Key Accomplishments:1) Digital Transformation Leadership: Led the enterprise architecture strategy for a large-scale digital transformation initiative, modernizing legacy systems and migrating critical platforms to the cloud. Reduced operational costs by 20% while improving system reliability and scalability for over 1 million users.2) Cross-Functional Leadership: Directed teams across product development, DevOps, InfoSec, and infrastructure, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals. Fostered a culture of collaboration and innovation across global engineering teams, improving time-to-market by 15%.3) Strategic Influence: Partnered with the C-suite and key stakeholders to develop long-term architectural strategies that aligned with the company’s growth objectives. Established a cloud-first strategy, enhancing security and regulatory compliance (GDPR, PCI) for global operations.4) Scalable Architecture: Spearheaded the implementation of microservices architecture, improving scalability and performance of key applications. Reduced system downtime by 30% and optimized resource utilization through efficient cloud resource management.Impact:1) Successfully transformed the company’s technical infrastructure, positioning Advantage Solutions as a leader in innovation within the sales and marketing space.2) Enabled business growth by ensuring the architecture could scale with customer demand and new market expansion.

Key Accomplishments:1) Architectural Leadership: Defined the overall architecture and strategy for multiple business units, ensuring seamless integration across eCommerce, AdTech, and consumer marketing platforms. Delivered a unified architecture that supported a 15% increase in traffic and revenue.2) Cloud Strategy Implementation: Designed and led the migration to a hybrid cloud architecture (AWS/Azure), improving system resilience and reducing infrastructure costs by 18%.3) Cross-Business Collaboration: Collaborated with business unit leaders to align architectural initiatives with business priorities, delivering solutions that enhanced marketing effectiveness and customer engagement.4) Performance Optimization: Implemented a comprehensive performance monitoring and optimization framework, leading to a 25% improvement in application response times.Impact:1) Played a critical role in transforming Ingram’s architecture, creating a future-proof foundation that supported business agility and growth.2) Drove alignment between technical architecture and business strategy, ensuring that solutions delivered measurable business impact.

Key Accomplishments:1) Leadership in AdTech Innovation: Led the design and development of OptiQly's core AdTech platform, optimizing digital advertising strategies for the publishing industry. This resulted in a 20% increase in sales conversion rates for clients.2) Scaling Architecture for Growth: Built the architectural foundation that supported OptiQly’s rapid growth, ensuring the platform was highly scalable and reliable. Led the implementation of a microservices architecture that reduced infrastructure costs by 15% and increased system uptime to 99.9%.3) Business and Technology Alignment: Worked closely with the CEO and product teams to align technical innovation with business growth objectives. Led technical due diligence for strategic partnerships and acquisitions, ensuring seamless integration of new technologies into the platform.4) Innovation and Strategy: Developed the long-term technical strategy that positioned OptiQly for acquisition by Ingram Content Group, playing a key role in the due diligence process and negotiations.Impact:1) Drove OptiQly’s technical success, enabling the company to scale rapidly while delivering cutting-edge AdTech solutions.2) Positioned the company for acquisition by building a reliable, scalable platform that aligned with business growth objectives.

Key Accomplishments:1) Digital Transformation for the Arts: Led a major digital transformation initiative at Lincoln Center, integrating new digital technologies into the campus to enhance guest experiences. Implemented an interactive, customer-centric web platform that increased online engagement by 35%.2) Cross-Organization Collaboration: Worked with 11 performing arts organizations to create a unified digital experience, integrating their performances into an intuitive platform. This enhanced the overall customer experience and increased online ticket sales by 15%.3) Technology Leadership: Directed a 12-person engineering team, ensuring the integrity and performance of critical enterprise applications (e.g., Tessitura, ArtsVision). Developed a long-term digital strategy that modernized the Lincoln Center’s IT infrastructure.4) Innovative Solutions: Introduced next-generation technologies, including real-time event streaming and interactive media, that significantly elevated the digital presence of Lincoln Center.Impact:1) Positioned Lincoln Center as a leader in digital innovation in the performing arts industry.2) Improved operational efficiency and customer engagement through strategic digital initiatives.

As the Director of Development / Engineering, I utilize strong engineering management and technical competencies to set objectives, develop strategies, and provide direction and leadership to the engineering team; Strong communication skills, innovation, teamwork and customer success are the fundamental metrics of success I am measured against. As a Director at CPX, I provided visible leadership for the company within the technology community, along with establishing technical standards and ensure adherence to them for product development and company operations.Much of my time was spent on anticipating and reacting to major technology changes to ensure the maintenance of company leadership in the competitive ad-tech landscape. Big Data Responsibilities: responsible for the overall big data strategy within CPX Interactive, establishing, from the ground up, the entire Big Data Stack. Oversee all the different big data initiatives going on within CPX - crafting and managing standards data operating procedures, data accountability policies, data quality standards, data privacy and ethical policies as well as being able to understand how to combine different data sources within CPX with each other. Enforcing radical transparency about what sort of data is collected and for what it is used.The Data Engineering team maintains our data pipeline, which processes over 8 terabytes of data generated from serving 10 billion ads, and these numbers are growing rapidly. We process this data on a stack that includes Hadoop, MemSQL and Amazon AWS clusters for “Big Data”, creating aggregated analytic reports, making ad campaign budget updates and driving optimization engines.

Leverage the power of digital technology & marketing to drive new customer acquisition and engagement opportunities. This highly visible and highly accountable role requires a unique combination of skills, experience, and marketing acumen. Key Responsibilities* Digital Evangelism. Use your digital passion to help spread the word to clients and prospects – and be a key piece of our business development process to drive new business opportunities. * Know the Customer. Embrace inner data-geek to understand customer behavior, develop new customer insights, and drive new targeted marketing opportunities. * Careful Counsel. We all know clients can sometimes be difficult, arbitrarily changing their minds and timelines. You’ll use your consulting / agency life-lessons to deftly lead client engagements and become a trusted advisor for the client. * Entrepreneurial Energy. You have that extra gear that most people don’t. Use it to move at a high velocity to stay ahead of our clients and to continually drive new and innovative ideas. * No More Silos. Use your digital passion and experience to help clients integrate marketing strategy across digital channels – email, website, social, search, mobile, and display. * Staying Hip. Digital is constantly changing – to stay at the top of our game, we need to continually monitor current digital trends, new technology solutions, and competitive strategies – and then translate into new marketing ideas for clients.

With proven success to reconcile the needs and limitations of business and technology stakeholders, as the Sr. Systems Analyst / Technical Lead, I identify and define enhancements to existing ColdFusion and Perl based business systems and processes as well as develop business cases on new developments; experience with the key technologies that are utilized in the prerequisite of managed services for functions such as, monitoring, automated mitigation, and reporting. Also, educate business users on product implementation requirements and customization options and ensure business decisions are appropriately executed during implementation; demonstrating leadership in an effort to convert tactical and strategic business objectives of business execs into actionable items to achieve the collective business goals. Competencies include, but not limited to, the ability to present information, analysis, ideas, and positions in writing in a clear and convincing manner, the aptitude to communicate verbally in a clear manner to technical and non-technical audiences, the capability to manage multiple projects at once and the talent to build working relationships with team members, customers, vendors and business users – utilizing Project Management Institute (PMI) standards and SDLC best practices. Technical Knowledge: an advanced knowledge of the system interfaces with the business operations FO-MO-BO work-flow and a solid understanding of the corporate and departmental information system strategies. Agile and Project Management: able to coordinate testing activities with other teams within the company; aptitude for setting priorities and making decisions by using the general guidelines established by management; provides management with necessary time reporting information as required. Financial Awareness: designs and tests systems and/or system changes accurately to maintain and/or reduce operating costs for the company.

The Senior Applications Analyst provide overall leadership, management, and expertise in Pearson’s technical operations, with heavy hands-on ColdFusion, Perl and Unix Shell Scripting. Responsible for measuring, monitoring, and improving the performance of Pearson’s sales force technology, in addition to, providing the Sales & Marketing teams with visibility into program status; capacity management and coordination of load-testing activities with testing teams; support planning; initiatives and recommendations to proactively increase application stability and improve the business experience; Project Management: change management and execution of maintenance window approval process; as well as review of future projects for supportability and operability; work with vendors and key internal stakeholders to minimize network outages and drive process improvements; application monitoring, fault resolution, post-mortem analysis; generation of methods / procedures for troubleshooting and resolving issues; estimation of time and cost for deploying new functionality and enhancements; Manage onshore and offshore resources, coordinate and participate in activities associated with Tier 2 Systems / Application Support. Hands-on lead in medium to large projects dealing with the application lifecycle and the process improvement.

SR. APPLICATION DEVELOPER / TECHNICAL LEAD - Jan 2004-July 2005* Lead ColdFusion Developer on the following four major projects* Managed a team of 5 technical specialist* SDLC: heavy focus on incremental, iterative work cadences to ensure compliance to current business goals* Responsible for setting the strategic direction and allocating resources in the ongoing website strategy and redesign efforts. * Responsible for the installation, configuration, deployment, architecture and administration of multiple RDMS* Established and implemented policies and procedures for LAN usage throughout the organization