Gary Doughty Email & Phone Number

Houston, TX, US

Houston, TX, US

Houston, Texas, US

Westfield, NJ, US

• Provide executive direction for all technology-related initiatives, including customer-facing and internal web site development, delivering consulting services for outside partners, managing physical and cloud hosting.
• Directed requirements gathering, design, and development of new functionality for SkyAuction’s various web sites, private label sites, and internal fulfillment systems. Conceived new features to automate business.
• Designed and led development of custom interfaces to external systems, including credit card processors, accounting systems, CRM systems, cruise lines, hotels, airlines, shippers, and travel insurance
• Migrated entire production infrastructure to a new hosting facility and hardware platform, and then subsequently to an entirely cloud-based hosting solution, saving over $250k a year.
• Founded the Houston office by leasing office space and hiring all technical staff. Supervised, coached, developed, and mentored technology staff to build a highly effective and productive team of professionals.
• Managed relationship and projects for external consulting clients, including developing and supporting custom-developed web sites including multiple that were localized into many different languages.

• Responsible for all technical aspects of the SkyAuction.com web site, fulfillment site, and related hardware, software, and IT infrastructure.
• Performed day-to-day project management of all technical and business issues related to SkyAuction.com web sites, including new feature delivery and support and maintenance.
• Designed the architecture for all SkyAuction.com system components in order to maintain a consistent, reliable, scalable, and maintainable system.
• Served as the technical lead for all developers, IT support staff, and third party providers.
• Analyzed all new business requirements and technical proposals for the site.
• Acted as system administrator and Oracle DBA for all of the SkyAuction.com related systems.

• Led the technical development effort of a team of up to 10 people through a completely new implementation of an Internet auction site, SkyAuction.com as well as through additional development phases. The site was.
• Business requirements analysis: Gathered and documented business requirements for implementation of the public auction site and both customer and travel agency online fulfillment system. Responsible for making sure.
• Development of Java classes and EJBs utilizing JDBC, JTS, JMS, and other Java technologies.
• Leading all database model design and data migration from multiple database systems including Postgres and flat files.
• Solaris and Linux hardware installation, configuration, system maintenance, and development of site management scripts.
• Code reviews and performance reviews of team members.

London, GB

• Consulting assignments:Assumed technical and management roles in multiple full life-cycle implementations of SAP and related interfaces at Fortune 500 companies.MONSANTO COMPANY, January 1999 – April 2000:
• Served as technical architect of an IBM MQSeries-based message passing transaction system to support development of over 70 interfaces between SAP systems (on Unix) and legacy systems on Unix, VAX (VMS), IBM MVS, and.
• Managed team of interface and report developers.
• Wrote design specifications and developed SAP interfaces in ABAP/4, VB, and C.
• Collected business requirements and used them to reengineer sales and distribution processes.
• Taught SAP technical design, business process concepts, and computer science concepts to team members and non-technical client members.UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION (acquired by Dow Chemical), January 1998 – December 1998:

Redmond, Washington, US

• Member of Windows NT Distributed Systems Group Development Team:
• Designed and led all performance and stress testing of Microsoft Index Server and produced a comprehensive report of the software’s performance characteristics under different hardware setups and types of loads.
• Performed competitive analysis between Index Server and other products in the market.
• Designed and prototyped a web-based system administration function that was consistent with other Windows NT components.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Member of the Windows 95 Networking Group Development Team:
• Designed and developed parts of the Infrared Communication System for Windows 95 using Visual C++.
• Developed and maintained all code relating to setup of infrared components, including user interface design (hardware setup wizards) and all device detection, enumeration, and installation.

• DSC Communications was acquired by Alcatel in 1998, which subsequently merged with Lucent in 2006 to form Alcatel-Lucent.Member of Wireless Products Group:
• Participated in object-oriented design and development of calling card and 1-800 number system using C++ on Sun workstations.

Dallas, TX, US

• Member of Semiconductor Group Information Systems Team:
• Developed, updated, and provided worldwide customer support for custom software which tracked semiconductor components and printed barcode labels. Applications were written in Microsoft C++ and assembly for MS-DOS.

Mba, Finance, Entrepreneurship

Mcs, Computer Science

Ba, Computer Science, Economics