PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

A combined total of over 11 years’ experience in architecting, implementing and maintaining desktop and web based applications. My professional experience and college coursework give me the skill set that makes me an invaluable asset to any organization; both in a team setting and as an independent developer.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technologies: C/C++, C#, PHP 3.x - 7.2, HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, UML, SOAP, Rest, XML, X-Path, XSLT, ASP.NETVueJS 2

Software: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008, Eclipse/Aptana/Zend Studio, SQL Server 2005/2008, MySQLTeam Foundation Server, Subversion, GIT, SOATest, Tibco Business Studio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Briarcliff Manor, NY

Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded Confidential, our billing system, to include support for multiple companies. This included custom branding on all customer communications and provides the company a scalable, repeatable process for future acquisitions.
• Built and Implemented Confidential, our custom CRM for our internal sales force, saving the company $150,000 per year in fees for a 3rd party equivalent.
• Created Reporting department with 2 staff members who implemented a data warehouse to improve reporting capabilities.
• Created the QA department with three staff members who implemented automated testing. Projected error rate reduction to historic lows for the company while saving hundreds of man hours in tracking and repairing bugs before release.
• Implemented Confluence for the corporate intranet site to start centralizing and creating departmental documentation.
• Helped Design and Implement a Network Disaster Recovery procedure with full redundancy, no data loss and seamless swapping in the event of hardware critical failure.

Technologies used: PHP (5.3, 5.4, 7.2), Vue2 JS, GIT, Zend Framework 1, CSS 3

Confidential

Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

• Relocated Confidential from the Confidential to the NY Data Center with 0 down time.
• Established new infrastructure in the NY Office

Chief Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Architected new Tax Engine increasing performance 1,000% and accuracy saving the company on average $40,000 per year in taxes and fines
• New Staging and Billing Engine designed to reduce workload from hours to minutes daily saving an estimated $70,000 per year
• Replaced nightly batch job with Gearman based continuous processing, freeing up over 1,095 hours a year and increases accuracy of the results.

Vice President of Software Engineering

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• PCI Compliance Certification, ensuring data security and increasing customer trust.
• Created and staffed Software QA department taking the burden of testing the weekly releases off of the business users saving over 55 hours a week across all departments.
• Rate Ready Implementation allowing Glacial to add an additional 30,000 customers in the first 10 months.
• Performance enhancements: Sales commission generation from 2.5 hours to 5 minutes saving a total of 882 hours per year, Customer Invoice delivery from 2+ hours to 15 minutes saving an estimated $7,300.
• Integrated CIS system with Great Plains streamlining the flow for Revenue and Cash saving an estimated 288 man hours per year and allowing for proper A/R Roll Forward tracking.
• Contributed to the analysis and review of all entity acquisitions allowing for proper estimation of capital required to bring the systems in line with Glacial’s goals.
• Analyzed and advised on the software platforms used for market entry into Canada, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand.

Director of Software Engineering

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded the ticket tracking system (JIRA) and tied it to developer commits in Subversion facilitating the ability to perform peer reviews and create release notes.
• Implemented departmental employee feedback and reviews, increasing communication between employees and management, and improving moral in the workplace.
• Architected a SOAP server allowing for system components to be decoupled decreasing maintenance complexity and allowing for the department to react quickly to change requests.
• Architected complex workflow system used for data exceptions giving business users, for the first time, insight and tracking into these issues.
• Architected and implemented a Trade Management system for the Natural Gas wholesale team increasing data accuracy and permitting reconciliation of the counter party statements.

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implemented sales reporting designed to be used by the President of Sales to track monthly sales across all markets by employee and role within minutes
• Rewrote Commissions Reporting to improve accuracy and performance. The new report saved more than 5 hours of work per month in separating and delivering the reports to the regional directors.
• Implemented QA and Staging environments giving developers and business users environments that mirrored production reducing the number of bugs caused by inconsistencies.
• Implemented a Production push procedure in order to restrict access to all Production servers and provide accountability for any changes made.

Confidential, Denver, CO

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Architected and implemented a Confidential to PHP class generator. The classes generated are capable of validating their properties prior to being serialized and transmitted. This validation includes ensuring that all necessary class properties are set to ensure that the requirements of any sequence or choice elements are properly met. This improves the performance of any web service calls that would have failed from a 40 second message response, to less than a second.
• Updated the current extended Soap Client to support properly serializing and un-serializing of the pre-generated classes to ensure that all responses can be checked for type safety.

Confidential, Highlands Ranch, CO

PHP Developer

Responsibilities:

• Optimized the object store procedure that yielded a 400+% increase in execution time.
• Architected and implemented the page generator. This was done in C/C++ and was cross platform compatible between Windows and Linux. This program was designed to be infinitely scalable across N servers and load balanced all work across those servers.
• Architected the page layout drag and drop system allowing users to customize their websites without having to wait for a code release.
• Updated the front end to support URL preservation, allowing any published articles that were renamed to not return a 404.
• Architected a method of splitting approximately 300,000 files into sub folders without any loss in traffic to those files using Apache's Mod-Rewrite.
• Eliminated the file based pagination with the use of an XSLT translation preventing the system from having to regenerate 100’s of pages every time a new article was added to the system.

Confidential, Denver, CO

Contract PHP Developer

Responsibilities:

• Porting of their Java based extraction process into PHP; in doing so gained a 40% performance increase and reduced the need to staff a Java programmer.
• Completed development of the mobile version of their websites drastically increasing the potential audience.
• Implemented an enhanced search engine results page that included detailed BI reporting.
• Implemented ratings functionality for several different object types enhancing customer interactivity with the sites.

Confidential, Blue Water Bay, FL

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Complete redesign and implementation of the OEM integrator via web services.
• Redesigned and recoded the implementation of the email lead parsing system.
• Designed and developed real time status notifications to the OEMs via SQL CLR and web services.
• Improved user interface to support new OEM requirements.
• Responsible for several application critical data conversions requiring 100% accuracy.

Confidential, Crestview, FL

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed a flat file database system with performance speeds near MySQL performance and index times exceeding MySQL.
• Created several web spiders utilizing thread pools, CPU assignments and time critical scheduling.
• Designed and developed in house affiliate and mailing list management programs, increasing revenue by an estimated 47%.
• Developed a full service product management suite that enabled collaboration between clients and freelance writers to include order management, integrated payment gateway, product status updates and product delivery.
• Modified and enhanced popular online mediums such as vBulletin, phpBB, and WordPress.