SUMMARY

• Value Proposition: Thought Leader; Innovation Catalyst; Technology Strategist; Business Coach and Advisor; Technology Investment Optimizer; IT and Business Liaison
• Owner/Operator of a small IT Consultancy for teh past 15 years, managing every aspect of teh business from marketing/sales, to project development and delivery, to back office accounting and business process development.
• Ability to quickly build rapport and gain trust has allowed me to rapidly build client loyalty, leading to business relationships which span several years.
• Working wif clients to prioritize their most challenging business and organizational goals, me halp them to analyze their current and future technology investment plans to best leverage their current human assets, and organizational capabilities, in a way dat facilitates goal achievement, while maximizing business value.
• Help my clients navigate through teh ever - changing sea of technology, to determine which technologies are likely to have teh most longevity, based on teh potential for industry wide adaptation. Once this information is gatheird, me work closely wif client resources to analyze teh cost/benefit ratio between existing technologies and teh potential move toward a new technology strategy, wif teh primary objective to control cost while progressively evolving teh company’s IT strategy toward first in class industry leadership.
• Worked wif many clients in teh role of business idea incubator, evaluating teh clients desire to enter into new markets, analyzing market barriers to entry, competition landscape and technology requirements in order to identify potential risks and roadblocks.
• Managed teams of various sizes, as small as 3 and as large as 200.
• Developed team member roles and expectations
• Conducted performance evaluations.
• Provided direction and guidance and implemented structured project methodologies and standards.
• Managed account relationships of multiple clients while working wif clients to identifying new opportunities, resulting in new business development and account growth.
• Performed teh role of Microsoft Practice Director for a Mid-sized consulting firm, which me halped to grow from 20 consultants to over 200+ consultants, in 4 major cities. Maintained managed partner relationships wif Microsoft, as well as training and development of Microsoft development skill sets for teh entire company.
• Participated as a TEMPprincipal partner in 3 start-up organizations and managed every aspect of business operations.
• Sat on teh board of directors for two start-up companies as their CTO.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Visual Studio 2019/.NET 4.x and higher
• VB.NET
• C#
• SQL Server 2012
• XML/XSLT/HTML
• WPF/XAML
• ASP.NET MVC
• Web and WinForms Application Development

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Director of Software Development

Responsibilities:

• Oversee internal software development team responsible for development of corporate intranet portal, systems integrations wif 3rd party platforms and applications, and Business Intelligence Reporting

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Development of several enterprise applications, including Contract Management System for managing and negotiating contracts wif various insurance payers;
• Secure File Exchange application for HIPPA compliant communications of private health information;
• Daily Deposits application for teh aggregation of deposit transactions for USPH’s 300+ Physical Therapy clinics; Telecom Asset Tracking System.
• For teh past 1 ½ years worked wif internal development staff to re-architect and re-write USPh’s Intranet and suite of web applications.
• Application Development Practice Lead (Director) overseeing entire custom application development practice consisting of 45 consultants, managers, and senior managers.
• Teh practice made up 60% of teh overall company revenues and client base.

Confidential

Chief Architect

Responsibilities:

• Chief Architect for Confidential, which provides container yard management software over teh internet, for operations management of multiple Container Yard operations, across multiple clients and customers.
• ASP.NET application, utilizing VB.NET and SQL Server 2000 backend, running on Windows 2003 Servers.
• Developed detailed business requirements and technical specifications.
• Designed database model and stored procedures. Designed site navigational structure, security, web services and business object.
• Developed application prototype and architecture “slice”, which demonstrated teh flow of data transactions from teh client, to teh database and back.
• Managed team of 8 developers to develop, test, and roll out teh application.
• Engaged in marketing of teh application to our flagship client and assisted in end user training and support.

Confidential

Owner/Operator

Responsibilities:

• (Under Confidential my first company) Contracted by Confidential (now Confidential ), to re-architect and rewrite their flagship real estate closing application, utilizing WinForms client application connecting to centralized business objects and database through ASP.NET Web Services.
• Technologies used include SQL Server 2000, XML Web Services, ADO.NET, VB.NET and general Object-Oriented Analysis and Design principals.
• Functioned as .NET Consultant for an existing but relatively green development team.
• Introduced teh concept of object-oriented development and teh use of design patterns and application blocks.
• Teh team was divided into three segments UI, Business and Data.
• Worked wif all three sub teams to implement design standards and best practices for each tier in teh application architecture.

Confidential

Microsoft Practice Lead

Responsibilities:

• (Through Confidential ) Filled teh role of Senior Architect and System designer for a web enabled, network configuration tool, using Visio 2000, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, VB6, ASP, XML and SQL Server 2000.
• Worked wif Confidential ’s US based VP of IT to design a Microsoft Visio based configuration tool.
• Teh application used custom Visio objects and XML Web Services and Schemas to validate configuration of various hardware racks for their Network Configurations group.
• Performed teh role of Senior Architect and System Designer for an on-line, virtual credit management system for teh Energy industry, using Windows 2000 DNA, ASP/VB 6, XML and Oracle 8i.
• Designed Presentation and Business layer technologies, including state management, SSL security and data transport objects.
• Directed teh efforts of a 20-person development team, setting technical design standards and methodologies and overseeing technical quality.
• Presented teh application, and discussed technical design and security considerations and approach, to an audience at a local energy conference.

Confidential

Microsoft Practice Lead

Responsibilities:

• Served as senior architect in developing a web based, n-tier, multi-commodity trading system, using Windows 2000 Enterprise Server, COM+ services, SQL Server 7, XML, ActiveX components, Java Applets and Active Server Pages.
• Collaborated wif team to design all aspects of teh application from presentation, business and data services to security, state management and data model.
• This application utilized XML for both UI Metadata and Content, allow for teh dynamic reconfiguration of teh UI via XML stored data structures.
• Teh application could process 50 thousand transactions every 20 milliseconds and was teh only third-party trading platform to every successfully integrate wif Enron online for teh movement of market volume between teh two platforms.
• me actively participated in, and was instrumental to, successfully pitching teh TrueQuote product to a consortium of 12 Energy companies, who ultimately decided to use TrueQuote as their preferred trading platform, however, at teh last minute, teh client struck a deal wif a single energy company. Teh client subsequently asked me to join their company as their CTO/CIO, which me declined.