Gary Doughty Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

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 infrastructure, and IT strategic planning and implementation.• 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 processes, increase efficiency, reduce errors, and save manpower. Collaborated with CEO and COO to implement business process changes within the organization.• 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.• Evaluated and approved procurement of all computer software, hardware, and technology services.• Maintained and administered all IT infrastructure, including servers, networking hardware, and software located in production hosting facility, cloud hosting services, development sites, and office locations.

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.• Developed major components of the system in Java, PL/SQL, and various scripting languages.• Advised and supported management and IT support staff on any technology-related decisions.

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 implemented using Java, JSP, J2EE, BEA Weblogic, and Oracle 8i with a 3 tier architecture running on multiple instances of Solaris web servers, application servers, and database servers.• 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 that technical design met all of the business requirements.• 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 Windows NT.• 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:• Used business requirements to design and develop code in SAP to process incoming or produce outgoing EDI transactions for specific business processes.• Developed mapping logic for EDI transactions.• Coordinated all testing of new EDI transactions between Union Carbide and over 60 external vendors.• Managed contractors and employees assisting with EDI interface program development and testing.• Responsible for teaching SAP technical concepts, business processes, and EDI methodologies to client personnel learning to support the EDI interfaces.Consulting practice management and related activities:• Wrote performance reviews for employees working under my direction.• Acted as a technical and career mentor to a number of employees.• Screened resumes and interviewed technical candidates.• Planned SAP learning events for the Saint Louis office.

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 systems.

Mba, Finance, Entrepreneurship

Mcs, Computer Science

Ba, Computer Science, Economics