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Cambridge, MA, US

• Led software development projects for Nevo clients, including product management and full development lifecycle, from concept to launch to ongoing enhancement/maintenance.
• Responsible for technical design and hands-on coding for most projects.
• Sourced, pitched and won multiple new clients. Managed client relationships.Project examples:
• Designed and built a content management system for a company providing investigative research to traders, government agencies and other customers.
• Conducted needs analysis and created framework for incrementally replacing an intellectual property management system for a major university.
• Provided architectural review of a platform for creating custom Jacquard woven fabrics in small volumes.

Providence, RI, US

• Acted as interim CTO and product lead for startups at various stages, including:
• Platform connecting sales and marketing data providers with Salesforce, Oracle, MS Dynamics, Marketo, etc. Helped close seed funding by creating initial technical architecture and supporting materials to present to.
• Virtual retailer offering full collections from high-fashion designers. Provided technology audit and recommendations. Led offshore development team. Improved communication between that team and company leadership.

Brooklyn, NY, US

• Led 75-person East Coast engineering team, including software engineers, architects, QA analysts and systems engineers. Responsible for recruiting, training, and retaining top talent; ensuring high-quality, on-time.
• Consulted on technology strategy and oversaw successful delivery of dozens of software projects, with budgets from $500k to $5mm, for clients of Huge's Brooklyn headquarters. Clients included AARP, Comcast, MassMutual.
• Championed lean/agile approaches to product development, both internally and with client organizations. Coached client technology and marketing teams in transitioning to iterative, adaptive processes.

• Provided software development and architecture services for a client in the search industry.
• Planned and prototyped migration into AWS of an application driving a $300 million/year business.
• Advised on design and implementation a high-availablity RavenDB implementation.
• Created Chef recipes and CloudFormation templates to automate AWS deployments and server configuration.

• Designed and led development of the CMS running nbcnews.com, today.com and other NBC News sites, serving billions of pageviews to 10s of millions of visitors per month, with 60% fewer servers than previous system.
• Wrote an MSMQ-based service bus for all cross-process communication, handling 1000s of messages per second per machine.
• Created APIs and tools used by numerous teams that increased their productivity in developing NBC News sites and features.
• Simplified management and troubleshooting by creating a central UI to modify app configuration, caching TTLs, logging levels and data replication settings across all apps and data centers.Led development of the 2010 US.
• Received updates from internal election database and made them available to all NBC News sites and apps.
• Handled 100s of millions of views and ajax/app requests in a 24 hour period.

New York, NY, US

• Responsible for and delivered projects representing over $4 million in annual revenue. Exceeded all revenue and margin goals. Pitched and won business with both existing and new clients.
• Managed full development life-cycle of multiple projects for Nestlé Waters North America. Rearchitected the Home and Office Delivery web sites for Poland Spring, Arrowhead and 4 other brands, allowing customers to sign.
• Implemented 30+ localized versions of web sites for The Regus Group.
• Supervised 6 developers, conducted performance reviews.

• Provided software development services to a variety of clients, including a digital asset management vendor, a summer camp service provider, and a data management firm in the eyewear industry.• Created an object-relational mapping framework for.NET.

• Designed and built highly personalized website for teaching English and Romance languages, including an XML-based CMS used to publish thousands of curriculum modules for 6 spoken languages in multiple formats.• Built email subscription management system supporting millions of subscriptions, co-branding, personalized content and ads.•.

• Launched the first websites for Variety, Broadcasting & Cable, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal.• Managed full development life-cycle of numerous projects, including integration of online and print subscriptions across internal and third-party databases.• Hired and led team of 7 developers.

• Co-founded b2b website for book publishing industry, featuring book reviews from 7 publications, nationwide searchable author tour listings, and Yahoo-style directory of thousands of book-related sites.• Grew business from 2 to 20 employees.• Acquired by Cahners Business Information, October 1996.

US

• Produced presentations for Fortune 500 clients.• Spent evenings and weekends developing the initial software for BookWire.