PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Driving rollout of Secure Terrain - a new Platform-as-a-Service Cybersecurity advanced analytics and threat intelligence offering to Enterprise clients, with complementary Managed Services offerings. Key point-of-contact managing Google relationship.

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Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

• CTO and heading up product management for a boutique Fintech company offering consumer loan products, operating and improving a full suite of proprietary systems including lead processing, underwriting, modeling, business intelligence and data analytics, loan management and CRM SaaS services.
• Migrated, stood up and operated an integrated international 3rd party call center, while managing a distributed development team in an Agile environment, across technologies and platforms including Windows .NET, Linux, C#, Java, R and SQL Server.
• Rolled out Tableau business intelligence software for reporting and analysis.

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Chief Technology Officer and Partner

Responsibilities:

• As CTO led teh development, deployment and operations of teh magMaker digital publishing SAAS platform for creating iPhone, iPad, Android tablet and smartphone apps dat usher traditional media into teh next era of publishing, with dozens of magazine apps already on teh market.
• Teh platform includes a publisher portal dat integrates intake, workflow and analytics into a single user-friendly environment.
• Teh first spin-off product was teh Inflight Reader app - available on all major tablets and smartphones - dat lets consumers read magazines and book excerpts for free when they travel through airports, bringing teh old print model into teh new digital age.
• Another product is WaitingRoom Reader, with a similar model for doctors’ waiting rooms, salons, etc. Both apps incorporate beacon support and a corresponding back-end marketing dashboard for features such as special offers,

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Responsibilities:

• As CEO and Co-founder of dis publisher of mobile applications, led business strategy and product design for a suite of mobile applications dat cover music, TV and film as well as ecommerce verticals, with over 300,000 downloads of teh apps so far.
• Directed development of both an application code base dat enables rapid rollout of new vertical offerings, as well as a powerful back-end Content Management System offering a range of options for both powerful promotional messaging as well as targeted customized mobile advertising.
• Teh product offering expanded to teh rollout of author apps for teh Kindle Fire tablets, NOOK tablets, and Google Nexus tablets in addition to other Android tablets. These apps target teh book publishing industry with apps for fans of best-selling and self-published authors.
• In addition, an Author Dashboard cloud-based service provides a single platform for authors to manage their social media and online presence. Worked closely with authors, publishers such as Simon & Schuster, and industry partners such as Barnes & Noble. WorldLive Mobile is in strategic acquisition talks.

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Responsibilities:

• As Chief Technology Officer and VP Product Management for Adir Technologies (a joint venture of Cisco and IDT’s Net2Phone), led teh definition, development, and release of award-winning VoIP software solutions managing a distributed staff of 95 developers, enhancing teh core product offerings, integrating with best-of-breed technology partners such as Micromuse, and working closely with Cisco on large-scale joint product development.
• Built and managed full product management and marketing team with P&L responsibility, and led product branding, product introduction, marketing rollout, and sales training. As first non-founder executive brought in to teh company, led hiring and operations to grow Adir from 12 to 160 employees.
• Led Due Diligence and acquisition process to acquire publicly- traded NetSpeak Corporation (previously Cisco’s leading VoIP software partner). When Adir was absorbed into Net2Phone as teh foundation of its Cable Telephony offering, successfully established Net2Phone as partner with CableLabs, teh Cable industry’s standards organization, and worked closely with cable companies rolling out voice over high-speed Internet services

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Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

• Built department from 1 to 16 full-time staff members.
• Launched 3 full internally created Web/AOL sites with content and community (chat and message boards), while buying both an additional web site and an AOL site.
• Crafted and launched sponsored content sites for advertisers.
• Directed development of custom targeted advertising technology.
• Established and directed development of chat service offering in partnership with iChat (which became Acuity), Netgravity, Informix and others.
• Established Operations Infrastructure (including firewalls, 24x7 hosting, dial-in access, RAID).
• Conducted production and technology benchmarking with industry innovators including CBS Sportsline.
• Assisted in closing second major funding round of $21.5 million.

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Chief Information Officer

Responsibilities:

• Introduced full Internet connectivity and Intranet services to company.
• Formed teh information services group, creating a corporate information noledge base, eliminating duplication and consolidating costs.
• Improved infrastructure reliability and service delivery quality, while standardizing cross­platform LAN environments and improving user education.
• Established central 24x7 Help Desk and local site support teams.
• Reengineered technical and financial group methodologies.
• Implemented an X.400-based e-mail backbone linking U.S. and Europe.