PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Savannah, GA

Senior Technical Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Advising Confidential ’s founders on the company's software development strategy for their SaaS product.
• Providing perspective and leadership in the development of prescriptive solutions for a variety of treatment modalities.
• Gathering and analyzing product requirements and consulting on the design and implementation of SaaS architecture components.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Co - Founder

Responsibilities:

• Managing all software development efforts for the analytics platform and new vertical market products.
• Work with CMO and SVP Product on all strategy for product marketing.
• Developing corporate and brand strategy for a SaaS analytics product.
• Overseeing and managing web and social media platforms.
• Responsible for design, implementation and management of all internal IT systems.
• Develop and coordinate strategic channel relationships.
• Manage technical certifications and ongoing business relationships with analytics and technology partners.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Enterprise Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Manage technical certifications and ongoing business relationships with analytics and IoT/M2M technology partners.
• Capture market and industry needs and translate those into advanced analytics use cases, new products, and services.
• Create and manage cross-functional working groups in the development of each of our insight applications.
• Provide strategic recommendations to management regarding product development and financial objectives.

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Director, Communications

Responsibilities:

• Developed new technical alliances with existing industry partners, such as Fusion IO, HDS, and HP; where digital media opportunities cultivated new channel partnerships at leading edge technology providers.
• Created target list for sales team, growing new media and entertainment opportunities in existing accounts as well as providing new account development resulting in a 20% increase of revenue forecast for company.
• Represented Edge at industry trade shows and meetings at the local to the national level such as NAB, SMPTE, TAG, and MAC.

Senior Technical Consultant - Sales Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Customer facing engineering resource for sales team, worked with manufacturing and distribution partners to design and coordinate the integration of enterprise technology solutions.
• Managed proof of concept testing of new technology, such as LTFS and parallel file systems, at some of the largest media companies in the US.
• Maintained technical certifications enabling Edge to sustain elite status with channel partners.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed the installation and configuration of both the lab based and critical production infrastructure for TV Connect.
• Coordinated system integration which included redundant routers, firewalls, load balancers, hundreds of servers that handled transcoding, DRM security and encryption, databases, web and application servers, and central FC storage.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Consultant - Integration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked for Confidential as a contractor with the Video Engineering group at Confidential .
• Managed hardware integration on the TV Connect platform.
• Hired as a full-time employee at Confidential after four months.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Manager of Technical Operations, Media Management

Responsibilities:

• Promoted to Manager of Technical Operations after nine months and was responsible for developing, implementing and managing all technical operations and procedures for new division.
• Worked to develop a service offering that included digitization, storage, asset management, and consultation services for large media library holders.

Post Production Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Researched, installed and managed the configuration of all computer systems for the post facility including the internal AD domain, anti-virus, printing, multiple file servers, FTP servers, and switched Fibre Channel SAN.
• Provided system design, engineering and support services to multi-platform encoding, editing, graphics and rendering systems.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Media Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the design, implementation and management of a laboratory environment that supported research and development, new product design and testing.
• Worked with sales team to design and verify network, server and storage specifications for broadcast media systems.
• Responsible for researching, testing and certifying systems and hardware from multiple storage vendors to ensure that they met performance, capacity and bandwidth requirements for streaming media systems.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

IT Systems Engineer/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Technical manager project involving installation of a complete digital broadcasting management system at the International Broadcasting Bureau and Voice of America in Washington, D.C.
• Worked as part of the Design and Implementation team that installed the combined SAN and NAS storage for a digital broadcasting system involving international radio, satellite, television, and Internet distribution.
• Liaison between senior executives from integrators, manufacturers, and customers.
• Created training material and conducted system administrator classes for Ethernet and Fibre Channel networks, storage (SAN and NAS), and digital asset management database.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Technical Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Represented the Hardware Implementation Team in meetings with senior executives from prospective chain and multi-site customers involving 50-250 pharmacy locations.
• Coordinated work between network engineers and customer network/security engineers to implement site-to-site and remote access VPNs to various hospital, pharmacy and university networks.
• Certified the functionality of PharmacyRX ASP with all new hardware and software vendors.