Took charge of all infrastructure components and ensured the implementation of a standardized set of processes for the combined organization following a large acquisition of another company.Helped build and enact a new primary datacenter facility and redesigned the underlying infrastructure primary hosting platform with a focus on robust performance and extreme reliability, supported by a fully-redundant and geographically-dispersed disaster recovery and business continuity process leveraging real-time replication and other advanced technologies, supporting petabytes of capacity and many thousands of concurrent users performing real-time document review, allowing for the rollout of a new best-in-industry hosting architecture to support ediscovery needs.Pioneered the creation of robust designs and implementation strategies for data centers and legal technology platforms in new global geographies, including robust platform design, vendor management, data center and product assessments, as well as leading the charge into the public cloud environment.Worked with leadership to manage and help coordinate aspects of the acquisition of another company increasing the company size by an order of magnitude, primarily focusing on the increase of the IT organization from 30 to 200 people and expansion of products and platforms with tens of petabytes of data and nearly a dozen data centers across the globe.Worked with various functional teams across the global IT and Operations organizations to assess and standardize key strategies and platforms to optimize future growth of the organization.Led the teams in design and implementation of several new data centers and the growth of existing facilities for significant expansion of capacity to meet line of business requirements and goals of investment leadership.

Worked as a key thinker and led the implementation and addressing of critical weak points within the organization in the scope of internal cybersecurity, implementation of robust defenses at the network perimeter, improving internal security processes, management of all backend database systems, implementation of standardized database backup and retention policies.Developed custom scripts to allow for a more robust problem management response, and remove a significant amount of manual effort via automation.Assisted the organization through an acquisition which involved doubling the company size, as well as removal of reliance on a third party managed services provider by replacing all IT functions with in-house staff, expertise and processes.

Took over management of several critical processes and platforms within the ediscovery workflow, as well as database administration activities across the enterprise, responsible for hundreds of terabytes of databases.Led and worked with a combined team of 15-20 professionals within the Engineering, IT and Databases teams to improve code and database standards, as well as establishing clear workflows for interaction with operations teams and servicing client requests.Assisted the organization in leading various integration activities following its first acquisition of another company.

Led the charge in optimizing database design and the interface layer for all tier 1 products developed at the organization. Made significant improvements to performance, enacted standards for operation and developed standards for implementation.Worked with a team of 10 developers to perform code analysis for database interaction layers and validating code performance and security, ensuring optimal database design for performance, data persistence, and system scalability.

Worked as the primary software developer of a proprietary metadata extraction and file processing platform facilitating ediscovery processes and the preservation of data for presentation to an ediscovery hosting platform for contract attorneys, legal firms and other clients to perform document review and analytics.Made improvements to database design and implementation, platform security, performance and throughput optimizations, enhanced supported data types, and more.Led the charge to rewrite core aspects of the platform from Visual Basic to C# .NET, reducing code complexity and improving supportability, worked with IT and Database team members to facilitate improvements to the entire ecosystem for the ediscovery platforms in use by the organization.

Worked with and supervised a team of 20+ developers over several years in creating amassive software platform with over 314,000 lines of code for hosting game servers usedby hundreds of customers with a net client sum of tens of thousands of players.Wrote code for implementation of new features including lifetime tracking of playerexperience, various NPCs and AI for players to interact with, and more.Adjusted and optimized structure of a large inter-connected MySQL database.

Established and maintained a stable gaming environment for thousands of players acrossapproximately 200,000 unique accounts and 500,000 unique characters.Designed and implemented changes to game mechanics for 93 distinct job classes withnearly 850 actions/skills.Created virtual economy involving over 650 trillion in virtual currency and over 6,000unique items with 8,000 to 30,000 in-game transactions occurring every hour.Pioneered unique systems to enhance security including unique-serial-basedidentification and tracking of all items of players, and the replacement of simple MD5-based password hashing and storage to WHIRLPOOL-based multiply-salted algorithmfor password hashing and storage), usability and consistency of player experience.Led a team of 10-15 to ensure smooth day-to-day operations with a focus on constantavailability and stability, and customer satisfaction.Managed maintenance schedules, software and feature release cycles, data consistencyand backup procedures with redundancies and minimal downtime.

Co-authored a web application with over 46,000 lines of code for end-client use andfunctionality that quickly outperformed all other competitors and took place as the mostwidely-used control panel in the market within several weeks of public release.Designed MySQL database structure and indexes for efficient storage of all pertinent datawith easy access to client-relevant information.Implemented subsystems to allow for intermediate clients to custom-tailor their ownadd-ons, modules and views for private or exclusive features.Wrote and integrated a customizable e-commerce solution to allow users to offer endclientswith opportunities to purchase in-game rewards for real currency, with anestimated revenue transactions sum over $500,000 per year across various privategaming servers.

Developed an iPad application gathering over 3700 unique observation records duringbeta testing from over 400 students regarding various species of animals and 3 differenttypes of observations (habitat, animal, weather) at the Tallahassee Museum.Designed and created a database that contains over 55 unique data points for 10 differenttypes of animal and their habitats.Collaborated with team members to unify different aspects of project development into afinished product.

Co-developed an iPhone application for easy consumption of information.Wrote code for on-the-fly transformation of textual input into audio output.Collaborated with a team of individuals with the goal of delivering a functional andelegant product.Implemented database structure for efficient access and storage of information spreadacross several MySQL servers employing various techniques for load-balancing, highavailability,and more.

Installed/configured software packages.Maintained server security standards.Ensured stability of operations.Committed code for new features, bug fixes.Trained new staff members in operations and procedures.

Installed/configured software packages.Maintained server security standards.Ensured stability of operations.Committed code for new features, bug fixes.Managed Database configuration and access.Trained new staff members in operations and procedures.