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Raleigh, Nc, Us

Helped guide VitalSource through 2021 PE carve-out from Ingram Content Group. VitalSource Technologies, is a leading educational technology company and the preferred choice among higher education institutions, faculty and publishers. VitalSource annually delivers digital curriculum to more than 13 million students in 200 countries and territories worldwide, and we have more than 2,000,000 titles available in distribution from more than 1,000 education publishers. For more information about VitalSource Technologies, visit http://www.vitalsource.co

La Vergne, Tennessee, Us

Leading technology and product for comprehensive digital SaaS platforms that service publishers, libraries, booksellers and educators worldwide. If you are reading a book, Ingram Content Group is probably behind it. Ingram is the leader in helping content reach its destination anywhere in the world. Whether digital or physical content, Ingram delivers to mobile phones, tablets, online retailers, bookstores, libraries, schools and consumers across the globe. Our company is on the cutting edge of technology in automated manufacturing, digital content distribution and e-learning platforms, and is trusted by publishers, retailers, and libraries for digital and physical solutions.

Responsible for all aspects of technology, product design, development and delivery. Drove strategy and execution of company’s expansion into market research sector by leading development of a new intelligence crowdsourcing product. Led redesign of core platform to fully support deployment via Software as a Service. Integral and active in board and investor meetings and presentations. Met increasing product demand by migrating from physical infrastructure to Amazon’s AWS Cloud while keeping costs flat. Quickly built a distributed and diverse development team that has achieved 100% adherence to delivery dates. Aligned business, product and technology roadmaps though iterative review and refinement. Products built using Java, Ruby on Rails, Passenger, Nginx, Memcached, MySQL,Postgres, Apache, PHP and Linux.

La Vergne, Tennessee, Us

Responsible for five local and remote product development teams. Interfaced heavily with business development groups to design and align technology roadmap. Supported acquisitions with technology due diligence and assimilated acquired products and technology. Worked closely with industry partners to develop standards and drive adoption. Active in business development function, speaking to technology capabilities during sales process. Worked with business and product teams from Adobe, Microsoft and Apple (iTunes) on various collaborative ventures. Regularly briefed executive leadership on key strategic initiatives. Liaised with infrastructure and operation teams to ensure SLA adherence. Led design and development of CoreSource product, the industry leading e-book asset management and distribution platform. Used my the majority of top publishers, CoreSource manages and distributes publisher ebook content to retail partners. Led development of content search and discover platform, powering a number of retail sites. Led efforts to re-platform high volume b2b commerce product around open source technologies resulting in a 7-figure deployment cost reduction. Drove development of ebook fulfillment web service suite that reduced client integration timelines by 60%. Led effort to develop and integrate a book scanning and OCR workflow platform with Microsoft’s ebook portal. Relevant technologies include Java, JBoss, Oracle, PHP,.Net, SQL Server and Linux.

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

Led development and deployment of new sales information management solution. The platform delivered workflow for field sales personnel, providing interactive planning capability by geo-locating prospect businesses on a map of sales territories. Solution significantly improved sales force efficiency by reducing planning time and improving outcome tracking. Led efforts for the development and deployment of a contribution/donor management system which tracks and processes contributions to political action committees and foundations managed by NFIB. Product automated several manual activities resulting in improved tracking and efficiency. Realized high six-figure reduction in development and deployment costs through strategic use of open source technology. Implemented a hybrid agile development methodology that produced a 100% hit rate for committed to delivery dates. Relevant technologies include Java, JBoss, Oracle and Linux.

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Responsible for design and development of the company's Radiology Workflow product. Led efforts for version 2 re-platform, responding to product’s increasing demand and scalability needs. Engineered adaptation of early EJB technology that allowed distributed clients to access server imaging data. Worked closely with infrastructure group to optimize production environment for deployment of software. Managed development of distributed J2EE based Radiology Scheduling and Billing application. Streamlined database access and caching strategy. Supported business development by traveling with sales to prospect and evangelize Evolved software solutions. Managed efforts to bring products to HIPAA compliancy with respect to security and auditing. Improved development process by instituting code reviews, release cycles and configuration management. Implemented continuous analysis and review of database access layer performance to improve efficiency and scalability.Relevant technologies include Java, JBoss, Oracle, Unix and Linux.

Developed a real-time eligibility verification application for healthcare providers, significantly reducing patient wait times for procedure approval.

Online, Us

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, International Business

Bs Business Administration, Information Systems