Zero Vaults are a paradigm shift in how security and privacy are managed within systems. Created and iterated the overall architecture and design featuresEvolved associated documentation, creating different version for investors, adopters, and evaluatorsCreated and maintained necessary infrastructure, testing, and deployment elementsManaged small team through task definition and delivery

Acting CTO, consultant, and advisor for multiple startups in various stages of growth and funding, including:VYND (https://www.vynd.io/)5out (https://www.5out.io/)Blueprint Registry (https://www.blueprintregistry.com/) * Acquired by David's BridalIasquPixel Academy (http://www.pixelacademy.org/)Goalsetter (https://www.goalsetter.co/)Wonderreel (http://wonderreel.info/vod/)WireSecure(http://www.wiresecure.com/)

The Privacy Co is helping consumers to effectively manage their digital privacy.

Building next generation hospitality optimization software.

Globaledit is the premier creative collaboration platform and accelerator across many industries. Here at globaledit, I am managing disparate teams of devops, engineers, QA, design and product, delivering a SAAS that provides the speed, reliability and security required in today's enterprise creative environment.

- Reorganized ineffective technical and product groups with focus on adapting to quickly changing industry and delivering value to market.- Managed employees and consultants with an agile structure to deliver a continuous integration, continuous deployment environment, leveraging unit and regression tests and discrete build environments to offer quick testing and complete roll-back opportunities at all points.- Worked with peers to identify business opportunities and comparative costs in development and implementation to execute most efficient and effective plan within the budget constraints.- Creation and collaboration with partners to produce corporate marketing and funding presentations and documents.- Extensive re-architecture and platform abstraction to handle syndication to new platforms, including increased testing and documentation requirements for the team as we expand the original products complexity.- Implemented auto-scaling on-demand system to integrate closely with external resources, providing increased functionality before the partner was capable of implementing a full API on their side.- Managed multiple offsite groups as well as the local team to work harmoniously and effectively, utilizing continuous integration and agile practices to keep a high rate of productivity while managing risk. - Continuous cost management by assigning tasks to optimal resources across internal and external teams, while sticking to a very aggressive delivery timetable.- Identified, designed, and implemented growth opportunity to do direct syndication of available inventory through media partners, utilizing a contingent spiff structure, allowing for a zero-cost increase of our reach by 700%.

- Responsible for all product and technical decisions for a major pay television company.- Managed internal and external teams, including device specific teams utilizing customized APIs into our internal systems. External teams included those creating PS3/PS4, iOS, Android/Kindle, Xbox, Roku, and Google TV/Adobe Air, as well as an offshore team in support of the internally managed teams. Internally managed teams included those responsible for product and UX/UI, internal systems management, external systems administration, internal tools development, overall architecture, back-end development, front-end development and QA.- Designed and Implemented new data structure which leverages individual entitlements to content for individual subscription packages, focusing on scalability and speed of delivery for all content requests, especially video startup time.- Head of all development and architecture using a LAMP stack based on multiple PHP frameworks, including Drupal, CMSMS, Chorus, and others, as well as managing a Django on-demand image resizer and manager. - Created customized isolation and encapsulation architecture which allowed individual migration of specific services from framework to framework without complete re-implementation across integration points, by enforcing an internal API with the PHP framework.- Designed and managed unified device/website UI project.- Researched, designed, and Implemented new delivery of four 24/7 live streams delivered over HLS and HDN1 to multiple clients and systems.- Created and implemented a distributed user identification and entitlement system, which allowed heavy utilization of CDN based ESI across our sites, limiting overall bandwidth and processing delivered by origin systems.- Involved in business development initiatives to meet with potential and current partners and discover new ways to increase value through technical implementation, as well as discuss responsibilities, costs and priorities of the same.

- Designed, created, implemented and tested middle-tier caching system (varnish based, with custom C++ modules) to handle large scale streaming events like device launches and live stream boxing events.- Updated and extended existing PHP and Python/Django code to work efficiently in Amazon Web Services, including recognition of deployment requirements and monitoring.- Designed and implemented systems to manage the delivery of assets to our partners, including customized license packages enforced at the individual client level.- Migrated entire streaming and encoding infrastructure to utilize the Akamai transcoding service to deliver optimized profiles for both HLS and HDN2 from an Akamai hosted environment. Installed, tuned, and managed structured text search system based on Lucene- Implemented new AWS infrastructure, and migrated successfully from Rackspace to AWS with increased reliability, scalability, and redundancy, all with no downtime.- Created extensive management tools and interfaces to monitor, tune and optimize large-scale systems to eek out maximum performance for minimum costs.- Continued to develop agile development processes, leveraging internal and external resources, as well as completely external development teams delivering custom built applications against newly created APIs.

Designed and implemented major architectural efficiencies including consolidated library system for common internal services (authentication and database customizations) to utilize specific internal services. The resultant libraries were to be installed as re-usable and distributed modules, using internal repository for deployment and management of upgrades, as well as creation of custom internal plugin repositories for specific languages, applications, and environments to manage versioning of the same implementations.Directed multiple discrete onshore and offshore teams, totaling approximately 35 direct reports, while developing and architecting entire application frameworks for all of our brands and verticals in addition to highly extensible and purpose-driven libraries specifically to enable all sites to benefit from common development efforts and the scaling of the internal SOA offerings.Directed and managed multiple immediate support teams tasked with handling 24/7/365 uptime requirements across our 600+ individual digital properties.Created and managed multiple layers of metrics to gauge code coverage, including automated unit testing, regression testing and jdoc/phpdoc creation as well as, in specific cases, running special load tests while collecting profiling data.Managed relationships with vendors, consultants, developers, and internal stakeholders, while creating detailed documentation and needs assessment.Leveraged existing infrastructure as well as evolving products to reinvent authentication and authorization systems across large scope of internal and external systems, including COPPA compliance and forced review of User Generated Content / Direct Messaging enabled systems, services, and sites.Helped design and deliver large-scale user generated content driven social network site. Rewrote necessary underlying framework to maximize compatibility and reuse throughout the system, maintaining branches for publication, testing and development.

Involved in design and creation of highly scalable system utilizing on-demand cloud computing to parse large volumes of ad optimizing data. Implemented standard sysops and devops processes and procedures and inserted them into a POC environment, introducing server provisioning and automated deployments.Design and implementation of advanced mathematical concepts into scalable, clear web software products, utilizing machine learning concepts and advanced enterprise architecture structures.Work directly with data scientists to measure and optimize implementations into provably correct logic.Involved with crucial product decisions, while working with investors and advisors, in determining MVP, market fit, potential pivot opportunities, and general targeting of a quickly evolving landscape.

Full design and documentation of a complete multi-store single inventory e-commerce system. Engineer of record on 3 software patent applications dealing with enterprise level tracking, competitive price management, consolidated product trend mapping and the underlying technical requirements to bring all those things together.Created formal development and deployment procedure to update multiple sites with a common framework and underlying services without interruption. Developed extensive API integrations with accounting, shipping, fulfillment, and credit-card clearing systems, automating the ship-than-bill procedure we had adopted, as well as much of the reporting and administrative tasks.