Chief Technology Officer • Chief Information Officer
Senior VP • VP

• Development, Implement and Maintain TheNicNacStop.com
• Technologies supported include LAMP, .Net, Microsoft Suites (Exchange, Sharepoint, MS SQL, Great Plains Financials, SOAP, REST, Tomcat, etc)
• Bonobos, Manhattan, New York, consulting CTO, xCart system moved to Magento platform with Drupal wrapped around as the general content management system.
• eFashionSolutions, consulting CTO, project consulting and development contracting
• Design interface with eBay for eBay's new FashionVault flash sale component, with ability to handle the high traffic that eBay generates. Inbound orders were generated at rates exceeding 350 orders per hour.
• Design and build EDI internal systems (SOAP)

• Scaled the company from small environment into an environment that can easily and quickly adjust to increased clients, volume and traffic both on websites and through warehouse fulfillment operations.
• Identified opportunity and devised system to serve images and interactive content, negotiated vendor agreements resulting in 80% cost savings as well as open up new revenue prospect.
• Re-engineered current ecommerce platform resulting in 65% less development time for new site launches and empowering departments and clients to perform tasks and bring them "live" immediately, trimming development resource requirements and time required for day to day changes and promotions. Allows for easy customization of platform for clients.
• Intranet and Extranet developed for remote and internal employee base, utilizing Sharepoint for company services, collaboration and resources, .Net CMS, Windows 2003 and 2007 servers, MS SQL, Great Plains/Dynamics financials, Active Directory and domain services.
• Optimized IT infrastructure environment greatly increasing up-time and dramatically increasing performance and data integrity on websites, backend operations and internal IT systems.
• Defined system to streamline processes between receiving, photo studio, websites and clients for accurately tracking and making images available internally and externally.
• Negotiated and renegotiated vendor contracts resulting in annual cost savings, more beneficial alliances and augmented support and maintenance.
• LAMP environment with Zend, Drupal, Joomla and Magento frameworks and applications. SOAP, REST and XML web services support. Utilized bash, python and perl for automated tasks on the production side using 24 load balanced web servers with dual load balanced web applications servers, 8 database servers, with dual servers for writes across round robin load balancing; maintaining 30 brand name eCommerce sites, CMS systems for public relations and corporate sites, and customized content management systems for the eCommerce systems.
• Web 2.0 utilizing SOAP, REST and php/XML.
• Project methodologies included the Agile approach on existing applications and a focus on Scrum/Agile for new development.
• As many as 8 direct and 45 indirect reports. Reported to CEO and Board of Directors.
• Managed annual budget ranging from $4 million to $10 million.

• Designed web 2.0 ecommerce platform to query websites for inventory availability, offer complete checkout (while processing purchase at vendor sites), calculating driving distances, times and costs and dispatching appropriate delivery system. Developed database and system architectures. SOAP, REST and XML web services.
• JAVA EE/J2EE, Tomcat application development and services.
• Identified, recruited and utilized remote and overseas to effectively develop systems savings more than 60% of development costs.
• Designed and developed site scraping programs for availability, pricing and location checks optimizing real time availability of data to websites
• Agile environment with development in PHP, then migrated to .Net for multi-threading capabilities.
• Employee base was remote across US and outsourced countries. Microsoft technologies (software) utilized for company extranet and intranet based around Sharepoint Server.
• Team size consisted of 3 direct and 30 indirect reports. Reported to CEO.

• Managed all eCommerce and eBusiness initiatives, with sales nearly $1 Billion, and 70% of those sales through eCommerce portals. Acquired and managed $100 million eCommerce platform company located in Berkley, CA, streamlining all eBusiness activities from multiple systems and platforms under one proprietary system, directly integrating multiple sales offices, development and quality assurance locations, redundancy systems and warehouse locations.
• Directed all IT infrastructure and development activities with 20 direct reports and over 130 indirect reports in multiple locations worldwide, with an annual budget exceeding $50 million.
• Integrated over 10 acquired companies into corporate IT structure and systems, coordinated training and specific business needs among those acquisitions.

• Managed all development activities and direction from startup through IPO
• Directing the project and development managers, responsibilities included directing development staff, project management office, client services, sales issues and development plan, re-prioritizing continuously as the needs changed or new ones introduced, and making sure executive management was always abreast of progress, issues and any customer relationship changes.
• Directed staff growth to over 80 professionals including developers, supporting staff and quality assurance, with annual development budget between $2 and $6 million.
• Was originally recruited as the Lead Developer and Software Development Manager, and was very “hands on” throughout my tenure.