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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 potential investors. Interviewed and recommended the first three engineering hires. Advised new team lead on architecture, platform, tools.• 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, increased delivery throughput.

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 delivery of all projects; and maintaining profitability of technology services provided to our clients.• 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, Sonic Automotive and NYU Langone Medical Center.• 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 election results service.• 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.• Reduced latency between receiving results and display on all pages by 50% over previous years.Radically improved deployment capacity and reliability.• Wrote the first fully automated deployment process in the company, reducing deployment time from 3 hours to 10 minutes.• Enabled an increase in deployment frequency from twice a month to 6-8 times a day.

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 up for service and manage their accounts.• 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.• Responsible for all technical operations, software development and vendor relationships. • Hired and led team of 14 developers and operations staff.

• 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.

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