SUMMARY:

• Over 25 years of executive technology leadership, executive management consulting, project management, architecture/design, and senior software development experience.
• During the past two decades, Confidential ’s innovation and creative thinking has awarded him a total of 26 patents, with an additional 3 pending approval.
• He’s earned a certification of Scrum Master while at Confidential, as well as Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and PMP certifications while at Confidential.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the 200+ technology personnel consulting practice, focusing on mobility and enterprise application development. Established and grew the Argentina office to over 100 employees, to leverage same time - zone outsourcing solutions to US-based clients.
• Responsible for creating and negotiating MSAs and SOWs with clients at the C-level, to secure outsourced software development projects. Created a client-engagement process to ensure repeatability of successful consulting projects.
• Created an employee/consulting career-path process to enable employee career-path progress, including the tracking of their success and accomplishments.

Confidential, Shreveport, LA

Chief Technology Officer and Board Member

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all technology departments including: software engineering, architecture, UI and UX design, QA, Business Analysis, Project Management, Customer Support, and IT operations.
• The Confidential platform is a Facebook-like social media model with monetization, attracting users from all over the world. Highly scalable architecture, using Amazon cloud services and a mixture of a Microsoft C# MVC/.NET, TFS, SQL Server technology stack, along with open-source technologies including Node.js, Java/J2EE, JQuery, CoffeeScript, Cassandra, Jira, and Redis, along with 3 rd party technologies for CDN and video transcoding services.
• Architected, designed, and developed a native Confidential iOS mobile app, currently available in the Confidential App Store with over 50,000 downloads registered in the first 3 months, as well as a native Android mobile app, currently available in the Confidential Play Store.
• Worked with Akamai executives and engineers to provide live-video high- definition streaming to an unlimited viewing audience; scalability confirmed by having a video event viewed by over 40,000 simultaneous users worldwide.
• Opened and staffed a Boca Raton Florida technology office, as strong technology talent was scarce in Louisiana. Authored, submitted, and defended three patents with the USPTO.
• Developed tactical plans and lead strategic technological initiatives to achieve business goals by defining the requirements, prioritizing and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future technologies, including the analysis of risks and ROI of technology solutions. Became a member of the Board of Directors and provided updates with monthly presentations to the board and to all shareholders.
• Participated in investor presentations to raise over $6.5 million in capital investments. Promoted a culture of collaboration, accountability, innovation, and entrepreneurship within and around the technology organization and built a scalable organizational structure.
• Actively provided leadership and oversight to the hiring, mentoring, motivation and development of the highly skilled technology team.

Confidential, North Palm Beach, FL

Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for development and management of the company’s premier consumer-facing website, attracting more than 100 million visitors per month, and generating more than $500 million in annual revenue.
• Developed a widget for Yahoo for their finance page that would be viewed at over 700 times per second using an innovative two-tier caching solution. Developed a cross-platform mobile app which garnered over 5 million downloads from Confidential and Confidential app stores with features for mortgage refinancing, mortgage rates, and other personal finance capabilities.
• Improved the consumer-facing e-commerce platform to reduce click fraud by introducing an automated algorithmic-based solution, which resulted in a 90% reduction in customer disputes in the course of 6 months. Responsible for the SEO ranking of over 3,000 key words to ensure placement in the top 3 positions on Confidential search, resulting in over 50% organic traffic, and over 2 million inbound links.
• Introduced a new pipeline prioritization process to better streamline business requests funneling into IT, as well as transforming the entire IT organization into a transparent workflow process engine, with business and technical ROI gates.
• Instituted Agile/Scrum and acted as Scrum Master to facilitate faster and more predictive development cycles. Mentored direct reports on acquisition of 3 rd party web-based firms and technology integration efforts. Performed technology due-diligence on acquisition-targeted firms, and established career paths and quarterly goals for all departments.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Senior Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the conception, development, and rollout of eCOSystem, the 24x7 next generation work platform for Confidential ’s Network Operations that enables the reengineering of work processes and evolution to “future work centers” by transforming cultural work habits.
• The eCOsystem suite of applications enable the standardization and automation of complex work processes and optimizes flow-through levels for end-to-end service delivery.
• eCOSystem provides seamless and ready access to all relevant data, and is composed of various integrated web-based point and click systems including: eCenter - a common application desktop for each type of network operations center with real-time access to dynamic content from multiple legacy mainframe systems; eCOT - a single point of entry for central office technicians to access their daily work, providing the infrastructure to build a process-based digital assistant to the central office technicians, including a distribution system to ensure technicians have appropriate parts and tools in their trucks to disposition tickets/issues in the field from centrally positioned warehouses; and eVisor - a web-based management tool for the central office and center supervisors that allows the supervisor to effectively manage the technicians and their workload.
• eCOSystem has been deployed to the entire Confidential nationwide footprint with usage by over 75,000 field and central office technicians and their supervisors.
• The rollout of eCOSystem has reduced overall mean-time to repair (MTTR) by 15%, and is currently providing Confidential ’s central offices cost savings of over $20M per year. The application was developed as a cost- savings initiative to decrease dependency and eventual replacement of several legacy IBM mainframe systems by utilizing modern web-based solutions. Technologies for eCOSystem included IBM Websphere, J2EE, Microsoft .NET, and integration with various Oracle financial applications, Siebel, PeopleSoft, and Essbase Business Intelligence systems, as well as corporate HR and billing systems.

Confidential, Boca Raton, Florida

Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the IBM OS/2 Video Device Driver Team, comprised of a 20-person development group, and a 5-person QA group. Patented a video device driver application that enabled the full certification, without human intervention, of all supported video/graphics APIs, including GPIs, VIOs, Graphics Engine APIs, Workplace Shell APIs, as well as OEM drivers from S3, ATI, Weitek, Matrox, Diamond, Trident, and many other video chip and video card manufacturers.
• Software development efforts were managed using CMM-4 specifications. Additional responsibilities included architecture and design reviews, development plans, QA plans, personnel reviews, and developing realistic and achievable career goals for the staff.
• Technically guided the IBM OS/2 Base Device Driver Development Team of 17 developers and QA, responsible for all the base operating system device drivers for Intel and PowerPC platforms, including: serial, parallel, keyboard, mouse, floppy, SCSI, IDE, CD-ROM, PCMCIA, APM, tape, and scanner devices.
• Several drivers were ported from AIX. The Device Driver Test Tool™, an object-oriented application written in C++, was developed and used via white box and black box testing methodologies to automate the QA effort. Also designed, developed, and published The ViewerTool™, a multi-threaded object-oriented OS/2 PM application, written in C++, utilizing the MMIO subsystem to display popular various video file formats, such as BMP and TIFF, and the OpenGL interfaces, using special custom-written DLLs, which automatically sized and scaled all displayed images. Both DDTT and the Viewer Tool are currently published in the IBM OS/2 Developer Toolkit.
• Lead developer of a team of 18 responsible for architecting, developing, testing, and delivering IBM's Multimedia Presentation Manager for OS/2. Over 1 million lines of code were accomplished to deliver the multimedia device drivers within MMPM/2. Certified the product operated at the Media Control Interface (MCI), Multimedia Input/Output (MMIO), Sync/Stream Programming Interface (SPI), and the low- level device driver layers.