Vincent Bonanni, Pmp Email & Phone Number

New York City Metropolitan Area

Greater New York City Area

Summary: Managed the team responsible for all backend services and API’s centered around Metadata management for all media in the company. Dealt with significant churn in the first two months to grow the team to 4 seasoned developers, implemented new Agile processes to ensure efficient development, implemented new functionality over a legacy (10+ years old) platform, and replaced legacy platform with a modern Micro service architecture using Python, MySQL, Kubernetes, Kafka, ElasticSearch, and more. Led weekly 1:1’s with team members, completed twice-yearly reviews, oversaw personal growth and career management of team members. • Took over Media Search project, completed in 5 months despite multiple significant delays. Reduced search query response time from >10 seconds to milliseconds, while increasing overall stability and reducing maintenance costs• Led team that started at 5 developers, which shrunk to two junior developers due to planned attrition, and re-grew to a team of 1 staff engineer, 1 senior engineer (mentored by me, who grew from one of the junior roles), and 2 junior engineers. Re-focused team efforts, enabling significant improvement in team efficiency, collaboration, and cohesion. Identified additional talent for other teams while recruiting for my team, resulting in 2 solid hires elsewhere in the organization.• Implemented first successful unified on-call program within JW Player, where three teams combined their on-call rotations by ensuring high quality runbooks and processes were in place. The unified on-call resulted in engineers being on-call once every 4 months as opposed to 2 weeks every 6 weeks. This also resulted in significant increase of cross-team knowledge and abilities to assist each other, without placing any significant increase in work on the individual engineers.

Secaucus, New Jersey

Hired to revamp the company’s development processes, systems, and teams. Worked on moving entire organization over to GitHub/Jira/Confluence system. Designed, Architected, and Implemented a new microservice-based Platform as a service model based system to replace piecemeal legacy framework. Oversaw development of multiple offshore teams. Replaced legacy tools ranging from 8-20+ years old with modern systems. • Implemented updated internal tools to replace 20+ applications with one single, modern application, increasing efficiency and accuracy of work while decreasing maintenance of legacy VB6 applications• Standardized Project Management on Jira/Confluence, increasing task visibility and reporting while saving over $1000/month• Updated Source Control to GitHub, saving on infrastructure costs & increasing visibility into developer progress• Updated Standards to regain internal control of development process from outsourced development teams.

Greater New York City Area

Consultant role; tasked with building out an entirely new API and database within a specific time frame, along with internal tools. Highlights include:• API built within two months; implemented in Golang with a Neo4J database in a Linux environment. Developed on a Macbook Pro.• Built internal Data Analysis tools that shortened time from a multiple program, overnight process to a single process, hours or minutes long depending on the size of the data set.• Self-taught Golang and Neo4J within two weeks to start development.

New York, New York

Filled a variety of roles; this includes but is not limited to a senior developer, project manager, tech lead, and more. Tasked with implementing a cultural change within Itemize to transition from a small startup to a larger development group through implementation of Agile project management; also responsible for significant new development on the proprietary backend systems.• Implemented the first successful Project Management system in Itemize, customizing Agile to fit the needs of the business and developers. Started with a small Kanban board and worked into a project management tool called Axosoft.• Took over the Data Exports project, which was behind on goals by >1 year and met development goals within a month. • Developed a Data Exports Utility and a Data Integrations Utility, saving Itemize over $45,000/year in licensing costs. Utility integrated with multiple 3rd party API’s, including Quickbooks Online, Freshbooks, FreeAgent, Xero, and more.

Working as a Director/Lead on core business projects; designed and implemented a majority of the company’s core technologies and oversaw all other development. Responsible for both hardware infrastructure (through AWS) and software development (in C#/.NET, and MySQL), as well as gathering business requirements and determining technological direction of the company.• Architected and implemented a full backend and API that processes song data to output contextually-aware playlists, the core product of Mixi.FM. • Designed front-end website enabling users to generate playlists from the proprietary API • Supervised outsourced development of the website• Oversaw outsourced development of proprietary algorithms in use in backend systems• Created AWS/Cloud-based infrastructure for entire Mixi system.

New York City, New York

Liaison between technical team and business stakeholders. Interpreted and documented business requirements. Worked with both onshore (local and remote) and offshore teams to facilitate development of next-generation chase.com website. Ensured development would meet the requirements of multiple stakeholders including but not limited to internal analytics, investment groups, and regulatory groups.• Facilitated onboarding of multiple new development teams• Assisted with the management and supervision of the first offshore development teams for the core project • Coordinated first implementation of analytics in the new website, enabling stakeholders to more effectively determine

Greater New York City Area

Worked as part of the team developing the API and backend that powers both streaming music and metadata for websites including Tunein radio, all CBS-owned and operated radio stations, Radio.com, and many more. Worked on redesigning and implementing backend services and next-gen API to increase efficiency and lower costs.• Redesigned and developed significant portions of the database system, resulting in 300%+ increase in efficiency, enabling over $250K/year savings.• Planned and implemented significant portions of next-generation API, resulting in response times lowering from 15-10 seconds plus to roughly 50-100 milliseconds.• Founded a bi-weekly “game night”, helping to increase company morale and bring together multiple teams that weren’t communicating. Game nights grew in popularity and reached across many departments, resulting in many new lines of communication and networking within the company for everyone involved.• Fixed a series of errors within the reporting and logging systems that was causing false reporting of tracks played. This resulting in a 40% reduction of the database size, as well as significantly more accurate reporting of the actual tracks played.

Clinton, Nj

Worked with multiple teams of scientists to architect and implement a dynamic, distributed, and networked application to process petabyte-size datasets in real time, and display the results in an interactive, 3D, touch-based interface.• Designed and developed application allowing the scientists to run calculations in real-time and begin to see results in seconds that would previously take days or weeks on a supercomputer. This also helped alleviate workloads, as bad test results could be filtered immediately, instead of needing to run through multiple tests.• Planned and developed new, networked 3D UI driven by multi-touch-based interactions, allowing scientists to interact with data results in new ways. This resulted in increased insight into tests, and also increased collaboration between scientists of different fields. • Started a recurring Paintball trip (and other after-hours excursions) with coworkers, bringing together many people from varied backgrounds.• Self-taught C#/.NET through books and online resources to begin development within a week.

Waltham, Massachusetts

Worked as a Developer on multiple internal projects in addition to development for external contracts with companies like Electronic Arts (EA) and Nokia. • Developed and contributed to several high-profile mobile titles, including Nascar 09, The Game of Life, and more. • Worked with developers and producers both locally and in Finland, Vancouver, and Montreal; responsible for communications between groups and coordinating development efforts.

Worked as a Developer on multiple internal projects in addition to development for external contracts with companies like Electronic Arts (EA) and Nokia. • Developed and contributed to several high-profile mobile titles, including Nascar 09, The Game of Life, and more. • Worked with developers and producers both locally and in Finland, Vancouver, and Montreal; responsible for communications between groups and coordinating development efforts.

Staten Island, New York

• Handled scheduling for artists, setup and breakdown of equipment, payments, and more for studio.

Tested games integrating proprietary In-Game-Advertising platform integration. This included additional responsibilities such as overseeing task allocation for each shift, leading test process, and assisting in rewrite of the testing process documentation. • Progressed from a tester to leading teams between 2-10 people through testing process• Rewrote testing process and integration process documentation for external clients• Contributed to and later lead testing processes involving multi-million dollar deals with clients like Electronic Arts and high profile titles like the Madden NFL Football series and the MLB “The Bigs” series.

Game developer for mobile games, worked on new developments as well as porting existing titles to new platforms. Worked on numerous high profile titles, such as the Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six series, King Kong, Asphalt Urban GT series, and many more. Began as a tester under a 3 month contract, later promoted to full-time Game Developer. • Self-taught mobile development to get the position; ended up porting dozens of titles to hundreds of platforms. • Caught significant content issues in a game, preventing potentially seriously offensive, adult content from having been in a game aimed at teen girls• Started weekly “Lunch gaming sessions”; group grew to include multiple departments and increased morale and communication within the office. • Self-taught J2ME and coded Tetris-like demo within two weeks to get the programmer position.

Fostering an online community for Asphalt Urban GT as well as Data Entry, assisting coworker with Sales Monitoring and Basic Market Analysis

Bachelor'S, Game Design And Development

Associates Of Science, Computer Science