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Regional Information Technology Specialist @ IBM Responsible for LAN / WAN network connectivity and maintenance of Token Ring network. Managed 2nd and 3rd level desktop support. Managed support of LAN assembly project, employee workstation security, and asset control. From April 1992 to September 1995 (3 years 6 months) Bethesda, MdSr. Software Developer @ Expert Portal Technologies Contributed...

Regional Information Technology Specialist @ IBM Responsible for LAN / WAN network connectivity and maintenance of Token Ring network. Managed 2nd and 3rd level desktop support. Managed support of LAN assembly project, employee workstation security, and asset control. From April 1992 to September 1995 (3 years 6 months) Bethesda, MdSr. Software Developer @ Expert Portal Technologies Contributed to the design, development, testing, deployment, hosting, and maintenance of reusable web frameworks. The frameworks included web portal, e-commerce, and content management applications with capabilities to import content from most major content providers (i.e. Isyndicate, MoreOver, Stat USA). Frameworks were built using VB, ASP, JavaScript, XML, D/HTML, Flash, Java, Site Server 3.0, Commerce Server, BizTalk, and SQL Server. From October 1999 to August 2000 (11 months) Baltimore, MarylandConsultant @ PM Information Systems Responsible for marketing and developing Microsoft software and LAN solutions using the full lifecycle development model. Designed, developed, tested, and integrated Microsoft software solutions that used Visual Basic, ASP, JavaScript, Crystal Reports, and MS SQL. Developed LAN solutions that included server OS migration, image build, backup strategy, network connectivity, workstation installs, Internet proxy, and email servers. From September 1995 to January 1997 (1 year 5 months) Baltimore, Maryland AreaVice President of Engineering @ DoublePositive Served in the same capacity as above but reported to the CTO. From December 2012 to January 2015 (2 years 2 months) Baltimore, Maryland AreaDirector of Technology @ DoublePositive Served in the same capacity as above but reported to the CTO. From November 2011 to December 2012 (1 year 2 months) Baltimore, Maryland AreaSenior Solutions Architect @ DoublePositive Architected an industry agnostic Lead Monetization Platform. The system received, processed and distributed an average of 1M leads/month while maintaining 99.99% up-time. Leads were validated, standardized, deduplicated, scored by decile, filtered by rules engine, matched to demand filters and finally routed by EDI to different client endpoints. The platform was developed using ASP.net, C#, AJAX SQL Server, BizTalk, WWF, SSIS, HTML5, node.js, Ext JS and more. The implemented architecture serviced 5000+ clients, ~300 supply channels, 4 call centers and 34 administrators performing 110K+ transactions per day. From March 2006 to November 2011 (5 years 9 months) Baltimore, Maryland AreaSr. Programmer @ SC&H Group Created financial data-mining and reporting tools for an OLAP data warehouse using C#.net, VB.net, Oracle 9i, SQL Server. Designed and developed a CFO Dashboard for graphical multi-dimensional navigation through the Data Mart. Designed and developed ad hoc reporting engine for atomic level mining and tabular reporting on the data warehouse. Designed and developed client specific data refineries and ETL using BizTalk. From April 2004 to March 2006 (2 years) Hunt Valley, MarylandSoftware Developer @ Bank of America Managed Y2K readiness efforts for software and firmware of servers and desktops. Developed multi-tier browser-based application for asset management, and license tracking using ASP, Index Server, ADO objects, JavaScript, SQL databases. From October 1997 to September 1999 (2 years) Hunt Valley, MDLAN Technician IV @ PHH Corporation Responsible for administration of NT and Novell Servers. Supported Win NT / 3.1 / 95, MS office, MS Mail, Novell Netware, EXTRA, HEAT, network printers, various Amdahl mainframe applications. Responsible for 3rd and 4th level server and desktop support and training of new technicians. From January 1997 to September 1997 (9 months) Hunt Valley, MdChief Technology Officer @ emocha Mobile Health Inc emocha improves medication adherence using video technology and human engagement. We leverage a CDC-endorsed model called Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) where healthcare workers watch patients take every dose of medication, monitor side effects, and provide critical support. Baltimore, MarylandVP, Cloud Architecture @ Day1 Solutions, Inc. Served as the product owner and technical leader for the state of Maryland MD-Think project. Working in concert with the CTO, CISO and CIO we undertook a green-field migration of all legacy applications and systems to modernized frameworks and AWS cloud infrastructure. Using the SAFe (Scaled Agile) principles, I was responsible for creating the playbook for 13 work streams in a multi-year, $200M effort to break down business silos and build a comprehensive shared infrastructure and development platform. Some components of the shared architecture include a NoSQL data lake, API first RESTful services, serverless and/or container-oriented code deployment in a devops stack, all secured using relevant NIST control families. Our success in this project lead to Day1’s acquisition by Deloitte. From May 2016 to January 2017 (9 months) McLean, VirginiaVP of Technology @ Personify Corp Personify Corp is a multinational organization united by a singular purpose: to empower organizations by connecting and engaging their clients, customers and constituents like never before. a2z Events by Personify powers more than 700 events and over 25% of the Top 200 shows every year. a2z Events provides powerful web-based tools that facilitate and accelerate event sales. I led all strategic and operational teams for the industry leading, event/expo management solution. Responsibilities for this Cloud-based SaaS product included Research & Development, Quality Assurance, Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and Technical Operations.Proud of:• Replatformed & rearchitected a mature product from traditional, dedicated, datacenter virtualization to public cloud technology (AWS) and architecture. The new platform was able to make use of serverless (Lambda), container (Docker), microservice, non-relational database patterns and technologies.• Executed on initiatives to achieve SOC & GDPR compliance alongside our publicly traded partners.• Created and implemented the companies first virtual NOC. The NOC’s capabilities included centralized log/event/metric collection, real-time and historic data visualization, monitoring, alerting, and active mitigation. (EFK Stack, Grafana, CloudWatch, Lambda)• 95.4% customer retention, 73 Net Promoter Score• Average 4.7/4.6 (iOS, Android) mobile app scores across 100,000+ ratings From December 2016 to June 2019 (2 years 7 months) Columbia, MarylandCTO @ DoublePositive Served as technology head in partnership with executive leadership, business units and functional leaders. Responsible for project management, product development, architecture, integration, documentation, technical operations, infrastructure, R&D, interfaces, and business intelligence/data analytics/reporting. Proud of:• Drove process changes utilizing SCRUM Agile SDLC methodologies that led to a more efficient and responsive software development team. This resulted in a 34% higher project velocity. • Implemented a quality control infrastructure and pattern that reduced the post deployment defect rate by 27% while maintaining velocity. • Managed the development, delivery and support of a programmatic advertising suite which included cloud-based Ad Servers, RTB engines, data warehousing and analytics. The resulting platform participated in ~1.2B auctions/day with sub 30ms response times on Google ADX and numerous Demand-side Platform integrations. The system was developed utilizing AWS (EC2, ElastiCache, Elastic MapReduce and DynamoDB), C#, Hadoop, Hive, protobuf.• Managed the implementation, development and support of a scalable and fault tolerant inbound/outbound dialer. The system was tightly integrated with the Lead Workflow platform and placed 1.9M dials/month and connected for 1.5M minutes/month. The architecture was developed using Asterisk, FreeSwitch, C#, PHP, clustered MySQL (Percona), Twilio (IVR) and VOIP Monitor. From January 2015 to June 2016 (1 year 6 months) Baltimore, Maryland AreaSr. Programmer @ Lockheed Martin Project Management – Created strategy and plan to take 4000+ user Navy web application from a flat ASP architecture to a multi-tier Object Oriented .Net architecture. Developed a migration plan to take the application’s database schema from Visual FoxPro to Oracle 9i.Software Development – Designed and developed custom web form-based authentication using C++/ISAPI, C#.net, and .Net WindowsPrincipal impersonation techniques. Designed and developed .Net Web Services for secure data transport from auxiliary classified military applications. From October 2003 to April 2004 (7 months) Crystal City, VirginiaSr. Programmer @ NeuroNet Solutions Designed and developed several multi-tier applications• Web portal to manage the relationships between a national motor fuel distributor and its gas station managers using VB/COM+, XML, SQL Server, Oracle, Cold Fusion, JSP, Custom Tags• Learning Management System for a leading private school’s home school students and remote teachers using JavaScript, Adobe Acrobat, and Oracle. Performed a cost benefit analysis showing a 4250 man-hour/yr. savings.• Web application to extract, store, and report DVR configuration data using VB.net, COM, ASP.net, SQL 2000 and Crystal Decisions Report Application Server. • LMS modules - SCORM compliant Shareable Content Objects for the NSA’s Anti-Terrorism education program, using XML, XSD, XSLT, JavaScript and a Thinq LMS backend environment. • E-commerce solutions to allow for the tracking of frequent / referral customers and credit their purchases based on points earned using ASP, JavaScript, VBScript, and SQL 2000. From October 1999 to October 2003 (4 years 1 month) Baltimore, Maryland Area