SUMMARY:

• Information technology leader with 11 years of experience specializing in Online Media, OTT/TVE, Digital Advertising, Digital Marketing and E - commerce industry. Looking for senior level role in Technology Management, Program/Product Management or Solution Architecture.
• Strong management experience. 5 years as head of department, and 4 years as team lead.
• Strong technical background. 11 years total in software development, 7 years as solution architect.
• Demonstrated success in taking new ideas from concept to launch to maturity.
• Expertise in TV/Video tech: OTT/TVE apps, Live Streaming, Ad Stitching, OVP, Media Storage, MAM, Video CMS, Online Video supply chain and Studio build outs.
• Expertise in Ad Tech: Ad serving (Native/Display/Video), RTB, SSP, DSP and DMP integrations. Publisher Yield management and Ad Mediation.
• Expertise in Enterprise Tech: CMS, ERP, BI, EMS and DAM, Subscription & Payment systems.
• Significant hands on experience in web and mobile application development.
• Experience with cloud (AWS), Hybrid, and Co-located (virtual & physical) hosting environments.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure: Firewalls, SIEMs, Load Balancers, APMs, Servers and Storage systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Management: Leadership, Planning & Roadmap, Team building, Vendor Selection, IT Strategy, Budgeting, Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Trello, MS Project, Confluence, SharePoint, PowerPoint and Excel.

Architecture: OOAD, SOA, MVC, Webhooks, Server less, n-tier, UML

Programming: .Net, C#, Asp.net MVC, Asp.net Core, Web API, JavaScript, XHTML, HTML5, CSS, SQL, Web Services (WCF, REST), PHP

Languages: MS SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

Databases Servers: Windows Server 2016, IIS 9, Node.js

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boca Raton, FL

Director

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for technology planning, product roadmaps, product development, application development, architecture, operations and vendors/partners management.
• Directly oversaw PMO, Web Development, App Development, UI/UX, and Database/Reporting groups.
• My Organization supported other departments including Marketing, Email Marketing, Editorial, Ad Sales, Finance, Business Development, Call Center and Fulfillment for all things technology.
• Confidential Ad Network: For this project served as Product Manager and Solution Architect:
• Responsible for end-to-end product development, from vision to go to market strategy.
• Led network growth from 50M to 14 Billion impressions on more than 2000 websites.
• Architected highly scalable system with advertiser self-serve, campaign management, reporting and network management features.
• Used hybrid colocation with AWS and Verizon CDN infrastructure for elastic scalability.
• Leveraged Hadoop, Map Reduce, Hive, NVD3.js and Data Warehouse for detailed reporting.
• Achieved integration with several demand and supply side 3rd party ad technologies.
• Additionally, managed integration of backend business process technologies like: Dynamics Sales CRM, Workflow, Support, Billing and Integrations to Great Plains Accounting system.
• After 4 years of operation oversaw migration of the system to Adsnative platform.
• Led solution design, vendor selection, contract negotiations, budgeting & system integrations
• Implemented complete OTT Stack leveraging CDNs, Subscription/ User & Entitlement management systems, Live Encoders, Dynamic Ad Insertion and Kaltura OVP.
• Led an implementation group with in-house network engineering, software development, project managers and outsourced broadcast engineering teams.
• Saved $3M in CAPEX by identifying low cost alternative Internet technologies to solve complex traditional broadcast problems.
• Led design and development plans for Confidential Studio facilities in New York and Florida. Launched first studio in 25 days.
• Managed budgeting, selection and procurement of studio equipment, control room equipment and encoding decoding devices for live programming workflow.
• Built scalable multi bit rate live & on demand video streaming infrastructure using AWS, Elemental encoders and Akamai.
• Oversaw integration of PAAS for media playout, archive storage and network origination from Encompass Media.
• Led in-house application development OTT native apps on 16 different platforms including iOS, Android, Roku, Apple TV, Smart TV, Tizen and more using REST Web services, Liquid, ASP.NET MVC for middleware, HTML5, JavaScript, BrightScript and Swift.
• Implemented OTT reporting on ComScore Media Metrics platform.
• Oversaw implementation of Microsoft Business Intelligence platform with real time reporting and dash boarding capabilities using SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, and Power BI and Excel.
• Oversaw HIPAA compliant infrastructure and applications setup in AWS for insurance subsidiary.
• Managed six software development groups and an offshore team using Scrums for software development and Kanban for operations.
• Mentored team leads by bridging the knowledge gap between business and technology. Provided hands on development guidance.
• Introduced project demand management, portfolio management and prioritization processes to align business goals with IT resource assignment.
• Increased productivity of application development team five folds by restructuring the team in small application focused groups, acquiring and retaining best talent.
• Implemented IT best practices for Agile SDLC, Change management, Release management and Continuous integration.

Confidential, West Palm Beach, Florida

Sr. Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for architecture, implementation and development related to all Enterprise Application Systems.
• Defined enterprise application architecture using Service oriented architecture (SOA) and object oriented application design (OOAD).
• Worked with CTO on planning roadmap for implementation and replacement of Enterprise technologies.
• Managed a development team of 12 onsite and 4 offshore developers using Scrum.
• Led design and development for the implementation of ERP, Publication Management and Marketing Management system using WCF, Entity Framework and ASP.Net MVC.
• Implemented PCI compliant Enterprise Ecommerce platform and integrated it with ERP system via Enterprise grade custom built Middleware. Using Workflow foundation, WCF, SQL and Kentico CMS
• Implemented Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Ad Sales process.
• Built high availability and scalable architecture for Enterprise Content Management System serving 13 different Confidential digital portals, receiving 70M monthly impressions using Kentico CMS in a web farm.
• Led development of in-house email list management and double-opt systems. Integrated with external ESP for delivery of 5B emails yearly.
• Managed development for Confidential mobile apps and responsive mobile sites built on Angular JS.
• Resident subject matter expert on DFP, AdX and Ad Serving.
• Implemented processes for operations, change management and application performance monitoring.

Confidential, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Sr. Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as lead CMS developer (contractor) at Confidential on behalf of Confidential Inc.
• Migrated Cold fusion based CMS system to .NET based Kentico CMS System in 8 months.
• Implemented SDLC process and conducted development training sessions for full time staff.

Confidential, Kansas City, Missouri

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on .Net development for Confidential, a digital advertising and software development firm.

Environment: ASP.Net 2.0, C#, SQL Server 2005, Subsonic, Ajax

Confidential

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked in a team of 3 developers to build Real Estate CRM software

Confidential, Kansas City, Missouri

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Member of 15 people Platform Architecture Team responsible for developing Tax Team Studio (TTS) application used by all H&R Block locations for preparing tax returns.