PROFILE

High caliber and comprehensive leadership experience as a Project Lead, Technology Innovator, Process Evangelist and Change Agent in new software design, infrastructure development, system security, and overall business development in deadline-driven environments for leading high tech and business consulting firms.

• Proficient as a seasoned project manager and cross-discipline team leader in all aspects of the business roll-out process for e-commerce, Internet and software solutions to support all areas of corporate growth.
• Innovative definition, introduction and execution of successful IT programs and high-impact business proposals; solid assistance in generating high-growth revenue results and achieving significant cost savings.
• Effective hiring, management, team building, organization, deployment, and development of top-notch talent at management, staff, and field levels; mentoring and motivation of teams to achieve top performance, maintain peak quality service, and meet aggressive business objectives.
• Extensive talents in every phase of the SDLC, needs analysis, process improvements, attention to detail in time-sensitive situations, and ensuring on-time deliverables.
• Fully proficient in essential PMP processes, as well as TQM and related quality methodologies and best practices.
• Consistently recognized for aligning business practices, strategy, resources, and goals while streamlining and improving IT operations to meet essential objectives, develop innovative applications, and ensure total system security.
• Contributor to various Open Source Software projects, including Linux, Spring Framework, Hibernate, PMD, and ActiveMQ.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Infrastructure Design	Strategic Planning	Relationship Building
Budget Planning	Policy Development	IT Security
Scope Definition	Software Development	Cost Reductions
Project Accountability

EXPERIENCE

In charge of building and overseeing a team of cross-functional professionals in all IT and software development functions for this multi-technology service provider. Served as staff mentor, best practices expert, creative troubleshooting and resource person for complex problem solving.

• Implemented a full featured continuous integration build process for all development projects, enabling peer code reviews, test driven development, static code analysis, and reporting.
• Designed multiple Internet scale systems for the health insurance, life insurance, and mortgage markets and began an SOA initiative to integrate them with all business systems.
• Virtualized all IT infrastructure services, decreasing server room power consumption by 40% while expanding availability.
• Succeeded in increasing departmental visibility and corporate awareness by creating a company Intranet and centralizing SOA governance and a variety of key business functions.
• Promoted to this position through levels of increasing responsibility because of skills in standardizing processes, increasing system stability and turning around stalled projects.

Organized a development team to create this social networking portal startup venture.

• Orchestrated full development life cycle including interaction design, graphic design, and technical implementation.

Responsible for handling multi-million dollar budgets and managing product design and introduction for this technical research and development contractor.

• Launched a service to coordinate total system analysis with no downtime or in situ vulnerability assessment, thereby avoiding related availability issues in client systems.
• Primary author of the original distributed client and server programs for the RSA RC5 56-bit Secret Key Challenge which later grew into one of the largest distributed computing efforts in history.

Contracted to fully design and introduce the e-commerce portion of the UrbanBaby network, manage infrastructure and perform security assessments.

• Instrumental in getting this online store nominated for the Kelsey Group’s “Local Internet Service Award” for best localized e-commerce service.

Responsible for managing all aspects of security vulnerability research for this provider of software and security services to a diverse client base.

• Identified and resolved one key vulnerability (CVE-1999-0430) that expanded exposure and increased marketability for this firm.
• Authored various network vulnerability assessment tools and vulnerability assessments for internal use by security professionals.

Designed and maintained a robust global systems and network architecture that focused on high security mission-critical applications.

• Acted as subject matter expert on Internet best practices for the development team.
• Developed a private network between locations in the US and Europe; deployed two electromagnetically shielded data centers; ensured 99.999% uptime.
• Successfully launched and supported several major security initiatives.
• Instituted a procedure to streamline software package roll-out, resulting in faster, fully auditable application delivery.

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Held various professional and project positions, such as Senior Systems Engineer, Senior Software Engineer and Independent Contractor, for clients including:

Macromedia Inc.	Organic Online Inc.	Nortel Networks
Interactive Imaginations, Inc.	HotJobs.com	Columbia House
Individual Investor	Hanes / L’eggs	Spiegel

TECHNICAL BACKGROUND AND SPECIALIZED SKILLS

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Certifications:

Sun Expert Level 1000 & 2000

Solaris 2.x Administration

SunNet Manager

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Programming Languages:

C / C++	Java	PHP	Python	Erlang	Scala	Perl
Lua	Scheme	Tcl	Expect	JavaScript	Bourne shell	C shell
Lisp	Ada	Pascal	lex	yacc	Objective C
Assembly (x86, MIPS, SPARC, AVR, AVR32)

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Programming Concepts:

Reverse Engineering	Biological Algorithms	Genetic Programming
Ant Colony Optimization	Neural Networks	Support Vector Machines
Particle Swarm Optimization	Kernel Regression	Bayesian methods

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Development Frameworks, Applications, APIs, etc.:

Apache Hadoop	Cascading	Android	Lift	Akka
Amazon Web Services	JGroups	O2	JEE	PMD
Spring Framework	Hibernate	JUnit	Open ESB	JAXP
Spring Security (Acegi)	JavaSpaces	J2EE	SOAP	REST
GigaSpaces XAP	WebWork	ANTLR	Blitz	Jini
Spring MVC	GridGain	TestNG	MySQL	AspectJ
Spring Batch	OllyDbg	Rio	Ant	gEDA
Apache ActiveMQ	FindBugs	Hyperic	Mule ESB	Struts
Apache Camel	EasyMock	Eclipse	ZK	JXInsight
FUSE ESB (ServiceMix)	DocuSign	iText	RichFaces	PrimeFaces

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Systems & Networking Technologies:

GFS	Alfresco	Xen	Resin	JBoss	Amanda / Zmanda
Lustre	Ourmon	Nagios	Zenoss	Snort	flow-tools	rrdtool
Samba	OpenLDAP	Kerberos	Zimbra	VMware	Postfix	Sendmail
Red Hat Cluster Suite

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Operating Systems:

Linux

UNIX (SysV, AIX, Ultrix, IRIX, Solaris)

BSD

VAX/VMS / OpenVMS

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Natural Languages:

• Understanding of the French language.
• Intermediate understanding of Brazilian Portuguese.

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