Currently looking for a great opportunity. (would underline "great" if I could) 20 years experience in full life cycle software development: designing, architecting, engineering, and maintaining software applications (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, retail boxed, kiosk) on various technology platforms and frameworks with expert-level implementation ability, detailed design and architecture, web and mobile, both client and server side. Having served as Software Architect at frog design, Senior Core Application Software Developer at drillMap, and Co-Founder at Lush Technologies, BizDesign and BizSecure; clients have included CBS Radio, Panama Canal Authority, AMD, Intuit, GE, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Penn State University, General Dynamics, National Geographic, Philips, Citrix, San Diego Zoo, Polk Audio, ESPN, Belkin Corporation, Pfizer, Merck, and Cleveland Clinic. 1st and 2nd Place winner in the 2011 eBay Hackathon at SXSW and winner of the 2003 Tech Titan Emerging Corporate Horizon Award. Awarded Editor's Choice by MacHome Interactive and favorably reviewed by Mashable, Wired, and PC World, among others. BizDesign was ranked #145 on The Internet 500 in November, 1999 by Inter@ctive Week.

Software Architect @ • Evaluated and recommended emerging technologies, tools and methodologies • Provided full-life cycle architectural guidance and ensured quality technical deliverables • Performed gap analysis on the client's current architecture, identifying challenges and opportunities • Conducted stakeholder, subject matter expert, and customer/end-user interviews on behalf of clients, as necessary, to provide critical project insights through the discussion and synthesis of ideas, goals, pain points, and other feedback, on a global level • Communicated concepts and ideas to design technologists, program managers, visual designers, interaction designers, and clients • Played a technical lead role on architecture, design implementation and deployment • Served as the primary technical contact with clients and 3rd parties as necessary • Mentored software engineers, design technologists, and other staff members • Participated in project scoping, estimation, and business development as necessary • Collaborated closely with designers to express design assets and artifacts in the form of presentation layer code, interactive prototypes, technical proof-of-concepts, and/or UI/presentation-layer components and templates • Provided relevant subject matter expertise leading to UI/presentation layer architecture recommendations and/or design integration support to help ensure the intended user experience is successfully translated into the engineered software • Utilized modern web standards HTML5, CSS3 (LESS/SaSS), SVG; • Client side JavaScript frameworks and libraries (MVC, MV*): React, Ember, Angular, Backbone, Knockout, Meteor, Node.js; • Visualization libraries such as Highcharts and D3, paper,js, three.js, processing.js, and others; • UI toolkits such as Twitter Bootstrap, Sencha Touch, jQuery Touch, Kendo UI, Foundation5, Framework7 and others; • Server-side scripting languages Bash, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Python, and others. • Mobile/Devices: iOS (iPhone, iPod, iPad, Apple Watch), Android From November 2013 to July 2015 (1 year 9 months) Austin, Texas AreaSenior Core Application Software Developer @ Lead software developer and architect for Accend's (formerly drillMap) next generation REST platform. Utilized Perl Dancer, MySQL, and RabbitMQ to integrate with the core Java application platform, and serve as a router for all incoming HTTP requests: front-end JavaScript AJAX requests for end-user data visualization and analysis on web and mobile devices, and back-end Perl requests for gathering, parsing, and storing data on millions of oil wells and pipelines. Specialties included key industry oil and gas data visualization and analytics, permits, SaaS, big data, mapping, data collection and reporting. Technologies included Object-Oriented Perl, mod_perl, Unix and Linux, Apache, jQuery, Java, AQMP messaging via VMware's RabbitMQ, MySQL clustering, JavaScript, Google Maps, AJAX, CSS 3, HTML 5, Perl Dancer MVC framework, versioning utilizing Git and GitHub, and development on Scrum methodologies. From March 2013 to July 2013 (5 months) Austin, Texas AreaFounder / Chief Software Architect @ Developed TwitC (solely - all coding, database, networking, server administration, API integration, branding, and web design), a web-based file sharing service with advanced social networking, document rendering, video transcoding and streaming, and third-party web video integration. Further developed and marketed commercial web-based digital asset management software products ImageFolio and SecureDAM. Offered web hosting and web development services. Developed custom software solutions for universities, government organizations, and corporations. Provided dedicated and shared server web hosting services (LAMP stacks). Lead web developer and coder on all software products and services, utilizing Perl, JS, HTML, XML, CSS, AJAX. Offered Oracle, PL/SQL, MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL as back-end database software solutions and hosted customer database administration services. Analyzed functional business applications and design specifications. Developed block diagrams and logic flowcharts. Translated detailed design into computer software. Coded, tested, debugged, maintained and refined the computer software to produce the required product. Prepared required documentation, including both program-level and user-level documentation. Enhanced software to reduce operating time and improve efficiency using Lean methodologies. Provided systems administration, which included configuration, backups, monitoring, security, storage, networking, and performance tuning. Automated routine system administration tasks using Perl and shell scripting. From August 2008 to August 2012 (4 years 1 month) Austin, Texas AreaCo-Founder / CTO / Chief Software Architect @ Developed web applications and web services. Provided project management, systems analysis, design, development, testing and modification of applications. Led a team of 4 developers on the development of online communication service TrustDox and multi-file client-server upload solution iBULC. Further developed and marketed ImageFolio and SecureDAM web applications. Emphasized digital asset file encryption and prevention of distributed denial of service attacks and brute force password authentication attacks. Offered web hosting and web development services. Established and fulfilled significant government contracts and licensed software to dozens of Fortune 500 companies. Lead developer/coder on all software products and services, utilizing a LAMP (Perl) stack on Red Hat Enterprise and CentOS Linux servers. Provided database administration on Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server. From November 2006 to December 2008 (2 years 2 months) Austin, Texas AreaCo-Founder / CTO / Creative Director @ Designed, developed and supported innovative Perl applications for the web, most notably ImageFolio, developed in 1999, and one of the first web-based photo gallery software products that enabled photographers to display categorized and searchable online portfolios of their work. BizDesign was ranked #145 on The Internet 500 in November, 1999 – a compiled list of the highest revenue generating companies on the Internet by Inter@ctive Week. Worked on ImageFolio Pro later led to a stock photography and print ordering system called ImageFolio Commerce, enabling photographers to sell their work online, via their websites, whether hosted themselves, by BizDesign, or a third party hosting company. ImageFolio Commerce supported real-time or manual credit card transactions via Authorize.net, PayPal, Card Service International's LinkPoint, WorldPay, and other well known payment gateways. Participated in all phases of the system development life cycle, including requirements, analysis, design, development, testing and deployment. Developed custom software solutions and commercial retail boxed desktop and web-based software products Assembly Line, e-commerce product Storefront Pro, as well as the online search service QuikPix. Licensed products to over 4000 customers in 80 countries. Led a 5-developer and 12-employee corporate team. Established and fulfilled significant government contracts and licensed software to dozens of Fortune 500 companies. Lead developer/coder on all software products and services. Offered shared virtual server and dedicated server web hosting services on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. From December 1996 to November 2006 (10 years) Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Multimedia, Web Development, Graphic Design, Illustration, 3D Animation, 3D Modeling @ Art Institute of Dallas From 1994 to 1996 Austin Community College From 1993 to 1994 Texas A&M University From 1992 to 1993 High Shool Diploma, Advanced Placement and Honors Courses @ Round Rock High School From 1989 to 1992 Gregory Raaum is skilled in: Social Networking, E-commerce, Photography, Web Design, Social Media, Web Development, Advertising, Web Applications, Mobile Applications, Digital Asset Management, Web Services, Graphic Design, Video, Digital Marketing, Online Marketing