Executive Director, Online & New Media at The College Board
August 2009 - March 2012
Executive in charge of large department leading digital product and technology for The College Board. Successfully developed and launched hundreds of web, mobile and social applications in B2C an B2B education space.
Chief Technology Officer at CommuniClique
December 2008 - August 2009
Lead all major technical architecture decisions, built world class development team, owned product and technology roadmap
Executive Vice President at Pantheon
May 2006 - December 2008
joined as part of the acquisition of my company Jaxara
Founder & CEO at Jaxara
May 2002 - May 2006
Jaxara was a product development firm which built products to spec for its clients. Jaxara owned and operated development centers in Bangladesh, Ukraine and Argentina.
Some highlights at Jaxara included:
*Led company to an exit via acquisition
*Successfully brought products to market for Knight Ridder Tribune, Ingram Micro, ASCII, and several Associations, Non-Profits and Startups
*Opened software development centers in Ukraine, Argentina and Bangladesh
*Helped grow company from $0 to $6mm in revenue with 25% profits (EBITDA)
*Helped grow company from 5 to 50 employees
*Achieved a patent for a predecessor to distributed agile called Plyometrix
*Named one of Washington DCâs Top Technology Companies by the Washington Business Journal for several years
Director Of Technology at ASCII
November 1999 - May 2002
* Created savings of ~60% by migrating software development offshore and implementing Extreme Programming to increase efficiency and decrease release time.
* Coordinated projects with Fortune 500 firms including, Ingram Micro, eBay, Dell and Microsoft.
*Analyze, discuss, draft and present technical specifications and requirements for software design and architecture
*Provide analysis and recommendations about the robustness of content management systems implemented by content delivery systems
*Participate in and report on standards-setting activities such as Open Source/Linux, SOAP/XML, etc.
*Work collaboratively with various core technology teams to define, document and develop systems and components
*Meet with computer hardware manufacturers to analyze and review value added reseller channels and various vertical markets
*Provide technical support to major distributors such as Ingram Micro, Synnex, Tech Data, D & H, etc.
Software Architect/Engineer at Musicmaker.com
November 1998 - November 1999
* Database architecture, design and development. This includes design of complex data models, advanced data structures, extensive experience with Oracle 8x/9x, MySQL, SQL Server 2000 and advanced SQL and Transact-SQL expertise.
* Object-oriented architecture, design and development with emphasis on the design and development of application frameworks, class libraries, use of design patterns, etc. An extensive background in OO (Java, C++, TCL/TK)
* Web application architecture, including extensive experience developing web applications with standards-based technologies (HTML, DHTML, Javascript, etc.), partitioning of business logic web-based solutions, etc. Worked for many years designing and developing web-based, n-tier systems ideally with Microsoft as well as Open Source technologies, with a history in related technologies such as J2EE, Perl, TCL/TK, etc.
Web Developer at Network Solutions
January 1997 - November 1998
Co-Founder / Product & Tech at Speek
2012
Just trying to let the monkeys out of the cage
Entrepreneur Advocate at NextGen Angels
September 2012
NextGen Angels strives to be the most entrepreneur angel investment group in the world. It is comprised of most of the active angels and VC's in the Washington, DC area.
Startups, Speek, Mixed Martial Arts, Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, Conference Calls, Disrupting, The Lean Startup, Agile, Web, Mobile, Internet
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