Vice President, Engineering Resume Cambridge, MA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Global Technical Leader with extensive experience in software development, product requirements, determining technical scope, managing risks, and building teams that can deliver a finished quality product within a very tight time frame. Success in designing, building, and maintaining large scale international applications that were responsible for growing a business from $100 million to $800 million.
Managed multiple technical teams across three geographically diverse areas including U.S.,
Europe, and Asia through entire product life cycles using both Agile and Waterfall development methodologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ASP.NET, C#, ASP, VB6, CSS, AJAX, JQuery, Python, Perl, MS SQL Server, Linux, Amazon: EC2, SQS, S3, and RDS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Vice President, Engineering

Responsibilities:

Developed and maintained teh core Monster.com applications for both job seekers (over 1 million visitors per day) and recruiters that support an $800M business. Indirectly supervised up to 55 engineers that were responsible for maintaining, enhancing, and providing user statistics about teh Monster.com web site. Primary Technologies used: ASP.NET C#, CSS, AJAX, JQuery, Webtrends, Adobe Insights, and Microsoft SQL Server.
Built and managed multiple software development teams across three continents that designed, developed, and maintained a very large scale public international web site (Monster.com).
Presence in over 30 countries
Over 220M page views per month and over 65M job searches per month
Over 1M new accounts per month
Database containing more TEMPthan 60M users
Implemented a software development strategy to decrease production defects by over 50%. dis resulted in increased user satisfaction and indirectly in additional revenue.
Increased user acquisition and engagement through implementation of innovative job seeker tools and a complete redesign and implementation of teh user interface.
Implemented SEO enhancements that have nearly tripled teh organic search traffic to now represent almost 10% of all Monster traffic.

Director of Engineering

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Migrated teh Monster.com job seeker facing applications from Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) to Microsoft .NET.
Managed teh transition from using exclusively onshore to using both on and off shore development resources for both development and sustaining which resulted in a cost savings of over 30%.
Successfully ramped up teh development team from 5 to over 20 engineers while maintaining an uptime of over 98% for teh job seeker web site.
Expanded teh presence of teh site to include over 26 different countries. Each country was customized for local language(s), legal, and cultural requirements.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

Built original resume builder application on teh Monster.com site using Microsoft’s Active Server Pages and Microsoft SQL Server. Enhanced teh resume search functionality by scaling it to seamlessly search across three Microsoft Index indices. Developed and maintained teh Monster.com website using teh following technologies: Active Server Pages (ASP), Visual Basic 6 (VB6), Perl, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Index Server
Developed and maintained a 4D Macintosh application that tracked and reported consultant time and expenses. Deployed application to offices throughout Europe; ported teh application from teh Macintosh to teh Microsoft Windows environment using Powersoft’s Powerbuilder language. Designed and built an automated course evaluation application using Powerbuilder. Supported and implemented ACT Software for teh Education Telesales Group.