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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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.

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.

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.
• 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%.