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Santa Barbara, California, US

- Created and led 3 development teams, integrations, APIs and professional services, engineering teams. Lead and mentored onshore and offshore development resources.- OO, MVC PHP development utilizing Zend Framework and MySQL for large-scale solutions for customers including Uber, Ford, Metlife, and Nissan- Agile development with autonomous full teams.

- Developed and managed content based websites and social network applications delivering at its peak over 20 million page views to over 4 million visitors monthly.- Data driven dynamic PHP and MySQL based websites and applications optimized for high traffic and high performance utilizing memcache- Strong focus on Object Oriented PHP Programming with.

San Francisco, California, US

- Program Architect for Capital One overseeing Force.com rollout for main corporate technology group and implementation of center of excellence- Technical Architect for Heidrick & Struggles (Salesforce client) migration of core application to Salesforce platform- Management and mentorship of technical development staff for the project- Scrum Master for.

Los Angeles, California, US

- Responsible for setting strategy and direction for Playboy's Social Media initiatives- Worked across all divisions and departments (Online, Print and TV) to set a unified approach to social media.- Grew Playboy's presence on Social Media to become some of the largest customer outreach points including 1.2 million Facebook fans and 30,000 Twitter.

Los Angeles, California, US

- Responsible for setting technical direction for Playboy.com including setting technical strategy for emerging technologies.- Investigated and prototyped a number of new technologies for possible inclusion in the technology teams tool sets including Drupal, Joomla, Widget API's and open source technologies- Strong focus on reducing the development cycle.

Los Angeles, California, US

- In charge multiple development teams for Playboy.com and Playboy’s other online offerings including content management, video, affiliate/marketing and social networking teams. These groups built and maintained the suite of Playboy’s websites in Java and PHP.- Primary technical representative to all online business units including marketing, editorial.

- Architected, developed and project managed a number of projects for various Chicago based companies including SBC, Sprint and Ameritech.com.- Project managed full life-cycle development of Sprints core web based application to support all national provisioning and installation processes. Lead a team of 6 developers in the development of a Java based.

Chicago, Illinois, US

- In charge of coordinating, designing and implementing projects for large high profile sections of chicagotribune.com to improve performance and revenue.- Rewrote all classified searching on chicagotribune.com to accommodate rapid user base growth and create a base platform for easier future growth of the sites.- Redesigned back end data feed processes.

- Designed, developed and maintained all areas of the UK’s largest national commercial property website- Headed up several projects for Britain’s longest established Internet consulting firm utilizing CGI/Perl, Unix shell scripting, sendmail, HTML and Apache Webserver. - Taught a wide variety of training courses to clients including Bank of England, UUNet.