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 innovation and creative thinking has awarded him a total of 26 patents, with an additional 3 pending approval.Confidential has led 400 personnel software engineering departments, comprised of directors, technical managers, project and product managers, architects, DBAs, software engineers, QA, UI developers, and business analysts. He transformed and reorganized entire software engineering departments to better align with business needs and objectives. He's been responsible for transformation and reengineering efforts to ensure IT governance processes and SLAs were met, as well as successfully completing PCI, SAS70, and SoX audits. He's been responsible for the development, management, and maintenance of enterprise-class websites and supporting back-end systems garnering over 100 million visitors per month. Confidential collaborates with other C-level executives to drive strategic decisions, ensure product vision is realized, as well as ensuring continual improvement of system performance and availability in B2B and B2C arenas. He's a results-driven product and project management professional with significant and progressive experience and expertise in such project-management concepts as scoping, costing, demand management, scheduling, risk management, P L, contract negotiations, project planning and tracking, quality, and change management throughout the project life cycle. He's a creative and strategic visionary with the savvy to ensure that project and product deliverables are quickly brought to market. He's managed diverse, multidisciplinary and geographically dispersed teams, and thrives on high-pressure, intellectual, business, and technology challenges. Mr. Barenboim began his career as a software engineer, and is now a strong technology executive and a business problem solver with exceptional commitment to quality, who energizes and motivates his teams, focusing on processes, architecture, and technology solutions, making him a more effective leader, advisor, and mentor.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Chief Technology Officer and Board Member

Responsible for all technology departments including: software engineering, architecture, UI and UX design, QA, Business Analysis, Project Management, Customer Support, and IT operations. The Logic Nation 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 3rd party technologies for CDN and video transcoding services. Architected, designed, and developed a native Apple iOS mobile app, currently available in the Apple 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 Google 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 30,000 simultaneous users. 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 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. Patents submitted: 3.

Confidential

Confidential 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. Responsible for a staff of over a dozen software engineers, technical managers, architects, product and project managers, located in Confidential Also responsible for the 20 satellite web properties and their continual development and maintenance, including CD.com, CreditCards.com, Mortgage-Calc.com, Interest.com, Bankaholic.com, InsureMe.com, NetQuote.com, and CreditCardGuide.com. Developed a widget for Yahoo for their finance page that would be viewed at over 700 times per second using a two-tier caching solution. Improved the 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 Google 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 3rd 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

Provided executive software management consulting services for Tyco/ADT at their Boca Raton, Florida headquarters, Pearson Inc. at their Chandler, Arizona facility, and Liberty Tax Service, Inc. at their Virginia Beach, Virginia headquarters.

• Confidential Responsibility of restructuring and reorganizing the application development organization at their Boca Raton Florida, Jacksonville Florida, and Denver Colorado facilities. The IT department, after the restructure, was comprised of project managers, development managers, QA managers, architects, developers, business analysts, and production support personnel, with an overall department staff of over 400. Responsible for 175 external 24x7 customer-facing and internal-facing systems, Oracle financial applications including sales management compensation and consolidated billing systems, Siebel and legacy CRM systems including the North America call center system, and e-business systems, generating more than 4 Billion per year in revenue using the ADT security brand. Drove requirements gathering sessions, using PMBOK best practices, with key stakeholders of sales, marketing, finance and other departments to plan strategies for solution delivery. Identified and managed risk areas using SDLC and Lean Six Sigma best practices. Collaborated with business leaders to establish and refine requirements for new product capabilities. Provided LOEs and delivered on those promises ensuring complete feature set was implemented to exact specifications. Created and established needed processes, including demand management, release management, change management, as well as implementing a new ITIL-based Solution Delivery Framework, to deliver consistent and successful technical solutions to the business, using J2EE, IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, Oracle and Siebel applications, as well as creating plans for sun-setting legacy AS/400 systems. Introduced Microsoft Project Server and HP/Mercury ITG for project timesheets, demand funneling, and case management. Established strategic partnerships with offshore vendors, including Lionbridge, Cognizant and Wipro, to enable outsourced cost-saving efforts. New processes were instituted to ensure all systems were PCI, SAS70 and Sarbanes-Oxley compliant. Mentored management staff on project management best practices. Established career path objectives and quarterly goals for technical staff.
• Confidential Responsible for reorganizing all internet and web-based software development projects at the 300mm private financial services firm. Liberty Tax is the nation's 3rd largest tax preparation firm, following H R Block and Jackson-Hewitt, processing approximately 6 million tax returns annually. Collaborated and corralled product managers to ensure the large B2C online suite of systems provided all feature sets as outlined by IRS federal and state regulations and guidelines. Implemented new features in existing systems to raise consumer experience satisfaction thereby increasing repeat customer levels. Responsible for the complete execution of the website applications and underlying systems. Introduced and implemented Agile/Scrum methodologies to the development organization to provide quick turn-around to projects. Developed RFP templates and SOW documents to facilitate 3rd party vendors to bid on outsourcing projects. Using Agile and SDLC rapid development best practices, enabled the technology organization to deliver a web-based tax preparation system that was IRS-approved including all 42 State Tax Agencies, prior to the beginning of electronic-filing launch date a milestone that no other tax preparation firm has been able to achieve in the last 20 years. Most back-end systems were implemented with SaaS and IaaS in mind due to seasonal traffic, with many servers hosted in the cloud. All systems passed yearly PCI compliance auditing. Mentored management staff on project management best practices. Established career path objectives and quarterly goals for technical staff. Technologies include: Microsoft ASP.NET, VB.NET and C .NET, Microsoft SQL 2005 Server, Microsoft BizTalk, and IBM MQ Series.
• Formed a Master Services Agreement with Enron Corporation NYSE: ENE . Provided technical direction and managed two on-going development projects, consisting of 110 developers, at their Houston Texas corporate facilities. Managed the creation of remote data acquisition devices to monitor and report commercial and residential utility meter data back to a central database repository for financial data analysis, trending, site profiling, forecasting, and distribution for energy commodity traders, including ERCOT customers. A second project was simultaneously managed to create complex database architectures for energy commodity trading and financial deal tracking, including data capturing of utility bill information. Technologies used: J2EE/Java, XML, Struts, JAAS, JMS, JSP, EJB, MQ Series, C , VB.NET, ASP.NET, MTS, Tibco, WebLogic, IBM DB2/UDB, Rational Rose, Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, Rational Robot, Oracle Application Server, Oracle 9i Database Servers, and Sun Solaris. Patents issued: 10.
• Formed a Consulting Service Level Agreement with The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. NYSE: HIG . Provided strong technical project management and architecture assistance at their Hartford Connecticut main headquarters. Managed the redesign, development, implementation, and rollout of a Documentum and Siebel integration and upgrade project, consisting of four architects and 38 developers, for their entire commercial and personal line insurance application. This involved creating a middle-tier in J2EE using the Service Oriented Architecture SOA methodology, coupled with Siebel 2000 7.5 and Documentum 5 acting as a document and form repository of customer and billing datastore. Managed the upgrade of the existing Siebel 6.0 system to 7.5, including conversions of 47 Business Object components, 700 Siebel objects, and 250 workflow and assignment manager rules.
• Managed all technical and software development activities for this professional services and development-outsourcing firm. Assisted business development personnel in establishing relationships with Fortune 500 firms to secure potential development projects. Managed full-lifecycle projects including discovery, requirements gathering, architecture and design, development/construction, iterative testing/QA, documentation, deployment, and post-delivery training for clients including: . Projects included development of e-commerce and financial transaction solutions, deployment of warehouse management and call center systems, order management/fulfillment systems, and customer relationship management solutions. Received PMP certification. Projects were managed using the Rational Unified Process RUP with rapid prototyping, as well as Agile methodologies. Interaction with clients at the C-level to ensure projects were delivered on-time and under budget.
• The architecture, development and deployment of eCOSystem involved the creation and management of several teams: over 100 developers and their respective team leads and managers located in several US-based locations - Tampa FL, White Plains NY, Silver Springs MD, and implemented an offshore development center of over 100 developers and QA personnel in Chennai India. Worked closely with product managers to establish product rollout roadmap. Ensured all teams effectively interfaced with various external departments including DBA teams, production support, deployment and change management. Managed the 100mm hardware and infrastructure build-out across three data centers NY, FL, and CO to ensure disaster recovery and high availability of the 500 terrabyte datastore environments. Ensured all data conformed to government security standards. Ensured systems were available based on FCC regulations. Coordinated with external and internal IT departments for interfacing with legacy mainframe systems as well as managed newly developed component-based solutions using internally developed and 3rd party solutions. Continual improvement of development methodologies and internal audits to ensure coding standards were met, and systems were in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley regulations. Received Six Sigma Master Black Belt certification. Achieved CMM level 5 following the first rollout of the system to production. Project management utilizing the traditional waterfall approach was updated in favor of Agile/Scrum methodology. Updated executive management with weekly status reports, ran daily conference calls with internal and external clients to report production usage metrics and deployment status, as well as provided mentoring and career planning, performance reviews and quarterly goals. Managed department budget and ensured expenses were within agreed forecasts. Patents issued:
• Confidential Managed the conception, development, and rollout of eCOSystem, the 24x7 next generation work platform for Verizon'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 Verizon 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 Verizon'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 Provided executive management consulting for this 10B education and textbook publishing company at their Chandler Arizona facility, for their e-learning technology organization, consisting of developers, managers, QA engineers, and system analysts. Assumed the role of interim Director of Development, and provided technical leadership for all shrink-wrap and web-based software products developed at the Chandler Arizona and Salt Lake City Utah technology centers, bringing in revenues in excess of 800M per year, utilizing technologies including Java/ J2EE, Microsoft C , VB.Net and ASP.Net, Adobe Flash and Flex, JBoss Enterprise on RedHat Linux, BEA WebLogic 10, Oracle Database 11g and Microsoft SQL Server, with EMC Documentum 6.5 as the content management repository system, while conforming to SCORM and SIF standards. Communicated the progress of various multi-million dollar software development projects to C-level executives on a weekly basis, identifying risks and mitigation strategies. Developed a set of SDLC best practices, including Agile/Scrum, and enforced new processes to deliver projects on schedule. Introduced software development outsourcing as an effective means of reduced-cost software delivery by managing several offshore vendors, in Mumbai India, including Lionbridge, Cognizant, and Tata Consulting Services, with specific project-based and time-based deliverables. Developed templates for RFP and SOW documents and implemented vendor selection processes. Identified staff skill gaps and formed a partnership with local universities to enable technical staff to attain graduate-level credentials as part of overall career development goals.
• Provided technical leadership for Agile Systems, an Austin Texas-based pre-IPO firm. Managed all development efforts within the firm, including the architecture and design, development and testing of nine patented products and services, which enable the dynamic allocation and distribution of computer processing time/power using a commodity-style trading system. Responsible for overall P L for discovery and analysis, development, testing, deployment, and documentation. Managed the hiring and infrastructure of three concurrent development departments, a total of 63 employees, comprised of project managers, architects, developers, project managers, network engineers, QA, and documentation writers. Technologies used: PeopleSoft, XML, J2EE/EJB, MQ Series, COM , ASP, Microsoft SQL 2000 servers, Oracle 8i and 9i database servers, Microsoft Exchange and Commerce Servers, various Oracle financial applications, IBM WebSphere, ATG Dynamo, various Siebel, SAP, and JD Edwards applications and components, Solaris and AIX operating systems, WinRunner, LoadRunner, WebLogic, Vignette, Documentum, and Interwoven CMS, disaster recovery planning with emphasis on infrastructure and data distribution/load balancing and data backups for business continuity. Patents issued: 9.
• Managed a software development project, and a development team of 27, for Ericsson Wireless NASDAQ: ERIC developing wireless Internet technologies and eCommerce solutions for their Dallas-based Geoportal project. Technologies used: Java, XML, WAP, CORBA, EJB, WebLogic, Rational Rose, UML, Rational ClearCase, Oracle 8i, Microsoft SQL 2000 clustered Servers with replication, Oracle Forms, Oracle Applications, Microsoft BizTalk Commerce and Exchange 2000 Servers, Intel SSL Accelerators, C , ASP/VB.NET, COM , VBScript, DHTML, Documentum, Crystal Reports, WebTrends, and VeriSign Certificates, and IBM Power3 AIX servers.
• Formed an outsourced development project with eTrade.com Financial Corporation NASDAQ: ETFC . Responsible for managing a team of 25 consisting of financial analysts, enterprise architects and software developers in assisting the eTrade.com employees to create a successful online trading system, one of the first in the world. Coordinated development teams located in Austin Texas, New York City, and Chicago to provide back-end transactions to NYSE and DASDAQ. Technologies used: XML, BizTalk, WebLogic, EJB/J2EE, Oracle 8i, and Solaris.
• Managed the outsourcing of a development project for SingleEntry.com, a pre-IPO national insurance portal. Established an XML standard for insurance agencies to electronically transfer ACORD insurance applications to insurance carriers, which consisted of automated algorithms to process corporate insurance applications utilizing technologies to preserve the look-and-feel of the original documents. Technologies used: Adobe PDF and FDF, Oracle 7i and 8i, Apple WebObjects, ReportMill, CVS, Objective-C, Java, MacOS X, Intel eCommerce SSL Accelerators, Windows NT and 2000 Advanced Servers, and Sun Enterprise Servers with Solaris. Managed personnel: 15. Patents issued: 1.
• Managed the outsourcing of a development and deployment project for Digital Dynamics, LLC, pre-IPO hardware manufacturer, of a proprietary and patented wireless remote surveillance camera hardware and software solution, from the proof-of-concept stage to having a sellable product. Coordinated the P L with the CFO, including recommendation and hiring of 45 new technical and management personnel. Coordinated with sales personnel for customer demonstrations. Participated in the development of the company business plan, pro forma and valuation documents, and assisted in the interaction with potential VC firms for fundraising efforts. Managed the architecture, design, implementation, and schedule of software running on the proprietary and patented wireless remote surveillance cameras and other wireless devices. Solutions were sold to Texas Department of Transportation and USAA. Technologies used included the use of CDPD, GSM, CDMA and TDMA wireless networks, utilizing C on Wind River's VxWorks, running on PC/104 hardware embedded platform, for the three patented wavelet image compression algorithms. Patents issued: 3.
• Confidential 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.

Technical Team Leader

• 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 Intl 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 baox 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. Patents issued: 2.
• Confidential 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.
• Confidential Developed NexSys , an IBM NetView/PC OS/2 PM application written in C for the infamous Amadeus project, an IBM 3090-VF200 mainframe-based airline reservation/ticketing system, written mostly in COBOL, servicing the top dozen US-based airlines, including Eastern Airlines, PanAm, TWA, and United Airlines. This application served as a front-end to many devices attached to a service point machine using NetView/PC IOCTL, and OS/2 Communications Manager via an SNA NMVT, using both the IBM's RTIC and MPCA adapters communicating as SDLC links.