Gideon Kimbrell Email & Phone Number

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Miami Beach, Fl, Us

InList curates the most exclusive international nightlife and charity events, and allows members to book reservations through its cutting-edge mobile app.As the Co-founder and CEO, Gideon is responsible for the vision and development of the company. Gideon provided the initial seed round investment, through his company Syragon LLC.

Syragon LLC is a software development and engineering company. Syragon offers several services: SEO, application development (web and mobile) and graphic design. We focus on the latest technologies, such as HTML5, Google V8/Dart, Agile development, Hadoop/Plasma, Cloud Computing and more.From 2003-2008 we specialized in providing high-integrity web-based paperless EMR solutions for clinics, pharmacies, doctors and other types of health-system users. Our experience within the medical field is broad and ranges from pharmaceutical business (MedCenter Canada), medical devices and high-touch care (A major Fortune 100 healthcare company).

Senior Software Engineer for St Jude’s Children Hospital. Developed new features and architecture for POND (pediatric oncology networked database). This is a distributed non-profit open-source system servicing many locations around the world. High focus on security, encryption, etc.

New York, Us

Strategizing, refactoring & engineering within the NOOK developer platform for Barnes & Noble web/mobile initiatives.High level performance strategy development and implementation. EAI framework optimization. Responsible for:Creating a V3 Framework for the LAMP platformImproving Agile development processesShortening the release lifecycleImproving web security

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

CLUBSCORE is an events and entertainment company. CLUBSCORE also operates CLUBSCORE Models Worldwide, an exclusive group of brand ambassadors. Members have access to high-society functions including model-hosted galas, club events featuring headline DJ's, private yacht parties, masquerade balls and more. CLUBSCORE is not for everyone - it is for the well connectedAs the CEO and founder, Gideon is responsible for strategy, funding, management and the vision of the company.

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CTO at Jettis Technologies a transaction processing provider. As the CTO I execute on high level strategies for the IT and development departments to improve profitability and align the company with corporate strategies. I designed and successfully implemented a V2 platform (from Perl to Java+LAMP), migrating many complex business processes and over-seeing management of development efforts, choosing the right software stack and building the system to large scale and in a manner that was packaged, marketable and could be white-labelled. Improved many inefficiencies in development practices and introduced an agile development process bring to an end many years of stale and disappointing promises. Positioned the company in a strong competitive advantage with state of the art fraud prevention services and strengthened the core offering of the company through technology. Managed a team of 10-15 managers and engineers, local and remote, working with multiple datacenters handling millions of transactions daily, billions of database records and rapidly developing new products and features. Yearly budget over $1.5M.

Senior Software Engineer for Security Mentor, a start-up company in California focused on security training for high-integrity sectors such as financial, health and government (department of defense). PCI compliance training, HIPAA compliance training, etc.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Senior Software Engineer for Andiamo Systems, a leader in word-of-mouth brand measurement/monitoring. My responsibility was to take a first-phase poorly designed set of systems (software, database, etc) and take the business to the next level of Web 2.0 and high-availability SOA architecture. I single-handedly designed their entire consumer-facing portal, created an advanced PHP framework and multi-lingual template engine, and completely redesigned their system architecture with database partitioning to facilitate scalability and quick growth. I also had a large role in product development, with a high level of autonomy when it came to product design and specifications; meaning my expertise was greatly trusted.

Consultant architect for Securicy Ventures and partner Mobile Thunder. Rapid application development team creating utilities, games and more for iPhone and Android-based mobile devices. I directed server-side architecture and infrastructure in high-volume types of environments. Interfaced with multiple third-party providers, Leveraged technologies such as geo-coding (latitude/longitude), map plotting, game play API’s, GPS services, etc. For high-write applications used database partitioning and in high-read applications used master-to-master architecture in MySQL.

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

Lead Software Engineer / Systems Architect for SymCare/inTouch, a new subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. I was the first engineer on the team, and with the management team we established general requirements and I created a high-availability international software solution which included database design, software frameworks, build processes, content management, source control, etc. The architecture was designed from the beginning to scale well and horizontal application database partitioning was chosen. I worked single-handedly to build the foundation for this next-generation project for 3 months, after which we brought on more developers which I interviewed and trained. I was also responsible for planning, documentation, and making presentations to the team and deciding on operational directions in terms of software and database design. Java, LAMP, Corticon Rules Engine, Fusion Charts, ActiveMQ, J2MEE for Mobile, jQuery, ETL tools, memCache, PHP Unit, Trac, etc.

Hartford, Connecticut, Us

Senior Application Developer / Architect for CoVibe Tech a subsidiary of Mainstream Holdings providing services to sister-subsidiary MOLI. The parent company, Mainstream Holdings was started by the former CEO of E-Trade, Christos Cotsakos. MOLI was an online networking site pushing the next wave of Web 2.0 / 3.0 behavioural targeting with AJAX, MySQL virtual clustering with segregated multi-data-center collocation all clustered through the LAMP (PHP5) application; the development of which I was integral to. I created a unique multi-lingual Object-oriented cached template management engine which separated business logic from presentation layer completely. Project lead & back-end architect. Architecture was service-oriented with a large focus on contingency planning, failover/redundancy, high-availability and cost-efficient horizontal scaling. Responsible for data model design, data-access layer development, creating PHP frameworks, the financial system, and managing a few projects.

I was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for MedCenter Canada Inc., international pharmaceutical company. From daily board room meetings I created goals, plans and strategies for the IT group to meet business directives and improve profitability. Managed a team of web developers and system support personnel. Developed autonomous, high-availability paper-less system for automated faxing, OCR, event hander/reminder system for customers, multi-fulfillment management system and least-cost routing algorithm for orders to international suppliers. Designed systems to increase profitability tremendously by using complex cost analysis algorithms.I created: * EMR Web Based Application * Dynamic & Synchronized Website * Paperless System * Least-Cost Routing Algorithms * CMS/CRM * SEM/SEO

(Contract) Software Engineer for InterFund Financial, a merchant provider and payment solutions expert based out of the USA. Developed payment gateway systems, API’s, processing routines, merchant management tools, batch settlement jobs, reporting and low-level communication with networks such as Visa and MasterCard. Gained a lot of experience working with financial data, security, encryption and low level socket communication with Visa/MC networks. Large amounts of data were always present.

Los Angeles, California, Us

(Contract) PHP Developer for deviantART Inc., the largest online community at the time. Developed many front-end site systems, new content and dynamic user areas, advanced search capabilities, and optimization of existing code. Network/server administration, developed server health monitoring system, trouble-ticket system, etc; high volume, high visibility. Worked on the back-end with setting up MySQL replication slaves, had scalability issues we addressed with rolling tables, memcache and other methodologies. Developed several completely new sections of the site from back-end to front-end. I was also a gallery director for a period of a few months.

PHP Programmer/Web Designer. Began employment while attending Southern Adventist University in Tennessee. I then worked on contract basis designing and developing websites, graphics, and databases. Working with shopping cart systems, payment gateways, back-end server programming and related protocols.

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Associates, Computer Science

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