SUMMARY

Seasoned hands - on CTO/Architect/Project Manager/Developer with full life-cycle project experience in production .NET deployments. A buttoned-up transformational technology leader with 20+ years of finance, and progressive healthcare and IT experience. Strategic, goal-driven leader applying innovative technologies and processes to solve complex problems enhancing time to market and operational efficiencies. Analytical and emotionally intelligent team lead adept at building and sustaining strong business partnerships while integrating people, processes and technologies. Solid experience in developing and integrating complex web based solutions in a high-volume, consumer-facing transactional architecture on a large scale. Entrepreneurial self-starter and persuasive communicator exhibiting both technical and business acumen.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Systems Development & Management: Validation Methodology, Change Management Process, Technical Writing, Use Case Development, Usability Analysis, System Integration, Unit Testing, Automated Testing, Cloud Implementations, Visual Studio Team

Software Applications & Skills: MS Office 2000/XP/2003/05/10/13, MS Project, MS Visio, Office Automation, Office Add-Ins, Active Directory, .NET 4.5, C#, VB.NET, .Net Framework 3.0/3.5/4.0/4.5, SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, XML, AJAX, Web Services, Windows Services, Visual Studio Team Server 2008/10/11/13, Visual Studio 2005/8/10/11/13/15, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2012, Entity Framework, LINQ, Agile, MVC 5, Bootstrap, Infragistics, Telerik, ExtJs, jQuery, JSON, Silverlight,EF 5/6.1 WPF, WCF, OData, REST, Lucene, dExpress, Angular, Node and many more..

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Consulting, CTO

Confidential, Washington, D.C

• Responsible for Crankfrog IT initiatives to support corporate functionality and security standards.
• Implementer and Administrator for Office 365 implementation.
• This targets the $800M (annual) spent by insurance companies to figure out “who pays” …when an individual is covered by more than one insurance provider.
• Worked as lead automation tester on behalf of CAQH for testing the COB solution being delivered by Passport Health Communications.
• Used extensive development history to automate the testing of Primacy and Overlap coverage rules
• Automate the tested the COBSmart Portal and web service implementations using Team Foundation Server 2013
• Head of Project Development Group
• Manage team of 5 in India
• Architect of Entire solution
• Azure Deployment and Continuous Integration/Automation

Confidential, Manhattan, New York

Consulting - Architect

• Interviewed and met with senior staff to determine the needs and current pain-points.
• Identified strategic architectural changes that benefited the firm. Presented findings to senior management, demonstrated ROI and led cross-silo project groups on multiple initiatives.
• Created modules to read and display alert messages in the web and mobile sites from the corresponding SharePoint lists created for the purpose.
• Actively involved in the architecture, design and development of the portal pages using .NET Framework
• Conducted extensive market due-diligence to determine buy vs. build strategy.
• WinForms designed for the handheld/mobile application using C# Mobile components.
• Architected and managed team of developers and testers to implement solution using Agile SDLC methodologies.
• Streamlined process to reduce time-frame from 8 weeks to 2 weeks. Reduced staff by 80%.
• The solution implemented a wide variety of Microsoft and open-source technologies: Office/VSTO, Web, WCF, OpenXML, SQL Server 2005, AJAX, HTML5, ExtJS, C#, SharePoint, JQuery

Confidential, Manhattan, New York

Head of Confidential

• Reporting to COO; shaping the IT departments strategy & objectives.
• Led firm-wide technology selection to maximize value, including build vs. buy decisions.
• Identifying strategic architectural changes that can benefit the firm. Presented findings to senior management, demonstrated ROI and led cross-silo project groups on multiple initiatives.
• Augmented firms business and financial analysis through the evaluation, selection, and customization of commercial research technology tools.
• Actively involved in the architecture, design and development of the web based forms framework, using
• Amplify Confidential value by measurably improving performance of the company and enhancing overall research capabilities.
• Work directly with senior business managers from across the organization to solve critical business problems and plan strategic road-map for technology platforms and applications.
• Created staffing strategy and recruited 5 top-tier developers and 4 data analysts for new offices in Greece.
• Reduced managed services provider costs by 60% by contract renegotiation.
• Architect/Design/Implementation of feature-rich corporate platform which integrated with 3rd-party workflow management system and could replace existing 3rd party solution (Backstop). This saved the company over $2M in development costs. Built using EXTJS/.NET 4.0/Ajax client-tier, Entity Framework / Subsonic middle-tier, SQL 2005 / 2008 backend. Platform was capable of capturing all types of Hedge Fund data including but limited to: CRM, ADV, PPM, 13F, Fund Screener, Portfolio Accounting
• Architect/Design/Implementation of Extranet solution for client consumption of data, reports and financial tools; this achievement gave clients access to dynamic data rather than simple PDF reports. Using similar technologies .NET/EXTJS/Ajax/Entity Framework/Subsonic/SQL 2005.
• Responsible for design and implementation of corporate internet site. www. Confidential .com.
• Developed Office-Addins for Excel, Word and Outlook to integrate with intranet platform bringing content to and from desktop application to facilitate user integration and increase platform usage.
• Architected numerous windows services to manage data migrations and consolidate data across multiple platforms to facilitate reporting using SSRS and Crystal Reports.
• Developed portfolio management tools to allow clients to create various portfolio strategies and weight allocation.
• Actively involved in the .Net Framework 3.0/3.5/4.0/4.5 architecture, design and development of the portal pages.
• Integrated with Dow Jones Factiva for media content coverage giving clients direct access to Aksias’ financial opinions.
• Implemented Lucene, an open source indexing software to achieve google-like speeds when searching across hundreds of thousands of documents and database records.
• Implemented Adobe LiveCycle DRM for document encryption to protect intellectual property.
• Implemented VS Team Server 2010 (Agile/Scrum) to manage application development with 7 developers globally.
• Implemented VS Team Build server to continuously build checked-in code to ensure quality and reduce bugs.

Confidential, Manhattan, New York

Project Manager/Senior Developer/Analyst

• Created high-visibility Internet and Intranet Applications which integrates with internal applications supporting Market Research, Human Resource, Building Facilities and Document Management System.
• Implemented CRM solution (Salesforce) for Private Equity department to consolidate reporting and provide upper management with dashboard style interface to current deals and email campaign results.
• Developed internal HRIS system capable of supporting intricate entity structure unique to organization. Capable of tracking employees and their transitions Portfolio companies. .NET Framework/ Subsonic
• Evaluate Investor Relations processes, instrumental in selection of vendor application to support mandated client quarterly and monthly statements, along with Partnership allocation, OFAC Tracking, Contribution and Distribution schedules, Subscription Documents, Side Letters, Wire Instructions, and General Correspondence
• Assisted in high visibility, large scale implementation of a global Open Text document management system (500+ users). Challenges include legacy data migration.
• Managed departmental scanning implementation. Project budget of $750,000. 10 Consultants
• Manage day to day activities of direct reports and mentor reports in concepts of KM, IT and business process.
• Streamline SDLC by implementing Visual Studio Team System for internal application development.

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

.Net Lead Application Developer

• Established a full life-cycle development platform to maintain out-sourced legacy applications.
• Formalizes application development process for future application development in Global eBusiness and support current development for existing legacy applications.
• Develops secure platform for all future .NET global applications.
• Trains existing staff on new techniques and best practices for development in .NET.
• Work with functions across the global firm to improve and move business processes online. Manages Internet and intranet platforms and assist a variety of efforts worldwide.

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

.Net senior developer

• First employee of this pioneering application software company for the financial services industry. Key participant in the team that developed solutions to the daunting regulatory financial reporting and compliance requirements faced by the industry, solutions adopted by clients such as GE Capital, Bank Of America, Royal Bank of Canada, Nomura, Cohen Financial, PNC, and Euro Hypo.
• Develops architecture to increase server availability by creating queue mechanisms to broker calls to multiple servers processing documents.
• Deals with broad range of international commercial mortgage banks to create statements of works and responses to requests for proposals.
• Creates desktop application add-ins to simplify process of conforming existing documents to product.
• Instrumental in securing $3 million in venture capital to begin the first commercial mortgage lending facility on the Internet by creating a demo web application. Charles Ferguson, creator of MS Office was our seed investor.
• Conceived and Developed “SOAP” enabled application to resolve data-points in word documents, from an Oracle database, tied to a commercial mortgage marketplace web site built in Java. Application maximized user acceptance for base product, by seamlessly integrating with current MS Office products.
• Conceived and Developed document conversion web service to automate the process of converting documents to other formats. Service would also syndicate XLS content and merge documents into one single file.
• Performed exhaustive presentation and documentation seminars. As well as complete team knowledge transfers to clients who chose to host application.