Rob Blackin Email & Phone Number

Fort Myers, Fl, Us

Holmdel, New Jersey, Us

Mclean, Virginia, Us

At 5-9z (99.999% uptime), we help small and medium size companies utilize technology to support their business. We deliver Software development, Database, Scalability and IT services both in Datacenter and in the cloud. As CTO my role is recruiting, business development and hands on work.

New York, New York, Us

Through 5-9z Consulting I continue to work with SecurityScorecard as a Technical Architecture advisor working with the CTO and CEO.

New York, New York, Us

As CTO I am responsible for all of the development and operations for the product and company.Managing a global engineering and QA team in New York, Argentina and Vietnam.Technology stack includes Java, NodeJS, MongoDB, REDIS, HTML5, Angular, Hadoop and Postgres

New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for all aspects of website development and infrastructure to support Saas businesses, BlogTalkRadio.com, cinch.fm and cinchcast.com. • Evolved organization from cowboy startup to waterfall and now working within the Agile framework.• Moved from manual releases on one server all the way through to Continuous Deployment via Jenkins, Powershell, Nant and Git.• Operations: Managing network, servers, backups, desktops, databases, web servers, telephony, streaming, load balancers and many other infrastructure items required to run the web application. • Development: Managed the development of the web code as well as the databases, batch processes and third party integrations required to run the web application. Results• Scaled the web applications from inception to over 6 million visits per day.• Created media property with over 1500 simultaneous talk shows featuring both UGC and celebrities.• BlogTalkRadio rose to profitability during one of the worst recessions in historyTechnology Implemented: Sql Server, ASP.NET 4, MVC 3, Git, SVN, Jenkins, Jquery, Mootools, Redis, Mongo, ElasticSearch, JavaScript, C#. NET, NodeJS, SocketIO, Java, and many more.

Newark, Nj, Us

• Responsibilities involve collaborating with the business users and providing all supporting systems for businesses in nine countries (US, Israel, UK, Hong Kong, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Singapore and Netherlands).• Managed the development of most systems since the inception of the business as well as inheriting existing businesses support systems.• Managed team of 15 developers including several project leads that were coached and promoted to lead positions from entry-level employees.• Developed and implemented control processes that are robust enough to pass Sarbanes Oxley audits. • Managed budgets and Activity Base Costing charge back process.• Responsible for e-commerce, billing, credit card processing, inventory, collections and customer care systems for IDT Retail businesses.• Project Manager for development and implementation of enterprise wide Trouble Ticketing and Workflow system. Worked with all parts of company to gather requirements and manage development of system. • Worked with all groups and the political machinery to get the system implemented across the enterprise. After three years and a dozen enhancements, the system has over 2,000 users and over one Million tickets have been opened.Results:• Integral to getting five businesses off of the ground. Managed the development to enable Toucan to grow from a start up business with one product and no customers to over 170,000 active customers and seven products 24 months.• High level of customer, operations and business management satisfaction.• Architected flexible systems allow for nine and growing businesses to be supported with small number of developers utilizing only 2 databases.Technology Implemented: Oracle 9i and 10g, ASP.NET, JavaScript, C#. NET, Delphi

Part of four person initial start up team for a new Telecommunication Company. Architected, developed and implemented the entire infrastructure of the company. Provided dial around service for consumers over VOIP network. One of the first companies to offer unlimited phone service packages to consumers.Technology Implemented: Sql Server, ASP, JavaScript, VB 6

Dublin 15, Ireland, Ie

Provided strategic IT direction and technology architecture for Telecom company. Automated and integrated VoiceNetUSA brand and other Viatel subsidiaries together in the areas of Customer Care, Agent Support, Billing, Sales, Marketing, Management Reporting, Toll Free, Long Distance and Calling Card Provisioning. Started at VoiceNet when it was a start up private company with 4000 customers. Built the infrastructure to support the company as it grew to over 500,000 customers. Company was bought out by Econophone which then went public under the name Destia Communications. Destia was bought out by Viatel six months later.Results:• Improved productivity for Viatel Agent Support 800% by automating manual processes and providing instant access to critical customer, dealer and sales information not available previously.• Innovative and cost effective architecture design provided ability to support growth of over 1000%(4,000 – 500,000) growth in customers and 400%($110K –$4M) monthly revenue growth in revenue in just over one year.• High level of customer, dealer and employee satisfaction.Technology Implemented: Sql Server, ORACLE, ASP, JavaScript, VB 6, Access

Provided Pre-Sales technical support to the NY/NJ Sales Team. Gave technical presentations and seminars to high-level management explaining Data Warehousing, Data Mining and Red Brick products. Performed consulting services.

Dallas, Tx, Us

* Overall Project Leader, design specialist, system architect, and client contact for development of a Data Warehouse. * Project Leader for development of nationally deployed Windows based client-server system.* Project leader for development of prototypes used to generate support from executives to fund projects. Acted as primary exhibitor of prototypes and leader of design discussions with clients and approval level management.* Functioned as software evaluator to advise upper management of which software packages should be purchased for the organization. * Project Leader focused on maintaining and enhancing VM FOCUS mainframe billing reporting system.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Presale Consultant for AT&T Computer Systems organization. Gave presentations on products, Responded to RFPs, created proof of concepts and worked a consultant post sales on large instalations such as CBS News.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Management Of Technology

Bsee, Computer Engineering

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