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PurpleSlate is a startup launched by a small team of entrepreneurs that makes getting together in the real world with friends and family, easy and effortless. It is a mobile app that sends event invites and collects rsvp via text messages in seconds. Architected the platform including APIs, UX, and backend components. Built the team comprising of director of engineering, software engineers, UX/UI experts and QA engineers. See more at www.mypurpleslate.com

Developing a long-term strategic utilization plan for content authoring/delivery platforms and helps “as is” architecture become “to be” architectures through phasing and cost benefit analysisWorking with product, engineering, and business to move away from packaged content to chunked content that is Omni channel, presentation agnostic, and data analytics drivenCollaborating with architects, engineering and product to provide a consensus-based enterprise solution that is scalable, adaptable, and synchronized with the ever changing business needsWorking with UX architecture and platform delivery teams to come up with a component based architecture using ReactJS and Flux based pattern as a strategy to build platform capabilitiesEvangelizing and explaining SOA, integration and other architecture principles, benefits and technical solutions to business and technical audiences

Acquired by OmnistreamHelped incubate mPhoria with a major US Wireless Carrier as a customer in 8 monthsLaunched a mobile platform that sourced coupons from major brands as General Mills, P&G and distributed them through a REST based API to mobile app developers with a goal to convert paper grocery coupons to a digital platform with traceable KPIsLed a team of Software Engineers, UX/UI Designers, Graphic Designers, and Production Support Engineers contracted across the world Architected and led the development of a fully managed content marketing platform hosted in the cloud (AWS) to generate leads through a proprietary content hub, landing pages, email and social media marketing toolsPartnered with business teams to get a MVP to market for revenue generation, striving towards the 80/20 rule (80% of the benefit of a feature set for 20% of the cost)

Worked with CTO and Investors to incubate Sweet RelishArchitected the foundations of the platform with the CTO of Acta Wireless and helped launch the MVPJoined Sweet Relish as a founding member of the team

Awarded Employee of the Year in Dec 2009 for superior performanceSuccessfully expanded a new revenue stream by launching a premium SMS billing platform in a span of 2 years (Annual Revenue - $25M) and generated savings of $0.3M/year with persistent contract negotiations

Acquired by MBmobile, LLCLed a team of developers to design interactive SMS Campaign managers, enabling clients to create campaigns using SMS/MMS/WAP for TV/Radio/Print MediaAssisted in negotiation of the acquisition and transition of the platform stack from Herndon, VA to Denver, CO

Established coding standards and best programming practices in perl, java and python. Trained technical staff to use Agile Programming practices in development projectsImplemented a content management system using Zope and Plone for the producers and editors to launch and update new content on pbs.org.

Implemented System Status Monitoring for IM-Anywhere, a sophisticated messaging platform, and developed a new defect/requirement-tracking program Launched statistical forecast using Linear Regression and implemented a notification system using SMTP for a commercial grade Voice Analysis Traffic Product, TrunkMeter.