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Pittsburgh, PA, US

Pittsburgh, PA, US

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

Lead technical architect and creator for multiple large scale contracts. (non-public)Azure Cloud, ReactJS, NodeJS, Azure Cosmos Mongo and Gremlin, Azure Batch, Python, Azure Container Registry, Azure Kubernetes, Azure Cognitive Search, Azure Storage Containers, Azure Data Factory.

• Creator of EMDR.HEALTH, a commercial HIPAA compliant tele-health peer-to-peer video conferencing solution as a tool specifically targeted for therapist to conduct EMDR therapy online/virtually.
• Implemented complete system as a SAAS based application using Amazon Web Services utilizing AWS RDS, AWS Code Deploy, AWS Elastic Container Service, Application Load Balancers, Route 52, and AWS Amplify.
• Main user experience s implemented as a ReactJS single page application using Redux and React Router. Implemented a REST API layer using NodeJS and express framework.
• Built and implemented the complete video conferencing application using WebRTC streaming video protocol, COTURN for secure TCP/UDP relaying, and Web Sockets (socket.io) for peer-to-peer communication signaling.
• Integrated with Stripe for secure payment processing for monthly subscription-based payments, Twilio Sendgrid for email communications/marketing, and Sentry.io for error notification and debugging.
• Conducted professional consultation services for areas of healthcare billing/claims, information security, technology process development, and ERP system build out.

Boston, MA, US

• Led all aspects of the development of an industry leading SAAS platform product line for marketing teams that enabled the creation of content at scale.
• Major functionality included workflow management, ideation, payment processing, numerous CMS integrations, reporting and analytics collection, automated search engine optimization, and numerous API integrations with.
• Responsible for all technology departments including Engineering, Quality Assurance, Product Management, Operations, and Corporate IT.
• Technical stack composed of Java app servers, clustered databases/replicas, Solr search services, Scala batch jobs, Apache Spark, REST API’s, I18N (14 languages).
• Led the creation of Skyword’s real-time personalization product line that utilized artificial intelligence using algorithms such as Alternative Least Squares, Association Rule Mining, and Reinforcement Learning. Built.
• Led the implementation for Skyword’s ISO 27001 information security certification from inception through final audit. Ensured adoption of numerous data security standards and operational practices across the entire.

US

• Primary architect for a large scale social media platform that connected millions of users.
• Platform enabled social media profiles, friend connections, interest groups, and numerous cutting edge social media features.
• Designed and implemented a CPC based advertising engine to monetize social traffic with automated credit card processing.

• Created and implemented a massive cross-merchant shopping search engine service that scanned and aggregated prices and deals from numerous online shopping sites.
• Tracked prices for millions of products historically for trend analysis and automated price drop notifications, coupon codes, and shopping deals.
• Created a customized search engine that incorporated Bayesian Classifier to dynamically determine metadata from product descriptions.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Helped pioneer affiliate marketing on the web.
• Led the design of a massive global internet scale data collection engine that tracked sales in real-time from numerous high profile eCommerce sites.
• Ensured proper coordination and software design of many simultaneous ongoing engineering projects to meet the needs of the business direction.
• Primary architect for the company’s global data aggregation and analytics process that utilized a Hadoop like (prior to Hadoop) architecture to analyze billions of impressions and clicks daily.
• Created an ad optimization feature that utilized Bandit reinforcement learning techniques to dynamically optimize clicks from ad impressions.
• Company IPO'd in 2000 and was later acquired by ValueClick.