Founder, CTO/CXO

TruthShield, LLC

TruthShield provides innovative tools, training and services to optimize, strengthen, and elevate software manufacturing processes to deliver cutting-edge competitive advantages.

• Boost software development efficiency.
• Identify, mitigate, and eliminate primary sources of software failure.
• Streamline alignment across diverse specialists, especially focusing on the bridge between technial and non-technical stakeholders.

CTO

Artnet

Responsible for establishing and running product research and development, software engineering, quality assurance, IT, and project management practices.

Developed and executed product, technical, and organization strategies to modernize all aspects of product development.

Managed product and technical roadmap planning process with all stakeholders. Responsible for budgeting millions across product, IT, and engineering teams, projects, and vendors.

Negotiated strategic alliances with many vendors to expidite project execution and provide modernization support.

Made executive decisions on all product and technology aspects of the company; including product strategy, software design and development, staffing strategies, technical strategies, product and software development processes, requirement standardization, quality assurance engineering practices, and optimizing internal communications.

Hands-on systems architecture design, detailed technical design, project design, and coaching/mentoring. Planning and executing technology platform consolidation, modernization, and migrations, across all customer-facing and employee-facing systems. Provide leadership and establish processes and standards to ensure best practices that foster continuous improvements.

Chief Architect, Senior VP Engineering

Artnet

Define and track architecture, processes, and best practices that support both functional and non-functional requirements, including performance, scalability, reliability, security, manageability, and maintainability.

Lead concept, design, build, and test efforts of producing cutting edge solutions. Define how capabilities will be built and support timely delivery of capabilities and solutions. Participate in planning and requirements definition in collaboration with business owners and product managers to ensure the time and efforts of the delivery team is in alignment with overall strategy.

Lead all aspects of technical product ownership, including gathering requirements, specification production, architecture, planning, detail design, implementation, quality assurance, documentation, and continuous integration/delivery.

Lead a project to eliminate the risk of an over-dependence on a 3rd party software vendor. Brought all technical decisions and management in-house and introduced new quality management processes including establishing standards for executable specifications and TDD (test-driven-development).

Senior Manager, Development

Medidata

Hands-on system architect, technical, and process lead. Define technical vision and roadmap across multiple teams and products. Representative for flagship products on the architectural committee. Define individual product capability and technical roadmaps based on opportunities, risk evaluation, project cost and schedule for multiple systems. Design and document projects to modernize architecture in brownfield products. Staffing and management of multiple software engineering teams. Mentoring engineering teams on efficient scoping, estimation, design, and plan execution.

Senior Software Engineer / Systems architect

PetCareRx

Hands-on software architecture and technical lead. Responsible for gathering requirements, architecting, and building a new flagship site with personalized content engine and content management. Introduced automated CI/CD processes with automated quality gates continuous release. Train and direct junior developers and manage work product for the team.

Manager of Software Development

Shutterstock.com

Hands-on software architect and technical lead. Responsible for building and managing a development team responsible for all integration and internal systems development. Defined standardized software development and maintenance processes. Responsible for defining and executing new projects. Lead continuous improvement efforts to lower total cost of ownership and increase performance.

Sr. Software Architect/Analyst

Vertical Capital Investment Advisors

Hands-on systems software architecture and technical lead. Analyze exiting systems architecture and code base to identify procedural/data inconsistencies and identify high risk areas in legacy systems. Systems architecture including integration of a service bus to parallelize and increase throughput of mission critical data processing applications. Develop long term, multi-phase plans for system upgrades. Present time, cost, and risk options to senior management. Define and execute architectural changes to improve performance, reduce technical debt and increase overall development momentum.

Senior software Architect/Team Lead

Business Intelligence Associates, Inc. (BIA)

Hands-on systems analysis, architecture, and development lead: Built and lead technology team to support in-house software and new product development for digital forensics and electronic discovery. Define opportunities for system improvements and work with management to develop technical roadmaps. Architect and lead design/construction efforts on distributed system to enable low friction extensibility in order to extract evidence from new file types. Redesign communication layer in processing grid, reducing network and database load and increasing throughput 250%. Redesign workflow engine, reducing file processing error rates over 95% and significantly reduced manual processes. Architect hybrid desktop and SaaS solution used to perform defensible remote forensic collections and mine digital assets to extract evidence used in court.

Software Developer

Debevoise & Plimpton

Lead programmer/analyst. Gather requirements, write functional and technical specifications, perform technical analysis, design and develop multi-tier systems. Provide technical assistance for development team and present to team members on topics including architecture, code performance, CLR internals, multi-threading, TDD, data structures and regular expressions. Technical analysis, design and development; Liaison between accounting and information services department.

Manager of Web Development

Boardroom

Responsible for all digital product and technology operations to bring the company's completely analog business to the web. Drive product and technical strategies. Gather requirements, write functional and technical specifications, architect and develop systems with capabilities including content management, job tracking, html conversion utilities, digital asset management, and job automation projects. Define e-commerce vision to leverage existing direct marketing programs. Successfully led execution of project with both internal and external resources to launch new online initiative resulting in revenues of over one million dollars in the first year. Supervise operations of e-marketing. Hands-on technology analysis, development, and management