Russell Burt, Pmp, Csm Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, Us

Chief Technology Officer with extensive experience driving technical strategy, cloud transformation, and operational excellence at Social Bridge Technologies. Successfully led the migration from a bare-metal data center to AWS, creating a scalable, cost-effective cloud architecture that improved deployment speed and performance. Spearheaded Agile methodologies to foster a delivery-focused culture, enhancing transparency and efficiency across global engineering teams. Directed development of secure, high-performance SaaS solutions in compliance with HIPAA and SOC 2 standards, establishing comprehensive security protocols to protect sensitive data. Skilled in optimizing processes to standardize velocity, elevate code quality, and position the company for growth. Recognized for strong strategic vision and hands-on leadership in technical and regulatory environments.

New York, Ny, Us

Serving as the CTO role for startup SaaS-based referral workflow solutions in the healthcare sector. Leader in engineering, development, cloud services, project and program management, and data warehousing. Ensure HIPAA, SOC2, FEDRAMP compliance.• Increased engineering throughput while decreasing defect escape ratio to less than 1% and improving sprint say/do ratio to 96%. • Lowered cloud spend 32% ($240,000 per year) by migrating the cloud strategy from PaaS to AWS direct. Also negotiated an agreement where Amazon paid 50% of the conversion costs.• Slashed engineering costs 20% and increased productivity and quality 10% by eliminating the use of outside contractors and growing the engineering team 50%.• Grew average recurring revenue (ARR) 5% by introducing security programs (HIPAA, SOC2, FEDRAMP), which led to the acquisition of a new FEDRAMP customer while simultaneously lowering liability insurance costs.• Delivered an added 5% ARR by implementing business value points into the pipeline process, resulting in greater (up to 20%) business value per sprint.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Held multiple roles, including VP of Engineering, Project/Program Manager, Technical Product Manager, Architect, and Engineer with this Series C SaaS/machine learning (ML)/artificial intelligence (AI) company with $70M in funding. Responsible for staffing, project management, resource optimization, regulatory compliance, KPIs, technology vision and planning, innovation, and development. Supervised a global staff of 20 in 4 squads (IT and Systems Engineering). Administered a $2M budget. Planned and led Scrum Activity. Oversaw a 24x7 tiered support program for products. Coached and promoted high-achieving resources.• Increased uptime to %99.9 for the company’s main cloud platform by moving from an outdated cloud-hosted monolith application to a cloud-native AWS signal-driven architecture that handled 100,000 additional IoT devices.• Lowered cloud storage costs 10% and increased ARR 1% by negotiating a new cloud storage contract with AWS.• Increased productivity 10%, quality 80%, and delivery throughput 10% by implementing KPIs and metrics based on Scrum methods and continuous improvement strategies.• Grew the engineering team from 4 to 20 while the company moved from seed to Series C funding status.• Cut deployment times 80% while dramatically increasing quality and ARR by instituting test automation.• Decreased the ML training time from 24 days to 1, and increased feature and model output cycle times 1,000%, by automating processes.• Enhanced ARR 0.5% and reduced Edge device configuration time 20%, by updating camera configuration code.

Newark, Nj, Us

Promoted to direct all software engineering operations for this $1.23B seller of international phone, audio, and money transfer products. Served as the Principal Engineering Lead, Project Manager, Program Manager, Technical Product Manager, Architect, and Engineer. Supervise 50 direct reports, including 2 directors and 10 scrum teams (onshore, offshore, near-shore). Administered a $20M budget. Managed the eCommerce website. • Trained more than 200 employees in Agile Lean practices, exceeding goal by 300%.• Saved $1M in development costs per year by growing near-shore and offshore resources 200%.• Increased development velocity 20% by introducing performance metrics for all scrum teams.• Improved system uptime from 99% to 99.99% by instituting FMEA practices and risk reduction.• Reduced quality issues and backlogged work by implementing a custom roadmap business strategy that prioritized technology debt and facilitated >$100M in ARR over 5 years.• Saved $200,000 in hosted service costs by introducing a scalable cloud solution.• Produced a 10% increase in engineering throughput and streamlined the build/debug/test/fix cycle time by deploying a full-stack development methodology

Newark, Nj, Us

Supervised a staff of 20 and oversaw 6 scrum teams totaling 100 reports. Responsible for training, project and program management, technology project prioritization, metrics, and more. Administered a $5M budget.• Created a 5-year technology plan and new business strategy roadmap to drive revenue growth.• Introduced weighted decision tree matrix model to better prioritize technology projects.• Facilitated 1 million transactions per month by optimizing throughput in the eCommerce website.• Cut defect escape rate to less than 1% by emphasizing test automation

South Burlington, Vermont, Us

Supervised 8 engineers in 2 teams (IT and Systems Engineering) at multiple locations worldwide for this $20M provider of data solutions, enterprise imaging platforms, and other products. Administered $15M in total budgets. Managed the Global Quality Management System, product releases, architecture, compliance, and more.• Reduced system downtime to less than 1% by designing and implementing a new enterprise service bus architecture that also increased product speed 1,000%.• Increased ARR $5M by completing 6 major product releases, directing full SDLCs.• Lowered network risk $4M by developing a risk-based security and compliance program to minimize liability.• Formulated a Lean quality management system that grew ARR $1M by enabling global sale capabilities and met ISO 13485-2012 and 21 CFR requirements.• Served as the Chief Privacy Officer and Chief Compliance Officer. Instituted new security and privacy best policies that met HIPAA, OWASP Top 10, and ISO regulatory guidelines.

Chicago, Us

Engineering Manager Role: Guided the efforts of a team of 14 engineers, converting to software delivery via Agile processes and methods.Controlled a $1.5MM annual budget, while also delivering positive results for large-scale programs and projects.• Responsible for global engineering of Centricity EDI (a hosted cloud offering) product generating $60MM+ in revenues and 60% CM – one of the highest in GE HCIT• Led 14 global engineers through Monthly major product releases using Agile methods, increasing revenue by $30MM.Project / Program Manager / Technical Product Manager Role:• Delivered four large programs while implementing a new QMS process.• Utilized a database driven tool so engineering resources could accomplish daily work, while documentation was extracted for the QMS in the background.Architect / Engineer(Coding) RoleMaintain architectural integrity through code/design reviews using Oracle, Java, HTML

Chicago, Us

Focused on the ongoing success for the major release program, including testing, monitoring, and defect identification. Led multiple projects form planning to completion via Matrix structure, including quality systems/ FDA-regulated projects with extensive documentation and process details. Engaged directly with marketing, engineering, operations, and support organizations.• Managed 3000 hours of regression testing and defect correction over six weeks. • Oversaw 20 FTEs with higher than predicted defects; quickly responded to and mitigated risk; and ultimately delivered on time. • Successfully incepted, executed, closed, and transitioned 10 projects.

• Connectivity Development. Lead the design, support and development of the client/server product. Client layer is an ASP served web page. Server layer is C++ and Visual Basic COM components accessing Microsoft SQL Server (version 7,2000).• Lead, Created, Designed and Developed a C++ service oriented architecture product to service 2 internal operating units. • Enterprise Index. IDX’s Master Patient Index. Lead the design and Development of the Client/Server product. Client layer was Microsoft Visual Basic. Server layer was Microsoft Visual Basic accessing Microsoft SQL Server.• Connectivity continuing engineering. Client Support and code fixes.

South Burlington, Vt, Us

• Customer engagement and Leadership Consulting• Visual Basic 5.0 machine control• Exchange 5.0 migration, setup, administration and group• ware development.• Database Administration using Microsoft SQL server version 6.5• Excel and Access applications using VBA.• C++ using Borland’s C++ Builder.• Paradox, Access, Dbase Data base table design• IDX/SPX Network packet protocol using C and Assembly• C/C++ for DOS/Windows/64180,80186,80386, and 6800 Embedded realtime

Winooski, Vermont, Us

• Designed/Created a Data reduction engine grammar that is still used in production today.• Structured analysis and design using Cadre Teamwork.• C for RMX real time operating system.• Yourdan/Demarco Structured analysis and design using Cadre Teamwork.• Lex/Yacc compiler/parser construction tools.• Design for FDA and ISO 9000.