Team oriented technology leader with broad technical experience. Extensive background in the full development lifecycle including dynamic languages, JavaScript frameworks, SAAS architectures, cloud hosting and multiple databases products. Focused on success through mentoring, strong team dynamics, agile processes, business analysis and state of the art technology best practices. Successfully lead and participated in the launch and re-launch of multiple complex B2B and B2C web platforms for startups and multi-national corporationsJoined Knowledge to Practice in the VP of Engineering role during a transition period and implemented significant improvement across the product and technology stacks. Some of the key areas included evolving the agile processes, architecture improvements, implementing dev-ops and eCommerce platform changes and transitioning the tech team to a more business driven team focused approach.Provide technology and management consulting at Precidix LLC focusing on software development and technology platforms for EdTech, eCommerce, data analytics and on-line marketing businesses. Managed all aspects from ideation to production for the SagenceLearning's Competency Based Education SAAS platform. Played keys roles in the product strategy, software architecture, development and cloud hosting of the leading-edge competency based learning software. Managed technology at Flat World Knowledge. Rearchitected and migrated the hosting of their disruptive textbook publishing platform, moving functionality from PHP/Drupal to Rails, and positioning company for significant growth. Upgraded hosting environment to a highly scaleable cloud-based solution. Managed technology and operations for QualityHealth's assorted consumer platforms from 2002 to 2009. During tenure at QH, completely rearchitected and migrated a highly manual process intensive PHP system to a fully automated Java J2EE direct to consumer marketing and analytics platform. The site collected and analyzed complex self reported consumer health data.Prior to joining MTS, founded the web development firm Catalytic Architects LLC. Catalytic built team collaboration and automated testing ASP tools, and did technology consulting for such major e-commerce clients as J.Crew, Kaplan and Scholastic.Received BS in Engineering and BA in Economics from Swarthmore College. MS in Computer Science from Columbia University
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