•Design of robust technology solutions for companies in Publishing, Non-Profit, Advertising, Public Relations, Pharmaceutical, Hospitality, Education & Real Estate •Focusing on CMS, DAM, CRM and ERP implementations

•Management of ALL technology resources including internal and external digital operations for high profile publishing/web environment with New York Family Magazine,Avenue Magazine, Dan’s Papers and Latin Trade•CRM systems migration in 3 months integrating sales, print, digital and back-office•Management of 30 off-shore development teams•Development of Real Estate solutions for NY and Hamptons clientele•Vendor Management and Contract negotiations for all Infrastructure and Digital Operations•Business continuity and disaster recovery assessment and implementation•Web-Site development with full LAMP stack Agile development environment with robust E-commerce capabilities —increasing web traffic 20% year over year to 4 million annually•App development across android and ios with react and angular.js•Database development and data mining with in-depth analytics of 1.5 million subscriber database•Back office systems migration & redesign for entire sales team across 4 companies with international offices.•I.T. staff development and training of 15 in-house technologists•Overall technology budget development and forecasting•Hosting and disaster recovery utilizing Amazon webservices•Custom website design for Real Estate, Events, Hospitality and Home Services industries•Mergers & acquisition tasks for incoming and outgoing properties

•As part of Cerberus Capital Management Mergers & Acquistion team placed as interim Director of Technology tasked with defining strategic direction of all technology resources across digital, print, sales divisions. Subsequently hired on as VP of Technology after 3 months•Management of all technology resources including internal and external digital operations for high profile publishing/ web environment with •CRM systems redesign with Salesforce in 6 weeks.•Upgrading entire network, desktop, telecommunications and storage infrastructure Including remote offices and production facilities.•Contract and vendor negotiations creating 1 million in immediate savings in 3 months•Business continuity and disaster recovery assessment and implementation•Migration of Web-Site Content Management system to Vignette. • Complete re-design, development and launch for Maxim.com, with 20% increase & 7 million monthly unique visits.•Digital Asset Management system implementation with Artesia/Media Manager. Full integration thru design, development and launch for repository for over 1M asset spanning 12 years of Photo, Video, and other content types. Developed international strategy for exchange of content with revenue streams totaling 250K annually.•Back office systems redesign with Oracle financials.•I.T. staff development and training of 12 technologists•Website hosting and intrusion detection and security assessments•Overall technology budget development and forecasting to management and board members on quarterly basis.

•Responsible for all aspects of technology developmentfor a staffing company experiencing explosive growth. Managed staff of six IT supportpersonnel and various external programmers and developers with a budget of 2 million.•Opened 4 offices in Seattle, Los Angeles, Syracuse, and London in 4 months, growing from 80to 160 employees while expanding operations in New York, San Francisco and Orange County.•Implemented financial back office migration from quick books to Microsoft Dynamics in 3months while process re-engineering external to internal payroll for bi-weekly processing of800 freelance and internal employees.•Designed state of the art video conferencing system utilizing Life Size products with animmediate cost savings of 500k annually.•Architect of high-speed fault tolerant WAN architecture connecting all offices telephony,internet, and other technology resources with complete off-site disaster recovery environmentin Syracuse.•Redesigned 24 Seven’s websites in a PHP/SQL framework. In addition to developing self containedcandidate application utilizing .NET, AJAX, Cold Fusion, SQL and OLAP framework.•Developed internal Intranet as central repository for Marketing, Human Resources, andInformation technology needs. Incorporated Digital asset management system.•Enhanced business intelligence reporting for management/recruiters thru development of dashboarddata mining applications utilizing Qlikview, SQL reporting, and Bullhorn CRM system.•Created internal employee HR self-service environment utilizing Microsoft’s Business Portal,Dynamics, and Share Point.•Upgraded all hardware and software in Microsoft environment to

•Reported directly to CFO/COO of a premier Omnicom advertising agency. Responsiblefor all aspects of technology development and support including budget planning, vendor,negotiation and staffing. Managed annual IT budget of $1 MM with 8 direct reports.•Served as one of seven members on IT steering committee for Omnicom worldwidedeveloping global technology standards, creating a savings of $20 MM in centralizingsoftware and hardware initiatives for over 60,000 employees worldwide.•Redesigned network infrastructure with hands-on approach to incorporate latest email(Exchange 2003), server technologies (Windows 2003, Linux, Solaris, OSX Server/RAID)wireless devices (Blackberry), firewall security and network architecture (Cisco)•Defined company IT policies and procedures for supporting multi-platform Mac and PCenvironment consisting of latest Windows XP/Mac OSX workstations and Windows/Linux/OSX servers.•Migrated and implemented Great Plains accounting system for the•Implemented video conferencing and telecommunications solution utilizing Polycomand Avaya/Cisco VOIP, creating an instant savings of $100k annually while improving newbusiness presentations and day-to-day client interactions.•Defined IT security polices and procedures for infrastructure and security while adheringto latest Sarbanes Oxley directives. Managed quarterly technology audits.

•Successfully launched a new content-based web site for the empowerment of Hispanicwomen in the same genre as ivillage.com and oxygen.com. Designed and developed stateof the art website architecture with $5MM budget serving over 20,000 users. Site waslaunched within a four month time period.•Hired and supervised 30+ staff of programmers, developers and other internal technicians.•Built 24/7 data center server farm supporting high-end Sun-Unix and Windows platformshosting Oracle databases in a redundant Cisco network architecture.•Responsible for all aspects of technology development and support including budgetplanning, vendor negotiation, staffing and client interaction.•Given full leadership, negotiating and decision making responsibility for creatingtechnology plan and overall success of establishing additional sales channels, co-branding,and sponsorship opportunities. Presented technology point of view during businessdevelopment and media related activities•Created loyalty and incentive programs boosting user activity and registration. Utilizedlatest CRM based technologies such as Siebel, Delano, and

•Led the design, development and execution of four major internet/intranet sites.Handled all aspects of team development, requirements documentation, contractnegotiations, software development and network design that supported successfullaunches, solid functionality, and strong performance. Contributed to profits totaling$5MM. Award winning IKEA.com•Successfully pitched new business and served in all aspects of presentation andproposal writing while handling all vendor and contract negotiations with major hostingand communications providers.•Developed strategic client strategy while identifying latest technology solutions for multipleInternet and interactive projects such as IKEA.com, Christian Dior, Tanqueray.com, Bank ofAmerica and many more.•Managed multifunctional teams while developing technology, business strategy, andbudgeting overall site construction for clients.•Introduced new technologies and created a competitive advantage for those companies.•Developed innovative technology solutions to integrated marketing problems. Project cyclesranged as much as one year for IKEA.com, a multi-faceted complex site, to two monthsfor a project such as Christian Dior.•Recruited trained and developed a staff of up to 10 technologists (programmers, designersand developers) in NY. These sites incorporated various database (

•Reporting to CFO and Donny Deutsch. Given full strategic planning, leadership anddecision-making authority for building the entire IT department and network infrastructureof the only privately owned top ten advertising company through accelerated growth from150 to 500 personnel while adding remote office in Los Angeles.•Maintained budget and technology resources of up to $2MM agency-wide includingremote offices in Los Angeles.•Constructed and maintained LAN/WAN network in NY and LA offices utilizing Novell,Windows, and SCO/UNIX server operating systems. Supported multiplatform workstationsand servers (UNIX/PC/Mac) as well as outsourced media buying services.•Recruited trained and developed a staff of up to 10 support personnel and technologistsin NY and LA•Established help desk support procedures while training new creatives