Gerald Taylor Email & Phone Number

Irvine, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

I lead the teams responsible for reporting, analytics, and characteristics for our portfolios of funds. Lead for cloud migration architecture and strategy. Developed a Lake House Application pattern for my applications resulting in the elimination of a legacy datastore. I maintain a global team and support business partners across the world.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Led the teams in charge of the infrastructure, platform, UX, and support of our public facing websites and some intranet applications. Strong relationship builder across the organization. Improved efficiency with less resources in labor, both associates and contractors, and external expenditures. Security leader for Marketing, Sales, & Digital, kept on top of latest security trends, led all pen testing and remediation/patching efforts. Leader in cloud adoption and exploiting cloud technologies. Influencer on third party product enhancements and seeing them to fruition. Career coach and mentor. Utilizer of automation and insight tools to reduce infrastructure and labor costs.Co-led the migration to AWS. First major production application to go to AWS at CG.

Woodland Hills, California, Us

Created the Irvine satellite office for support of Orange County customers. Started with a single person and grew the office to eight people in a company that has approximately 30 employees. Lead architect for the VF Digital Platform, a single code base for all of VF brands. Successfully launched on time the new Vans.com on the VF Digital Platform. Subsequently, helped launch Timberland.com on the platform one year later, with TheNorthFace.com and JanSport.com shortly following.- Managed directly the Vans and Toshiba accounts, immensely improving relationships.- Hired, mentored, and developed the Irvine team to achieve maximum utilization rate.- Project manager on all VF projects and scrum tasks. Used 10,000ft resource planning to ensure proper prioritization and allocation of resources and respective projects and tasks. Reviewed utilization weekly and planned resource utilization from as little as one week up to 12 months.- Head ambassador between Zobrist and other third party companies VF and its brands hired. Managed relationships to act as a single team.- Lead technical sales, project estimation, and worked with the sales team to improve upon our business development strategy.- Liaison between IBM Toronto Labs and Zobrist.- Lead agile and scrum development. Followed a formal scrum process including daily scrum meetings, retrospectives, demos, and sprint planning.- Reviewed and addressed all security scans prior to code deployment and participated in annual security training.- Designed, architected, and wrote the award winning Smart Merchandiser, a visual merchandising tool for IBM WCS.- Integrated third party solutions into the VF platform including Adobe Experience Manager as a CMS, Power Reviews, Zurb Foundation for responsive web design, Akamai, and Scene7.

Us

Lead the strategy, design, deployment, and growth of 11 e-commerce sites with peak revenue of $111M. Technical lead for drop ship integration with Channel Intelligence. Head of marketplaces and all related activity. Chief Architect in all e-commerce design and development. Integrated the Sears marketplace.- Manage all e-commerce development and its integration into the back end system.- Oversee a consulting group who manages our marketplaces’ product selling to ensure all KPIs are met.- Lead in application and network infrastructure and its stability. Oversee a consulting group to ensure performance and reliability of WCS. Key decision maker in a team that configures our software, hardware, network, job scheduling, security and all access rights permissions.

Us

Architected all of Ritz’s e-commerce properties utilizing IBM WebSphere Commerce Suite. Maintain high availability, transaction, and scalability of all sites. Project manager for all development. Review all merchandising and marketing functions and define best practices in use of technology. Identify any shortfalls in job duties and solve them with better tools or automation. Integrated with the marketplaces for Amazon, eBay, and Buy.com increasing product exposure. Proficient in the use of AJAX and jQuery for Web 2.0 applications on e-commerce sites and administration tools. Ensure all sites are compatible in every major browser and smart phone.- Integrated various pay types such as credit cards, gift cards, Google Checkout, international checkout by Fiftyone/E4X, Bill Me Later, and PayPal.- Well versed in the best SEO methods and technologies including designing all URL rewrites.- Integrated Endeca as our search and refinement solution along with its SEO module.- Integrated customer reviews via Power Reviews as well as their In-Line SEO solution.- Architected our caching solution within DynaCache and F5 BIG-IP WebAccelerator.- Wrote a DataFeed tool that automatically FTP’d product data to various affiliates. This allowed new affiliates to be setup within minutes vs. days it would take IT to integrate one affiliate.- Wrote tools to enable merchandising to manage and grow SKU count from 3k to over 125k in a matter of months.- Integrated current use of Google Analytics, but have also integrated Coremetrics in the past.- Designed all custom tables, triggers, views, and indexes within IBM DB2; some that modify, extend, or reference the WCS DB2 schema. Lead successful technology initiatives when merging the online with brick and mortar. Strategized the merging of online sales of hard goods and soft goods.- Cross channel integration that included a find in store widget as well as ship to store capabilities.- Integrated Sales Tax with the use of Vertex.

Laguna Hills, Ca, Us

Top developer managing and mentoring a team of developers on a per project basis. Worked directly with clients. Delegated all changes between myself and a team of coders. Offered support as technical sales when required.- First in the company to start the e-commerce integration strategy changing the direction of what the company specializes in. Moved away from corporate static site development and into B2C and B2B commerce solutions including a custom built CMS. This grew the company’s revenue greatly and the largest expansion the company has experienced. Eventually led to its acquisition by Interpublic Group (one of the "big four" global advertising agency companies).- Learned the new platform IBM Net.Commerce and knowledge-shared amongst my team. This included learning the IBM proprietary language Net.Data without instruction. Webserver setup and management on WindowsNT/Windows2000 and Solaris using IIS or Domino Go webservers.- Original development of RitzCamera.com, BoatersWorld.com, OuterBanksOutfitters.com, ePuck.com, and scitechbooks.com.

Irvine, Ca, Us

SEO strategist targeting home automation related keywords. Promoted smarthome.com and techmall.com in major search engines and online communities.- Achieved #1 ranking in major search engines for top home automation keywords.- Design specific webpages targeted at product keywords to increase visibility in search engines to drive traffic and increase conversion.- Early adopter of SEO tactics in a new space and able to have our pages rank above our competitors in over 90% of targeted keywords.

Master Of Business Administration

Bachelor Of Science, Information And Computer Science