Professional Experience
Peers and Rivals, Inc.
Chief Technical Lead, December 2010 - Present
Company Description: Founded in 2010, Peers and Rivals is a privately funded internet-based social community that enables users to compare their salaries to similarly employed individuals.
Responsible for the development of the Peers and Rivals software from its conceptual inception to product launch, including the design, implementation, and management of the underlying technology components.
Achievements and Responsibilities include:
- Interviewed and assessed development firms for the production of the Peers and Rivals application
- Successfully leveraged Agile/SCRUM methodologies to manage the product development and deliver the first major release
- Constructed and maintained user stories, project Gantt chart, and project backlog to manage feature creep, bugs, and issues throughout the development phase
- Directed bi-weekly meetings with software developers and bi-weekly meetings with Peers and Rivals personnel to ascertain project issues, and to propose alternative engineering solutions to unforeseen challenges
- Orchestrated regular code audits to assess development progress, code readability, and to identify security vulnerabilities
- Leveraged Pivotal Tracker to conduct quality assurance (QA), prioritize bug fixes, and personally report over 100 software and design flaws
- Designed, built, and deployed redundant and scalable server architecture capable of handling up to 10,000 concurrent connections
- Authored, tested, and implemented disaster recovery plans and correlating recovery documentation
- Collaborated with designers to define the Peers and Rivals application UX (User Experience), site design, and logo
I.T. Pros
Lead Solutions Architect and Administrator, May 2009 - December 2010
Company Description: I.T. Pros is a value adding reseller specializing in emergent technologies and servicing finance, education, and government.
Identified and responded to client pain points with custom engineered I.T. solutions; coordinated and administered all internal I.T. requirements.
Achievements and Responsibilities include:
- Facilitated sales through in-person client meetings and on the phone by engaging C-level technology executives at RBS, Greenwich Capital, Soros, Mizuho Financial Group, Graham Capital Management and others to discover technological pain points and propose I.T. Pros solutions
- Engineered “proof of concept” closed-loop virtual trading lab on-site for RBS (The Royal Bank of Scotland)
- Authored project installation plan, technical requirements documentation, and detailed Visio diagrams to support winning response to RFP to serve multicast and unicast video over IP for the North Branford Department of Education
- Administered VMWare ESXi virtual computing environment, optimized internal networking for remote desktop tunneling over VPN, and implemented internal switch to VOIP telephony initiating network segmentation through VLANs and bandwidth optimization through QoS
- Maintained and implemented analytics software across all I.T. Pros websites
- Managed SEM campaigns across all I.T. Pros websites
Technical Proficiencies
- Operating Systems: Linux, Mac, OSX, Windows, FreeBSD
- Applications: MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office, Photoshop, Pivotal Tracker, Basecamp, Apache, Nginx, VMWare, MySQL
- Networking: VPN, IPTables, firewalls, intrusion detection, QoS
- Languages: HTML, CSS, MySQL, Bash scripting, Perl, PHP, Rails
- Frameworks: PHPCake, Ruby on Rails