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WELD media, LLC

April 2011 – Present

VP of Technology

• Responsible for all web and mobile architecture and technology development
• Participate and lead project lifecycle from inception to optimization
• Deliver technical and functional specifications along with creation of use cases and functional flows
• Hands-on development for all technology builds
• Lead mobile development for the iOS devices, Android devices and Windows Phone
• Manage Windows network infrastructure running VMWare Virtualization

Affinion Group Stamford CT

Sep 2010 – March 2011

Director of Technology, Mobile Technology

• Define mobile technology strategy for Affinion products (loyalty, protection, membership)
• Deliver mobile web application solutions sets across all of Affinion products by collaborating with multiple internal teams
• Work with business stakeholders to define mobile web and mobile application experiences
• Collaborate with IT Solution Architects for defining technical requirements for mobile web applications
• Manage and communicate business requirements and goals to IT product teams
• Manage creative and technology vendor relationships for multiple engagements
• Setup testing services, development environment and mobile best practices and patterns for enterprise
• Built enthusiasm surrounding mobile devices and mobile applications by training and establishing patterns
• Deliver mobile web and native mobile applications using the latest technology (Sencha Touch/PhoneGap/HTML5, Xcode/Objective-C, Eclipse/Android SDK, jQtouch/HTML5)
• Skunk Works projects to innovate and keep abreast of emerging mobile technology using PayPal API, Amazon payments and Card Readers

Story Worldwide Norwalk CT

Mar 2007 - Sep 2010

VP, Director of Technology North America

• Responsible for all technology development and application architecture in North America with a platform agnostic approach using the internal unified process
• Acted as Technical Architect and Lead Developer on several major client web applications
• Work closely with client IT stakeholders on integration policies and protocols with back-end systems
• Participate in strategy, branding and creative concept brainstorming
• Determine best practices and feasibility of technical build from creative concepts
• Work closely with Information Architecture to determine user flows and wireframes
• Manage budgets, resource allocations and results management for North America Technology team
• Provide leadership and management to Technology Development team, Quality Assurance team and Information Architecture team
• Design and develop applications using the following : .NET 2.0 & 3.5, C#, Flex, Flash, PHP, MySQL, SQL 2000 & 2005, MS Share Point, Interwoven, AJAX, and other client side technologies (jQuery, Prototype, Dojo, iUi), Social Networking platforms (Wordpress, joomla, BlogEngine)

Byte Interactive LLC Norwalk CT

Jan 2005 – Mar 2007

Director of Technology

• Oversee all technical development projects with Microsoft .NET Framework and ASP using Service Oriented Architecture
• Provide leadership and guidance to client stakeholders for technology direction working as a technical lead
• Participate in client brand planning and provide recommendations for all engagements
• Responsible for technology recommendations and architecture
• Manage all operational assignments for development staff
• Detail complete architecture from elaboration to construction phase
• Manage development and network infrastructure team
• Maintain relationships with third party vendors

Byte Interactive LLC Norwalk CT

Feb 2003 – Dec 2005

Technical Lead

• Manage development effort utilizing Microsoft .NET technologies using C#. Define business requirements for Fortune 1000 clients and translate them into software business rules
• Technical lead for all application builds for a Fortune 500 client
• Provide technology direction for brand planning during a given year
• Build E-Commerce, product portfolio, sales extranet and consumer relationship management systems
• Develop software and database models of web applications
• Determine best practices on development projects
• Manage and allocate developers project tasks for engagements
• Write and compile all technical documentation
• Enforce standards, code-reuse, code reviews, and unit/system/integration testing

Readers Digest Pleasantville NY

Jul 2001 - Feb 2003

Senior Internet Engineer

• Develop software using J2EE and JSP for e-Commerce web site with ATG Dynamo Java Application Server, MS SQL Server, IPlanet Enterprise Server and Sun Solaris
• Enhance current ecommerce site by creating new one-click ordering and sweepstake entry points with Java and JSP
• Develop middleware applications with Visual Basic and MS SQL Server from web database to fulfillment systems
• Use J2EE and XML to process middleware transactions from web system to partner systems
• Create new solutions to existing system architecture and back end data systems with Visual Basic and MS SQL Server
• Provide maintenance to current Solaris and IPlanet Enterprise Server architecture using Perl scripting
• Responsible for code review from junior engineers

Modem Media Norwalk CT

Oct 1999 - Feb 2001

Senior Software Engineer

• Lead Engineer on site builds, review team member’s work as well as micro-manage the site development process providing updates to senior team members and clients
• Build ecommerce sites for Fortune 1000 clients using an n-tier architecture using IPlanet, Apache or IIS Web Server, ATG Dynamo or IBM Web Sphere Application Server, and Oracle or MS SQL Database Server and IBM MQ Series Middleware, Microsoft ASP
• Design Java components with UML and design use cases
• Write technical documentation on site builds
• Configure development and staging environments on servers by installing operating systems and application servers. Configure and test production systems on site rollouts
• Maintain existing Fortune 1000 client web sites using Perl, ASP, XML, JSP, and Java Servlets
• Hold training classes on best practices with ATG Dynamo and Microsoft ASP
• Mentor junior engineers

Commonfund Wilton CT

Jul 1998 - Oct 1999

Business Systems Analyst

• Build, maintain and test web fund portfolio system using Microsoft ASP and MS SQL Server
• Design and build customer relationship database using Saratoga Product Solutions on Windows NT Platform
• Develop solutions using Visual Basic for internal departments and clients
• Manage development process of financial estimator written in Mat Lab and Microsoft Access
• Design and build custom solutions for departments using MS Office software with VBA technologies
• Design and build internal web applications using ASP and MS SQL Server
• Lead company lunch and learns on various computer topics

Arthur Andersen LLP New York NY

Jan 1998 - Jul 1998

Tax Consultant

• Reengineer tax processes by building custom applications using MS VBA
• Train clients and internal staff on software solutions
• Communicate with client IT team and arrange project deployments

Black & Decker Shelton CT

Jun 1996 - Dec 1997

IT Specialist

• Provide ongoing support to employees and projects
• Assist in building company data warehouse using Visual Basic and MS SQL and department intranet with ASP and MS SQL