Resume of Senior Technology Consultant

Title
Senior Technology Consultant

Primary Skills
Entrepreneurial, visionary and technical hands-on business leader and software architect

Location
US-SC-Mt Pleasant

Posted
May-29-07


* Entrepreneurial, visionary and technical hands-on business leader and software architect
* InfoWorld Top 25 CTO Award, InfoWorld Magazine June 5, 2006 - Issue 23
* Proven ability to create, operate, manage, market and grow a software and technology focused organization or department of all sizes
* Maintain focus on achieving bottom-line results while formulating and implementing advanced technology, business solutions and future strategy
* Strong sales and presentation skills, able to sell ideas, products and services to both internal and external customers
* Record of delivering multiple large-scale, mission-critical projects on time and within budget while growing the organization
* Strong domain experience in many verticals including (Healthcare, Insurance, eCommerce and Credit Card Processing)
* Hands-on, team-based agile management style, excellent interpersonal and communication skills and superior team building abilities



Professional Experience

Sabal Medical Nov. 2006 - Present
Charleston, SC Technology Consultant

* Medical hardware and software technology startup company looking to solve bedside medication errors and eMAR (electronic medical administration record) software
* Key member of founding team responsible for all aspects of a startup company from technology directions to angel presentations
* Designed and developed software prototypes for several applications needed for demonstration of solutions including: Pharmacy Management, eMAR (electronic medical administration record), Executive Dashboard and Reporting using C# and .NET

Benefitfocus.com, Inc. Aug. 2003 - Oct 2006 Mount Pleasant, SC VP Technology \ Sales Engineer

* Lead company's strategic technology direction, including reorganization of departments, responsibilities and overall technology alignment
* Executed on plan to elevate company to latest technologies (Java 5, WebLogic 9.1, Oracle 10g RAC, 64 Bit OS, Big IP, EMC ...)
* Technology liaison, evangelist and sales engineer with internal, existing and prospected customers
* Lead software re-architecture from individual applications operating in batch to extendable platform delivering domain services, changing company to a software as a service (SaaS) business model
* Directly responsible for both top and bottom line revenue of over $20 million, responsible for multiple P&L statements
* Responsible for over 100 software engineers, including all aspects of software development life cycle (SDLC) for multiple products

Dir. SBU (eExchange) \ Dir. Engineering \ Sales Engineer

* Created new strategic business unit (eExchange) from ground up including product design, implementation, marketing and sales
* Grew business and technical staff to over 20 associates, P&L statement to $5 million with net earning over a million dollars (profitable within 4 months)
* Created healthcare enrollment network and integration service of 1000's of corporate clients and 100's of healthcare payers including over 20 Blue associations

Datazign, Inc. May 1994 - Aug. 2003 (see below) President and Founder
Dat azign Inc. was fully acquired by Benefitfocus.com in August of 2003 including assets, intellectual property, software and associates.

* Created, from ground zero a software development and services company. Grew the company to over 30 software developers and yearly revenues of over $2 million
* Lead large projects of over 50 people for Fortune 100 companies, while in parallel organized and grew a company of diverse technical employees
* Converted company's technology foundation and expertise, from waterfall, client \ server to lightweight, agile, Java, Internet based development and services
* Created and lead public and corporate training division. Training focused on Java and software development and mainly retrained and educated legacy developers
* Built relationships and created trust with both technical personnel and senior management through the entire services life cycle (sales - maintenance). Achieved leader role with all organizations leading to extended relationships and additional contracts
* Created joint ventures and partnerships between the company and other organizations. These alliances consisted of everything from sales partners to venture capitalists

Datazign, Consultant at SourceOne Healthcare Technologies Feb. 2003 - Aug. 2003 Greenville, SC \ Jacksonville, FL Architect \ Project Manager

* Architect and Project Manager for Internet E-Commerce B2B Portal
* Application was a real-time ordering and information system, freeing business customers from the monotonous reorder process, while allowing for one time orders and order tracking
* WebLogic \ J2EE \ MS SQL Server \ Struts \ Tiles \ XP Agile

Datazign, Consultant at The Department of Homeland Security \ UNC-SPH
Oct. 2002 - April 2003 Greenville, SC \ Chapel Hill, NC Architect \ Project Manager

* Chief Architect and Project Manager for Bio-Terrorism Workforce Readiness web application
* Product evaluated state emergency workers and suggested education paths for compliance to readiness of Bio-Terrorism events
* SaaS \ J2EE \ WebLogic \ Oracle \ Struts \ JMS \ XP

Datazign, Consultant at North Carolina University System May 2001 - Sept. 2002 Greenville, SC \ Durham, NC Project Manager \ Architect

* Project Lead and Software Architect for CapStat Web application
* CapStat is an Internet based capital expenditure tracking and management system. The system managed capital projects for all North Carolina State Universities, tracking over $4 billion dollars
* J2EE \ WebLogic \ Oracle \ Struts \ MVC \ HTML \ JavaScript \ Reporting tools \ XP

Datazign, Consultant at Physician Sales & Services, Inc. Sept. 2001 - April 2002 Greenville, SC \ Jacksonville FL Architect \ Process Consultant

* Process \ Change Consultant and Software Architect for E-Commerce applications mypss.com and mydionline.com
* Application sold and replenished PSS medical equipment and supplies to providers and hospitals
* SaaS \ J2EE \ WebLogic \ WL Commerce Server \ VBSF \ Oracle \ HTML \ JavaScript

Datazign, Consultant at Promisant Ltd. May 2000 - July 2001
Atlanta, GA \ Bermuda Dir. Software Development

* Director of Software Development for Promisant Ltd., an eCommerce pre-IPO startup company, specializing in international credit card processing for Internet transactions
* Lead architect and technical project lead for development of software controller, which was written in Java and deployed using WebLogic 6.0 application server. Controller written to handle Internet high volume credit card transactions and integration between the various modules
* Responsible for building state of the art data center in Bermuda, and all software development, QA teams and technical processes, including split development teams between Atlanta and Bermuda

Datazign, Consultant at Advance America Jan. 1999 - May 2000
Spartanburg, SC Project Manager
* Lead teams (12 associates) responsible for development and deployment of a point of sale and contracting application used for running and tracking core loan business
* Java \ PowerBuilder \ Sybase ASE, Anywhere \ Data Replication \ 1400 Installations

Datazign, Consultant at MetLife April 1999 - Dec. 1999
Albany, NY Architect

* Designed and implemented a letter and correspondence management system using templates, simple expressions, PowerBuilder and MS Word (VBA). The module would create, pre-fill, and track documents to be sent to the customers
* Designed and created data model for conversion of disability claims and workflow system from GM\EDS to MetLife

CyTech Aug. 1999 - Jan. 2000
Albany, NY Technical Instructor

* Taught both novice and experienced student's intro and advanced Java programming techniques. The class was a six-week course covering thirteen chapters, on all topics needed to pass the Java Certification Exam

Datazign, Consultant at MetLife Sept. 1996 - Jan. 1999
Clarks Summit, PA Project Manager, Leader \ Architect

* Managed a team of 30 plus associates through a complete and multiple development cycle from conception and testing to UAT and deployment of IB CSW and dental CSW conversion
* Merged six lines of business and multiple products into a single solution based on domain expert requirements

Datazign, Consultant at Rockwell Automation Sept. 1995 - Sept. 1996
Greenville, SC Project Lead \ Software Engineer

* Participated in design, development and optimization of PowerComTM Customer Order Management and ERP system on both client and server
* Re-engineered and developed Warehouse Management System including real-time interfacing with mainframe and other applications. Designed and implemented fuzzy logic in warehouse replenishment and distribution modules. Developed data replication system PMRS, to replicate data between Sybase and Oracle databases

Datazign, Consultant at TRW \ Comcred S.A. de C.V. April 1993 - Sept. 1995
Lyndhurst, OH \ Guadalajara, Mexico Analyst \ Software Engineer
* Designed and developed a set of customer support and credit reporting systems using PowerBuilder, Sybase and other client \ server tools that supported database synchronization and integration with other third-party applications. Lead client and GUI developers for sophisticated Windows enterprise wide billing and invoice application

Technical Skills
Hardware Platforms: Microsoft \ Unix \ Linux \ Solaris
Databases: Sybase \ Oracle \ SQL Server \ MySQL \ Non-Stop SQL
Microsoft: IIS \ C# \ .Net \ ADO.NET \ ASP.NET
Java Technologies: POJO \ J2EE \ JSF \ Spring \ Hibernate \ WebLogic \ Tomcat
Internet: HTML \ XML \ XSLT \ JavaScript \ AJAX \ Web Services \ SOAP

Certifications / Courses
Certified Java 2 Programmer Healthcare and Banking
CPD Certified PowerBuilder Developer Media Training
CSPDBA Certified Sybase DBA Advanced Project Management

Achievements
InfoWorld Top 25 CTO Award, InfoWorld Magazine June 5, 2006 - Issue 23
Technical Expert Guest, Tech Talk June 2003 (local radio show)
Registered Business School Teacher Permit for State University of New York
Published Author: PBDJ Feb. 1998, PBA Feb.1997

Education
M.B.A. Georgia Institute of Technology, DuPree College of Management, Atlanta GA
B.S. Computer Science, Mathematics Kent State University, Kent OH

Certifications
See above


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