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Boston, Ma, Us

Bad Homburg, Frankfurt, De

Wayland, Ma, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

How are we addressing innovation and value? This is a question our clients ask us all the time. One part of the solution is technology. We launched Orrick Labs to accelerate the development of customized technology solutions. Our dedicated in-house team of technologists is focused on creating leading-edge, innovative legal service solutions to enhance quality, security and efficiency in this small skunkworks operation.Orrick Labs looks at opportunities to be more efficient, improve quality and reduce human error, such as document categorization, drafting, transaction automation, contract review and complex legal queries. The team exploits cloud-based technology for better and more secure collaboration and Artificial Intelligence-based features. They also partner with our lawyers to develop solutions that reflect a real understanding of clients’ needs and how lawyers practice today.The team has designed and implemented innovative technology solutions for law firms and financial services companies for over three decades. They have experience in system and security design and architecture, systems integration and management, software engineering, development and programming.Orrick Labs is one part of the firm’s approach to transform the delivery of legal services. We combine Orrick Labs’ innovation technology solutions with the right staffing and project management to deliver value to our clients.

Boston, Ma, Us

Veeya is an iOS app which helps you to plan and share your trips with friends and relatives. It also keeps track of where you’ve been by using information in your photos to identify trips using multi tiered proprietary machine learning algorithms. The app’s focus is on making travel planning and sharing a fun and easy thing to do. No more trying to remember the name of that great restaurant you ate at three years ago when asked by a friend. The app automatically figures that out and makes it easy to share. Make Veeya a part of your next trip and discover why everyone is using it.

Paris, France, Fr

Being a leader in the treatment of diabetes, Sanofi has amassed a team of senior software engineers paired with medical experts to build medical device apps to aid patients on their journey towards wellness. We’re building products that positively affect peoples lives: Quality is job #1 for everything we do.• Objective - Ideate, design, architect, build and maintain Class 1 and Class 2 medical device apps. These are both mobile and web applications used by HCPs (Health Care Professionals) and patients to aid in the communication, treatment and care of diseases. These medical grade apps integrate with 1st and 3rd party APIs as well as accessory bluetooth connected medical devices (i.e. blood glucose meters, insulin pens, insulin pumps, etc.). Focus on quality and speed.• Daily Responsibilities - Platform Architecture, Technical Team Leadership, Technical Documentation, Primary Technical Owner for the DHF (Design History File), Recruiting and Technical Hiring, Team Building, Tool Chain Architecture, Mobile Software Owner• Key Accomplishments - Migrated entire toolchain from internally hosted tools several years old to cutting edge cloud hosted tools, implemented multiple layers of test automation including unit testing, UI testing, linting and API testing across the platform with direct integration in to the continuous integration pipeline, migrated deployment environment to managed containerization using Docker and Kubernetes, shortened deployment from days to minutes, shortened release cadence from yearly to quarterly, simplified DHF documentation and SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) to reduce overhead and provide more concise information, hired all technical resources, implemented translation management platform to speed translations.

Boston, Ma, Us

• Objective – Architect, design, build and manage the ReferralMob platform (consisting of 4 web apps, a native iOS app and a native Android app, all based around a central API based backend). Raise capital, build the team, operate the platform, scale and adapt as business needs evolve.• Daily Responsibilities – Oversaw a team composed of designers, developers and QA, ensured platform reliability and speed, managed the product as well as individual projects, managed seamless continuous deployments, sought out partnership opportunities, owned all company IT needs and training, oversaw the office management and recruiting efforts, fundraising, supported marketing and sales operational needs, continuously sought to lower operating costs and increase efficiencies, automated transactional and event driven email and push notifications• Key Accomplishments – Launched the initial platform and evolved it through 5 major revisions, ensured less than 10 minutes of accumulated downtime since launch (2+ years), scaled it to over 15,000 users, successfully raised $2.5M capital investment, integrated with over 25 partners, implemented semantic search and machine learning for job <--> resume parsing and matching, released 30+ updates to the iOS App Store & Google Play Store, deployed over 400 times to production

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

• Objective – Lead all technical aspects of client solutions. Manage the design and development of over 100 mobile apps using internal and external development teams. Facilitate ideation sessions and create proposals. Ensure on time delivery of scoped work.• Daily Responsibilities – Managed up to 6 simultaneous development teams building apps in parallel for both consumer and enterprise consumption. The teams consisted of contract developers (local and remote) as well as internal employees. Built and maintained a Jenkins continuous integration environment to streamline testing. Architected each app and iterative changes as client’s requirements evolved. Created hundreds of proposals and sold directly to key stakeholders. Oversaw test plans, managed project scope and customer expectations. Operationally oversaw hosted infrastructure and implemented performance and availability monitoring and backend deployments.• Key Accomplishments – Built and managed several high profile enterprise apps for Estee Lauder Corporation, including the second largest deployment of iPads in a retail setting (second to Apple). Translated apps to over 32 languages including (right-to-left glyphs). Built the US Department of Treasury’s app for paper currency accessibility. Built several apps for a high profile news organization. Built apps to facilitate horse buying. Built sales apps for furniture companies. Built apps for innovative wall displays. Built apps for AAA. Built apps for McKinsey. Created custom training sessions for New Balance. Built a fully customizable secure mobile web browser. Built augmented reality apps for Chevron to use in their oil fields. Built apps for the Boston Celtics to orchestrate complex trades between other NBA teams. Integrated with many 3rd party proprietary hardware including label printers, barcode scanners, iBeacons, specialized color scanners, external displays and credit card readers.

• Developed iPhone and iPad applications for personal sale in the Apple iTunes AppStore and as a contract developer for third parties.• Apple iTunes AppStore Apps▹ Scoville (Paid) – The top rated chili pepper reference guide in the app store featuring coverflow-like views. Boston Logan (Free) – The first app dedicated to Boston Logan Airport providing live parking lot status and terminal services. Includes MobClix ads▹ Ifa Divination (Paid w/Lite Version) – Developed this app for a third party to be the definitive guide to the Ifa Divination process, a key part of the Yoruba religion▹ Chex Finer Foods Trade Show (Free) – Created a custom app for a regional Food Distributor’s annual trade show. It listed all products displayed at the show and allowed attendees to favorite brands, products or merchandising displays as they walked around.▹ Chex Finder Foods Videos (Free) – An app for curating custom videos which can be used in sales presentations. Included a custom backend to control the content available.• Enterprise Apps▹ iPresent – Developed this third party large scale iPad app for sales and marketing use at Philips Healthcare. This app selectively synchronizes its local database with a cloud hosted DB and helps users stay current with authorized material for offline use. Deployed to more than 500 users world wide.▹ Imaging Systems – Developed this third party iPad app for the same company as iPresent which is used by more specialized teams with a unique mission.• Employed the following features: VGA Out, CoreData, Web service-CoreData syncing, Highly complex Scroll Views, Push Notifications, Settings App, In-app Email with attachments, Audio and Video playback, PDF interactions, Dynamic image scaling (pinch zooming), iTunes File Sharing, "Open In..." to launch an app with a file from another app, Custom modal boxes, File import/export, AirPrint, Device orientation changes, third party analytics with detailed event monitoring

Burlington, Ma, Us

• Objective – Secure and operationally manage the MoneyAisle.com website and all adjacent web properties. Primary technical point of contact for Production event response and resolution. Design and continually improve upon the platform within which the application runs. Technically manage partner integrations with the neoSaej public API.• Daily responsibilities –Managed over 100 Domains and BIND based DNS zones, managed patching and upgrades of 3 separate application server clusters totaling over 150 machines using BigFix Enterprise Suite, managed 5 Production Microsoft SQL Server Active-Active Clusters and two matching clusters in testing environments, managed 3 air-gap separated Active Directory domains, managed Network Security Access Control Lists for testing and production environments, performed code reviews and penetration tests of the MoneyAisle product on a quarterly basis. Preformed systems hardening of all Production servers, managed redundant F5 BigIP load balancers which included several highly complex iRules for application specific pre/post processing. This included several hundred virtual servers and pools, NATing and Inverse NATing, and direct protocol manipulation, managed the VMWare ESXi servers which hosted the DMZ infrastructure virtual machines in testing and Production environments. This included SFTP servers, squid proxy servers and user@host ftp proxy servers running in highly hardened OpenBSD• Key accomplishments – Built and maintained custom deployment scripts, able to deploy the MoneyAisle product to highly diverse environments supporting the unique needs of Developers, Quality Assurance and Production. Implemented an event correlation system using Kiwi Syslog Daemon which was fed logs from every aspect of the Production and test environments. Designed a full systems monitoring architecture to ensure every aspect of the Production environment was monitored both internally and externally

Santa Clara, California, Us

• Successfully resolved more than 25 IT crisis ranging from site/service specifics to enterprise-wide outages to physical disasters by quickly and effectively assessing risks, assigning resources and driving implementation across the corporation with no material impact• Provided technical leadership to assist with network recovery during cyber events • Co-authored RAPIER, an open source automated malware collection tool which streamlines incident response by delivering harvested evidence directly to security analysts• Secured the Intel network by developing and deploying a social engineering tool to protect employees from falling victim to malware • Wrote white papers, process documents, training presentations and marketing collateral• Created a patch management system to support more than 15,000 clients and servers worldwide resulting in minimal impact to end-users

Mclean, Va, Us

• Senior Network Engineer, PISCES (Personal Information Secure Comparison and Evaluation System) 1/15/1999 - 1/14/2000 ▹Design and deploy networks and systems to run a cutting edge border control system. Conducted client meetings and presentations, carried out client and liaison relations in foreign countries with language barriers, managed network engineering staff, produced deployment cost estimation, managed offsite integration facility, designed and implemented LANs and WANs using Cisco and other vendor's equipment, installed high speed network cabling, engaged in hardware and software troubleshooting, purchased equipment for deployments, performed information assurance, managed deployment equipment inventory, utilized Linux in network design and penetration testing, worked in a classified environment. Held regular team sessions for information dissemination and knowledge sharing, trained the entire project staff of 30 on the technical side of deployments, lead site survey and deployment teams, created a system deployment guide and application installation manual, developed a packaged and modular installation methodology.• Software Engineer, CEOSS (Cutting Edge Online Support System) 9/2/1998 - 1/15/1999 ▹Design, develop and maintain a secure non-attributable multilingual help desk web based application to support PISCES and similar projects. Performed client presentations, performed system administration, actualized configuration management, performed information assurance and penetration testing, utilized Linux and Solaris based tools for penetration testing, administered production Windows NT Servers and web servers, configured and administered Cisco PIX Firewalls, generated RealContent and administered a RealServer, configured and administered Ascend Dial-up servers. Designed and programmed web applications utilizing NetObjects Fusion, Oracle 8, and Oracle Web Application Server, wrote a system security plan, designed and implemented complex networks.

Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, Us

• Deployment Team Lead, Towers Perrin NOW97 6/1/1997 - 9/10/1997 ▹Lead technical teams of 10+ on international deployments ▹Interfaced with client management staff at high profile sites to ensure a successful upgrade ▹Upgraded standard desktop software from Novell 3 to 4, Windows 3.1 to 95 ▹Dealt with diverse hardware configurations • Software Engineer, EMA Interactive (Electronic Messaging Association) 6/15/1997 - 8/15/1997 ▹Developed a Web based chat forum in Lotus Notes/Domino 4.6 ▹Deployed to client site in Roslyn, VA ▹Trained the systems administration staff ▹Provided on-going technical support as needed • Software Engineer, Lotus Notes/Domino In-House Development 5/15/1997 - 5/1/1998 ▹Developed a Cubical Hotel tracking database in Lotus Notes/Domino 4.5 ▹Developed a Pager tracking and accounting database in Lotus Notes/Domino 4.5 ▹Web-enabled a Recruiting database in Lotus Notes/Domino 4.5

Bethlehem, Pa, Us

• Carried out LAN hardware and software installation and maintenance for student's personal computers and servers • Provided technical support, troubleshooting, and administrative services of building-wide subnet

Princeton, Nj, Us

• Installed and administered a 700 user SoftArc First Class BBS for students and staff use • Created and maintained several Internet based servers (WWW, FTP, GOPHER), including developing the district’s first webserver in 1993 • Installed several Appletalk and Ethernet segments throughout the district and upgraded as needed to balance growing load

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