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New York, Ny, Us

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Global management (US, Lithuania, Serbia & Russia) of Revel’s Product Management, Software Development and Cloud Services for a cloud native Point-of-Sale platform serving Quick Service Restaurants, Casual Dining and Speciality Retail in 94 countries.• Responsible for annual $34M Product Engineering budget • Direct 175+ employees in Product Management, Cloud Operations and Software Development• Assumed leadership of strategic product management for cloud based Point-of-sale (POS). • Led transformation of POS application to support market shift from SMB to Enterprise.• Oversaw redesign of application platform, transitioning to extensible services architecture. • Migration of hosted infrastructure from managed facilities to Amazon Web Services (AWS).• Work with executive leadership to provide updates for strategic product and technical roadmap.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Assumed global management (US, Canada, UK, Germany, and Japan) of Northplain's Cloud Services, Global Infrastructure/Hosting, Global Application Support and Customer Success organizations for Enterprise Digital Asset Management platform. Responsible for operational readiness, strategic planning, and budgeting for all departments.• Migrated 100% of hosted infrastructure from managed facilities to Amazon Web Services (AWS) IaaS.• Leveraged automation and AWS to improve server uptime, reducing costs by 26%.• Progressed a DevOps culture, and reduced application deployment time from 6 weeks to 20 minutes.• Managed 950 TB of customer data in 10 global data centers.• Oversaw global support for over 1500 digital asset management (DAM) customers.• Improved proactive monitoring of hosted applications by 780% (DataDog, New Relic, Pagerduty, etc).• Globalized IT/Telecom infrastructure, Support, and Cloud/Hosting Services across all regions.• Implemented a Change Management workflow to control 600 production environments.• Developed departmental KPIs to measure quarterly efficiency targets.• Completed SOC 2 gap analysis and SOC 2 compliance audit for Controls at a Service Organization.

Provided strategic consulting on cloud services, internal systems, and remotely hosted SaaS products. Including working with existing IT staff and senior management to develop enterprise processes, provide disaster recovery planning, and analyze system integration opportunities.• Strategic architectural consulting and technical project planning for cloud migrations.• Completed phase one due diligence and organizational analysis for Devils Arena Entertainment (operators of the Prudential Center, New Jersey Devils and Philadelphia 76ers).• Identified synergies and created operational efficiency plan for private equity acquisition, and business consolidation • Completed SOX-level audit of system, controls, and processes related to equity acquisition.

Denver, Co, Us

Intermedia Outdoors (Acquired by KSE)Redeveloped global IT/Systems strategy to drive digital content delivery for a multi-title, nationwide media company. Responsible for managing software development, e-commerce, system architecture, IT infrastructure and network security.• Developed corporate vision for strategic digital technology initiatives • Managed software development, IT infrastructure, and technical support/help desk.• Created capital expense, and operating budget for multi-state IT/IS department.• Established policies for disaster recovery, PCI compliance and network security policies. • Member of OpenEFT advisory board with executives from Conde Nast, Time Inc, and Hearst.• Responsible for due diligence, technology assessments, and planning related to corporate mergers.

Worked with companies to assess, architect and implement technology improvements to increase business productivity, operational process and cut costs. Utilized expertise across multiple technologies to improve process management policy, and increase likelihood of project success. Completed the design and development of SaaS driven software for managing critical business processes.• Managed projects aimed at minimizing telecommunications expenses. Annual savings of $40M.• Implemented POS system for multi-location and mobile telecommunications services company. • Project lead for designing and development of software, client/server, and database software. • Architect for a SaaS based customer relationship management (CRM), and billing system.• Facilitated a corporate migration to a hosted data center systems infrastructure.• Strategic deployment of VMWare, Equallogic SAN and Riverbed WAN accelertors to consolidate IT for 17 remote offices and 2000+ employees.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Reignmaker Communications (acquired by Cypress Communications)Responsible for design, development and integration of ERP software and hardware systems for internet protocol (IP) based application services provider. • Managed software development team responsible for CRM, Billing, Taxation and Telephony rating system• Improved system integration with 3rd-party vendors, resulting in an 88% decrease in costs. • Established business metrics for measuring key financial milestones, and business objectives. • Managed PCI compliant infrastructure for corporate and retail customer systems. • Directed operations coordination department, and project managers. • Oversaw diverse system architecture utilizing relational database management systems (RDBMS). • Responsible for managing all corporate LAN infrastructures and support engineers.• Architect for corporate data storage, disaster recovery and network security architecture.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Oversaw department responsible for new and existing service coordination and relocation, sales engineering, and field services for installation of voice-over-IP phone service, and Internet access. Charged with reinvigorating an established group of employees, and building a new organization for coordinating business moves of existing customer base.• Developed workflow enhancements enabling a 260% increase in monthly installation.• Created corporate process for managing corporate operations, and driving system enhancements.• Established key performance indicators (KPIs) for measuring installation timelines and success. • Managed departments in Atlanta, GA and Denver, CO responsible for coordination and relocations.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Established a new organization responsible for nationwide installation of voice-over-IP phone service, and internet access. Created all organizational structures, processes, metrics, and systems requirements.• Managed engineering department for nationwide installation of telephony services.• Developed process and automation for configuration and testing of VoIP in 5 markets.• Improved business workflow/processes to reduce staffing, while improving installation by 600%.