PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

• Proven Business Leader focusing on execution, innovation, efficiency and production with a track record of leading business groups to innovation and success.
• Execution of key initiatives to restructure corporate technical infrastructure and digital transformation that lead to increased revenues and significant reductions in operating costs.
• Respected leader able to build corporate morale and employee loyalty while keeping employees enageed on the success of the company.
• Accomplished software developer focused on continuous learning, problem solving and innovation with a wide range of experience and expertise.
• Senior leadership in enterprise wide business and digital transformation intiatives.
• Experienced vendor management dealing with manufacturing.
• Experienced in mergers and acquisition along with integration
• Design and implementation of large scale POS (Point of Sale) solutions including development of data warehousing and real - time distributed transaction technologies in support over 3000 POS locations with over 5000 POS systems.
• Inventor of a patented method for processing credit card transactions for multiple merchant accounts using a single swipe. 
• Design and implementation of a mission critical embedded environmental monitoring systems for data collection and reporting of data to the EPA(Environmental Protection Agency)
• Wide variety of experience with multiple eCommerce startup companies

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming/DBMS Languages: .NET, Java, Angular, PHP, SQL, MySQL, Unidata

Mobile Technologies: Native Android/iOS, Cordova, Ionic framework

SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Manager, Application Development

Confidential, West Palm Beach, FL

Responsibilities:

• Initiated and led the business through the transition from Waterfall to Agile porfolio management.
• Member of the Mergers and Acquisitions team evaluating viability and pricing of potential acquisitions.
• Co-lead of the corporate innovation team. Led the corporate mobile initiative creating new mobile products to enhance our existing product portfolio.
• Responsible for design and implemenation of the new enterprise wide ODS/Datawarehouse to support acquisition integration and new reporting platforms.
• 14 direct reports consisting of Developers, Business analysts, project managers and qa staff.
• Liason to the operational areas of the business to enhance and build stronger relationships between IT and business partners.
• Leadership of our new Client/Employee facing application replacing our legacy products supporting over 200k users.

Chief Technology Officer

Confidential, Boca Raton, FL

Responsibilities:

• Led the company through a complete POS(Point of Sale) technology upgrade/overhaul and rebranding.
• Implemented mobile device specific technologies including iOS and Android. Implemented specific technologies that led to higher customer loyalty and increased per customer revenue.
• Responsible for all concerns related to PCI-Compliance and PA-DSS for credit card transaction processing.
• Led the technical support teams (in-house and off-shore) to higher productivity and lower corporate costs.
• Created new policies and procedures that streamlined the engineering process and led to higher productivity and quality.
• Responsible for the procurement of product hardware from overseas manufacturers.
• Led the negotiations of contracts with outside hardware and software vendors and technical business partners. Increased subscription revenues for POS add-on services.
• Over 3000 locations that included over 5000 POS systems.
• Extensive eCommerce system that included a proprietary payment gateway and shopping cart system.
• Secondary product line that included multiple eCommerce sites that utilized ZenCart and Authorize.NET or our own proprietary payment gateway and shopping cart system.
• Lead the development of the CRM system based on the Sugar platform.
• Responsible for 7 figure budget.
• System included mobile technologies built on Android and IOS platforms that fully integrated into the local POS system and enterprise wide system

Technologies included: WEPOS, C#, .NET, SQL Server, Xamarin, MySQL, Linux, Android, IOS, ZenCart, Authorize.net, Sugar CRM, Dynamics

Director of Development

Confidential, Boca Raton, FL

Responsibilities:

• Led the engineering team through the creation and maintenance of new Point of Sale (POS) products for the Retail, Salon, Restaurant and Pet industries.
• Led the development team through the creation of new credit card transaction processing libraries to work with Confidential Payment Solutions and Global Payments.
• Design and implementation of proprietary system wide gift card transaction system.
• Management of QA Staff to assure product quality and ease of use.
• Responsible for the implementation of a Web Mail system for WebMD based on the Confidential platform.

Technologies included: PHP, Confidential, AJAX, Apache, Linux

Senior Developer-Project Manager

Confidential, Calera, AL

Responsibilities:

• Led the development team in the design and implementation of environmental control systems.
• Handled project budgeting and scheduling. Creation of a multi-tiered system consisting of 30+ web and database servers. Guidance and mentoring of the development team.
• Design and maintenance of the internal web based system for monitoring and reporting environmental data to the Environmental Protection Agency.
• Conducted internal audits of proprietary software and hardware to ensure compliance with state and federal regulations.
• Design and implementation of embedded monitoring controls and mobile devices to collect data from the control systems.

Technologies Included: ASP, C#, SQL Server, Visual Basic, MS Access, Ladder Logic, Linux

Consulting Developer

Confidential, Birmingham, AL

Responsibilities:

• Consultant position with responsibility for design and implementation of industrial control and data management systems.
• Designed inventory tracking and sales systems.
• Handling of data migrations from AS400 to SAP system.

Technologies included: AS400, SAP, Fortran, SQL Server, Oracle

Software Developer

Confidential, Juno Beach, FL

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented multi-tier systems for delivery and storage of financial information.
• Designed system to retrieve finance rates from banks and lenders.
• Created notification system to deliver email to employees and users.
• Responsible for the implementation for the eCommerce portion of the site that allowed users to purchase subscriptions of financial information.

Technologies included: ASP, .NET, C#, SQL Server