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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

Lead the R&D department in management and construction of technical resources, product Quality and Assurance, product management, and business analysis.• Instituted R&D department to meet initiative to upgrade 20-year-old system; utilized modern, scalable system with cloud capabilities• Establish and build new Business Analyst and Quality assurance departments• Collaborate with executive team to implement agile working environment for 100% remote workforce• Created new SDLC procedures to move from waterfall to agile processes• Collaborate with product, project, and IT leadership to ensure continued progress toward project goals and strategic vision• Manage product development including budgeting and communication with executive team, board, and clients through conferences, presentations, and townhalls• Collaborate with CSO to ensure compliance with SOC1, SOC2, PCI, PII, and other security needs• Direct procedures to ensure customization needs of top clients are met• Partner with executive staff on preparing and presenting at four-day user group conference with over 300 attendeesAccomplishments• Helped establish and grow the R&D• Reduced OOCs by creating new Quality and Assurance department within R&D and implementing new processes, procedures, and tools• Constructed Business Analyst department to establish modern gathering process; increased collaboration between development and product owners • Rearchitected 20-year-old system and developed 5-year plan to upgrade to modern microservice platform with seamless upgrade path• Established modern SDLC practices and procedures, documentation, and collaboration• Streamlined cross-department collaboration to add more insight into development lifecycle; reduced bugs and increased features in releases• Established quarterly townhall meetings to keep team informed while working in remote environment• Developed goals program for employees; established training protocol to meet goals

Norristown, Pa, Us

Built and directed R&D department to grow company as well as led projects efficiently and profitably deliver technical solutions.• Architected and directed development including data management, web, desktop, SaaS, microservice, and mobile application needs• Balanced offshore development need for clients• Collaborated with stakeholders to align collective goals within organizational strategy• Established standards, policies, procedures, guidelines, and Software Development Life Cycle best practices• Managed budgeting, business planning, and resource allocation and created & tracked KPIs• Coached, mentored, and provided training for team membersAccomplishments• Established six internal development teams• Served as CTO for startup clients by establishing procedures & policies and building R&D departments• Managed company through 100s of projects• Developed highly scalable applications within micro-service architectures in cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments• Developed highly scalable SNMP monitoring application to monitor CPU, memory, network usage, available diskspace, and disk usage on all Hosts and VMs for on-premises Service Fabric clusters• Built customizable SaaS framework owned by company and licensed to 20+ SaaS applications; framework scales on Azure Service Fabric integration running 100k+ procedures per second• Developed custom event logging system to track messages from the Service Fabric cluster, combining with SNMP monitoring to provide detailed view of system issues including bottlenecks, errors, and warnings• Led the architecture of an advanced Accessibility Auditing Management Project that was built on BMG’s SaaS Framework. • Worked on 4 crypto/blockchain projects that included: a 100+ graphics card and ASCI mining operation, developed and managed 25+ mining pool software, an arbitration program between exchanges, a Litecoin clone, and worked on smart contracts for Eth, Neo, and Solana.

In order to build a SaaS application that would deliver innovative web and server applications to meet client needs, I was tasked with building a development team as well as partnering with the executive team to establish market share.• Built and led team in designing and developing inhouse CMS that supported 400+ web sites and applications• Developed highly used .Net software platforms and mobile applications utilizing web service technologies on .Net framework• Facilitated seamless website integration and transition from one technology to another• Represented company at trade shows including engaging with customers and delivering presentationsAccomplishments• Developed custom CMS platform with .Net that worked with NopCommerce• Built platform allowing clients to design and manage industry-focused content; content automatically linked to major social platforms along with forums, blogs, and other industry social media; company grew to 400+ retailers using platform• Developed implantation of Entity Framework code allowing each library to manage its entities and tables and track changes, upgrades, and rollbacks with changelog/task/notes system similar to Team Foundation• Designed inventory platform allowing manufactures to post data on their own site which retailers could monitor with a script, automatically updating retailers with latest product data; acquired 10 manufacturers with tens of thousands of retailers

In this role, I was charged with managing the R&D department, internal network, and all aspects of dedicated server services.• Built team to eight developers, 6 SREs, and 4 out-of-office service engineers• Provided leadership for all aspects of technology• Communicated and collaborated with executive team to meet company objectives• Engaged and collaborated with corporate customers to evaluate needs and define requirements• Created custom network monitoring and management systems for wireless network and data center• Designed, deployed, and managed a 600+ server data center• Delivered 200+ websites ranging from small local businesses to fully managed e-commerce and SaaS applications• Developed more than 20 customer applications for clients including Pennridge School District, Sellersville Borough, QuadNet, and more• Delivered a full managed private network for the Pennridge School District covering 10 schools that operated within of the companies WAN• Worked with board, and executive team to sell the company

To handle millions of ads per month as well as millions of emails for marketing purposes, I was charged with architecting and building marketing software systems.• Communicated with owners to get requirements, and feedback from clients to ensure we were fulfilling the companies and clients’ needs• Established a team of 8 to meet the companies’ objectives and needs• Built new ad management system from scratch; scalable system grew to more than 500M ads/month system was used in conjunction with Yahoo, Mail.Com, Mamma.com, Net2Phone, and others • Architected and developed advanced email management system which managed more than 24 million emails, increasing client sales while lowering customer acquisition cost• Developed digital marketing software including automated system providing marketing funnels, tools to support marketing staff, and advanced near-real-time tracking system; clicks increased to 5x industry standard

Chief Technology Officer Certification, Chief Technology Officer Program / It / Innovation

Computer Science