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About Catalyst Education:Founded by a passionate group of higher education science educators and technology leaders, Catalyst Education builds powerful digital teaching and learning software. "Make instructors the hero" is our mantra. We have built a cloud native learning platform called Labflow. This powerful lab focused platform saves lab-teaching.

New York City, NY, US

About Mamillan Learning:Through deep partnership with the world's best researchers, educators, administrators, and developers, we facilitate teaching and learning opportunities that spark student engagement and improve outcomes. We provide educators with tailored solutions designed to inspire student curiosity and measure progress.- Building scalable.

- Building great cloud-based STEM educational platforms for students and instructors. - Leading multiple teams in New York and Austin to deliver homework, assignment and exam systems that are the delivery channels for the many brilliant pieces of content created by our faculty to teach future engineers and scientists.

• Building on recent digital marketing and consumer data mining experiences, joined this technology team to provide product direction and technical leadership to launch Uprising’s innovative enterprise and social search.
• Primary software architect and lead engineer for the entire platform - delivered in 8 months
• Delivered platform able to scale for 300,000+ alumni users with initial release.
• Responsible for the deep Google Cloud Platform team relationship and $100K in services funding
• Client feedback – “Wow, we didn’t think it could look this good while being this powerful”Valued deliverables: Complete production-ready platform – data insights engine with enterprise and social data crawlers.

Chicago, IL, US

• Recruited to rebuild the failing and dissolved digital team of this agency. The role is the combination of a CTO/CIO and digital strategist. Rebuilt the team to 12 fulltime employees and contractors that supports over.
• Significantly increased digital revenue to 30% of the total revenues by increasing sales from clients that were compelled by my team’s use of trending user experiences and improved metrics which was only possible.
• Successfully led the completion of the Wells Fargo’s Works website, a small business hub to compete with American Express Open.
• Implemented infrastructure cost savings of $120,000 annually by moving all technology to Amazon’s EC2 platform and Google Apps
• Rebuilt the digital team, which now has the claim of highest resource efficiency and lowest attrition rate of the whole organization.
• Primary software architect for agency’s unique cloud based content management system and led team to its deliveryValued deliverables: Proprietary content management/inventory system, UX wireframes and designs.

Chicago, IL, US

• Founded Venturality to leverage my extensive expertise in technology and infrastructure to develop outstanding web products for clients. A careful balance of revenue and technology goals led to 7 years of success. My.
• Sold and managed > 2.5MM in revenue during my proprietorship with the help of 6 loyal employees.
• Created roadmap for all technology and personally designed/developed all core technologies for product delivery.
• Early adopter of cloud strategies resulted in the funding and building of Venturality’s cloud infrastructure and provided value-add service for its clients
• Realization of deficiencies of current web development platforms led to the funding and building of a robust content management system that would continue to be used by Imagination and its clients.Valued deliverables.

• Co-founded and bootstrapped Incworx, an IT consulting company returning to my enterprise foundation and expertise. My roles and responsibilities included chief software architect, and client technology advisement and.
• Company was generating 500K+ in annual revenues within 2 years.
• Responsible for creating one of the first web-based barcode WMS platforms in partnership with Symbol Technologies.
• Provided first introductions, roadmap and best practices for.NET, Microsoft’s then-new application development and delivery platform for the client roster, while educating decision makers and leading technology staff.

• With a passion for digital media, founded and raised seed capital for this technology startup. 2ClickMedia focused on consumer and enterprise streaming video services. 2ClickMedia developed the streaming distribution.
• Wrote initial business plan and acquired 1.5MM in seed funding.
• Delivered initial prototype of MPEG4 based set-top box to compete with Tivo.
• Early adopter of Texas Instruments DSP technologies for hardware based MPEG4 encoding and decoding to provide a technology edge from upcoming competition.
• Developed many of the underlying MPEG and streaming technologies to be first to market
• Distilled research and technology progress for the investment board to demonstrate success to maintain funding

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US