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Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Beginning in 2012 assumed responsibilities for Platform Architecture and Requirements authoring, in a team of 3 reporting to the principal analyst. Responsibilities of this team involve working with teams worldwide to take business priorities and create architectural vision encompassing information architecture, application architecture and technical.

Assumed full responsibility for discovering useful metrics in the usage data of our online publishing platform, measuring performance, user demand, and quality of response.

At the end of January 2009 I completed, with much help from other open-source programmers, the first draft of Release 1 of Andromeda - a database productivity tool with a radically different approach than other frameworks. Motto: The easiest fastest way to get it done, get it right.

Lead system architect on Blue Cherry, an ERP package for the apparel industry. Primarily responsible for flow of work, programmer productivity, overall quality control. Also did optimizations and programmer training.

Redesigned entire production cycle for managing and querying marketing databases. Replaced mainframe processes with pc/server processes. Largest accomplishment: reducing a 6 week manual process to an overnight automated process requiring only 30 minutes of setup.