Summary

• A cross-functional leader who takes a disciplined and holistic architectural approach to see products and programs succeed through out their full lifecycles.
• 23 years in IT, including 13 years of development, architecture, product management, and team leadershipfor the first internet company to make the Fortune 500 and later form the world's largest media company.Currently focused on the social mission portfolios for the largest nonprofit membership organization in the US.

Expertise

• Directing newly acquired subsidiaries, vendor partners, outsourced and offshored teams to remain accountable for effective adaptation and quality delivery in support of major business transformation.
• Authoring and implementing broad strategic direction for portfolios and enterprises, as well as rooting out small details that can make or break an individual project.
• Transitioning legacy proprietary systems and mainframe applications into modern COTS, SaaS, and open-source solutions on midrange, farmed, and cloud hosts to lower cost and improve operationalefficiency.
• Creating products, building systems, and evolving infrastructure in vast heterogeneous enterprise environments with a broad variety of implementation teams. Heavily focused on Systems of Innovation and Systems of Engagement.
• Conceiving, developing, and evolving durable technology products. Designing and implementing large-scale, highly-available, high-volume, distributed, fault-tolerant, and near real-time systems.
• Vendor-neutral technology agnostic design for cost risk mitigation, and portability of projects personnel.
• Handling product, team, process, and technology integration and improvement following dozens of reorgs, mergers, and acquisitions.
• Streamlining product and tech development processes within large, complex, distributed organizations.
• Working with all levels in cross-departmental, cross-functional, international, and outsourced teams. Leading architectural, product, design, dev, and QA teams.
• Proficient in Agile Scrum, Waterfall, and Extreme Programming methodologies for the SDLC. An evangelist of the Lean Startup product development methodology. M ember : Agile Alliance, Scrum Alliance, and Pro ject Management Institute PMI . Certified ScrumMaster CSM .
• Comfortable spinning through lightweight TOGAF cycles and performing Pace Layer analysis to formulate strategic roadmaps for portfolios and enterprises.
• Member: Nonprofit Technology Network NTEN , Cloud Standards Customer Council CSCC ,Association for Information and Image Management AIIM , DC Lean Startup Circle, DC Tech Meetup.
• Volunteer: Boy Scouts of America, Potomac Appalachian Trail Club .

Experience

Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect

Confidential

• Led programs and projects within my portfolio, authoring and driving strategic initiatives delivering a suite of tools and services that inform, engage, and manage very large communities of donors, advocates, volunteers, and event attendees around issues such as health care, financial security, hunger, housing, income, and isolation.
• Defined mission-area federated enterprise architecture in a pilot demonstrating a holistic architectural approach business architecture, information architecture, applications architecture, technology architecture, skills architecture and effective collaboration across several business units to achieve best possible business alignment, agility, and IT investment value.
• Pioneered and defined the Architect position s for a new department of strategy, innovation, and architecture in AARP ITS. Demonstrated a very broad range of responsibilities balancing the VP's initial vision for the role with the differing needs of his Directors of Client Engagement and Application Development .
• Designed, improved, and deployed portfolio strategies that resulted in millions in annual savings, ensuring more dollars would reach awareness campaigns, advocacy efforts, and charitable recipients .

System Architect

Confidential

• Managed product development and architecture of disruptive technologies in the pre-chasminternet space as well as successful implementation of the full lifecycle of dozens of mainstream products.
• Built products and services used by over 100 million people worldwide. Responsibilities included business, information, application, technology, and skills architecture for a portfolio of community products that generated over 1 Billion pageviews per month up to, but not including, theBebo acquisition.
• Designed , built, and integrated systems for some of the biggest brands in the history of the internet, including first-of-breed innovative products such as AOL Instant Messenger AIM Buddy Feeds AOL Lifestream, MapQuest, Moviefone, Netscape, Apple.com, CompuServe, ICQ, AIM.com, AOL.com, Digital City, AOL Local, Ticketmaster, AIM Pages, People Connection, AOL Profiles, AOL Groups, Hometown early consumer web hosting , Journals early blogs , AOL Web Mail, Chat, Message Boards, Kids and Teens Channels KOL Red , Love AOL earliest Photo Personals and Match.com.
• Guided dozens of successful product launches and hundreds of iterations utilizing staff, vendor, and offshore teams.
• Planned and executed portfolios of enterprise-scale systems for web infrastructure, SOA, open services platforms for large public developer network communities 500,000 holders ofOpenAIM keys , social media and community apps, user-generated content UGC and personalization, web content management systems CMS WCM , custom apps for real-time Service Assurance, contact center customer relationship management CRM , and custom extract/transform/load ETL apps for data warehousing EDW business intelligence BI and decision support.
• Primary focus for most of my tenure was on messaging, social media,hyperlocal, and online community products, but a few years were also spent working on custom BI systems performing clustered M ap R educe analysis long before the creation of Hadoop.

President and CEO , Founder

Confidential

• Developed early- g e neration BBS and web presence, publishing, cat alogs, commerce, and community applications.
• Handled business dev and software dev. -- sales, staff consultant management,and engineering .
• Consulted for AOL Greenhouse Networks, providing cutting-edge architecture, product, and application development for in-house, venture capital, joint venture, and partner properties, including The Motley Fool, Moms Online, Hecklers Online, Entertainment Asylum, Real Fans Sports Network, Electra women's channel , Santa's Home Page, and Love AOL -- the 1 content property on America Online at the time .
• Applied our community-in-a-box portfolio of Chat, Message Boards, Auditoriums large-scale celebrity chat events , viral products, games, newsletter subscriptions, guest writers' forums/blogs, custom search, end-user support apps, and other personalized and user-generated content products.

Technologies

• PHP, Perl, Python, C, C , Java, Ruby, ADP/Tcl,
• Oracle 9i/10g, Oracle PL/SQL, Sybase , T-SQL , MySQL, Berkeley DB, SQLite
• Apache HTTP, Tomcat, Netscape Enterprise Server NES , AOLserver
• Lucene, Solr, PLS
• Solaris, HP-UX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL , CentOS
• Stratus, Tandem, and zSeries integration and replacement with midrange, farmed commodity, clustered, and cloud infrastructure