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New Providence, Nj, Us

New York, Ny, Us

-- Leading the development of a two-sided marketplace for print and out-of-home media advertising.Overseeing product architecture and engineering strategy, ensuring scalability and security in the AdTech platform.-- Building relationships with publishers and marketers to drive adoption and foster trust within the marketplace.-- Shaping the company's technical roadmap, leveraging innovative technologies to meet market demands.

New York, Ny, Us

-- Manage an enterprise-scale IAM system serving over 1.1 million users, providing real-time identity provisioning, synchronization, and secure access across 28 schools.-- Oversee authentication services, including CAS (Web SSO), Duo Multifactor Authentication, and Shibboleth Federation, supporting over 900 web applications.-- Lead the administration of Active Directory Central, provisioning 100,000 users and synchronizing access to critical servers, desktops, and applications.-- Direct integration of IAM systems with physical security infrastructure, managing 3,844 card readers and 6,207 video cameras via Lenel.-- Drive compliance and risk management efforts, ensuring adherence to institutional, state, and federal security standards.-- Implement advanced monitoring and event correlation using tools like Sumo Logic to enhance system reliability and security.-- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative IAM solutions, aligning technology initiatives with the university’s strategic goals.-- Provide strategic leadership to the IAM team, fostering innovation, scalability, and a strong culture of security.

Paris, Paris - Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Fr

-- Partnering with clients to help them implement their IT solutions.-- Responsible for sales revenue, gross profitability, and client relationships with customers in NY/NJ/CT.

Alpharetta, Georgia, Us

Managing Principal, Professional Services, Agilysys-- Responsible for managing the Professional Services organization for Agilysys, a $677M publicly traded company.-- Nationwide services organization specialized on the delivery of multi-vendor hardware and software solutions (Sun Microsystems, IBM, HP, Oracle, Cisco, EMC, Symantec).-- Led business development efforts with sales teams to sell more professional services.-- Responsible for reviewing/signing authority for services contracts.-- Directed the organization to develop skills, solutions, certifications and sales collateral to enable greater growth of our services revenue.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Architect / Lead Developer-- Reference Data Manager – Developed a web based system to maintain the reference data for the processing of internal/external data. System was developed using reusable Tapestry web objects.-- Logging Engine – Developed services that import vast quantities of disparate data from many external systems into an aggregated database. This nightly run process enabled the data to be processed and analyzed from one source, streamlining the creation of reports on this information. Technical Details:• Development frameworks: J2EE, EJB, Oracle 9iDB, BEA Weblogic, Hibernate, Struts, Tapestry• Creation of reusable data services interfacing a Hibernate object relational persistence layer.

Specialized in custom software development of Java / Spring / Hibernate applications for businesses in the Financial / Medical / Services Industries.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Architect / Technical Lead / Project Manager-- eComp – We saved Lucent many millions of dollars by automating their annual and quarterly merit and bonus systems worldwide. Prior to the eComp system, Lucent did all corporate wide merit and award planning on excel spreadsheets dispersed to managers throughout the company. eComp automated Lucent’s compensation process by allowing managers to use web based self service applications to plan within prescribed budgets. eComp tied directly into PeopleSoft and Payroll systems, eliminating manual processes.-- Services Link – We streamlined the process of acquiring jobs, quoting and fulfilling services to 3rd party companies such as Verizon and Bell Atlantic. All communication between systems is XML based on pub-sub EAI and B2B message buses. This application increased the efficiency of Lucent’s business processes and customer communications. Key Features included:• Adherence to international and country specific regulations• Instant access to how compensation dollars are being spent world wide.• Headcount reduction due to elimination of manual systems.• Improved manager’s ability to understand and manager retention issues. Technical Details:• Development frameworks: J2EE, Load-Balanced Apache/Tomcat, Oracle 9i DB, Oracle 9iAS, Ant, Bugzilla.• Coded to the J2EE framework with extensive use of tag libraries and style sheets.• Developed real-time communication with vendors via B2B gateway and synchronized with SAP.• Engineered XML framework for communications with different systems and published DTDs.• Stored procedures, triggers and real time data replication synchronized db with PeopleSoft.• Applications compiled via ANT into EAR file and deployed on Oracle Application Server.

New York, Ny, Us

Senior Architect, Technical Infrastructure - International Private Client Group-- Portal Architect on Global Expansion Project to deliver a worldwide portal infrastructure for Merrill.-- Guided development groups in best practices for developing portal web applications. Technical Details:• Componentized and Integrated existing web applications into portal architecture.• Developed re-usable web services to be used across a variety of web applications within Merrill Lynch.• Developed J2ME mobile application with Sun Engineers to provide access to backend services.• Performed installation and sizing of Oracle 9i Portal and Plumtree Portal.

Architect / Technical Lead / Java Developer-- Led team of Java developers to produce web solutions for companies internationally.-- Developed wireless applications for Doctors & Hospital Admin to deliver patient records/room vacancies.-- Worked with Sun Engineers as a beta tester for iPortal Server. Technical Details:• Integrated iPlanet Portal and EJB Application servers with existing architecture. • Participated in seminars at Sun Microsystems’ campus in Menlo Park, CA.• Led team to deploy e-Commerce product using Apache/Tomcat/Jonas under SuSe 7.0.• Performed technical interviews and budget analysis to build development team.• Implemented solutions using Java Servlets and JSP with Oracle databases.• Developed web portals for medical institutions built upon an ASP business model.

Architect / Software Developer-- Designed and implemented an n-tier SQL Server based mortgage loan processing system.-- Implemented Java Servlets to allow customers to perform real-time financial transactions over the Internet. Technical Details:• Utilized XML to pass information from server to server and to web applications.• Tasks included developing or modifying DCOM components on all tiers using VC++ for the out-of-process servers, Visual Basic for the thin client presentation layer and stored procedures on multiple SQL databases.• Developed JetForms interface and Crystal Report Batch Printing system to allow for producing forms for a Fax Server, Email Server or Network Printer.

Executive Masters In Business Administration

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Engineering

Management Of Technical Professionals, Executive Management