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Irvine, CA, US

Orange County, California, United States

Santa Ana, CA

• Startup company providing logistics and distribution services to Enterprise California manufacturing clients. Directs technology expansion and transformation allowing the company to move to the next level as a major.
• Serving as executive in charge of technology and information systems.
• Designed distribution system, which automatically tracks inventory and prints state agency required labels, ensuring full compliance for clients with stringent state regulations while achieving substantial saving in.
• Architected a node.js and Vue.js system controlling real-time inventory compliance, tracking, and burn rate that supports continued company growth.
• Applied IoT sensors throughout greenhouses to track growing conditions in real-time ensuring optimum yield to maintain a competitive posture in an aggressive industry.
• Developed node.js/express web service platform connecting accounting books with the company's proprietary WMS system for more efficient accounting operations with the company's 27 different entities.

Santa Ana, CA

• Provider of global logistics services for mobile communication, lifestyle brand, and transportation clients. Oversaw all technology planning, sourcing, and development. Automated internal operations. Supervised.
• Founded and managed an automated, global distribution platform for a major client using the current reusable technologies and requiring millions of lines of code. Platform captured a Fortune 500 contract and added 26%.
• Technical liaison with enterprise client executives, including Yamaha, Sprint Mobile, Oakley, GoPro, Boost Mobile, and over 50 other large corporations.
• Reverse-engineered proprietary, undocumented legacy platform involving 250K lines of code to arrive at the concept for a replacement system; then brought operations in-house to save substantially in monthly vendor costs.
• Web service integrations with 27 APIs including SalesForce, Okta, AWS, Avalara, Pitney Bowes, 3 WMS systems, WooCommerce, Shopify
• Founded AI functionality to forecast inventory depletion and replenishment through R code machine learning.

Santa Ana, California

• Distributor of nutritional supplements. Recruited to transform outdated social presence, platform, and fulfillment system and support company growth. Full Information Technology (IT) and technology oversight for all.
• Led design, development, and implementation of modernized ordering platform to better highlight product uniqueness, enable customers to locate information, and place orders with greater ease, while allowing the company.
• Migrated 212 database tables from legacy to new the platform without significant interruption or customer complaints.
• Integrated ordering and logistics platforms with full automation that used handheld scanners, allowed fewer employees to pick orders faster, and cut labor costs while providing the capacity to meet growing sales.

St. Louis, MO

• $30M telecommunications company serving 52 cities across US. Navigated through a series of promotions from Software Engineer to Lead Technology role; directed all technology planning, development, and implementation..
• Cut $900K (45%) from annual telephone costs by negotiating better carrier contracts and introducing new technologies.
• Built a CRM to quickly and accurately track client history and enable the company to meet the growing demand with the best service.