Mark Schwartz Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

► Engagements with Architecture Design, Project Management, and Interim Management:▪ Digital Transformation for Operational, Marketing, and E-commerce of an online retail B2B and B2C client using Magento and Odoo (ERP)▪ Managed Multiple SEM Agencies for Online Marketing for E-Commerce properties and hired internally for Direct Marketing strategy▪ Technology Review (including Web, Database, contracts and Vendor support) and Recommendations for Small Businesses▪ Implemented agile methodologies and version control to improve the SaaS Learning Management System (LMS) performance and stability for customers and affiliates▪ Identified, purchased and installed new hardware and software appropriate for the systems usage of an online company▪ Re-engaged dissatisfied employees for a company with high turnover through a plan of education and growth while at the same time identifying key processes that needed definition to reduce key employee dependencies▪ Mentored key technical positions to improve job skill and communication► Engagements with Hands-on Programming and Database Development: ▪ MS SQL Server Database Architect, Developer, DBA (schemas, index optimization, SSIS, ETL) ▪ MS SQL Server Database Upgrades from 2000, 2005, 2008 to 2012 ▪ Web Application development in ASP.NET C#, VB.NET, MVC 5 ▪ MS Access front end, table design, and Reports connecting to back end databases ▪ Responsive Interface design in HTML, CSS, jQuery, Bootstrap ▪ Website Security Reviews from code and database perspective ▪ Interop, VBA Excel and Outlook Forms programming

Provided leadership in technology, digital marketing, and process improvement.Managed consultants and offshore teams for product development as well as inhouse e-commerce team.Led integration of ERP systems (Odoo) with E-commerce platform (Magento).Responsible for Digital Marketing including strategy and vendor management for SEO, Social, Google, Facebook, Marketplace and Affiliate.Partnered with the General Manager to create goals, revenue targets, budgets and KPIs for each department.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Product and Technology leadership for the online investment offeringsDrove both internal product development and reviewed external solutions forintegration or investment potentialIntegrated separate outsourced teams and set test and deployment processes andstandards.Interpreted and expressed the CEO’s vision into product roadmaps and technologyobjectives.Reported to the board on the status of product development and technologyWorked in partnership with compliance to assure regulatory compliance to productdesign and technology implementationsPartnered with operations to improve efficiency in back office support for theIssuance Platform.Implemented account verification with Plaid to raise ACH limits for the clearing products.

Series 7, 24, 63

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

As a member of the Executive Team, created the technology strategy and vision for the company including growth planning, department design, hiring processes, research and analysis in our market, vendor management, etc. Translated business requirements and goals to developers and conveyed technical requirements to management.Worked with legal finance and audit to advise and review investments, acquisitions, investors, and new strategic partners and subsidiaries. Worked with legal on response letters for SEC filings.As a member of the Organizational Development group advised on company structure to support growth and effective communications across business lines.Created governance structure including policies, procedures and standards.Created research and analysis group for review of crypto tokens, pre-sales, ICOs, and blockchain technologies to recommend investments to the Investment Committee. Stayed current with changes within the regulatory environment with the SEC, CFTC, IRS, and FinCen that affect both utility and security token raises in the United States as well as trends internationally.Developed governance and strategy for the Trading Desk operations, establishing institutional accounts and partners.Led Development and Infrastructure teams for parent and subsidiary support including cloud integration (AWS), outsourced teams, and partnering with Growth and Marketing teams for product development.

Los Angeles, California, Us

Product Positioning and Strategy for the SaaS platform for Equity Crowdfunding including user flows, website UI, pricing, and marketing.Team Management including position review, salaries, training, job descriptions, hiring and reductionPassed and was licensed for Series 7, 24, 63Technology Roadmap for company and its affiliates including security, policies and proceduresManage Development in LAMP, AWS, and GIT environmentCloud Infrastructure Setup and Management for the Broker/Dealer in Office 365 E3, EMS and Intune

Irvine, California, Us

► Mergers and Acquisitions:Direct facilitation of the onsite due diligence process for the acquisition of Cascade Bank (1.5B).Project management of the due diligence and valuation process of the acquisition Fullerton Community bank (680 Million).Targeting, valuation and diligence process other potential targets which we rejected from beginning to end.Facilitated cross department efforts on two narrative Business Plan updates.Used SNL, EDGAR, and additional sources of information to target, analyze, research and compile specific as well as general industry and peer reports to for acquisition decisions related to banks, financial services, leasing, and payment processing companies.► Social Marketing and Alternative Delivery:Evaluated the state of the banking industry and technology in terms of supporting Opus Bank's business plan through online marketing including Social Media, SEO, PPC, online banking, and alternative product delivery. Created the appropriate time line on implementation. Researched and recommended systems appropriately sized to the bank resources and priorities compliant with regulatory guidelines

IT Strategy and Project Leadership for web presence, positioning, online marketing (PPC, SEO, Social Media), training, mentoring, application and business development for small and mid size companies.Designed .NET interface with SalesForce to create dynamic emails for lead generation and created a plugin to SalesForce to use Authorize.Net payment profiles to replace one FTE for a small startup.Created a plug in to an e-Commerce site to pull sales data into an online retailer's inventory systems and push it to their accounting system allowing them to replace two FTE.Database and Website optimization for a company that had recently launched and was unable to keep their website up because of high customer utilization. Analyzed and implemented improvements to code, database design and hardware providing immediate uptime goals and trained clients IT staff for future development.Database Administration / Development / ETL / Optimization in MS SQL 2000/2005/2008ASP.NET development (1.1-4.0), MS AccessSocial Game Design focused on generating micro transactions (Facebook Applications) and Product Development Management

Designed, implement and supported software for high performance xml ad feed aggregation. Worked with Google, Yahoo, Miva, etc ad feeds. Design work used SQL Server, .NET, and Java.Created Social News site and all the tools for managing and publishing original content optimized for advertising revenue including Google Adwords and Adsense.Managed all outsourced operations involving technology and accounting as the company grew from day 1 to profits of more than $300K per month in less than a year.

► CTO:■ Managed all the aspects of a high availability web farm, software development group, off-shore team, and database developers including budgeting, hiring, QA, etc.■ Responsible for designing the processes for design, testing, QA, deployment, monitoring, and customer service for all technologies.■ Evaluated, priced and negotiated our vendors and remote data centers.■ Built a team of 11 with 4 direct reports and built the systems that took the company from 100K a month gross revenue to over 1 million a month revenue in just over a year.■ Built out the technical strategy to server PPC aggregated feeds with our own ad serving technologies► Vice President of Product Development:■ Designed software and managed the development team for the creation of xml aggregations combined with video ad serving.■ Created the management and reporting systems for the affiliate programs designed to monetize web traffic.■ Improved Database performance through design improvement, indexing and query optimization■ Introduced agile methodologies and sprints improving IT performance and communication with other departments■ Improved response time and reliability for affiliates while creating profiles from the data warehouse on fraudulent traffic to protect feed relationships

Independent Consultant working with non-profit, school districts, and small business providing systems analysis, application design, ETL solutions, and database development and administration.Complete design cycle experience from initial business case development, systems analysis, architecture, collaboration with various related systems owners, coding, and database design to maintenance and support.Database Optimization (Query performance, table and index design) using SQL Profiling tools for high traffic web sites.Delphi, VBA, ASP, ASP.NET, MS Access, SQL Server 6.5, 7.0, and 2000

Computer Science

Ba, Minor In Computer Science