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New York, Ny, Us

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

Teach Information Technologies for Libraries and Information Agencies. The course introduces students to web technologies (xHTML, CSS), programming (JavaScript, PHP, Python) data management (XML, MySQL), Web Services, social, and open source software.

Iselin, New Jersey, Us

New York, Ny, Us

SintecMedia acquired my employer Operative in December 2016.● Key contributor to senior management team responsible for all of Operative’s SaaS platform technology operations and a staff of 13 in the US and India. ● Led Operative’s migration of existing physical server-based infrastructure to Amazon Web Services, with the first client migration occurring within three months. Reduced AWS costs 45% through a mix of EC2 instance right-sizing, use of tags/scripts to shutdown and restart resources on demand, platform rearchitecture (SES, SQS, S3, Lambda, API Gateway) leveraging “pay as you go” services, promoting awareness on cost of unused AWS resources across IT, and establishing cost controls for resource creation.● Establishing and formalizing monitoring, support, and maintenance processes.● Optimized, enhanced, and stabilized Operative’s new business intelligence / analytics platform built on the Pentaho Business Analytics platform using a Vertica database cluster running on AWS.

Princeton, Nj, Us

● Served in a strategic role focused on designing solutions for enterprise systems and applications, evaluating software and hardware for adoption, and architecture strategy.● Designed mobile application development strategy. Analyzed MBaaS tools, wrote transition plan to adopt an API-centric practices, and changed org structure to support mobile development.● Designed cloud services solutions to capture user event data from mobile/web/legacy apps and perform real-time analysis on the data.

Provided technical guidance and consulting to companies in the retirement services sector.● Analyzed software/hardware to assess readiness to support new products, features, and regulations. Recommended solutions for gaps.● Developed software product strategy for mobile applications, performed build vs buy analysis, and revised disaster recovery and continuity plans.● Evaluated and renegotiated technology services contracts with third party vendors.

*Left ExpertPlan in 2008 and returned as CTO in 2009. Company was acquired by Ascensus in 2012.● Oversaw two development teams to build/deploy recordkeeping and retirement SaaS platform used by 16K+ small business customers and 250K+ participants, with full responsibility for QA, project management, and product support. Teams wrote 1.25M LOC.● Key contributor to executive team and instrumental during sale of company to Ascensus in 2012.● Presented technology strategy to prospective investors and executives/board at annual conference.● Served as change agent for development and led introduction of new technologies including Talend ETL Tool, Groovy and Grails, and Agile development methodology.● Identified and evaluated third-party software providers and competitors across retirement industry.● Migrated from server-based infrastructure to virtualized infrastructure using VMWare ESX Server and IBM hardware, reducing physical server footprint from over 50 machines to 20.● Established MPLS network to connect three locations and 100+ employees following ADP acquisition. Led inherited ADP team.● Pioneered and tested disaster recovery and business continuity tactics for new business.● Responsible for hiring plans, IT capital budget, contract negotiation, and fostering vendor relationships. ● Implemented ASP model to greatly reduce system implementation and maintenance costs.● Made critical CRM build vs buy decision and led selection for integration into the platform. Hired and managed consulting firm effort to customize and complete integration. ● Partnered with Stevens Institute of Technology for inclusion in their state-funded training program for businesses. Coordinated to create a customized curriculum that included training from advanced PC use to project management and business-specific content.● Introduced CI and re-engineered the release process, reducing SCM-related task time from 20% to 3% and a 77% reduction in production bugs.

● Instrumental to development of $300M Financial Advisor/Private Banker (FAPB) platform for Smith Barney. ● Reengineered platform from VB client server to a web-based portal. Oversaw requirements, architecture, data model, and timeline. ● Delivered prototypes in six months built in Flex, HTML, and JavaScript. Built a Flex-based prototype in collaboration with Adobe resources, later adopted by Live Cycle Data Services. ● Collaborated with corporate architecture team to design and document core platform services and presented metrics to multiple development and senior management groups. ● Rolled out Agile processes/behaviors. Inducted to Agile Development Strategy Committee.

Zurich, Ch

Managed an dmentored six software developers building a Java-based various front-office advisor platform.

North Olmsted, Oh, Us

San Diego - Us | Tokyo - Jp, Us

M.S. Quantitative Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Science In Business