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Current / Past Projects• Style Coalition: Chief Technology Officer• Dressler Consulting: Head of Service Delivery• AliceApp: Agile Coach• Drivewealth: Agile Coach• Conxeo: Technology and Business Alignment• LegacyConnect: Architecture Advisor• Lextegrity: Chief Technology Officer• Trov: Head of Data and Analytics• Lextegrity: Chief Technology Advisor• Major League Soccer: Technology Advisor• Taigan.com: Chief Technology Officer • Artnet.com: Agile and Product Coach• Studio Analogous: Technology and SEO Advisor• Colin Cowie Enterprises: CTO/COO• Napster: Technical Product Manager• Girl Effect: Fractional CTO• Spark Offer: Fractional CTO• The Real Deal: Fractional CTO• EY Strategy Group: Executive Consultant for Technical Due Diligence• VoiceBrook: Fractional CTO & Strategic Technical AdvisorResponsibilities and capabilities• Focused on businesses that need a strategic product technology advisor. I plan their technology strategy, develop their product roadmap and build out their teams and processes for fast deployment cycles and deep business participation.• Proponent, developer and manager of ‘agile methodologies’ for large and small organizations, in many successful web and mobile application launches, providing effective management for complex software projects.• Using the scientific methods of online analytics and marketing, I work with companies to instrument their applications with comprehensive data capture methods, set up reporting systems and help them to interpret the results so they can fully optimize their business.

New York, New York, Us

Zenda business transformation by delivering human insights.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Inspired by tradition, wellthi’s Proprietary Technology will modernize informal social finance traditions. Wellthi couples behavioral sciences + social networking + first-in-class fintech to help financial institutions deepen customer relationships, cultivate lending opportunities and gain unique data insights.

New York, Ny, Us

Style Coalition is an influencer marketing platform representing top lifestyle influencers and advising Fortune 500 companies how to spread their messages in this new medium.Managing a Python/Postres/Mongo platform and providing strategic technology and product leadership in all areas including platform upgrades, technology resourcing, production development, and social media APIS.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Acting as a strategic advisor to bring to market first-of-its-kind software to mitigate corruption and fraud risks cost-effectively, without increasing legal or compliance headcount.

Taigan is an online marketplace connecting designers to the discriminating clientele they hope to reach. The platform provides a trusted environment for savvy shoppers who are tired of navigating a cluttered online shopping environment to find something special. Managing a Ruby on Rails ecommerce platform and providing strategic technology and product leadership in all areas including platform upgrades, technology resourcing, production development, email marketing and conversion analysis and growth.

Colin Cowie Enterprises is a startup with the goal of revolutionizing the multi-billion dollar Weddings market with a digital media and e-commerce platform that brings an established brand to a much broader audience.Managed all aspects of technology and product development utilizing local and remote resources: software, quality assurance, product and design, web, mobile, network, and desktop operations. Executed and scaled business processes including, marketing, web analytics, advertising sales and legal compliance. • Launched a full-featured digital weddings platform with robust content management and digital planning tools.• Designed architecture and selected managed cloud hosting service to support millions of daily page views.• Developed agile processes for managing projects, process and resource allocations.• Provided continuous monitoring and mining of web analytics data to inform business and product decisions.• Created and executed a marketing plan including search engine optimization, paid search, display and discovery networks and social media that resulted in 5x traffic growth. • Executed social media campaigns including a multi-phase contest to promote the platform’s public launch in partnership with the Empire State building. • Developed digital Ad Sales strategy, staffing and operations model to support a $2.5 million revenue target.

New York, Ny, Us

Conde Nast Digital produces 25 award-winning websites including Wired.com, Epicurious.com, NewYorker.com, VanityFair.com, Glamour.com, Style.com and Reddit.Built and operated 25 major brand sites, 40 marketing/special-purpose sites, 10 major mobile phone and tablet apps, 1.7 billion monthly page views & 35 million monthly unique visitors on the major brand sites. • Grew cross-function team from 20 to 70+ full-time staff and contractors.• Introduced Agile/Scrum methodology for faster deployment cycles and deeper developer involvement and participation• Led the first agile development team to rebuild their most popular and oldest website Epicurious.com. All the major features were completed in three months.. • Authored Agile process for product management, project management and resource allocations. • Managed a $12 million department-wide budget including key vendor relationships, reducing the costs significantly with hosting providers, advertising delivery, social media and video platforms. • Led a large scale hosting migration from an internally hosted service to a private cloud based solution saving 4 million dollars a year. • Migrated more than 50 applications from expensive, proprietary systems to economical open source solutions. • Created an agile strike team that delivered 20 Facebook applications in less than one year. These applications generated revenue and added a powerful incentive for clients to close larger deals.• Managed major Web application launches on sites such as Wired.com, Style.com, Concierge.com, Epicurious.com and NutritionData.com. • Led the development of IPhone applications that received multi-million downloads and praise in the press (Epicurious iPhone app, Style iPhone app, GQ magazine reader for the IPhone)

New York, Ny, Us

A leading mobile developer, building cutting edge B2B and B2C applications and services. Managed cross functional teams developing high volume commerce and content portals, ad serving and content management systems, and downloadable mobile applications. • Launched 13 unique mobile applications across multiple platforms. • Developed and designed content management, ad serving and geocoding services. • Created an engineering culture of continuous improvement through the introduction of standards for software management, automated testing and quality assurance.• United disparate cultures and product lines resulting from the merger between 2 startup companies.• Reporting to the CEO, managed teams of 40+ engineers, project managers and analysts.

Developed a deal input system for all company Swap and FX products, and a rule-based system for tracking deal exceptions. Enhanced and supported in-house document management system and managed the port of the primary systems from Unix to Windows Server.

New York, Ny, Us

Designed, developed and supported a scalable data distribution system using a memory resident database for efficiency and TCP and UDP for high throughput. Integrated market data feed handlers for US and International equity, options and future exchanges. The system ran on thousands of Unix workstations worldwide. Also trained developers and systems support.

Toronto, On, Ca

Developed custom reporting systems, user defined query interfaces, and automated feeds for clients to access historical information from financial, economic, and aviation databases.