Senior Architect And Co-Founder
Destination Rewards (Now Deluxe)
Plymouth, Mi
*Successfully grew IT solutions for a new company starting with just 5 people and growing it to 180 employees and $30 Million per year revenue offering web-based marketing solutions for Citigroup, Delta Airlines, Capital One, and many other Fortune 500 companies.*Built development teams and infrastructure for enterprise J2EE applications in a wide range of industries including banking, utilities, travel, and marketing.*Built and mentored development and systems support groups from company beginnings to an IT team of over 30 developers, system technicians, designers, team leaders and project managers.*Developed solutions for electronic payment systems, credit card processing, ghost card processing, and on-line travel booking systems.*Implemented secured integrated capabilities with Fortune 100 financial, air travel, and utility companies. *Technologies included J2EE, EJB3, Service-based Architecture, XML/XSD, JAXB, Jboss and Apache in large-scale clustered solutions, Linux, VMWare, Clustered MS SQL, Fortigate and Cisco firewall and switching products, Sterling Commerce NDM, HTML/CSS/Javascript, and several others