SUMMARY:

• Over fifteen years of experience in Information Technology.
• Involved in all aspects of IT, ranging from product definition, development, datacenter and operations management.
• Experience with delivery of large - scale n-tier e-Commerce/Digital/Mobile development projects and platforms.
• Experience with High Traffic & High Availability systems & Infrastructures.
• Establish PMO policies and standards for development.
• Experience in developing on-shore/off-shore strategy.
• Establish Technical Vision, and Leadership in system development and implementation on tactical projects.
• Partner with senior management on high-level strategic initiatives.
• Team building, employee mentoring, and project portfolio management experience.
• Innovative leader, Team Builder, Results Oriented Problem Solver, with Strong Management Skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York

Technology Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Early stage start-up in the HealthCare Technology space.
• Assisting the co-founders develop technology strategy and roadmap for their business plan, facilitate Product Definition and requirements discussions.
• Develop Initial Technology Roadmap.

Technical Lead / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing the re-platform initiative for Confidential website and CMS.
• This is a multi-lingual website supporting existing and new product education and sales promotion initiatives.
• The website was re-platformed from a Drupal 6 and Mongo platform to a Drupal 7 CMS system.
• Responsible for interfacing with Estee Lauder Senior Management and the Software Vendor for the delivery of the new platform.

Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

• This Company is a startup developing a non-linear Education application and platform. Assist the founders develop, formulate a product definition, and Technology roadmap.
• The product is an Android/iOS tablet based non-linear education system which will navigate the student through the course material based on responses creating various paths to learning the course material.
• The system will initially launch on Android platform, and a later release will target iOS devices.
• The technology stack consists of HTML5/CSS3, Bootstrap, Angular.js, jQuery, Node.js, Mongo DB, Spark, Python, PySpark, Java, Android SDK, Git. Company closed operations due to lack of funding.

Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Built a hybrid staffing model of IT consisting of off-shore, consultants, and full-time resources.
• Establish Product and Project Management framework.
• Implemented an Agile development framework for all software development projects.
• Reduced the IT Data Center Operations cost by 35%.
• Developed a Roadmap for IT and for the development of a new Platform for company.
• Migrated Video Content from a set of dedicated servers to a Content Distribution Network.

Confidential

VP of Technology (CTO)

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in investigating site for the company’s offices.
• Assist in Hiring business staff & IT teams.
• Evaluate, recommend and implement development and infrastructure stack.
• Establish Product and Project Management framework for IT & Business departments.
• Establish long and short term strategic Technology Goals and roadmap.
• Align IT to support Business needs and Goals.
• Vendor Management, including SLA, and contract negotiations.

Vice President of Development

Responsibilities:

• Selected an off-shore IT Development Company, managed the contract negotiations, as well as the service level agreement with the company.
• Reduced Cap and OP budget for software development by 25%.
• Built a hybrid Staffing model.
• Implemented a project management framework.
• Manage partnerships across various divisions of NBC for content aggregation and delivery, as well as for technical services.
• Rolled out documentation (Wiki) and project management (Basecamp) tools.
• Stabilized old and fragile Vignette 6 platform.
• Migrated and re-launched Social Network sub-system with external vendor.
• Launched YourTotalhealth.com on a new Vignette 7 platform.
• Created a R&D team for the company to examine current Technology trends.
• Created key components of the SOA/SAAS model.

Confidential, New York

Director of Technology

Responsibilities:

• Managed development & Roll out of a custom Content Management System and site for Foxbusiness.com in 3 months.
• Developed a PMO framework and process for Web Development projects.
• Migrated Content for Vignette to the new Custom Content Management System.

Founding Partner/Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate various off-shore development consulting companies for initial development effort.
• Evaluate and establish a web/e-Commerce development and Back-end platform for the company.
• Establish project management/ communication framework with the off-shore development company.
• Manage all IT operations.
• Hire off-shore development staff for the company.

Technologies: RedHat Enterprise Linux AS, Java, Apache, JBoss, and MySQL, SAP Business One, MS Windows Server 2003, MS SQLServer 2005, ASP.net.

Confidential

Associate Director

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded Web Technology Stack.
• Created Development & Technology standards for the company.
• Migrated Web Infrastructure from external hosting providers to a Sister company within Bertelsmann.
• Architect a SOA/SAAS for the web platform.

Confidential, New York

Assistant Management Information Systems Officer

Confidential, New York

Associate Information Systems Specialist

Confidential, New York

Associate Project Manager