Byron Halbower Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco Bay Area

Parsable gives human work a digital edge in an increasingly automated world. Companies like Corteva Agriscience, Daher, Georgia-Pacific, Heineken, Shell and other global companies rely on Parsable’s mobile-first Connected Worker Platform to empower their industrial frontline workers with modern digital tools, and measurably increase productivity, quality and safety across their operations.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Responsible for managing the QA and Development teams that support IDG's internal CMS and customer facing websites. (pcworld.com, macworld.com, javaworld.com, computerworld.com, etc.)• Cut staffing costs significantly by interviewing and hiring offshore teams.• Managed local teams, remote teams, and consultants.• Responsible for working with product managers to scope the development efforts of large projects, providing delivery estimates, and working with the DevOps, QA, development, and project management teams to deliver predictable, high-quality releases with mature SDL.• Led the evaluation of 3rd party solutions and managed the migration of outdated internal platforms onto modern 3rd party systems.• Managed the migration of on-prem infrastructure to multiple cloud hosting providers. (AWS & GCP)• Led engineering teams to implement GDPR compliance for 12+ websites ahead of the May 2018 deadline.• Led engineering teams to improve page load times of our customer facing websites by implementing page speed optimizations and the use of HTTPS and HTTP/2.

Emeryville, Ca

• Played a vital role in launching Archetype Solutions’ clothing brand indiCustom and Archetype’s clothing recommender engine zafu.• Developed several versions of a web based custom clothing configurator UI in Flash, DHTML and jQuery with Ajax running on a J2EE platform as well as a Groovy and Grails platform.• Responsible for the design and maintenance of the company’s client facing website as well as Archetype’s corporate and customer websites.• Rewrote companies J2EE web application running on IBM Websphere with a DB2 database backend to use Groovy/Grails running on Tomcat and JBoss with a Postgress database backend.• Integrated indiCustom.com with many third party APIs.• Created web services to allow communication over HTTP with Archetype’s multiple website.• Worked with Archetype’s graphic designers to convert Photoshop creative to web ready graphics, HTML, and CSS.• In charge of supporting Archetype’s legacy application written in ColdFusion.

San Francisco Bay Area

Worked for 15+ years as an IT consultant and project manager providing high-end IT training, systems trouble-shooting, programming, design, and course development and training services to top Silicon Valley companies and governments. Played vital role in expanding Executrain’s West Coast presence as the premier IT training company. Grew revenues from 500K to 5M, and expanded from one office to 12 locations on the West Coast. Positions held: IT Manager, Consultant/Trainer, Network/Database Administrator, Database/Web Developer.