Versatile, results-driven IT professional with 15+ years experience working with corporate leaders to translate complex business requirements into technology solutions. Combine broad business experience, technical expertise and analytical skills to help organizations achieve their strategic objectives and articulate a vision for the future. Comprehensive IT knowledge resulting from career progression through the software development ranks. * Track record of success aligning goals to drive process improvement using limited resources. Skilled at leveraging existing technologies to save costs. * Respected team leader with a demonstrated ability to train and motivate others to exceed established goals. * Adept at clearly establishing priorities, managing risk and driving the timely completion of large-scale projects, despite aggressive timelines.
KEY COMPETENCIES Project/Program Management Strategic Planning Staffing/Resource Allocation Budget Accountability Application/Web Programming e-Commerce Development Data Modeling/Design/Administration Network Infrastructure & Security Public Speaking/Presentations Training & Instructional Design Technical Documentation & Publications Client Relationship Management Graphic Element Creation/Design Usability testing R & D/Grant Funding
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS MCP - Microsoft Certified Professional
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE REAL MORTGAGE SYSTEMS/VISRE, Jacksonville, FL; 2006 - Present CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER & IT CONSULTANT; 2+ years Hold dual roles as CIO for mortgage lending/service firm and Technical Consultant to its sister company.
CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER - REAL MORTGAGE SYSTEMS Direct IT operations in start-up lending company aimed at consolidating acquisition and improvement lenders into national network. Oversee application development, network infrastructure, security, database administration and data transformation. Draft and administer budget, hire talent and supervise 5 direct reports. Collaborate with senior officers to establish technology vision. Create presentations for investor groups and setup/host Webinars for demonstration and training. Interface with partners and third party resources for data integration needs. Managed projects by setting standards for lifecycle development, feature sets and release dates, as well as providing use cases. Utilized open source tools for project management, bug tracking/ticketing and version control. KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: * Led team of developers in building a state-of-the-art, Web-based loan servicing and administration system. Created development plan, project timeline, functional specifications, QA and production infrastructure to achieve rollout of first module in 5 months. * Authored strategic and implementation plans for IT projects and documented systems/network infrastructure, IT policies/procedures, security access and business continuity plan. Set standards and defined use cases/feature sets for software lifecycle management. * Worked with SME to design and implement an online platform to evaluate potential partner acquisitions. * Built, managed and documented enterprise data model and managed data integrity for MySQL relational databases. * Partnered with Wells Fargo Project Manager to establish structure for pulling data directly from subsidiary into their enterprise reporting system and architected a data dictionary mapping to the subsidiary database.
IT CONSULTANT - VISRE Supply leadership and technical expertise to startup company delivering geocoded street level imagery of real estate properties to appraisers, assessors, real estate professionals, banks, lenders and city/county/state organizations. Manage project teams, directly build applications and document all systems and infrastructure. KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: * Pivotal resource in development of asset management system, applications to deploy imagery systems nationwide and demonstration Websites to showcase technology capabilities to investors and vendors. * Produced corporate Website and trained employee to handle administration. * Installed open source technology solutions such as Sugar CRM and Joomla. * Created Web portals for attorneys and investors to conduct due diligence. * Created a business application enabling driver dispatchers to draw a polygon on a map to be exported into a Google Earth compatible KML file. Application utilized and extended the Google Maps API. Environment: PHP, HTML, CSS, AJAX, Javascript, DHTML, XML, MySQL, PHPMyAdmin, HomeSite, Photoshop, Acrobat, Linux Debian (Dapper Drake) Ubuntu OS, Python, Ganglia, Nagios, SSH, HTTPS, Open Office, MS Office Suite, Visio, dotProject, Trac, Subversion, CVS, Google Maps, Sugar CRM, Joomla
QUALITY IMAGES, Jacksonville, FL; 2004 - 2006 CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER & WEB ARCHITECT; 2 years Successfully built an IT infrastructure for this small printing company as well as proprietary application to attract a major account. Met with clients to determine business needs and created custom B2B/B2C solutions. Administered IIS Webserver, FTP server and corporate email server. Created, developed and administered MySQL databases. Worked with Marketing team in developing effective strategies to drive revenue. KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: * Designed new infrastructure architecture and purchased servers/IT equipment needed for expansion. Arranged for collocation of production equipment at a secure facility, point to point connection and ISP. Researched offsite solutions for intrusion detection and set up in house hosting. * Constructed application development system with separate development, testing and production environments. * Within 5 months, architected, developed, built and deployed a proprietary enterprise e-commerce application. This B2B variable data print system for fulfillment of online print jobs generated a quarter of a $1MM in sales per year from 300 franchises nationwide, provided PDF soft proofs of documents online, and interfaced with back-end ticketing system for in-shop workflow. * Created backend reporting system for key client, one of the country's largest healthcare services distributors. Developed Web presence for local restaurant that attracted substantial new business. Produced custom application for direct marketing purposes that allowed custom landing pages with a personal URL for each customer. * Designed/developed print portal application to permit FTP upload of files upon authentication, as well as a back end administration system to track company orders and manage the internal workflow from each department. Environment: PHP, ASP, AJAX, CSS, HTML, Perl, Javascript, DHTML, XML, MySQL, PHPMyAdmin, PDFLib, HomeSite, Photoshop, Acrobat, Windows 2003/2000 Server, IIS 6.0, Sharepoint, FTP, IPSwitch Imail, HTTPS, MS Office Suite, and Open Source Web Services
ROCKPOINTE BROADCASTING COMPANY, Jacksonville, FL; 2000 - 2004 SENIOR WEB DEVELOPER; 4 years Led and contributed to development of Web application courseware for multi-million dollar clients in the medical industry. Mentored junior developers. KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: * Constructed approximately 30 Websites with components such as streaming media, Macromedia Shockwave presentations, PowerPoint slides, image libraries and galleries, informational Web content, games, dynamic data driven presentations, Web forms, authentication modules, real-time assessments, transcripts and completion certificates. * Saved company from purchasing $50K software package by developing a custom slide/image library application that enabled medical professionals to select and download images into PowerPoint slide sets from a library of images. Users could also upload new images to the online libraries. System was honored by the National Health Information Awards Program. * Created comprehensive online assessment tools for CME/CE certifications of medical professionals, eliminating need to hire experts to construct exams. * Built, installed, configured, managed and maintained all database systems. * Transcribed medical lectures captured from conferences and produced scrolling transcripts that were downloadable and printable for presentations. * Developed online document summary sites with presentations from national conferences of major clients, including American Heart Association, NASPE, American Diabetes Association and American College of Physicians. Environment: PHP, ChiliASP (now SunASP), CSS, VBA/VB script, HTML, Javascript, DHTML, XML, HomeSite, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Acrobat, Windows 2000 Server, Redhat Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHPMyAdmin, WebTrends, OSCommerce, SSH, FTP, MS Office Suite
EDUCATION POSITIONS Adjunct Professor, University of Northern Florida, 2003 - Present Instructor, Kaplan Educational Center, 1998 - 1999 Dept Chair/Professor, Jacksonville University, 1991-1998 KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: * Created and taught a wide variety of courses. Established new minor program in Religious Studies. Sought and received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Chautauqua Foundation for research/new course creation. * Co-founded University Women's Center and organized a National Conference on Health Care Ethics. * Published book and articles in peer reviewed journals, chaired sessions and presented work at national/regional conferences.
PRIOR EXPERIENCE From 1992 - 2000, held positions with Donald D. Zell Urban Resource Center, Kumquats, Shands Hospital and The Express Newspaper.
TECHNICAL SUMMARY PLATFORMS: Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT, Redhat Linux, Debian Linux SOFTWARE/TOOLS: Adobe, Macromedia, Open Source, PHP, ASP, HTML, CSS, AJAX, Javascript, DHTML, XML, MySQL, PHPMyAdmin, HomeSite, Photoshop, Python, Ganglia, Nagios, Open Office, Microsoft Office Suite, IIS 6.0, Apache, WebTrends, OSCommerce, Visio, Access, dotProject, Trac, Subversion, Google Maps/Earth, DOS, Solaris, Novell Netware 5.0, TCP/IP, FTP, HTTP protocols, Blackboard, Sugar CRM, Joomla
EDUCATION Vanderbilt University PhD. & M.A.
Florida International University Dual B.A. Degrees
Florida Community College A.S., Computer Information Systems
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