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New York, Ny, Us

Engineering leader in the OpenInvest subsidiary

Boston, Ma, Us

Plantation, Florida, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Responsibilities include all technology and product aspects this of Software as a Service physician productivity portal company. Accomplishments: - Recruited, hired and trained a small, economical international design & development team enabling the business to begin converting their proof of concept, healthcare enterprise solution into a re-sellable, SaaS product on a very limited budget. - Oversaw the movement of the product from a proprietary data center to cloud provider including HIPAA regulatory compliance. - Directed the implementaion of continuous integration, pair programming, and peer review standard procedures and supporting tools for this geographically distributed team. - Participated in State of Colorado Economic Development business accelerator program, Innosphere, and as a result, contributed directly to a variety of tasks in Marketing, Business Planning, Investor Relations, Advisor Recruitment etc. - Presented at Board of Director meetings and participated in product and company strategy decisions at that level. - Hands on development and infrastructure management. Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Amazon Web Services, PostgreSQL, React, Pivotal Tracker, Git, Chef

Providence, Ri, Us

Responsibilities include all technology and product aspects of this maker of Software as a Service Customer Relationship Management software. Accomplishments: - Implemented industry standard software development workflows based on Agile methodologies, streamlining and scaling the software product design, build and support/maintenance functions. - Implemented continuous integration, peer review and pairing standard procedures and supporting tools for this geographically distributed team. - Oversaw development of zero downtime deployment and supporting day to day launch and operating procedures. - Automated quality assurance regression testing and significantly improved automated unit testing. - Automated application monitoring, scaling and alerting including automated on-call schedule rotation; email, txt, and voice calling alerting; single pane of glass application and infrastructure monitoring. - Reorganized Engineering and Product functions to be more closely aligned with business goals resulting in reduced time to market of new feature builds from months to days and at reduced expense. - Created new standalone products for resale to VAR channel and digital advertising agencies. - Supported several possible M&A opportunities.Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Amazon Web Services, PostgreSQL, Solr, AngularJS, Go, Capistrano, Pivotal Tracker, Git, Ansible

North Sydney, Nsw, Au

Responsibilities include all technology management aspects of web and mobile products across multiple industry leading B2B media brands. Results: - Collaborated with senior executives to solve business problems and strengthen IDGC B2B brands through product innovation and the application of technology (multiple companies, multiple VPs, SVPs, EICs, Publishers and CEOs); results were consistent YoY expense reduction while developing new products that shifted revenues from print to newly created digital products. - Consolidated staff and technologies from previously decentralized brands into one cohesive and comprehensive development, QA, project management and operations team, yielding significant cost savings. - Implemented software development best practices including Agile (Scrum) Methodolgy across all IDGC B2B brands while bringing new products to all brands. - Implemented a product management and maintenance lifecycle that took ideas from the drawing board to revenue in a simple and repeatable way, keeping products not only stable but growing from launch to sunset. - Stabilized the technology infrastructure delivering IDGC B2B brands while simultaneously driving peak performance rates up 300+% - Created centralized QA and Network Operations teams to handle newly created infrastructures at minimum cost while maintaining highest qualities. - Directed the implementation of SCM, issue response management, release scheduling and associated tools. - Managed all technology vendors and major consulting engagements - delivered 100% of projects on time and on/under budget - Budget planning, reporting, forecasting and adherence Technologies: Teamsite, Java, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Drupal, JQuery, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Capistrano, Amazon Web Services, Jira, Git, Puppet

Boxborough, Ma, Us

Director, Information Technology & FacilitiesManaged IT staff for this computer hardware and software manufacturing company. - Implemented integration systems between contract manufacturer and ERP systems increasing contract manufacturer’s visibility of orders and Egenera’s view of contract manufacturers fulfillment statuses/scheduling. - Supported revenue growth in the 30% range year over year by delivering technology systems and services such as web based CRM, customer service and corporate website integration. - Increased Help Desk throughput by 40%, decreased downtimes 34% - Managed all telecommunications and data communications purchases, implementations and maintenance for the company’s 13 sites as well as two contract manufacturing sites. - Led custom applications software development efforts delivering corporate document management as well as all customer facing document repositories. - Managed facilities at Marlboro, New York and DC offices including high performance data centers and engineering labs in both on-premise facilities as well as at co-location facilities. Technologies: Oracle Applications, ClearOrbit, Windows Server, Blackberry Enterprise Server, NetApp NAS, EMC SANs, Outlook Enterprise, Active Directory, Cisco 63xx series, Subversion, CVS

Newton, Ma, Us

Managed, designed, and implemented information technology infrastructure, enterprise application systems, and revenue generating media products at this “new media” start-up. - Implemented program management and product development best practices yielding increased quantity and quality of web media products being delivered, improved alignment between the technology and business teams, predictable release schedules, and improved stakeholder participation/satisfaction. - Directed people and projects yielding cost containment, support for increased business volumes, and improved business process effectiveness in the areas of Web publishing, Financial Systems, CRM Systems, Data Reporting, and infrastructure. - Directed systems builds and new media product builds yielding new revenue streams driving business growth. Technologies: Vignette Storyserver, Perl, Oracle RDBMS, Java

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