* Experienced engineering and operational manager including chief engineering architect of two highly successful multi-million dollar startup companies * Started, built and sold an e-commerce business to a competitor for $100m in 3 years. Led the technical due diligence through the deal negotiation and completed the transition and separation of technical assets and data to close the acquisition. * Built a feature-rich e-commerce platform and framework that integrates SEO/SEM, social and affiliate marketing capabilities and allows companies to launch sites rapidly and integrate with marketing partners, affiliates and payment processors * Very experienced building secure and compliant solutions including 24/7/365 operations with high availability in conventional data centers and in the cloud (AWS/Azure). Well trained in HIPAA/HITECH, ITAR, Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance auditing. Certified PCI-ISA. * Regarded as an exceptional technologist and team leader with over 22 years of experience in IT and software engineering * Highly analytical, with a strong bias for multivariate testing, with a history of creating company cultures that embrace innovation through thought leadership, shorter release cycles and analysis. Specialties: Engineering team leadership, technical architecture and design, hiring and building great engineering teams, program management, software engineering, security and compliance analysis, real-time systems design, QA automation, customer communication, engineering report writing, budgeting and documentation.

Founder / Chief Technologist & Security Officer @ Jacobian Engineering is a cybersecurity and software development firm capable of building highly scalable, secure, compliant, maintainable and reliable services. We have a deep bench of highly trained staff capable of playing the role of solutions architect, IT operations and operational management and/or auditing and compliance reviews. Security and Compliance • CISSP, CAP and PCI trained staff experienced building both secure software and secure infrastructure to meet HIPAA/HITECH, ITAR, PCI, ISO27k and other compliance frameworks. • Maintaining complete independence and impartiality, we conduct NIST / RMF security audits, ASV scanning, penetration testing and help customers maintain compliance and security standards. • Conduct SSAE16 compliance audits (formerly known as SAS70). • Assist companies in establishing compliance and security programs to meet FISMA reporting requirements. Operations • Jacobian maintains a 24/7/365 network operations team trained and ready to take on all or partial operations for customers. • Build, deploy and maintain robust monitoring networks and technologies for use by our NOC or by customers directly to alert, trend and monitor operations. • Provide Level 1/2/3 IT remote and on-site support for customers based upon business needs, SLA and program requirements. Software Development During diligence and program review, we pick the right technology for the job based on security/compliance, operational requirements, maintenance/training and customer preferences. Technologies in our solutions used by customers today include: • Embedded systems, control system drivers, video and communications - C++ • High transaction RESTful services - Python, Node.JS • Web applications, e-commerce sites and scripts - PHP / Ruby / Rails • DevOps automation on thousands of nodes – Chef / Puppet / FinalBuilder • NoSQL – Mongo, Redis • SQL – MySQL, MS SQL Server • Many other technologies (too many to list) – RabbitMQ, Ansible, Capistrano, etc. From October 2005 to Present (10 years 3 months) Co-Founder/Chief Technologist @ From June 2014 to Present (1 year 7 months) Chief Architect & Technical Advisor @ Responsible for client relations and management through full product architecture and implementation. Client services have included: * Software architecture, data modeling and design * Cloud infrastructure management with configuration versioning and automated scaling * Software and infrastructure deployment design and scripting * Custom DevOps software development and design * Windows and Linux system management including database, single-signon, backup, disaster recovery planning, storage design and virtualization Key accomplishments: * Designed and built custom analytics, customer relation and monetization platform for large Asian media company integrating with the company's existing media, gaming and internet channels creating opportunities to leverage customer interaction and data to enable remarketing and retargeting to alternate company products and initiatives at scale. From January 2012 to Present (4 years) Chief Architect & Technical Advisor @ • Hands-on development of software and infrastructure that led to a 3x increase in sales and profitability. • Developed next-generation product anticipated to increase revenue over the next year by 10x through new product sales and subscriptions. • Designed product roadmap and strategy for leveraging distribution channels, affiliate programs and social platforms. Results to date show this will increase viral coefficient by at least an order of magnitude in the next 6 to 12 months. From September 2009 to Present (6 years 4 months) Vice President of Engineering & Operations @ Inflection created its own e-commerce and marketing platform that supports an array of high volume Web sites focused on aggregating and productizing extreme amounts of data. Inflection rapidly grew into a profitable and sustainable position and is now a VC backed company after a $30m Series A financing event in 2010. In 2012, Inflection sold its 3 year old family history business for $100m to Ancestry. • Launched the family history line of business, built the engineering team, NARA 1940 census website for the National Archive and designed the architecture around the technology that built this line of business. Led the technical due diligence effort through the finalization of the deal, separated and transitioned production operations after close. • Recruited and managed onshore and offshore engineering, IT and QA teams that supported an average revenue growth of over 20% quarter over quarter during my tenure. • Led the strategy to build an in-house unique payment processing system that enabled the company to securely store credit card information that facilitated Inflection’s first recurring revenue streams and, within 3 months of launch, resulted in nearly a 2x increase in customer lifetime value through use of stored cards using complex and unique recycle logic for maximum success rates during recurring billing. • Built secure payment card industry (PCI) compliant data centers and cloud environments for storing, transmitting and processing sensitive card data. Certified as an Internal Security Assessor (PCI-ISA) managing ongoing compliance, training and internal auditing for self-assessment and risk mitigation. • Manage IT & DevOps teams (including budgeting, architecture, operations, disaster planning and key performance measurement), operating five locations world-wide, two data centers, Azure and Amazon Web Services. Setup ITIL processes, architected operational monitoring and automation and surpassed 99.97% uptime across production e-commerce systems. From June 2007 to March 2015 (7 years 10 months) Electrical Engineer / Project Lead / Consultant (2006-2008) @ • Project lead of a $1.2m hyperspectrometer engineering program with a large engineering team that was delivered on-time and within budget. Worked directly with government sponsor managing operational requirements, field trials and post-trial analysis. This instrument was part of the nation’s arms-control and non-proliferation research and operational initiatives. • Principal investigator and grant recipient of a $120k internal research project to build prototype hardware and software to process hyperspectral images using DSPs and FPGAs. The results of this project led to multi-million dollar government funding for the laboratory to leverage graphics processors for real-time spectral analysis. • Flight and field-team lead of 15 flight and engineering support personnel during the Katrina and Rita hurricane recovery effort. Provided in-flight direction of operational crew and, for the first time in an emergency situation, led deployment of the real-time hyperspectrometer equipment that we developed, which proved successful in detecting and preventing a potential wide-spread health hazard posed by an ammonia leak from a damaged chemical facility. • Lead engineer on the pointing and tracking system of the LASI hyperspectrometer project managing the software development team of 4 engineers plus an outside vendor. When first taking over the project, the system was non-operational and behind schedule. Within 4 months, turned the team and project around and delivered the project on-time with better than expected performance specs. Areas of focus and expertise: * Pointing and tracking system design * Real-time computing using embedded systems * FPGA digital design * System integration * Low-level driver design for hardware device control Awards and recognition: * 2005 Computation Directorate performance award * 2006 NAI Directorate Gold award for rapid response and readiness to the Katrina and Rita recovery effort From October 2002 to October 2008 (6 years 1 month) Post Graduate Researcher @ • Published and presented the paper "STOMP: a software architecture for the design and simulation of UAV-based sensor networks" at the 2003 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation. • Chief architect of strategic tactical operations simulator. Work was published and presented at the IEEE Robotics conference in Taipei, Taiwan. Used by other researchers to develop hardware-in-the-loop simulators for unmanned air vehicles. Managed team of 3 grad student developers. From June 2001 to October 2002 (1 year 5 months) Senior Engineer / Project Lead @ • Project lead on $1m custom ASP Web application project. Managed a team of engineers and integrated 3 previously disparate systems. Automated software and hardware rollouts. • Enterprise-scale infrastructure design and deployment that saved a client over $3m annually in telecommunication costs as a direct result of contract negotiation with MCI WorldCom. From February 1998 to June 2001 (3 years 5 months) Web developer / Unix Administrator @ From November 1996 to February 1998 (1 year 4 months) Operations Specialist @ From September 1992 to November 1996 (4 years 3 months) UNIX Administrator @ From June 1990 to September 1992 (2 years 4 months)

BS, Electrical Engineering @ University of California, Davis From 1999 to 2002 Computer Science @ Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University From 1996 to 1998 MS, Electrical Engineering @ University of Southern California Erik CCSFP is skilled in: Integration, Software Development, Cloud Computing, Software Engineering, Program Management, Start-ups, Management, Linux, SaaS, E-commerce, PCI DSS, HIPAA, Security, Leadership, Databases