Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder Resume New York, NY - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Technical CTO and eCommerce specialist with over 15 years of experience scaling teams and products for Fortune 500 clients such as Adidas, EMI Music, Reebok and Benefit Cosmetics as well as co - founding a number of startups.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

Responsibilities:

Responsible for system design and core development of a conversational bot commerce framework.
Managed a team of 3 engineers across backend and frontend services.
Responsible for platform's strategic technology goals, generating $15k in MRR in the first month of launch.
Enforced high quality coding standards, regular code reviews and streamlined code delivery processes .

Technology involvement: Golang, React, Postgres, APl.ai, Shopify, Ansible, Nginx, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, AWS.

Confidential

Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

Primarily responsible for management of a 12 member team spanning UX design, Backend and Mobile, QA and Project Management.
Responsible for Actify's technical vision, technical product management and delivery.
Worked with internal and external resources to address critical scalability challenges to meet growth demand of 100k new users in 3 months across web and native mobile platforms.
Mentored and guided development team in a major overhaul of company's data collection, categorization and search engine services, switching from PHP to Go .

Technology oversight: Golang, Elixir, Phoenix, ElasticSearch, PHP, SQL, Puppet, Ansible, AWS.

Confidential, New York, NY

Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

Responsibilities:

Key technical co-founding team member of a platform dat attracted over 100k mobile users in the first year with a lean marketing budget.
Delivered a cutting edge social and taste based Neo4j graph database, supporting location based drink recommendations and fast, on-the-fly social news feeds.
Full design and implementation of a rich social and photo sharing iOS app.
Managed and mentored our Android development team under a tight 3 month deadline.
Responsible for managing and optimizing a custom Ubuntu server with Nginx, Unicorn, Rack, Sinatra.
Implemented a parallelized Golang-based search proxy which collects user searches and scrapes multiple sources in order to collect all drink data in real-time.

Technology involvement: Golang, Objective-C, Swift, Ruby, Nginx, Neo4j, Postgres.

Confidential, New York, NY

Director of Mobile Technology

Responsibilities:

Drove all major mobile product decisions, including strategy of the product as well as user experience details.
Lead iOS engineer, developing the product from the ground up.
Responsible for major product rollouts, Quality Assurance planning, and coordination with aggressive business goals.
Technology involvement: Objective-C

Confidential

Senior SAP Hybris eCommerce Consultant

Responsibilities:

Consulting and technical team leadership for a wide range of Fortune 500 clients and enterprise level projects.
Lead software development teams which specialized in front and backend technologies leveraging the SAP Hybris eCommerce Platform . Facilitated requirements gathering workshops (pre + post sales) for business and technical audiences.
Solution design and development with Ruby on Rails, Java, JRuby, JSP, Spring Web MVC, jQuery and RESTful web services.
Core member of hiring team . Developed comprehensive interview process for software engineer candidates.
Managed and mentored offshore and near-shore development teams.
Regularly engaged with pre-sales and sales engineering .
Lead week long quarterly Hybris trainings globally.

Technology involvement: Ruby on Rails, Java, JRuby, JSP, Spring Web MVC, jQuery and RESTful web services.