• Site & Systems Architecture, Data Model Architecture• Team Planning & Budgeting• AI Rapid Development Consulting• Developed several proof-of-concept SaaS products including an AI based website builder

• Built-out and managed agile development team• Architected back-end for FinTech product• Pivotal role in creating company culture, policies, and communication style• Technology used: Linux, Apache, Mysql, ReactJS, PHP, AWS, Redis, ElasticSearch

• Built-out and managed agile development team• Designed & architected the product UI, backend, and databases• Technology used: Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP, C/C++, AWS, Redis, ElasticSearch, ReactJS• Company raised over 5m in funding during my tenure as CTO

•. Key leader in helping Tradesy become one of the most successful startups in Los Angeles.•. Helped grow the company from zero to 100 employees, including 30+ member tech team.•. Architected an enormously scalable infrastructure that allowed Tradesy to grow very quickly, achieving a month over month growth rate of 10% to 30%.•. Was the de facto head of HR for the first 2 years of the company.•. Key role in defining and creating a great company culture whose primary tenants are ownership, honesty, drive, and kindness. This combination allowed Tradesy to truly thrive.• Company raised over 30m in funding while I was co-founder and CTO• Created extremely agile tech team from scratch• Architected fast, scalable web platform that enabled Tradesy to grow quickly• Was the de-facto head of HR for first two years of the company• Deeply involved in creating a company culture of personal ownership, responsibility, honesty, mutual respect, and support

• Managed 3 high volume websites with over $1 million dollars in revenue per month, more than1 million monthly visitors, and $1 million dollars each month in SEM spend. Maintained almostperfect uptime (4 nines) for over 6 years.• Responsible for the technology of all web sites, servers, infrastructure, internal systems, databases, reporting systems.• Managed the development & maintenance of an SEM System that handled traffic for four Cars.com sites in addition to clients like Ford Direct as an SEM agency.• Grew the technology team from 5 to 16 people; including developers, QA, DBAs, and system administrators.• Worked with and guided tech managers in creating processes for data redundancy, system architecture, recruiting, networking, release processes, version control, and team standards.• Leadership role and input into all aspects of the business including SEM, site production, office management, and sales processes.• Managed multi-million dollar tech team budget; including personnel, Capex, software, office expenses, training, travel, conferences.• Lead the system integration efforts for over 40+ business partners (traffic sources, lead buyers, lead sellers).

• Architected new version of high volume sales lead system that increased ability to resend and reprocess leads; increasing revenue by more than $40k per year.• Created fail-over versions of production web sites and implemented real-time replication to back-up all databases.• Hardened systems (21 Linux servers) to be much more secure.• Performed data analysis for marketing, business development, and sales teams and gave actionable recommendations based on the information found. • Increased efficiencies across the business by creating monitoring and alert systems that would catch issues early.• Architected and managed the development of an internal job candidate tracking system.

Open-source application programmer, php, perl, system administration, mysql database administration.• Architected and built several large-scale web sites for outside clients.• Architected and built an online survey (questionnaire) system for Epson.• Investigated and solved complex database and web server configuration issues for clients resulting in web site performance gains.

• Architected and implemented new features for toystogrowon.com.• Created data transfer system used at over 50 retail stores that ensured that all store transactions were accurately and consistently sent to the head office.• Rewrote legacy data import system, speeding it up by over 40%.• Added coupon functionality and business logic to retail cash register software.

• Managed and maintained high-volume web site that lets consumers “Rate” online merchants. This survey system is one of the highest traffic sites on the internet.• Architected a new version of the survey system to be much more flexible, dynamically swapping in new questions based on what the consumer answered earlier in the survey.

• Configured device drivers and operating system for factory installation of Toshiba PCs.• Wrote installation and configuration scripts for factory installation of Toshiba PCs.