Roger Andelin Email & Phone Number

Greater Los Angeles Area

As a partner at AKF, I perform technical due diligence on targeted companies on behalf of clients who are making investment decisions. Fill roles as an interim CIO/CTO and other roles where clients have short term technical leadership gaps. Work with CTO's and chief executives to improve technical operations and software development velocity.

Greater Los Angeles Area

As an independent technology consultant, I performed technical due diligence and interim CIO/CTO roles. Completed a four month nano degree in machine learning . Created and optimized a multi-layer convolution neural network (CNN) for image recognition. Built a recurrent neural network (RNN) with word2vec encoding for text processing and generation. Created and tuned a generative adversarial network (GAN) capable of generating photo realistic images of celebrity faces based on the CIFAR data set. Helped clients understand and evaluate practical applications for machine learning technology within their domain space.

Greater New York City Area

Responsible for software development, product management, project management, user experience design, web analytics, infrastructure and technical operations for FullBeauty Brands’ e-commerce technologyKey Results:• Created vision and led department toward improvements in development capabilities, velocity and overall operations performance. Vastly improved department’s reputation and relationships• Transitioned department from waterfall to scrum and significantly improved development velocity, project communications and stakeholder collaboration during the first year of transition• Upgraded talent and recruited leadership for engineering and product management teams• Replaced search platform with the company’s first cloud application; created a clear and exciting vision for systematically updating and migrating the e-commerce technology into the cloud• Significantly lowered maintenance costs and moved resources to new feature development by improving our operational processes and platform reliability; reduced lengthy operational meetings to short meetings• Participated in BOD meetings; prepared and presented updates on department improvements and project progress

Orange County, California Area

Responsible for all business and technical operations for Rakuten's U.S. subsidiary, Rakuten.com Shopping (formerly Buy.com)Key Results:• Significantly reduced operating costs by reducing overhead and optimizing under performing categories within the first 45 days to create a leaner, more focused company• Launched new business model for merchants creating a profitable revenue stream and bringing the US operations inline with the Tokyo model in the first six months• Re-branded the company as Rakuten.com Shopping in January 2013• Launched new CMS making it over 30% faster for merchants to design and publish store fronts and custom product pages• Overhauled the IT operating model and implemented SCRUM/Agile development• Grew Rakuten's brand recognition in the US exponentially after rebranding through aggressive PR, industry speaking engagements and published articles• Conducted quarterly BOD meetings and bi-weekly BOD strategy meetings with board members

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Responsible for all software development and worldwide digital publishing systems including LDS.org, Mormon.org and mobile applications for the LDS Church's ecclesiastical departments Key Results:• Co-created new publishing model resulting in the creation of an entirely new division called Publishing Services Division• Implemented SEO strategy resulting in significant increase in traffic to LDS.org and Mormon.org as a result of the popularity of “The Book of Mormon” Broadway musical• Drafted preliminary Division Balanced Scorecard• Created LDS Social reader, a Facebook application leveraging the social graph.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Responsible for all IT at the Washington Post including washingtonpost.com (comscore top 50, July 2010), slate.com and newsweek.com, all publishing systems supporting news creation, infrastructure, project management, business analysis, software development, QA, data warehouse, operations, monitoring, back office systems and desktop support. Led and set vision for: SEO, data warehousing, auto-content curation, open source site search, content categorization and meta data creationKey Results:• Successful launch of the Post's new content management system and flagship website, www.washingtonpost.com, in March 2011• Launch of the Post’s first iPad news application• Merger of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive IT with The Washington Post IT department and the creation of the merged company's new development operating model• Successful launch of postpolitics.com, topsecretamerica.com, washingtonpostlive.com and Washington Post Live discussions• Reduced IT costs in 2010 using “ground up” approach, evaluating in detail each key expense line and vendor

Aliso Viejo, Ca

Responsible for all of Buy.com technology, design and web development including two data centers, 300+ servers and network infrastructureKey Results:• Development and launch of the following important e-commerce systems: Price comparison system, user generated product video reviews, Buy.com marketplace, Google, PayPal and I4 payment systems, Buy.com Canada (ca.buy.com), six online stores for third party clients (including FYE.com and MTV) hosted on shared platform, multiple EDI integrations with drop ship partners, Buy.com's toy store, guided search/navigation system and BuyMusic.com• 2x increase in SEO traffic in five months • Oracle financials upgrade in 2006 and integration of two acquisitions: Metails.com and Shoperion.com• Completed successful turnaround of Buy.com working collaboratively with CEO, COO, sales and marketing executives to execute strategy• Guided and mentored direct reports, four of which progressed to VP roles• Launched BuyServices, Buy.com's SaaS platform for hosting 3rd party e-commerce sites

Nanodegree, Deep Learning Nanodegree Foundation

Foundations in deep neural network, recurrent neural network (RNN), convolutional neural network (ConvNet) and generative adversarial.

Mba

Bs, Information And Computer Science

Activities and Societies: UCI Men's Nationally Ranked (#3) Division 1 Water Polo Team Member