Kevin Thomas Email & Phone Number

Oceanside, Ca, Us

Oceanside, Ca, Us

Fractional CTO consulting and managed software development services. Avvise provides cloud-based software development services to clients from the financial industry to the automotive industry. This includes fractional CTO guidance and consulting, to hands-on development as well as providing architectural guidance, team management, team building, product and project management.

San Diego, California, Us

★ Joined a startup business to establish a software development team with domestic and offshore members and advise the engineering and technology teams.★ Designs and builds product roadmaps, project plans, and enterprise architecture. Established best practices for project and product management.★ Directs onboarding, training, daily Scrums, individual meetings, and code reviews, as well as sprint planning and review meetings.★ Led the team to develop AWS backend serverless systems using SNS, SQS, Lambdas, Glue Jobs, Step Functions, EC2, and CI/CD. Used Express Node.js for the website and Python for the data pipeline.★ Designed a serverless data import process that automates the import of thousands of units of dealer inventory per client.★ Oversaw the process of retaining a vendor to develop a mobile app, negotiating a 25% rate reduction.★ Executed an initiative to grow business in the Power Sports market, bringing over 16,000 vehicles to the platform in two months.☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲ABOUT REINVENTAUCTIONSReinventAuctions provides digital trading platforms for dealer-to- dealer wholesale vehicle exchanges.

San Diego, Ca, Us

★ Founded the Business Intelligence and Software Engineering departments, overseeing hiring, budgeting, project management, software procurement, ETL processes, capacity planning, and strategic partnerships.★ Maintained accountability for the performance of 14 direct reports and a $1M monthly AWS budget. Served on the Cloud Cost Reduction Team that successfully lowered AWS costs to $250K per month.★ Implemented a BI framework using Snowflake, Databricks, AWS Quicksight, and Microsoft PowerBI. Developed data architecture, reports, and ETL scripts.★ Used data analytics, trend analysis, and AWS ML variant analysis to identify business opportunities and optimal price points. Increased revenue by $100K by partnering with 10 facilities in Florida.★ Credited with improving project management through the adoption of JIRA and Agile methodologies. Achieved project milestones and deliverables on-time and within budget.☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲ABOUT HUMAN LONGEVITYHuman Longevity is dedicated to building the world's most comprehensive database on human genotypes and phenotypes, and using machine learning to help develop new ways to fight diseases associated with aging.

San Diego, California, Us

★ Transformed a stalled $500K project to build a cloud-based business analytics and reporting system using Power BI, completing the initiative on time. Managed a five-person team.★ Migrated on-premise server data and network architecture to cloud-based architecture using Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Office 365, generating $90K in annual savings.★ Recognized for creating a new revenue-generating service providing online business incorporation, using AWS cloud architecture.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

★ Designed and developed the company’s flagship product, a multi-vehicle price quoting SaaS system with the power to process tens of thousands of transactions each day with a volume of 1.7 billion storage transactions processed monthly for B2B clients.★ Transitioned platforms to Microsoft Azure, reducing infrastructure costs.★ Responsible for managing 10 direct reports in the United States and five off-shore team members in India. Trained all team members on product specifications, code reviews, and best practices.★ Applied Agile principles to lower the time to deploy crucial updates from one week to one day..★ Improved productivity, lowered costs, and increased on-time performance from software engineers working in India by simplifying the project management system.☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲☲ABOUT RESPONSELOGIXResponseLogix is the leading provider of automotive digital response management (DRM) software for internet leads.

Dealix is the industry leader in connecting auto dealerships and OEMs with car buyers across the nation. A major auto lead aggregator, Dealix also provides lead scrubbing for a number of major OEMs and other companies in the auto lead delivery space.

Foster City, California, Us