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New York, New York, Us

In my current role at Artnet, I am responsible for overseeing product development, design, engineering, data science, business intelligence, security, IT support, and data governance and privacy.During my time at Artnet:• Led the establishment of the data services and employed a data licensing model, driving recurring revenue for Artnet.• Launched a new version of Artnet's flagship Price Database, significantly expanding the platform's capabilities.• Spearheaded technology developments, architecture, component-based development, and data warehousing that allowed the company to reuse technology components, enhancing efficiency and innovation.• Elevated the engineering team's performance, more than doubling output, which directly contributes to increased productivity and project delivery speed.• Worked closely with teams on AI and Analytics developments. Examples being automated data cleaning, content generation, entity extraction, and auction sale data derivatives.• Restructured the capitalization process, allowing the company to capitalize 80% of its engineering costs, significantly impacting financial efficiency.• Reorganized the technology team, driving a comprehensive digital transformation that underpins numerous operational improvements.• Recruited a full product and design team, executing an Agile transformation and overhauling our product delivery tools, foundational for operational excellence.• Managed technology budget and reduced wasteful spending, ensuring financial efficiency and resource optimization.• Improved the company's security score from substantially, significantly reducing risk.• Instituted a culture of innovation and rapid delivery, resulting in numerous transformational developments.• Streamlined the end-of-year audit process for more manageable annual audits, improving compliance and operational efficiency.• Led product strategy and roadmap in collaboration with senior executives, shaping the company's strategic direction.

Boulder, Co, Us

Boulder, Co, Us

Launched the innovative startup with a $2K seed fund, driving ambitious value and revenue growth to exceed $1M annually. Developed a mid-sized Magento-based eCommerce store, creating custom plugins and components to support end-to-end business operations. Architected a full order management automation process, leading order integration strategies for optimal streamlining and function.• Built, launched, and managed WordPress and React sites, maintaining company presentation and public-facing image.• Structured and drove migration from Magento 1 to Magento 2 for continuing technical competitiveness.• Researched, identified, and implemented off-the-shelf eCommerce products aligned to core business needs.• Maintained optimal security, blocking DDOS and hackers through expert CDN and security measures. Technologies: PHP, MySQL, Elastic, REDIS, APIs, React, NodeJS, Apache

London, United Kingdom, Gb

In my current capacity, I spur dynamic technical performance and function improvements at the helm of Technology vision, strategy, and execution, leading four ten-person dispersed teams spanning two continents in optimal technical governance and operation. • Partnered with leadership to define organizational technology, roadmaps, risk appetites, and project priorities, steering quarterly objectives in line with company-wide goals and targets. • Architected and implemented strategic solutions to unique business and client challenges, ensuring alignment with engineering best practices for optimal results.• Assumed leadership of a challenged client and application, turning around relationship and project.• Recruited, grew, and mentored group, expanding from two teams to four, recruiting 10+ engineers, and mentoring managers and engineers to build a driven group and new team in support of client needs.• Transformed client performance from ~80% downtime to 99.99% uptime, raising application performance 50%+ through automation, implementation, and technology strategy.• Implemented and governed KPIs and architecture reviews to drive improvements to architecture and CI / CD design.• Innovated a modern, loosely coupled microservice architecture, designing and driving strategic roadmap for deconstructing and rebuilding the legacy monolithic application.• Collaborated internally to shape a custom, comprehensive test automation strategy, integrating new process with CI / CD pipeline for enhanced technical delivery.

London, United Kingdom, Gb

As Solution Architect and Director, I delivered global sales and project launch support and guidance, partnering with clients and teams to develop, architect, and deliver solutions within a highly leveraged financial platform. • Pioneering the all-new role, shaped role function as well as company technology standards, building roadmaps and approach documentation to facilitate ongoing organizational development. • Established architecture and code foundations, empowering team development of scalable, high-volume, and microservice applications aligned to unique client needs and goals.• Architected unique applications spanning sovereign nations with differing regulatory requirements, including a multi-tenant, multi-region wealth platform and retail application for Santander.• Quickly integrated into new projects and sales pitches with minimal notice, earning a reputation for above-and-beyond dedication on and off the clock.• Designed dynamic messaging platform for Charles Schwab, delivering unified messaging for all client vendors / channels.• Enabled client flow and normalization against large data warehouses (Morningstar, Factset, Refinitive, etc.) through strategic data ingestion flow design.• Strengthened leadership and team culture, recruiting and mentoring new Solution Architects, preparing and supporting new employees for senior-level operations.• Enhanced client services, providing improved efficiency and consumption through API proxies, caching layers, and ETLs.

London, Gb

During this time, I oversaw the management and governance of high-value clients, leading a six-person team in the coordination and architecting of diverse client projects and solutions. • Key clients: Reuters, National Australia Bank, CNBC, UBS, Macquarie, SCB, and CommSec.• Collaborated with team members and project managers, designing project roadmaps aligned to core client needs; grew and strengthened team capabilities, mentoring staff and conducting regular team code reviews.• Helmed a large client and infrastructure migration, transitioning operations from an on-premise datacenter to a cutting-edge NTT private cloud platform.• Architected a completely modular, white label enabled research platform for CommSec, developing quotes and empowering individual component reuse with the all-new system.• Grew team performance and capabilities, grooming members for Director-level leadership roles and educating team on GIT, deployment, release cycle, and environment management best-practices.• Propelled application performance improvements, stabilizing a challenged client relationship and project.• Governed the Markit open-source project OpenF2 to empower the delivery of dynamic web components to financial websites, managing website, digital library, roadmap, and supporting collaborations to promote streamlined project development and execution.

London, Gb

Leading the architecting and implementation of large-scale financial multi-tenant and multi-client applications, I governed platform technologies to ensure optimal function and maintenance. • Key clients: Reuters, National Australia Bank, CNBC, UBS, Macquarie, and CommSec.• Successfully drove project operations and completions in highly regulated environments and extreme deadlines, delivering top-tier technologies and tools to meet critical client requirements.• Developed reusable components, streamlining shipping, embedding, and skinning for multiple client applications.• Comprehensively rearchitected a high-value retail research platform for Fidelity, modernizing client capabilities.• Built and architected a UBS retail platform, as well as Reuters, CNBC, CommSec, and Macquarie charting capabilities, maintaining compliance with unique client specifications and requirements.

Boulder, Colorado, Us

- Built financial tools on leveraged architecture- Steered technical directions and technology decisions

Boulder, Colorado, Us

- Built financial tools on leveraged architecture- Fullstack Development

Primarily was responsible for front-end HTML, CSS, and JS of PHP and Java based applications.

- Maintained and developed e-commerce website- Used modern web practices (at the time) to enhance the user experience

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Education record

Associate'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General