Dan Smith Email & Phone Number

United States

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Lead the product development of EY Capital Edge, a real-time data, analytics and collaboration platform which supports M&A engagement teams throughout the entire transaction life-cycle, for buy, sell and restructuring transactions.

1930 Camden Road Suite 200 Charlotte Nc 28203

Lead the development of Quaero’s flagship product, AdVantage, an advanced consumer data management and analytics platform designed to drive digital marketing and advertising. Responsible for the entire software development life-cycle of the platform – product management, architecture, design, development, testing, release management and support. Integrally involved in the design and development process, authoring, reviewing and auditing key technical designs and functional specifications as… Show more Lead the development of Quaero’s flagship product, AdVantage, an advanced consumer data management and analytics platform designed to drive digital marketing and advertising. Responsible for the entire software development life-cycle of the platform – product management, architecture, design, development, testing, release management and support. Integrally involved in the design and development process, authoring, reviewing and auditing key technical designs and functional specifications as well as hands-on development when needed. Also responsible for the research and evaluation of new technologies, including proof-of-concepts. Key decision maker in all “build versus buy” decisions. Co-author of two patents (pending) on the topics of 1) continual identity resolution in digital marketing and advertising and 2) auditing the lineage of consumer data transformations.The AdVantage platform is optimized for big data analytics, and incorporates technologies such as Hadoop, SQL Server, Netezza, Redshift, S3, Spark, SAS and R. It includes a responsive, single-page web application (SPA) written in angular, JavaScript and vis.js. Focus in digital media and entertainment (primary), consumer packaged goods, and financial services industries (secondary).Note: Advantage has since been re-branded as "Quaero Customer Data Platform (CDP)". Show less

Lead the development of Conclusive's customer data management and advanced trigger marketing platform, which earned a finalist position in the Blue Diamond awards for "Best Information Technology Innovation" in 2007 and contributed to substantial growth for the company, ultimately leading to its acquisition. Responsible for architecture and design integrity of software assets, including oversight, hands-on development and delivery. Also responsible for sales and professional services support… Show more Lead the development of Conclusive's customer data management and advanced trigger marketing platform, which earned a finalist position in the Blue Diamond awards for "Best Information Technology Innovation" in 2007 and contributed to substantial growth for the company, ultimately leading to its acquisition. Responsible for architecture and design integrity of software assets, including oversight, hands-on development and delivery. Also responsible for sales and professional services support and business requirements development. Integrally involved in the integration of products and technologies from three companies post-acquisition.The Conclusive platform included a master data management framework for customer data integration, and a Single-Page Web App (SPA) user interface. It also included a built-in analytics engine, which performed transaction pattern evaluation to detect statically abnormal behaviors that were then used to drive retention and up-/cross-sell. Focus in financial services (primary), health care, life sciences and automotive industries (secondary). Note: Synapse Technology was acquired in November 2006 and the combined companies became Conclusive Marketing in May 2007. The company has since been acquired by OneMagnify. Show less

Lead designer and developer for several client-server applications for the financial services industry, specifically in the area of high volume, check processing automation through hand-writing recognition technology; all developed using an object-oriented, framework-based approach and written in C/370 (MVS), Smalltalk and Java.Also participated as member of a SWAT team, performing onsite installation and training of the software as part of an early install (beta)… Show more Lead designer and developer for several client-server applications for the financial services industry, specifically in the area of high volume, check processing automation through hand-writing recognition technology; all developed using an object-oriented, framework-based approach and written in C/370 (MVS), Smalltalk and Java.Also participated as member of a SWAT team, performing onsite installation and training of the software as part of an early install (beta) program.Published two IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletins.Identified for IBM’s Technical Resource Program.Note: This position was part of the Payment Solutions division of IBM which was later acquired and is now part of Fiserv. Show less

Developed software on OS/2 and VM/SP platforms to support large system (S/390 mainframe) design and simulation.Received two IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards.Identified for IBM’s Technical Resource Program.

Bs Electrical Engineering, Focus In Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi, The Engineering Honor Society Graduated with honors.

Graduate Work In Advanced Object-Oriented Design And Design Patterns (Not Part Of A Degree)

Advanced Object Oriented Design Patterns