SUMMARY

• Software Developer, Technical Instructor, Data Scientist, Evangelist, and Manager with extensive experience leading technology development and strategic marketing initiatives for startups and large orgainizations, generating millions of dollars to top and bottom lines.
• Successful at building and directing lean, cross - functional teams to develop, market, and roll out new technology products and world-class solutions. Able to define and align strategies to bridge gaps between emerging technologies, value propositions, and marketing to identify and capture new business opportunities.
• Passionate, hands-on developer and leader with proven ability to take a strategic ol view of the entire process to attain maximum results for the customer and company. Filed several software patents and author of many leading publications included a text on distributed computing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• C/C++ • Python • HTML5 • Perl • Java • J2EE
• PHP • PhotoShop • Javascript • jQuery
• Linux • Unix • HTML5
• Windows • MacOS • Web Services • REST APIs
• Spring (STS) • Eclipse • NetBeans
• Excel • PowerPoint • Word
• MVC • CSS3 • MySQL • NoSQL
• Hadooop • MapReduce • R • Hive • NiFi • Spark • R Studio • bash • Scala

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Big Data/Data Science - Principal Instructor

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Principal technical Instructor for the Confidential, providing Big Data and Data Science training for Think Big internal staff and Think Big clients. Think Big is a Big Data/Data Science pure play open source consulting firm. Think Big is a Teradata company.
• Think Big Boot Camp (employee on-boarding) and client-focussed course producer and instructor, creating, and delivering curriculum for the Academy, including hands-on development exercises in Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Spark, R, Machine Learning, and other Big Data/Data Science technologies.

Skills Used: Data Science (R programming, statistical inference, linear regression, machine learning, and data products production), and Data Engineering (Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, Pig, Presto, HDFS, Storm, Spark, Java, Scala).

Senior Developer - Project Lead

Confidential, UT

Responsibilities:

• Led, supervised, and coded on-going back-end development for Bobbi Brown, North America
• Led, supervised, and coded on-going back-end development for Prescriptives
• Front-end implementation work for both sites (Javascript, jQuery, and CSS).

CTO/Founder

Confidential, Salt Lake City, UT

Responsibilities:

• $700,000 in angel investment secured by developing a technology and business growth strategy with value proposition that defined market need and how to fill it - positioning firm for launch.
• Increased revenues from $0 to $2+ million annually over two-year period by building and expanding user base from 400 users to 12,000+ users and merchant offers from 30 to more than 400.
• Boosted firm's value proposition and attractiveness to investors by successfully filing three software patents for less than $8,000, saving $27,000 over original quotes by reducing counsel's time demands.
• Grew one media partner in one market to nine media partners in 11 markets in 18-month period by envisioning product suites and authoring B2B, promotional, and website materials.
• Designed and installed first-of-its kind web-based operating system within six weeks of launch to enable 50+ merchants to track redemptions electronically, while saving them paperwork and costs.

Consultant/Founder

Confidential, Franklin, TN

Responsibilities:

• Positioned firm to offer competitive FOREX trading services to customers by developing and implementing five viable and profitable FOREX trading algorithms targeting a widely-used retail trading platform.

Chief Marketing Officer

Confidential, Brentwood, TN

Responsibilities:

• Identified a new viable $2 billion global market by developing a strategic growth plan to establish a solid commercial direction for a small government contractor.
• Grew revenue from $100,000 to $2.5+ million annually by designing marketing campaign for company and its flagship product that included coaching and mentoring field sales staff to deliver results.
• $100,000 payment secured by crafting a strategic plan to launch company's largest product (Synthesys SDK) as part of satisfying requirements for existing government contract.

Consultant

Confidential, New Albany, MS

Responsibilities:

• $4 million angel investment within six months secured by creating a strategic business plan to secure capital funding for a cold forging manufacturing startup in Mississippi.
• Researched and authored a textbook on distributed computing published by Prentice Hall in 2004 and is currently used by at least five different computer science courses around the world today.

Java Technology Evangelist

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Successfully filed three software patents through Sun Labs, while supporting company's marketing organization.
• Reached more than 100,000 Software Developers worldwide by proposing and supporting efforts to produce Sun's “Technology Days” events that covered new software products / protocols.
• Played key role in growing number of active Java Software Developers worldwide from 50,000 to 5+ million by writing numerous published articles and blogs advocating java technology to targeted Software Developers.