SUMMARY:

• Hands - on developer and manager of technologists with 20 years of experience leading teams of five to fifty-five in startup and corporate environments.
• JavaScript front-end expert programmer skilled with:
• AngularJS, Backbone, jQuery, X/HTML5, Ajax, Node.js, JavaScript, KnockoutJS, XSLT, XML, XSL, CoffeeScript, Underscore, bootstrap, JQuery UI, SASS and LESS
• Chrome Dev Tools, Firebug, CSS3, XPATH, DTD, JSON, Semantic Markup, Cross Browser Compatibility, W3C Standards-Compliant Code, Microsoft Office Suite, UML
• Operating system: UNIX/Linux, Windows XP/98/NT, iOS
• Skilled at building JavaScript front-ends with or without frameworks
• MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
• Experienced with git and github.
• Experience with the use of HTML5 canvas and html5 webstorage.
• Experienced with Agile and BDD (including use of Jasmine Testing Framework)
• Programmer and technical development lead, skilled in both entrepreneurial and large-scale initiatives
• Key collaborator and facilitator with over 20 years of experience in group problem solving and team leadership for world-class software development
• Deep technical background, participated in all aspects of software development from technology evaluation and consultation to project management and hands-on development
• Patent holder for WebTier, a programmer productivity enhancement tool
• Published author and well-known known speaker on threat analysis
• Founder and President of successful consulting firm for over 20 years

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York City

Tech Team Lead/Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Built as a highly flexible single-page app using HTML5/CSS, jQuery, Node.js, Backbone / Marionette.js, Grunt, Kdb+ / q from Kx Systems (a high-performance, high volume database designed for analysis of vast amounts of data, most often used on Wall St.) and Linux, it employs complex server-side aggregation approaches to achieve high performance data analysis, and implement complex measurements on a rapidly evolving set of courseware assets.

Confidential, Jericho, NY)

CTO

Responsibilities:

• Defined the overall architecture, the initial user experience, addressed such key technical challenges as achieving extremely high scalability, super fast sorting and searching, oversaw the development of a high-tech breakthrough recommendation engine for matching deals to investor interests.
• Took the company from no technology at all to launch and beyond and working on AI-centric upgrade, hiring and managing all key technical staff.
• Lead a team of 10 developers as well as DBAs and admin staff. Using AngularJS, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Gulp.js and Elasticsearch.

Confidential, New York City, NY

JavaScript Developer/Lead Front-end Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Building single-page apps using HTML/CSS with jQuery, Node.js and Backbone / Marionette.js and Grunt for delivery of election data.
• System to be used by reporters, editors, analysts, producers, etc. during primary and general elections.
• Early version used Nov 2013 at Confidential .

Confidential

JavaScript Developer

Responsibilities:

• Built single-page apps using HTML/CSS with jQuery and Knockout for configuring and control of heavy equipment.
• Provide mentoring in object technology, JavaScript and UI development.
• Backend in Node.js and Postgresql.

Confidential, Boston, MA

JavaScript Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and built a JavaScript front end with HTML/CSS with jQuery and Backbone.js, backend in Node.js, which allows end-users to query for real estate data and other personal background information.
• Deployed inside of Adobe AIR as well as mobile.

Confidential, New York City, NY

JavaScript Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and built a JavaScript front end with HTML/CSS and Backbone.js, a tool which searched for financial instruments with specific characteristics and performed a range of analysis on hypothetical portfolios.
• This tool was built for two desks inside a larger hedge fund.

Confidential, New York City, NY

Senior JavaScript Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and built a portfolio evaluation system used a trading operation which monitors the positions of 50+ fundamental trading desks supporting them and their managers with highly dynamic and customizable analysis.
• Single-page app JavaScript, HTML/CSS with jQuery and Knockout.

Confidential, New York City, NY

Senior JavaScript Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed cutting-edge single-page app for network sizing and configuration in JavaScript with jQuery on the front end.
• System used by network engineers to address complex compatibility issues as to do capability modeling.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed innovative news-monitoring service offering the best “current awareness” capability for the State of Illinois with emphasis on key statewide markets including Chicagoland.
• Lead seven engineers to design and develop breakthrough user interface, large-scale indexing capabilities, article harvesting engine, and provide second-level support.
• Delivered key milestones on time and within budget, index thousands of additional documents each day.
• Poised to gain lead market share due to the breadth of coverage exceeding competitors.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Project Manager / Lead Investigator

Responsibilities:

• Directed a team of 17 technology experts and outside election officials to evaluate the plans to move one of the nation’s largest and most complex election operations to vote-by-mail in time for the 2008 general election.
• Acquired and deployed millions of dollars worth of mail sorting and vote tabulation hardware and software.

Confidential, Stanford, CA

Project Executive

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the largest election threat model validation effort ever undertaken, collaborating with researchers at top US and international Universities, security experts and other relevant, specialized organizations.
• Working under Stanford University / National Science Foundation contract.
• Goals include improving allocation of election resources by evaluating and rating threats to election integrity.

Confidential, Stanford, CA

Co-Principle Investigator

Responsibilities:

• Developed proprietary threat-analysis application, “ Confidential, ” employed at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST, US Commerce Department) by the team that writes voting-system standards.
• Developed a repeatable, software-supported method for allocation of security-related resources incorporating probabilistic mathematical methods. Can be used to prioritize attacks and estimate the effectiveness of security measures.