Paul Thomas Email & Phone Number

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 including product managers, QA, and operations.- Built and managed full-stack development and production environments in Amazon AWS including EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, SQS, SES, and Cloudwatch- Championed and spearheaded switch from pull based polling architecture to push based event driven architecture with service level designs.- Created a sustainable technology platform to deliver rapid on-time feature growth while building a solid scalable and secure development foundation - 3rd party integration development with multiple SaaS platforms including Salesforce, Adobe, Google- Salesforce application development using Apex, VisualForce, and Salesforce REST API for AppExchange managed package- Drove increased revenue by creating complete scoping through solution delivery systems, including creating pricing models and SOW processes

- 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 standardized coding practices- Extensive database optimization to accommodate large user generated content tables in excess of 200 million rows.- MVC framework driven development using Laravel and custom MVC frameworks- Multiple LAMP based environments sitting on Amazon's EC2 cloud environment- Facebook application development utilizing the Facebook's Graph API- Extensive use of SEO and viral marketing technique- Mobile application development using Swift and various hybrid platforms

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 agile development team of 12 people - LAMP stack management for data integration and SOLR search engine on Amazon's AWS infrastructure- Design and development of core functionality utilizing APEX code and VisualForce

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 followers.- Worked closely with Marketing, Ad Sales and Editorial to create engaging and profitable social media experiences.- Development of Facebook fan pages and applications utilizing Facebook's open API's and in house LAMP stack.

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 by utilizing pre-existing technologies- Investigated and developed new Internet trends to increase brand reach and maximize exposure for Playboy products. Championed the development of web 2.0 technologies including widgets and social networks.

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, design, business development and product management.- Forged strong relationship and collaborative environment with business units to drive forward the unified online strategy.- Championed and lead emerging technology and business strategies including SEO/SEM, AJAX, PHP, video technologies, affiliate systems, social networking initiatives and web 2.0 focused redesigns.- Represented Playboy online technology in all third party business and software vendor relationships including Google, Yahoo, AOL and MSN.- Maintained a high pace of new development for new products and high level of support for existing products under tight budget and resource constraints.- Designed and built multiple new websites and content management systems utilizing multiple techniques for high scale, low cost web performance including smart caching and flat publishing.- Designed and implemented new Java/Oracle development environment and replaced old Perl environment with new Java based architecture.

- 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 system.- Java Application Architect for SBC’s Content Management Infrastructure Group. Lead a team of 12 developers, project managers and designers in the migration of SBC’s largest Intranet/Extranet web app from Vignette StoryServer to IBM WebSphere. Mentored developers in object oriented design and analysis.- Lead Vignette Developer for Ameritech.com. Designing, project managed and implementing web based solutions for Ameritech.com and its various business groups. Had a lead role working with all aspects of the Ameritech.com website.

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 integrating the entire Chicago Tribune classified ads feeds with the Internet group’s database systems.- Designed and implemented high traffic server environments.- Integrated chicagotribune.com with external websites such as cars.com, apartments.com, zdnet.com, and newhomesnetwork.com.

- 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 Pipex and Manchester Airport- One of the courses taught was a finalist for 1996 UK IT Training Course of the Year award.