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Belmont, Ca, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Grow and Lead Engineering, Data, QA and DevOps team to completely rewrite the entire Stitcher Platform and Clients to a modern, scalable architecture. The new infrastructure as code will enable us to grow the customer base by 10x in the coming years.

San Ramon, California, Us

Hire, grow and lead 2 teams to deliver web based applications as part of the Brilliant Manufacturing Suite of products as part of GE’s Digital Transformation and design core architecture for the horizontal suite of manufacturing applicationsManaged International Team of Architects based in Detroit - MI, Budapest, India and San Ramon.Joined various architecture and hackathons to deliver quick POCs to solve for Edge to Cloud data ingestion pipeline. The edge data consists of ERP data, analytics or IOT data streams. The solution must deliver on flexible adapters for different data sources and be robust enough to handle large data volumes to send to the cloud for deep analytics.Designed solution using Event Msg (Kafka) and Postgres/Mysql/CassandraDeveloped solutions using Go, Java, Polymer and Predix UIDeveloped backend solutions using microservices architectureDeployed applications to Cloud Foundry and the Predix PlatformEnsure team collaboration by standardizing communication protocols and toolsEnsure agile SDLC with CI/CD (Jenkins), testing automation and blue/green deploymentsLead and standardized best adoption strategies to apply Google Analytics to web applications using Google Tag Manager and custom Tags.

Calabasas, Ca, Us

As the head of technology at Cafepress, I managed, built and aligned teams from 3 US locations with the focus on internal/partner integration, budget management, and team deliveries for our High Availability eCommerce front end and customized production/manufacturing software backend. Worked with the head of Product and Marketing to define the technology strategies to refresh legacy software to customized solutions in the cloud while delivering current quarterly needs for business growth. Lead team of 65 technologists(JAVA, .Net, Ruby) from CA, KY, GA and Bulgaria (Offshore).Integrated CP subsidiaries order management and product listing solutions with many partner solutions including Amazon Marketplace, Walmart, PLA, Ebay, Newegg, Groupon, Living Social, etc. This involves automating our search and product order data analytics, combining it with new crowdsourced designs from our top communities and generating daily feeds to push to all of these product listing services. Also, as orders are received via these 3rd party systems, we will automatically inject the orders into our custom Order Management system, including processing, manufacturing and customer support status updates.Integrated with 3rd party membership rewards program, including cross sell, up sell and monthly gifts.Worked directly with the President of Cafepress.com to deliver rapid solutions to help grow our sales by up to %40.Managed Network Operations team to plan and streamline hosting processes and costs in AWS and the Data Center. We reduced AWS spending by 60% and software costs by 25%. Migrated our legacy web server farm logging to Logstash and Kibana in AWS.Managed and developed process to stress test our ecommerce site for our peak retail season using Managed IT team in building out our VMware infrastructure in the manufacturing facility in KY. Engaged technology in compliance strategy for PCI and SOX.Implemented AGILE/SCRUM across all teams (Jira, GIT, CI/CD).

Calabasas, Ca, Us

My first role running all of technology required a new team structure to align with the business vision of being the Amazon of custom goods for cafepress. Planned strategy for major custom software solutions overhaul, thus removing technical debt, including Search using Elastic Search in AWS, Imaging using S3, Cloudfront, Elastic Cache and Product Catalog DB consisting of 1.8B skus.Managed Data Warehouse team to streamline costs and reduced reporting delivery times by 30%. Lead team to build in house Web Analytics and Search tracking for the website, reducing our analytics cost by $100k per year. Deployed strategic shift to BI and predictive analytics.Re Organized Technology Team with 45 heads to focus on scaling Content generation, Product creation, Imaging and Manufacturing.With closely with Marketing and Product teams to deliver rapid iterative software solutions.

Calabasas, Ca, Us

I headed up the innovations team in developing a brand new business line for Cafepress focusing on dynamic image rendering based on Text input. The end to end experience was stood up in under 3 months which included a cloud based web servers, cloud GPU backend servers. I also headed up our brand new B2B engineering team and took ownership of our Web Analytics and Financial Data Warehouse teams.Lead Game Changers Prototyping GroupBuilt new web website everythinggear.com using custom built GPU powered image and text warping technology in AWS with MySql, Windows 2012 servers on AWSBuilt design automation and pre processing using Illustrator design files and .net backend to generate the appropriate thumbnails and leveraging our dynamic custom text warping engine via restful interfaceLead B2B Engineering to develop Cafepress PRO to capitalize on the B2B market, rewriting and building our B2C solutionsLead Manufacturing Engineering Team to build custom Work Order Management Solutions, Warehouse Management Solution, Custom digital print generation for over 500 different productsLead DW and Analytics team to update and migrate Analytics/BI systems from Sql Server to Redshift in AWS. Maintain analytics platform using MS Dynamics AX, Tableau, Microstrategy, Informatica.

Calabasas, Ca, Us

As the lead developer/architect/engineering manager, I managed a small team to rapidly develop custom suite of highly scalable software solutions for a highly dynamic manufacturing growth strategy for Cafepress, including integrating with Order Providing Partners like Flip Camera and international manufacturing partners like OPTiger in Prague. Year over year grow amounted to 4-8x volumes that taxes our API web farm, distributed storage systems for images and our distributed custom shipping solutions. Invented Pick By Number solution for Garment Picking that reduced mispicks by 30%. Mispicks for garments was a major producer of scrap due to its high number of permutations from styles, sizes, mens/womens/kids/household, colors.Created rapid 16M color profiling into PDF print ready generation capable to generating 20MB ready to print digital images in under 300ms.Lead Team to deliver highly customizable Manufacturing Workflow Engine and Order Management Software that managed parallel printing lanes that includes Order Injection, Image printing, Garment Picking, Image Rip, Image color correction, QA, and Shipping.

Calabasas, Ca, Us

Software lead in rebuilding the entirety of the printing platform for the manufacturing and distribution location for Cafepress in Hayward, CA. Converted all printing products to leverage custom XML configurations to allow for printing precision and maximizing paper and ink.*Rapid prototyping and iteration design/buildout of customer facing Windows Applications leveraging mini .Net web services in a virtual distributed server environment.*Created Work Order Diverter logic to control flow of orders to new Manufacturing Plant in Louisville, KY.*Supported Netapp storage systems as well as managing IT/Netops for all functional systems.*Architect, design, develop and support manufacturing software from desktop to server client systems using Microsoft .Net 1.0,1.1,2.0,3.0,3.5,4.0 Frameworks and C#, MS Sql Server, MySql, PDF Custom Tools, 3rd party Imaging tools and Printer interfaces.*Architect print ready PDF generation solutions

San Francisco, California, Us

Microsoft .Net Lead in architecting and rewriting the Opentable front end.

Visual Basic software engineer developing Web Applications for prototyping and designing web portals in a startup environment.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Visual Basic software engineer developing custom enterprise workflow application focusing on Customer Relationship Management. Workflow involved automation and flow of telephony data, document tracking and customer profiles.

Responsible for finding, documenting and fixing bugs in financial billing software.