Nov 2009 – Jun 2015 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Greater Atlanta Area

• Signup4 acquired by Cvent 5/2015
• Worked directly with the Founders to provide technical vision for the company and plan the implementation of new projects and development avenues.
• Managed the delivery of SAAS enterprise solution in the Event, Meetings, Travel and SMM space from MICE/SMERF to Fortune 1000 Events.
• Architected and implemented the vCloud Suite with a focus in vSphere, vCloud Director, and Site Recovery Manager for the multi-site private cloud.
• Scheduling of regular product maintenance, releases, and upgrades in unison with new product development efforts and business development opportunities.
• Provided leadership, governance and direction to the Development, IT, and QE teams with an emphasis on improving business performance by leveraging talent with leading-edge technology and software.
• Focus on process improvement and creating a blended Software Development Lifecycle using Agile Methodologies and basic Change Management techniques that will provide an industry and market segment competitive edge.
• Drove a technology refresh to bring platforms and architecture to an optimized structure with a streamlined process that creates a vehicle for continuous software development that accelerates the growth of technical strengths and competencies and is followed by a quarterly reallocation of technical resources.
• Advanced an effort to lower IT Spend as a % of Revenue by using optimizations, product time to market alignment and increased output by adjustments to the development cycle.
• Led an IT Infrastructure agenda in the company to add an enhanced vertical and horizontal scalability to production workflows and placing an increased redundancy in the Production and DR environments.

Apr 2002 – Dec 2009 · 7 yrs 8 mos · Greater Atlanta Area

• From Imaging Technologies Services Inc, Private to Public, Private again, to Synq Solutions
• Next, Nautic Partners a middle market private equity holding to a ARC Document Solutions, Inc. holding in one division and Archway Marketing in the other.
• Managed the Back Office Engineering Team to create new and manage existing in-house Software Applications.
• Aided in the design and architecture of Synq's Print, Order Fulfillment, and Manifest systems and the flow of the production workflows attached to the solution.
• Worked on a team crafting the design of software for Print on Demand, Dynamic Documents, Kitting, and Design Galleries.
• Oversight and planning of a yearly budget, including all software and hardware selection, purchase, and installation, leasing renewals, payroll managing fixed assets and scheduled maintenance, vendor contracts and relationships, and IT Infrastructure policies and procedures.
• Directed a team that includes: Help Desk Personnel, Network Analysts, Architects, Software Engineers, System Administrators, DBA’s, Data Analysts and Application Specialists.
• Generated savings of through consolidation of data lines and parallel systems.
• Took ownership and managed the build out of two new sites from the ground up: a 120,000 sq. ft. building in Las Vegas, NV and an 180,000 sq. ft. building in Norcross, GA.
• Reduced vendor costs by 10-15% with contract negotiations and vendor consolidation.
• Architected and then aided in the construction of the current F5, Cisco and EMC infrastructure to create failover, replication and load balancing in the network.
• Designed and distributed VMware servers across locations to allow for rapid failover, application load balancing, power savings and centralized administrative functions using Virtual Center/vSphere and Lab Manager eliminating 60 servers.
• Architected a multi-tier development system with blue/green deployments.

Apr 1995 – Apr 2002 · 7 yrs · Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

• Exotic Garden Accents, Inc.
• From idea to concept, a napkin plan executes to supply, demand and huge North America growth...
• Created, Designed and Maintained front end web servers.
• Created Linux based shopping carts and created custom content for inventory and corporate systems.
• Administered core infrastructure including communications and used Macromedia and Adobe PageMaker for web content.
• Used Custom Perl applications to upload and dynamically add content to the shopping carts and production catalogs.
• Created adapters for the integration of the website with payment processing gateways and escrow services.
• Built custom VB4 applications to automate backend systems from backups to the accounting platform for seamless integration of 3rd party applications.
• Bird Brain, Inc.
• Consultant and administrator of business systems, core systems and infrastructure. Including communications, accounting, and other key systems.
• SMFCU
• Consultant for end-users and core software installations. Troubleshooting of production software and solutions provider.