Worked on DVR-in-the-Cloud solutions for the next generation IPTV.Managed development for the new X1 platform, specifically around DVR-in-the-Cloud solutions for the next generation IPTV.Managed on-site, off-site, off-shore teams taking the customer base from 20,000 to 1,000,000 in an agile software development environment. Total of 19 developers and QA.Delivering new functionality to the product while re-architecting for dramatic scale, keeping existing APIs intact and adhering to the established SLA. Designing solutions to deal with legacy interfaces (set-top boxes) and cloud-based recorders making tens of thousands requsts/second.Enabling hot-hot deployments across multiple datacenters. Providing 24/7 secondary production support.Technologies: Cassandra, memcached, RESTful services, Java, Spring, Jetty, HAProxy, SOA, (open version of) Amazon SQS

A&F, the teen apparel retailer, has a centralized homeoffice in New Albany, OH running everything from garment design and IT operations to warehousing and fulfillment.Track, research, evaluate and execute new solutions and technologies as they mature in the market and apply to the retail industry.Understand established and emerging IT architectures (SOA/ESB, virtualization, Cloud, Mobile, NoSQL, Big Data, etc…) and making recommendations on incorporating appropriate emerging architectures into the A&F Enterprise.Oversee the evaluation and selection of software products, and the design of standard software configurations.Oversee that system architectures meet the required scalability, reliability, testability, and flexibility required for A&F’s global 24/7 footprint.Educate the IT teams on best practice architecture design patterns for IT systems and document architecture standards and design patterns for A&F IT.

Bullhorn is a software-as-a-service provider targeted to the staffing and recruiting industry. It is a web-based front office solution. It serves over a thousand companies on a true SaaS platform.Managed team of 18 software and quality engineers.Responsible for delivering customized work-flow solutions and back office integrations to new enterprise clients in a scalable and maintainable fashion.

Managed team of 10 developers from coaching and mentoring through code reviews and hands-on debugging and bug fixing. Championed the adoption of Agile, managed load, composition and direction of 3 sprint teams and acted as a scrum master.Established release and no-downtime deployment processes and performed ongoing production support. Architected production setup supporting millions of transactions daily in a horizontally scalable manner, eliminating single points of failure in a single datacenter infrastructure.Technologies: Java 6, Hibernate, Spring, SOAP/REST WebServices, JMS, Redis, Lucene, JBoss, Tomcat, SQL Server, MySQL, ColdFusion, JRun, Flex, Javascript, Amazon EC2.

Banta Internet Solutions was a professional services agency specializing in custom built, hosted web sites with an emphasis on web marketing, web to print, fulfillment, and CRM applications. Client list included Hewlett-Packard, John Deere, United Healthcare Group, Kaiser Permanente, BestBuy, Nine West and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.Managed team of 15 developers on-site/off-shore and a 4 person operations team for 24/7 support. Reviews, development planning, goal setting, coaching, hiring, and firing.Architectural design decisions and directing projects during development through production support.Responding to RFPs and proposing and justifying capitalized investment in the hosted infrastructure and platform.2000-2005 Technical Architect/Software Engineer/Team LeadWriting SOWs and performing requirements gathering, and responsible for delivering solutions on time and on budget.Analyzed, designed and priced projects, wrote functional specifications, coded and led team of developers.Full life-cycle support and maintenance; from server up-time to database management and tuning through application support.Technologies: Java 1.4, EJB 1.2, xdoclet, JBoss, Tomcat, Python, Perl, Linux, Solaris, Oracle, MySQL, Apache Webserver, HTML and various home grown tools

Research in pure mathematics.Teaching duties.