Chief Architect & CTO Darien, CT Resume

SUMMARY

Software engineer, architect and manager with over 20 years of experience in designing, building and testing and supporting Enterprise, Internet and Mobile systems. Brings a unique combination of strategic perspective, technical breadth, leadership and communication skills, and an ethic of continuous improvement.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Java, Bash Shell Scripts, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML, JSON, HTTP, Web Services, SQL and relational databases. Comfortable with multiple Amazon Web Services, Docker, Linux system admin, Message Brokers, JEE / J2EE and Spring frameworks, JUnit, JSP, XSLT, jQuery, Angular, C++, VoIP, SIP, SNMP, LDAP and NoSQL databases, native iOS apps, IP Networking, packet capture tools, code analyzers, SCM, build and deploy tools, load test tools and Agile management/collaboration tools.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Chief Architect & CTO Darien, CT

Responsibilities:

Product Development: Led crowdsource testing initiative, enabling increased volume and speed at a lower cost than in - house professional testers.
Innovation: Leading migration to Docker containers, AWS ECS orchestration and serverless architectures to improve agility, availability and operations, and enable dynamic scaling.
Practices: Leading development, logging and security practices improvements, resulting in improved quality and supportability. Introduced a continuous integration pipeline, improving team velocity.

Confidential

Associate Director, Marketing Technology Stamford, CT

Responsibilities:

Management: Led estimation, planning and execution of projects (annual value $1M) and ongoing maintenance releases. Manage $.75M contract resource budget (~15 developers). Technical leader for three multi-disciplinary, geographically distributed product teams (~30 people).
Product Development: Enhanced marketing platforms and central guest messaging engine for email, fax, SMS and mobile push notifications.
Innovation: Reduced product development costs through new template and data-driven frameworks.

Confidential

IPC Systems Manager, Architect, Team Lead

Responsibilities:

Management: Recruited and blended on/offshore, contract, interns and permanent members into productive project and departmental teams. Organized and led multiple trainings, improving retention.
Product Development: Collaborated closely with Product Management on product, technology and partner strategy to accelerate upgrades and build new revenue streams.
Innovation: Created new VOIP desktop devices, globally distributed switching platform and open APIs, resulting in increased market share.
Solutions: Secured new sales and retained strategic accounts with product education and consultation.
Intellectual Property: Led R&D patent opportunity identification and managed PTO filings.
Practices: Promoted OOD, UML, REST, automated testing, static code analysis and pipeline automation.