Senior Technology Executive Resume

Title
Senior Technology Executive

Primary Skills
CTO, VP of engineering, Director of IS

Location
US-CA-Fountain Valley (will consider relocating)

Posted
Sep-08-09


SENIOR TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE
Chief Technology Officer - Vice President - Director

Accomplished professional with a 16+-year track record of innovation and success. Distinguished career evaluating, recommending, architecting and aligning technology investments with evolving business, market and corporate goals.

Successful in creating vision, identifying opportunities, building organizations, and delivering strong growth for start-up and established organizations within intensively competitive Internet, high-tech and engineering markets.

Change agent with strong build out, transformation and turnaround leadership. Skilled in establishing, revitalizing, integrating and optimizing technologies, systems, teams and processes to reduce costs and achieve operational excellence.
Natural communicator and team leader with outstanding motivational skills. Strength in building synergy between business, teams, partners and clients to support strategic objectives across complex environments.


CORE COMPETENCIES
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- Leading full life cycle design, development and release of innovative web properties, platforms and technologies.
- Defining technology vision, strategy, roadmap, design, development, implementation and management strategies.
- Building and managing globally dispersed teams delivering consistent results across changing environments.
- Introducing standards, processes and best practices to enhance delivery and service levels while realizing savings.
- Architecting technically sound solutions requiring minimal on-going support resources and costs.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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CONFIDENTIAL -- Los Angeles, CA - 2005 to 2009
CO-FOUNDER / CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER / SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF STRATEGIES
Conceptualized, built, expanded and managed technology operations for one of the world's largest online entertainment network operating over 35 websites across video, social networking and music verticals.
Total responsibility for designing, developing, implementing, integrating and administering sites, platforms, systems, tools and infrastructure supporting more than 50 million unique visitors per month across 35 web properties. Functional areas of accountability spanned technology needs assessments and solutions, infrastructure design and rollout, site development and launch, mergers & acquisitions, revenue and traffic growth, project management, standards design and best practices, budgeting, contract negotiations, staffing and training, and partner relations. Held accountability for up to 65 global resources through 5 direct reports, utilizing blended onshore / offshore delivery model.
STRATEGIC PLANNING, VISION & LEADERSHIP
- Pivotal role in establishing and growing organization from start-up to more than 35 web properties delivering video, social networking and music services.
- Architected and launched company's flagship property, LiveVideo.com, one of the 1st sites to offer live video streaming for social networking application.
- Established a high-performance technology organization comprised of Senior Developers and IT Project Managers. Leveraged offshore development resources in India and Russia to reduce development and support costs.
- Assumed responsibility as Interim Head of Sales & Marketing to maximize earning potential across web properties. Streamlined sales processes; restructured sales and marketing group; and led the development of intelligent reporting framework and automated process to enable the sale of highly customizable banner ads, increasing monthly sales from $450K to $1.2 million within 4 months. Collaborated with CEO to recruit and hire a Senior Vice President of Marketing to provide dedicated leadership to team.
- Managed the successful integration of 28 web properties into highly reliable and redundant system with minimal disruption to operations.
- Constantly renegotiated contracts with bandwidth providers, delivering $100K in monthly savings.
SOLUTIONS DESIGN & DELIVERY
- Architected a solid and cost-effective IT foundation that enabled company to expand from a single web site to more than 30 sites with over 50 million monthly unique visitors and more than 500 million hits per day within 12 months. System is currently being managed by a Network Engineer and a PC Technician.
- Conceptualized and designed entire site structure, and led the development and launch of Livevideo.com, a highly scalable live streaming and video portal 4 months ahead of schedule and with only 2 Programmers and a Database Designer.
- Oversaw the design and deployment of a highly scalable and redundant data center capable of handling over 45 GB in bandwidth supporting 35 web properties across multiple operating systems and back-end databases, eliminating $250K in monthly outsourcing costs.
- Designed and implemented a Search Engine Optimization process, increasing traffic to web properties from generic search engines by over 25%


WIRELESS MANAGEMENT GROUP, INC. -- RIVERSIDE, CA - 2004 TO 2005
DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Recruited and given dual responsibility to build core business systems and infrastructure for this start-up organization designing products for the wireless industry; and overseeing the development of control systems for high voltage power amplifiers, GPS, transmitter and receiver product offerings.
Full accountability for the technology strategy, direction and management of systems, tools and infrastructure supporting internal business operations. Directed team in designing, implementing, and enhancing applications to support shipping, sales and engineering processes, and provide advanced analytics to upper management. Managed software engineers in developing sophisticated control software under stringent timelines to support product lines. Planned, tracked and monitored all aspects of projects; and resolved all issues.
STRATEGIC PLANNING, VISION & LEADERSHIP
- Established the 1st IT Department for the organization, including processes, procedures and standards.
- Introduced software development guidelines to enhance the timely and within budget delivery of software projects. Created design, testing, quality assurance, defect and issue management, and release standards.
SOLUTIONS DESIGN & DELIVERY
- Led the full life cycle design, development and implementation of an Order Management System to replace disparate processes and provide a standardized means to track product orders and projects.
- Oversaw the development of a controller for the micro receiver product for a paid cell phone application, delivering more than $1 million in revenue within 1st month.


RESPONSE BASE, INC. / MYSPACE.COM -- LOS ANGELES, CA - 2003
SENIOR SOFTWARE CONSULTANT / ARCHITECT
Brought in to evaluate, recommend, architect and deploy next-generation of myspace.com social networking portal to improve overall scalability and support exponential traffic growth.
Provided leadership and framework to actively needs and resolve critical issues. Conducted a major assessment of site's existing back-end design, front-end coding, and user interfaces; communicated problems and suggested solutions to senior management; and led small in-house development team of 3 Programmers and a Database Designer in implementing new site design structure and new group forums, blog and internal messaging features leveraging Agile development methodology.
STRATEGIC PLANNING / SOLUTIONS DESIGN & DELIVERY
- Evaluated and recommended the complete redesign of front-end and back-end structure for the first version of myspace.com site experiencing performance and downtime issues following the growth of registered user base to 40,000.
- Architected new design leveraging component-based architecture; and led team in completely rewriting front-end utilizing ColdFusion to eliminate scalability issues with Perl tool, and restructuring MS SQL Server back-end structure.
- Managed the launch of new myspace.com site within 10 weeks, positioning site to grow to more than 200 million registered users and over 1 billion hits per day without any issues. Scalable structure enabled the expansion into country-specific sites with local languages without any major site redesign efforts.


WINDOW ROCK ENTERPRISES, INC. -- Brea, CA - 2001 to 2003
IT PROJECT MANAGER
Chosen to drive a major automation of core business operations to support rapid business growth.
Collaborated with CEO and departments heads to evaluate and align technology investments with business needs. Defined strategy, architected solution, and led the full life cycle development, implementation and support of a Customer Order Processing platform to deliver key analytics for enhanced decision-making.
STRATEGIC PLANNING / SOLUTIONS DESIGN & DELIVERY
- Managed the build out of the web-based system integrating sales, marketing, order processing, inventory management, accounting and financial reporting processes, enabling the company to growth from $200K to $20 million in revenue within 2 years.


** PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE **

ASIAN VILLAGE, INC. -- Orange, CA - 1998 to 2001
FOUNDER / CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
SOLUTIONS DESIGN & DELIVERY
- Conceptualized, built and launched the 1st global on-line social networking community for the Asian market. Recruited and managed team of 50 in the design, marketing, rollout and support of asianvillage.net corporate site, and subsequently vietvillage.com and korenvillage.com to enable Asian community to share information globally.


ABS COMPUTER SERVICES -- NORTHFIELD, NJ - 1993 TO 1998
FOUNDER / SENIOR TECHNOLOGY MANAGER
SOLUTIONS DESIGN & DELIVERY
- Launched entrepreneurial venture to design, deploy and manage network infrastructures for local businesses. Managed teams in installing, configuring, upgrading and administering up to 30 Novell NetWare and Windows NT networks.


HAGLER BAILLY -- FAIRFAX, VA - 1990 TO 1991
SENIOR CONSULTANT
SOLUTIONS DESIGN & DELIVERY
- Contributed with defining a 5-year energy master plan for the Indonesian government in response to economic growth. Analyzed existing electrical infrastructure and recommended multi-phase engineering plan based on building additional power plants and purchasing excess capacity generated from foreign companies existing power plants.


ATLANTIC ENERGY -- NORTHFIELD, NJ - 1980 TO 1990
PRACTICE MANAGER (1990 TO 1991) / PRINCIPLE ENGINEER (1980 TO 1990)
SOLUTIONS DESIGN & DELIVERY
- Requested back to establish and manage operations of the 1st Asia-Pacific office to capture new market. Recruited and led team of 45 sales, financial and technical resources in securing and delivering multi-million dollar projects.
- Provided expertise to industrial clients throughout New Jersey on energy conservation. Wrote numerous technical papers on renewable energy for publication by the Edison Electric Institute.


EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS
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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY (1980)


TECHNOLOGY PROFICIENCY
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HTML, JavaScript, C++, ColdFusion, ASP .Net, Perl & PHP Development Tools
MySQL, MS SQL & Oracle Databases; MS Windows 2000 / 2003 & Linux Operating Systems

Certifications
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