EXPERIENCE

Director, Web Development and Quality Assurance (2005 - Present)

Audible, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBL), Wayne, NJ

• Directs all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC) including the requirements analysis, architecture design, development, testing, deployment and ongoing support for all web-based applications and services.
• Manages multi-location staff ranging to 25 FTE’s, spanning multiple parties including onshore, near-shore and offshore vendors.
• Manages multi-million dollar project budgets.
• Directs the continual upgrading of procedures and software to maintain currency with technological progress, economic change and business needs.
• Member of Audible's Advanced Technology Board -- Provides research and development leadership for all new and emerging technologies.
• Member of Senior IT Leadership Team -- Mentoring and guidance support for senior information technology management.
• Maintains and recommends annual budgets and manage expenditures in order to operate within approved budget guidelines.
• Ensures that all implementations are consistent with Audible's SDLC standards and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance.
• Ensures effective policies and procedures are developed and maintained for the organization.
• Evaluates and reports on the impact of changes across multiple applications.
• Coordinates application development activities of project team's leaders.
• Ensures the training of staff members to develop their skills and maintain state-of-the-art knowledge in their area of responsibility.
• Responsible for the selection and performance management of staff members.
• Introduced and implemented Agile Methodologies such as Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP) and Test Driven Development (TDD)

Environment: BroadVision Enterprise/Commerce 6.x/7.1, Java, J2EE, Struts, Apache Web Server, PERL, Oracle, Sun Solaris/Unix, PHP, Wiki, Microsoft Office 2003, NetSuite ERP/CRM

 

Solutions Architect: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Implementation and Operations [Consultant] (2003 - 2005)

United Water Services (A division of Suez), Harrington Park, NJ

• Managed the PeopleSoft 8.4 ERP Support Team – oversaw the maintenance of the following modules: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Procurement, Accounts Receivable, Projects, Billing, Contracts, Asset Management, Travel and Expense (customized for Time Entry)
• Managed ERP Operations – liaison with ERP System Service Provider maintaining system performance, stability, patch management, backups and disaster recovery (DR).
• Managed and implemented PeopleSoft 8.4 Security Policy (User-based, Row-level and Query).
• Managed Purchasing/Procurement Workflow Approval Business Process utilizing the PeopleSoft 8.4 Workflow tools
• Led the technology migration of legacy ERP financial systems from Solomon IV and Oracle Financials into PeopleSoft 7.02 (Fall 2003) with a final migration into PeopleSoft 8.4 (Fall 2004)
• Managed and updated Accounts Receivable and Inventory System for Non-Regulated Business Units
• Implemented and maintained a collaborative knowledge management portal for the ERP Project Team and corporate user community
• Member of PeopleSoft 8.4 ERP Requirements Team, which developed requirements suite for the ERP implementation
• Participated in requirements gathering workshops with Executive Management and corporate user community
• Managed the development and design of ERP interfaces with mainframe and enterprise systems
• Member of HR/Payroll Migration Team (ADP's CSS HRizon system to ADP's Enterprise HRMS [EV3] system) – designed and implemented application interfaces, data migration tools and custom reports
  

 

Environment: PeopleSoft 8.4 / 7.02, PeopleTools 8.4, PeopleSoft Integration Tools 8.4, Solomon IV, SQL-Ledger 2.x, ADP PC Payroll (PCPW), nVision Reports, Crystal Reports, ADP CSS HRizon/Enterprise HRMS [EV3], Microsoft .Net Framework, Microsoft IIS, Apache Web Server, PERL, PHP, Wiki, Office 2003, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle

 

Co-Founder / Chief Technology Officer  (1999 – 2003)

Onclave, Inc., Princeton, NJ [privately acquired in 2003]

• Architect of the Onclave Portal Framework, an enterprise social networking / community portal framework with XML-based Content Management (CMS) and Collaborative Workflow features for rapid deployment and customer integration
• Managed Information Technology Teams including: Application Architects, Web Application Developers, Database Administrators, System Administrators, Project Managers, and Consultants
• As Co-Founder, worked directly with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and participated in Financing, Budgeting, Product Development, Business Development and Customer Acquisition
• Developed server-side and client-side components of the Onclave Portal Framework including: email to web service integration components; RSS/XML Syndication and Aggregation tools; Web-Based Rich-Text Editing component; Google SOAP API integration; Microsoft Office integration via SOAP, XML-RPC and WebDAV
• Integrated Business Process Management (BPM) workflow policies into the Onclave Portal Framework
• Managed Enterprise Information Systems and Remote Network Operations Centers (NOC)
• Managed all vendor and third-party technology relationships
  

Environment: Apache Jakarta [Tomcat, Cocoon, Ant, James, Struts], XML, XSL/T, Java/J2EE, JSP, XSP, SOAP, XML-RPC, Apache Web Server, Microsoft [Internet Information Server (IIS), SQL Server, Search Server, Exchange, Windows 2000/XP/NT Server, .Net, COM (DCOM, COM+), Office, SharePoint, Visual Studio, ASP, Jscript, VBScript, WSH], Redhat Linux, SGI Irix/Unix, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DHTML/JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Python, Eclipse, CVS, JBOSS,  PostNuke, PHPNuke, OpenCMS, Blogger, Userland (Radio, Manila, Frontier), Groove, Moodle (e-learning)

 

Co-Founder / Chief Architect (1999 – 2000)

Razzberry.com, Short Hills, NJ [acquired in 2000 by IGN Entertainment, Inc. ]

• Chief Architect and Lead Developer of social networking / community portal for teens and young adults
• Managed a small group of remote front-end/backend developers and User Interface consultants during the product development life cycle
• Worked closely with CEO during the due-diligence and acquisition phase of the company by IGN Entertainment, Inc.
• Managed Remote Network Operations Centers (NOC) and provided ongoing support and maintenance
• Managed all vendor and third-party technology relationships 

Environment: Microsoft [Internet Information Server (IIS), SQL Server, Windows NT Server, COM (DCOM, COM+), Office, Visual Studio, ASP, Jscript, VBScript, WSH], DHTML/JavaScript, PHP, Perl, CVS

Director of Technology  (1997 – 1999)

MarketSource Corporation, Cranbury, NJ

• Managed the development and network operations teams, which included: Web Application Developers, Network Administrators, Database Administrators, Software Architects and outside consultants.
• Maintained and implemented corporate-wide technical vision set forth by chief executives.
• Led research and development including: project management, technology planning, cost analysis, prototyping, infrastructure impact analysis, resource allocation, growth planning and vendor relationship management
• Established company’s Enterprise IT steering committee
• Architect and development manager of company’s first enterprise-wide intranet portal
• Managed projects of various sizes; estimated resource requirements, completion dates, critical path milestones, monitored progress against plan and providing weekly status reports to Vice President
• Lead Solutions Architect for a number of large Fortune 500 contracts
• Retail extranet with Apple Computer, which was a key design in a 6 million dollar contract with Apple
• Award winning Liz Claiborne Curve promotional web serial, which was featured as a project in Introduction to Advertising, 4/E by Belch, published by McGraw-Hill
• Carter-Wallace promotional portal site that integrating various brands
• Managed rapid business unit growth from six people in 1995 to over 50 in 1999
• Performed all facets of personnel management including interviewing, hiring, evaluation, training and counseling

 

Environment: Microsoft [Internet Information Server (IIS), SQL Server, Site Server, Commerce Server, Search Server, Exchange, Windows NT Server, COM (DCOM, COM+), Transaction Server, Office, Project, Visio, Visual Studio, ASP, Jscript, VBScript, WSH], Sun Solaris/Unix, Apache Web Server, DHTML/JavaScript, XML, XSL/T, Java, Perl

 

Manager, Product Development (1995 – 1997)

MarketSource Corporation, Cranbury, NJ

• Responsible for the full life-cycle development of various social networking / community portals targeted toward college students (taponline.com, vdorm.com, plugged.com, burnt.com, fileshare.com [note: sites no longer affiliated with MarketSource])
• Co-creator and Chief Architect of Virtual Dorm -- the interactive live video and web reality internet show that situated a geographically disperse group of college students together virtually and in real-time by combining video conferencing tools with web-based interactivity. The Virtual Dorm creation team was recognized and interview by various media outlets such as CNN, CNBC and The Wall Street Journal (November 3, 1996 archive)
• Architect for broad range of social networking / community based tools, such as forums, web-based chat, online games and user home page building tools
  
• Architect of home-grown content management system (CMS), content search engine, and Ad server
• Managed Network Operation Team which included System Administrators, Database Administrators and Network Engineers
  
• Other awards and media mentions:
• PC Magazine “Top 100 Web Sites” January 10, 1997
• Adweek cover story August 15, 1995
   
  

Environment: Microsoft [Internet Information Server (IIS), SQL Server, Site Server, Commerce Server, Search Server, Windows NT Server, COM (DCOM, COM+), Transaction Server, Project, Visio, Visual Studio, ASP, Jscript, VBScript], Sun Solaris/Unix, Apache Web Server, DHTML/JavaScript, Java, Perl,  CuSeeMe, IRC

 

Manager, Product Development (1991 – 1995)

The TurnAround Team, Inc. - Westfield, NJ

• Product manager and lead architect for web-based business-to-business search engine/portal
  
• Lead developer for multimedia CD-ROMs, games, kiosks and desktop-based sales, marketing, corporate training and e-learning tools
• Developed TurnAround’s first Internet presence (1992), which was a virtual office environment developed in LambdaMOO (VR community hosted at Xerox PARC)
  

 

Environment: Macromedia (Director, Lingo, Authorware), Apple HyperCard, Microsoft (Visual Basic, Windows NT Server), Sun Solaris/Unix, Apple Macintosh OS, NCSA HTTPd, Apache HTTPd, Java, Perl, C/C++, MOOcode, Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, PageMaker), QuarkXPress

 

APPLICABLE PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Dentistry Today Magazine – (Fall 2002)

• Lead Architect for an e-learning and content management system using the Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment (Moodle Framework)
• Managed the implementation of the system, developed requirements, business process integration, and user training documentation

Rutgers University, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience (1990 – 1991)

• Developed network-based interactive video bulletin board systems (BBS) using Macromedia's Director Lingo and HyperCard
• Developed internet-based (WAIS and Gopher) searchable catalog system which was used for the centers research, journals and white papers

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

• PeopleSoft 8.4 Workflow (11/2004)
• PeopleSoft 8.4 Integration Tools (5/2004)
• PeopleTools 8.4 I & II Accelerated (1/2004)
• Rutgers University, Computer Science (1990 – 1992)
• Union County College, Computer Science (1988 – 1990)

VOLUNTEER WORK

• Jersey Animal Coalition (JAC) – Web site management, photographer
• Open Source Software Developer – Contributor to Open Source projects

HOBBIES

• Mountain Biking, Photography, Jazz, Technology Innovation
  

REFERENCES

• Furnished upon request