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Profile
Experienced product manager who practices iterative/agile methods. Effective communicator with a black-belt in presentations, capable of bridging the gap between business and technology. Good problem solver and team leader with an ability to derive solutions and strategies that are both creative and practical. Hardware and networking background enable a thorough understanding of how decisions made during design and development impact production systems. Experience with application interfaces and graphic design promote a meticulous attention to detail.
Areas of Expertise
Product Management, Application Strategy, Software Architecture, Systems Design, Information Architecture, Interface Design, Graphic Design, Network Architecture.
Technology Experience
Ruby/Rails, ASP/ASP.NET, VB/VBScript, JavaScript/AJAX, PHP, HTML/XHTML/CSS, RSS/XML, ADO/ODBC/SQL, Windows 9X/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista, IIS 5.0/6.0, mySQL, MS SQL, Visio, MS Project, MS Sharepoint 2003/2007, MS Office integration, FLEX/Flash, SOA.
Development Experience
ASP, VBScript, JavaScript/AJAX, PHP, HTML/XHTML/CSS, RSS/XML, ADO/ODBC/SQL, IIS, MS SQL, mySQL, Sharepoint 2003, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007
Experience
VP Products
- Responsible for all product management.
- Rebranded company from Guild Cafe Entertainment to GamerDNA, Inc. in 2008
- Launched beta of GamerDNA.com June 9 2008.
Founder & President
- Developed and designed front-end for an original Xbox Community website build around auto-blogging. Launched in 2006.
- Grew to 100,000 Members within a year requiring continuous scaling of infrastructure.
- Managed all advertising revenue sources and contracts.
- Negotiated and closed a major sponsorship with Proctor & Gamble for the Gamerscore Challenge system in 2007.
- Negotiated and sold the company to GuildCafe Entertainment in 2008.
Senior Manager, Application Development
- Develop and disseminate multi-year application strategies that align with business needs
- Manage a development staff of 15 people including designers, developers, and managers
- Define and develop new department skills that embrace Agile/Spiral processes.
- Evangalize the roll-out of social media technologies that leverage RSS, blogs and wikis.
- Conduct regular enterprise architecture reviews to ensure alignment with loosely-coupled application strategy.
- Champion the consolidation of legacy applications into new platforms.
- Identify and facilitate department adoption of new technologies and solutions.
- Organize training and education for the department.
- Coordinated the implementation of Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007.
Senior Project Manager
- Coordinated the implementation of an Enterprise RSS platform.
- Championed the use and adoption of a Service Oriented Architecture for product integration.
- Participated in the creation of an global enterprise application re-engineering strategy.
- Championed the use and adoption of Iterative Development practices to decrease project lifecyles.
- Managed a functional reorganization of the Application Development department.
- Created a bi-weekly department technology forum.
Product Lead, Internet Technologies
- Led the vendor selection of an Enterprise Search solution
- Managed the design and development of a Macromedia Flex driven business intelligence dashboard
- Managed a redesign of the Sharepoint Portal environment that led to a 80% performance increase for remote offices
- Created a migration plan for Sharepoint Portal that provided turn key solutions for the business
- Implemented web standards development practices within the department.
- Managed the completion of over 250 enhancements to browser-based applications, helping to facilitate work and maintain priorities.
Webmaster
- Managed a team to redesign and rearchitect the corporate website
- Planned and coordinated the architecture and implementation of an application for dynamically building powerpoint presentations as part of a marketing initiative.
- Planned and coordinated the implementation of a web front end for business intelligence delivery.
- Architected and coordinated an enterprise roll-out of Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server.
- Planned, designed and coordinated development of an enterprise email campaign application
- Planned and coordinated the implementation of an Italian language version of the corporate web site.
- Planned and coordinated design and development of custom built CMS application for corporate web site.
- Planned and coordinated a complete Internet infrastructure re-development project.
- Transitioned corporate Internet hosting services from outsourced to in-house network environment.
- Transitioned internet development responsibilities from consulting firm to in-house environment.
Electronic Commerce Systems Developer
- Designed and implemented Magnetstuff.com, a full service Business-to-Consumer retail site for magnetic products, complete with a set of intranet based administrative tools and back-end integration with business systems and corporate accounting reports.
- Designed and implemented Grouparnold.com, an online source for Magnetics Industry and Arnold Engineering corporate information.
- Converted electronic commerce database applications from outsourced Lotus Notes databases to locally hosted MS Access driven systems queried in standard SQL.
- Upgrade the electronic commerce network from Peer-to-Peer Windows 98 clients to Client-Server Windows NT in order to meet new security goals and provide additional developer flexibility.
- Led a vendor selection team for migration of company network from shared Ethernet to fully switched Fast Ethernet with Gigabit Backbone.
Part-time, Network & Systems Administrator
- Designed and implemented corporate portal for parent company The Arnold Engineering Co.
- Coordinated migration of UNIX MRP software to Windows NT.
- Maintained and Upgraded one hundred twenty (120) node Windows NT network
- Upgraded and Administered Microsoft Exchange/Outlook email system, including implementation of web access.
- Installed Internet firewall system with user security profiles.
- Developed tape-backup scheme and disaster recovery policies.
- Carried out Y2K testing and compliance upgrades for computer and information systems.
- Managed forty-five (45) node PBX telephony system.
Education
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
BS, Information Technology (1999)
Training
CHED - Front-end Engineering and Web 2.0 using AJAX
AMA - Information Technology Project Management (January 2006)
IMG - SharePoint Portal Server 2003 for IT Professionals (March 2004)
Conference Attendence
O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (March 2007)
DevConnections (November 2006)
Supernova 2006 (June 2006)
Microsoft Mix06 (April 2006)
O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (March 2006)
Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (September 2005)
Microsoft TechEd (June 2005)
Blog Business Summit (January 2005)
Comdex (November 2003)
User Interface Conference 8 (October 2003)
Microsoft TechEd (June 2003)
Comdex (November 2002)
Additional Accomplishments
It Can Talk Systems, Inc. (November 2006 - Present) - President/CEO of corporate entity for 360voice.com, a leading Xbox 360 community service for monitoring and reporting player gaming information.
HVAC Home Direct (April 2005 - August 2005) - Provided branding, logo, information architecture and graphic design for eCommerce website.
Mobile CPR (July 2005) - Coordinated graphic re-design for brochure website.
Legacy MP Extranet (March 2005) - Provided graphic design for marketing extranet.
The Contractor Connection (January 2005 - February 2005) - Provided graphic design for small business website.
Beer.istephen.com (October 2004) - Provided graphic design, structured markup, CSS, and PHP organization for personal hobby website.
Braincase Music (March 2004 - April 2004) - Provided architecture, logo design, graphic design, flash, CSS and HTML/ASP programming for company brochure site.
Beta Electrical Testing (August 2003) - Provided graphic design, corporate identity and email configuration for small business.
Arnold Magnetics (December 2002 - May 2003) - Provided application/information architecture, graphic design and project management for a new company extranet featuring customer contact management, business quote delivery, tracking and reporting.
KB & Sons Custom Homes and Installations (March 2003 - May 2003) - Provided information architecture and graphic design for company information web site.
Walt Benecki, LLC (February 2003 - March 2003) - Provided information architecture and configuration of corporate brochure site.
Ace Laser Tek (February 2003 - March 2003) - Provided information architecture and graphic design of corporate brochure site.
Marketing Connections (December 2002 - January 2003) - Provided information architecture and graphic design for Marketing Connections corporate extranet application.
6 Ideas, Inc. (November 2002 - December 2002) - Provided information architecture and graphic design for 6 Ideas product and services web site.
Rodlen Laboratories (September 2002 - October 2002) - Provided information architecture, graphic design and logo enhancements for Zostrix arthritis pain medication product information web site.
Landsman Development Corporation (May 2000 - October 2000) - Managed redesign and rollout of a new corporate information web site.
Dyko Industrial Faucet Sales (Feb 2000 - April 2000) - Managed design and rollout of a full service Electronic Commerce web site for retail sales. Integrated design with 3rd party shopping cart system. Coordinated domain name purchase, hosting setup, email and security configurations.
Ray Machine Table Crumber (July 1999 - Sept 1999) - Designed and implemented full service Electronic Commerce web site for retail sales with real-time credit card verification. Integrated design with 3rd party shopping cart system. Coordinated domain name purchase, hosting setup, CyberCash and merchant account acquisition, email and security configurations.
Austromold Incorporated (March 1998 - July 1998) - Designed corporate information web site complete with CGI driven customer forms. Setup host name and ISP account. Configured email addresses, Web Trends statistical reporting and user security profiles.
Computer Components Corporation (March 1998 - July 1998) - Designed corporate information web site. Setup host names and ISP account. Configured company email addresses.
Ray Machine Incorporated (March 1998 - July 1998) - Designed corporate information web site complete with CGI driven customer forms. Constructed ASP driven B2B application to allow suppliers restricted access to manufacturing progress spreadsheets. Setup host name and ISP account. Configured company email addresses and user security profiles.
