, web pages using ASP and JavaScript, stored procedures, and Visual Basic 6.0.05/99-10/2000 Sr. Application Developer for Realestate.com. Provided web and SQL development using IIS 4 and SQL Server 7. Acted as development DBA. Developed web pages using ASP, JavaScript, and stored procedures for multiple consumer services including a mortgage auction, appraisal and closing system, property analysis, and agent directories. Coordinated server architecture for performance scaling.02/99-05/99 Sr. Application Developer for The Network’s call center re-engineering project. Coordinated the development team in design/development of an N-tier COM based intranet application utilizing SQL Server 6.5, IIS 4.0, MTS, ASP and is browser independent.

Responsible for application development, LAN and WAN implementation and management, database administration, internet connectivity and systems planning and purchasing for Insurance Services and Management, Inc. Implemented multiple database applications utilizing WAN user access solutions. Planned and implemented migration of legacy Cobol and Btrieve systems to SQL. MS SQL database development. SQL client development using MS Visual Basic and Topspeed Clarion. WAN implemented using Internet based protocol tunneling providing virtual WAN connectivity for Novell Intranetware and Windows NT. Also responsible for establishing and maintaining Web presence, including CGI based user access to corporate mail.

Planning, Design, and Development for EDI systems migration for American International Groups Subsidiary AIG Design’s. Stabilized existing Visual Basic and FoxPro applications for more dependable document processing. Implemented TSI’s Mercator document mapping to provide direct document to SQL application interface. Currently expanding document scope and migrating additional trading partners. Secondary responsibilities include SQL dba duties and general network administration and user help desk.

Software development and hardware installation for Insurance Services and Management, Inc. Application development in Clarion, a 4GL RAD language. Other duties included office hardware maintenance and network administration. Configuration and administration of Windows 3.1 and DOS workstations with Novell NetWare 3.12 connectivity. Implemented modem pool and PC desktop faxing. Provided application and hardware technical support to users.