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Launched a new consulting company in 2013 focused on software development and technology consulting. Built a large local and national client base and provided excellent service and delivered premium software products and systems to our clients.Ahoy Consulting is a software development and information technology and engineering systems consultancyFull product lifecycle production/development of dozens of application and backend systems for local and national clientsProduced and launched multiple iOS and android mobile apps into marketplaces, ranging from simple recipe apps and data collection kiosk styleapps to games and social media appsCustom built, and integration with a complete range of e-commerce configurations spanning from simple crowdsourcing collection systems and t-shirt sales to sophisticated membership and product sales systems and complex accounting systems tied into popular commercial accounting packages.Systems development and integration expertise in claim processing and medical billing, electronic document generation and lifecycle oversight, inventory management, and varying types logistics and fulfillment scenarios.Workflow and process optimization, through the development of scratch built modules as well as integration into many popular CRM and workflow systemsProject management, auditing, code review, and technology and systems assessmentsEngineering life-cycle testing and production streamliningProduct development, marketing and deployment strategies, market penetration and user adoptionInfrastructure architecture/design, implementation, monitoring and managementInformation security architecture/design and deployment, monitoring and management

Spatial networks is a geospatial engineering and consulting firmMigrated all production and staging systems to Chef Systems Integration FrameworkBuilt suite of performance benchmark and stress testing toolsDevelopment of geospatial data warehouse using MongoDB and Postgres under a ROR applicationDevelopment of subscription and data inventory management system, tracking and versioning digital assets and deliveryRuby/Rails development on several other customer-facing software-as-a-service applicationsArchitecture and deployment of distributed application and database servers in AWS cloud environmentMigration to completely re-written e-commerce backend, integrating multiple software offerings into a unified revenue colleciton and accounting systemOverhauled/replaced internal network and security systems including firewall, VPN, and site-to-site replication

Responsible for company-wide team of pre/post sales systems engineers, resource allocation, training and vendor certification. Increased revenue and nearly tripled the business division. Responsible for selecting best-of-breed technologies in the IT space, establishing and building partnerships with these hardware / software manufacturers, and developing a value-proposition and go to market strategy.GCA is a national VAR (Value-added reseller) with 7 locations in the US.Report directly to CEO as trusted member of executive team influencing focus on core business competencies and future directionCreated customer product and service delivery model including installation and implementation methodologies, ensuring customer satisfaction and repeat businessManage technical team responsible for large demanding customer base as well as company-wide national IT support and infrastructure systemsSuccessfully developed and deployed configuration management procedures, disaster recovery, information security and numerous other improvements for internal IT systemsSpearheaded large migration to cloud based services and virtual desktop, reducing budget impact and shifting costs from CAPEX to OPEXDeveloped numerous ground breaking marketing strategies using social media and other web 2.0 technologies directly targeting technical customer baseDeveloped plan to move ailing training division back into profitability leveraging open-source technologies and engaging the local technical communityCreated major process improvement initiative to drastically increase re-useability of code and documentation effortsRe-design and implementation of billing, hard and soft asset deployment tracking and accountingDesign and implementation of SugarCRM implementation an integration into existing CRM systems and internal toolsDeveloped new business plan, revenue models and extensive market research for outsourced IaaS/PaaS division

Member of local post-sales support team on all Sun products for customers in the west central Florida region. Local service advocate for key Sun customers. Senior level Sun hardware and software engineer.Sun Microsystems, Inc. ( now Oracle ) is a company selling computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services.Responsible for local service level agreement delivery for Sun customersManaged customer support expectations ensuring systems availability while reducing time-to resolution effortsCreated a positive view of service efforts creating a fertile environment for the sales team to increase Sun footprintProvided real-time feedback to the sales team of “conditions on the front” to arm them with information to ensure successful sales strategiesResponsible for facilitating customer relationships with support and providing advice and assistance to internal Sun employees on diverse customer situations and escalated issuesDeveloped automated process for generating customer report information, leveraging modified internal toolsNumerous root-cause analysis and advanced troubleshooting success storiesRegional leader in advanced storage systems deployment and training

Co-founder of a high-tech startup, and helped to develop groundbreaking interactive television technology. Helped craft a unified vision of application and user-interface, marketing strategies and strategic company wide vision. Directed development, integration, architecture, and deploymentMember of executive staff, formulated emerging strategy and market integrationResponsible for company wide IT infrastructure and cable system integrationArchitected hardware and software development environment for set-top and back-end developer staffContract negotiation and technology partner relationsBuilt early B2B e-commerce system with direct integration into accounting systemManaged trade-show deployments and industry marketing/positioning

Rapidly rose through the ranks at GTEDS with increasing responsibility, from programmer and systems administrator to team lead and department manager. Worked on many extremely high-visibility projects and was actively involved with planning and contributed to their ultimate successGTE Corpor at ion (Now Verizon) was the largest of the "independent" US telephone companies during the days of the Bell SystemDepartment manager responsible for development environment and all test-dev environments under the AWAS and AAIS project teamsKey player responsible for the hardware and software architecture during the development phase of AAIS which is now a core critical business system for VerizonSenior technical team lead for the field trial of high-visibility commercial product. Spent 5 months in Germany ensuring the integration and operation of POC systems with foreign customers legacy systemsInstrumental work done around UNIX system performance tuning and data migration from legacy mainframe application to UNIX based open systemSenior lead engineer responsible for the pre-production roll-out of the AAIS system nationwideSoftware development on numerous projects using C, C++, JavaOracle, Informix, and DB2 database administrator dutiesSun Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, and IBM AIX system administration