Eric Back Email & Phone Number

Nassau, New Providence, The Bahamas

As CTO, I provide sound technical leadership and direction across all business lines, including overall responsibility for designing, managing and delivery of innovative proprietary software products, management of the engineering team, evaluation/selection of strategic integration partners, and researching emerging technologies to support the business needs of our rapidly growing organization.-Lead the strategy for technology platforms, partnerships and external relationships-Represent the technological agenda in staff meetings and when making hiring decisions-Identify, compare, select and implement technology solutions to meet current and future needs-Develop, track and control the development of annual operating and capital budgets for purchasing, staffing and operations-Assist Chief Information Officer in managing and optimizing infrastructure assets to satisfy internal and proprietary software platform needs-Create overall technology standards and practices and ensure adherence-Track, analyze and monitor technology performance metrics-Oversee all system design and changes in system architecture-Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in the technology landscape-Take the initiative in thought leadership, innovation and creativity-Work closely with Business Development and Operations to bring new products to market, communicate product roadmap and deliver upon key milestones

Greater Milwaukee Area

Greater Milwaukee Area

-Brand building and strategy-Market research and messaging-Executing to a business plan-Bootstrapping on the most limited budget imaginable-International business, fulfillment and logistics-Photoshop, illustrator and more illustrator-Facebook advertising and strategy-PHP, MySQL, CSS3, SASS, javascript-Built custom tools in ASP.NET MVC + Entity Framework, IoC (Ninject), Bootstrap

Greater Milwaukee Area

Full time software engineering role in Omni’s Solutions Group department. Engagements range from single developer to large, cross functional scrum teams. Fast paced, action-packed software consulting. (Sampling of projects below.)Project: Architect replacement platform for existing custom marketing automation platform-Create plan to migrate suite of 22 applications/modules to modern architecture-Designed modern architecture to replace aging portions of existing platform and allow integration of third party applications-Developed custom SSO module for seamless experience across all new applications-All new applications and infrastructure must work with existing legacy platforms-Implemented dev ops process using TeamCity for continuous deployment to test environment and promotion to productionTech Stack: AngularJS Frontend + Angular Material, NodeJS/Express Backend, ElasticSearch 2.X, TeamCity, Protractor (e2e testing), LogEntries (streaming log service), MSSQL SSISProject: Pinterest, but for outdoor adventure with streaming video-Mobile first SPA with video/image uploading, processing and sharing-Implemented Pusher for notifying browser when videos were finished encoding in Azure Media ServicesTech Stack: Angular 1.X, NodeJS Backend, Azure Media Services, Azure Mobile Services, Stripe (Payment Processing), Pusher (Messaging), Grunt, Bower/NPM, Bootstrap 3Project: Sr. Developer at a mid-sized software development company-Augmented to a 15 person scrum team consisting of QA, Design, BA and Developers-All development based on design mockups and detailed requirements from the business analysts-Introduced JSCS/JSLint to the gulp build process across all teams to enforce javascript coding standards during TeamCity buildsTech Stack: Durandal/KnockoutJS, WebAPI 2 Backend, Micro Services, ElasticSearch 1.X, Gulp, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, SeleniumChallenges: Cross team communication was inefficient, which caused cross team/app bugs

Greater Milwaukee Area

-PHP, MySQL, jQuery, Foundation CSS Framework, Wordpress, Entity Attribute Value (EAV Model), MVC, XML, Web Payment Processing-Implemented multinode instance of Magento EE. -Wrote custom Magento Enterprise extensions in XML/PHP-Managed over 50 PPC campaigns across Google Adwords, Microsoft Adcenter, Amazon and LinkedIn increasing year over year eCommerce sales by 44% (Q3 2012).IT Infrastructure-Managed and executed 18 month infrastructure transition & upgrade project. -Setup and configured: Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2, Exchange 2010, Dynamics CRM 2011, ADFS 2.0, SharePoint 2012, System Center Essentials 2010. -Transitioned from a single physical SBS2003 Environment to Hyper-V 2.0 virtual environment-Design and develop Dynamics CRM 2011 implementation plan, custom report authoring and associated business process change management.

Greater Milwaukee Area

-Full life cycle software product development and management of six commercial software products.-Architected software solutions in the highly regulated casino and banking industries.-C#, VB.NET, MSSQL, Oracle, Crystal Reports, SQL CE, .NET CE-Designed & product websites - CSS, PHP, Jquery, MySQL, Javascript-Worked closely with casino management & compliance to meet minimum internal control standards. -Successfully passed products through state gaming control board approvals. -Managed product development process with internal stakeholders, including prototyping, software demonstrations to management and training sales/marketing.-Responsible for managing software product features, development backlog, strategic marketing campaigns and division budgeting

Greater Milwaukee Area

-Completed projects early, developed lasting solutions to customer problems and asked to return to several customers. -VBA script to produce entry forms, manipulate/clean large amounts of data quickly and generate reports. -Worked independently to remotely configure medical imaging equipment for 24/7 remote monitoring and diagnostics.-Utilized strong communication and organizational skills to deploy engineers throughout the country to configure equipment IP addresses and ensure equipment was network ready.-Promoted to a more technical position working with client IT managers to setup VPN connections.

Greater Milwaukee Area

-Interview new candidates and coordinate filling of open job orders-Manage leads and sales activity in a high volume sales operation.-100 sales connects per day, 10 client visits per week