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Franklin, Tennessee, Us

CarSaver is the leading online automotive marketplace for new and used cars, helping buyers and sellers save time and money by automating the entire process, from first click to home delivery. CarSaver makes it easy for consumers to do everything 100% entirely online; buy, finance, lease, sell and trade, all the top brands of new and used vehicles in a simple and seamless online experience that is personalized to each customer.CarSaver's marketplace is used by some of the most trusted brands in the world, including Walmart, Nissan, iHeartMedia and SHOP.com, to automate the entire online buying process, making it faster and easier for buyers and sellers to conduct contactless commerce completely online. CarSaver licenses and white-labels its enterprise platform to car companies, EV distributors, dealers, and lenders who white label CarSaver's ecommerce platform to power their online transactions.

Jacksonville Beach, Florida, Us

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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Us

3 Birds Marketing is an industry leader in automotive marketing that provides turnkey marketing solutions to dealerships and automotive OEMs. The 3 Birds Platform offers a robust customer data platform “CDP” that activates customers and prospect data for acquisition, retention, loyalty communications using online/offline behavior segmentation and predictive insights. Other dealership services include dealer websites, micro sites, SEO, web analytics, review and reputations management.

Ponte Vedra, Fl`​, Us

Latest Reviews. Top Recruiters.Recruitsy believes building relationships with the right recruiters is one of the most vital aspects of the job search process today. But finding a great recruiter that values the candidate experience can be a challenge. Our core vision is to make it easy to find and work with the top recruiters in your city. Recruitsy offers the first of its kind public review app for the staffing and recruiting industry.Sign up for our beta - http://Recruitsy.coTech Stack:- AWS- AWS Lambda / Server-less Architecture- Angular - Bootstrap - DynamoDB- ElasticSearch

Dallas, Texas, Us

DLRdmv provides eTitling solutions for the Automotive industry.Role:* Responsible for leading the cloud solution design for Amazon Web Services (AWS) NIST 800-53 based referenced architecture to position DLRdmv to enter a new market compliant with federal government security controls.* Established & Implemented Cyber Security Strategy that includes; - Security Policies - Security Awareness Training - Incident Response Handling (Procedures & Training) - 24 x 7 x 365 SOC - Modern cloud-based Intrusion Detection System - Continuous no-touch AWS vulnerability scanning (Infrastructure + Software Vulnerability Management) - Log Management and daily log Review for malicious user behavior, server side ransomware detection, and post-compromise forensics and compliance (Network + Server Side Threat Detection) - Supervised machine learning for detecting multi-stage, multi-vector web application attacks- Data security controls for encryption at rest and transit using AWS RDS MSSQL Encryption and “Always Encrypted” configurations.

Monterey, Ca, Us

iResult (EdTech startup) is a SaaS data and social analytics platform specifically targeting K-12 school districts to help educational leaders transform their schools by bringing student information systems, learning management platforms, assessments, after school data together so that the data can be used to improve student performance. Role:- Responsible for leading offshore development & infrastructure teams in India to execute on a 12 month roadmap I proposed after a technical due diligence and assessment period to support the next wave of business growth. The plan includes upgrades and best practice implementation in following areas;* AWS Cloud Infrastructure* App Security * Software Architecture * Data Architecture * Release Management * Team Development * Process Improvements- Architected a new ETL framework for loading school district data into data warehouse. The optimizations include support for parallelization of jobs, queuing, re-runnability of failed jobs, improved auditing & logging, and business dashboards for job analytics.Tech Stack:- AWS- MSSQL- .Net / C# / MVC- SSIS- SSAS- iZenda- JAMs scheduler- Successfully launched a new company & product "Data+Design" with the objective of right-sizing the technology platform and positioning the products for large-scale business growth and industry disruption.Timeline:- February to March: Product Concepts- April to May: Technical Architecture, Project Planning, Offshore Team Selection- June to July: Development- August: Launched Product with 4 customersTech Stack:- AWS- Serverless Data-warehouse: Amazon Aurora (PostgreSQL)- Serverless Web App: React / S3- Serverless ETL (AWS Glue, Python)- AWS Cognito for User Management- AWS Lambda (Node.js) for Micro-services- Successfully launched Amazon Alexa custom skills. The skills bring voice-activated K-12 school insights/analytics to Alexa-enabled devices.Stack:- AlexaSkillsKit + AWS Lambda

Jacksonville, Florida, Us

randrr is the career insights platform everyone can use to make smart career choices. Web search sends you in a thousand directions. randrr brings it all to you:* Demand for your skills, and how to increase it* Career paths you can explore* Available jobs that could be perfect for you* Fair wage and salary comparisonsTech Stack:Hosting;* AWSProgramming;* React* Go* Python* Cassandra* ElasticSearch* Scala* KafkaQA;* Selenium* Appium* Postman* Cucumber for Java* BDDCI/CD;* Jenkins* Ansible* GitHubProductivity;* G Suite* Slack* JIRAMy Role: - Responsible for assimiliating and leading "A" team that involved hiring 30 associates in product and engineering group over span of 6 months- Established technology infrastructure, tools, and processes to support launch of app- Established cloud-based security and AWS infrastructure readiness plan- Developed Software QA strategy focused on QA automation aligned with our CD initiative- Responsible for 3rd party partner/supplier relationships and contracts- Developed 1.0 road map plans to bring life to a business plan concept- Challenges & inspired team to think outside the box to promote disruption in our industry- Helped establish and lead culture and technical direction for the platform to support web-scale traffic

Westlake, Tx, Us

DMEautomotive/AutoPoint is the industry leader in science-based, results-driven automotive marketing, and provides turnkey marketing to the largest and most innovative automotive organizations. The solutions included customer acquisition, retention, loyalty, behavior segmentation, predictive insights, and advanced data analytics.Developed strategies to align PMO, Engineering, QA, IT, and Software Support with business strategies for a growth company (120% Growth in 10 years). Led and established a 5-developer startup to a 68-person team and managed a $6M budget. Restructured PMO/IT Portfolio Management: Process architect and leader for re-organization of PMO. Streamlined the SDLC for handling feature/change/support requests. Reduced transaction costs associated with planning and releasing new software features by 75%.Cut Annual Expenses $1.2M: Restructured development teams and released contractors to reduce operating expenses while continuing to deliver key projects for the business.Established Software QA Department & Streamlined Software Support Group: Led planning & strategies to establish formalized software QA department. Reduced post-production defects by 105% in 6 months. Reduced average age of open support cases from 60+ days to 8.8 days in 12 months. Defined SOPs for handling support pipeline and prioritization using proprietary Impact/Urgency scoring model.Cut Cycle Times & Improved Predictability Of Software Releases: Led initiative to transition software maintenance releases from Scrum Methodology to Kanban management method. Average cycle times reduced from 30 days to 15 days for feature requests. Teams Credo: “Stop Starting. Start Finishing with PRIDE”Leading High Performance Teams: Responsible for recruiting, hiring, and mentoring an “A-List” team of seasoned software experts. Developed several leaders within the team that are now in management and leadership positions within the company.

B.S. Computer Information Systems

Cio Pocket Mba

Certified Scrum Master