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New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Freelancer Worker Management SaaS platform targeting Fortune 1000 enterprise companies enabling organizations to onboard, organise, discover, and pay a freelance workforce totalling 220,000 persons. . Responsible for leading engineering, product, and design teams based remotely and headquartered in London/San Francisco. Successfully attracted globally based talent and fostered a positive team dynamic. . Set and delivered technical and product roadmaps to define enterprise product portfolio, data, and integration strategies to expand SaaS business.. Worked with the leadership team to identify and pursue business growth opportunities and operational efficiencies and consistency.. Increased freelancer and employee user growth and engagement to grow recurring platform and transactional revenue.

Walldorf, Bw, De

. Incubate and develop next-generation social product offerings from concept to prototype.. Define conversational user experience platform and integration strategy between SAP product suite.. Establish technology roadmap and direction toward distributed Microservice-based architecture across Enterprise Social portfolio. Identify emerging opportunities for Enterprise Social and incubate product development and validate business-plans.. Serve as technical evangelist promoting software development best-practices.

South San Francisco, California, Us

Responsible for global engineering teams delivering Social products with a primary focus on SAP Jam ( http://www.sap.com/jam ) with an active subscription base of 34 Million users.

South San Francisco, California, Us

. Responsible for building multi-site engineering organization aimed at delivering core mobile applications across the HCM product suite.. Served to champion, advocate and define the mobile offering and product strategy for SuccessFactors.. Architected and implemented independent mobile applications and extensions framework integrated across the full HCM product suite.. Hired and managed a global distributed engineering team of 15 people responsible for development and quality.. Established engineering best-practices and PDLC.. Successfully delivered native clients for iPhone, iPad, Android, and BlackBerry.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Enterprise social network which enables customers to share, organize, update and receive feedback on business initiatives resulting in an interactive, engaging second generation communication platform. Responsible for championing client services offering and building customer success and support organization with a focus on increased user engagement, adoption, and decreased churn. Conceptualized and implemented social collaboration features of an enterprise micro-blogging product servicing Global 500 companies. . Worked with customers on enterprise adoption and leading best practices initiatives for platform success.. Assisted the sales team in pre-sales and partnership strategy. Accelerated platform adoption for key customers through education and personalized prioritization and platform best practices.. Significantly increased platform engagement by designing and creating a viral experience for a user’s interaction with CubeTree - measured success using a metric driven design.. Worked with third parties on the integration of enterprise and personal systems to surface relevant data in the organization’s activity feed.acquired by SuccessFactors

Architected and developed a Web 2.0 services based technology platform that powers 500K+ user and business created sites through Wiki collaboration and publishing. Named one of Time Magazine’s Top 50 Best Websites of 2007, the platform is engineered around user-generated content allowing users to create and discover social communities.. Responsible for selecting technologies in use by Wetpaint and determining the technical direction of the company.. Experienced in researching, evaluating, and integrating innovative technologies.. Successfully evaluate and manage relationships with external vendors.. Responsible for the sale and adoption of Wetpaint’s services to prospective clients in diverse industries.. Work with clients face-to-face and offsite in gathering requirements and scoping custom feature development and platform integration with existing client systems.. Engineer the technical strategy to support the syndication and distribution of public facing APIs on partner websites such as CBS.com.. Build and manage a high-performance development team while fostering growth and team development through mentorship.. Create effective relationships between cross functional teams.. Recommend and implement an agile development process.. Manage hardware and software infrastructure, source repository, release process.. Evangelized “Wetpaint Injected” - providing publishers with SEO benefits from WYSIWYG based user-generated Wiki content through a basic SSI (Server Side Include).. Performed a pre-sales role for strategic partners and highly influential media contacts and trade publications.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Lead and managed the design and development of Amazon’s merchant services division from inception to completion. As a Fortune 500 company, Amazon’s merchant services partners with businesses such as Target.com, Toys “R” Us, National Basketball Association, and Bombay Furniture.. Liaised and consulted both technical/ business knowledge to senior management, product development and sales teams.. Engineered and managed multiple development and deployment. environments for senior product management and quality assurance. Collaborated with team members to ensure client service levels scaled and performed to the contractual terms.

London, Uk, Gb

Capco provides engineering consulting and managed services for the financial services industry. Responsible for highly configurable financial data-cleansing system re-architecture of a Fortune 100 company. Worked to substantially increase scalability and performance. Successfully improved application throughput by several thousand percent.. Encapsulated business requirements, estimated engineering efforts, and implemented changes to the live systems.. Responsible for building and mentoring an offshore development team spread across multiple time zones.. Recommend and implemented quality assurance best practices and test strategies.. Streamlined the development and release processes while serving as liaison between development and operation teams.

London, England, Gb

Responsible for a multi-tier, distributed, systems re-architecture for the world’s leading online peer betting exchange. Application designed for multiple interconnected International markets of varying currencies, languages, and localized preferences. Projected increase in user volume and desire to penetrate multiple types of markets required a highly scalable, distributable application with programming language independent system interfaces in XML/SOAP.. Evaluated product specification requirements.. Estimated level of design, coding efforts, and- identified project risks and dependencies.. Provided mentorship for developers and team members.. Documented key design concepts, APIs, methodologies.. Designed and implemented dynamic persistence framework written in Java/XML/XSL for frequently changing internal and external product requirements through multi-tier code generation.. Solely responsible for the design and integration of a new real-time, highly interactive betting module within the existing unstructured code base.. Responsible for requirement gathering, development and deployment that resulted in substantial financial return.

Specialized in providing JAVA development solutions for enterprise class applications. . Developed and engineered a high transactional volume, distributed, consumer application for a top 5 rated E-commerce site. . Customizable eCRM Web Service application - to be bundled with commercial J2EE application servers.. Worked with clients in workshops to gather, make recommendations, and encapsulate requirements.. Conducted technical due diligence on large-scale investments for a leading financial services company.. Responsible for architectural best practice, cross-project reusable framework design, application development, mentoring junior developers, and requirement gathering/project management.. Responsible for determining the technical direction, coding standards, and developmental processes (XP,RUP) selected by the organization.

Chicago, Il, Us

Specializes in global IT consulting and systems development for Global 1000 companies. Pioneer in Agile software development processes. . Served as Lead Engineer and Lead Architect on various projects ranging in team size from 3 – 40 people with financials reaching 1 million dollars a month.. Architect/Lead Engineer of a high profile, joint venture, ASP startup - highly customizable, distributed application serving Fortune 500 clients. Responsible for gathering and managing client expectations while leading a small team in the applications development and successful deployment. . Lead Developer/Mentor on E-business/E-commerce/ASP Internet leasing applications utilizing multi-tier EJB architecture.. Successfully deployed large-scale International J2EE financial application for Fortune 500 client. In the client’s 2000 Annual Report the application is credited with providing substantial financial return.. Designed and implemented a controller framework based on the model-view-control (MVC) design pattern to be used extensively in subsequent client engagements.

Ba, Computer Science, Environmental Studies

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