SUMMARY
Experienced IT director with over 15 years of professional experience as a
leader in multiple technology domains including software engineering best
practices, server administration, data center migrations, enterprise relocation,
and full product lifecycle project management. I have demonstrated skills
in organizational development, change management, product development,
strategic planning, resource management and team mentoring. I have a
history of on-time, on-budget deliverables.
EXPERIENCE
Freelancers Union,
Brooklyn, NY
Mar 2010 to present
Chief Technology Officer
- CTO for Working Today (501(c)(3)), Freelancers Union (501(c)(4)), and Freelancers Insurance Company
- Managed a team of 15 engineers, administrators and analysts
- Technology stakeholder for the NY Department of Insurance audit of Freelancers Insurance Company
The McEvoy Group LLC,
San Francisco, CA
Apr 2009 to Mar 2010
Executive Director of Technology, The McEvoy Group
- Lead technology stakeholder for The McEvoy Group properties, including Chronicle Books (San Francisco, CA), SPIN Magazine (New York, NY), 7x7 Magazine (San Francisco, CA), California Home & Design Magazine (San Francisco, CA) and becker&mayer! (Bellevue, WA)
- Member of the Chronicle Books operating group, an internal board of directors responsible for strategy direction for the business
- Eliminated contractor dependence for Chronicle Books and SPIN Media by replacing contractors with budget neutral full-time hires. Hires increase project capacity by over 50%.
New York Media LLC,
New York, NY
Mar 2005 to Mar 2009
Executive Director of Information Technology, New York Media (2008-2009)
Director of Information Technology, New York Media (2007-2008)
Director of Technology, nymag.com (2006-2007)
Technical Architecture Manager, nymag.com (2005-2006)
- Member of the New York Media internal board of directors
- Lead technology stakeholder for the acquisition of Slick City Media (menupages.com)
- Oversight responsibilities for Information Technology and Project Management Office departments
- Key stakeholder for nymag.com mobile initiatives, including m.nymag.com, and web-to-phone functionality
- Cut average telecom spending by 77% through a series of call audits and line audits
- Negotiated the legal aspects of over $1M in technology contracts
- Responsible for the build-out and relocation to the new corporate headquarters at
75 Varick Street, including managing site gut-renovation, selection of new technology
and telecom assets and overseeing the server and workstation disconnects and reconnects.
- Successfully relocated New York Media from 444 Madison Ave (5 floors, 60k square feet of space) to
75 Varick St (1 floor, 72k square feet of space) with less than 12 hours of total downtime.
- Decreased IT spending by 15% through a series of audits to cut excess spending on unused technology assets.
Reduced new workstation spending by reallocating assets based on departmental needs for computing power.
- Improved helpdesk support for a 260 seat enterprise, decreasing the average resolution time of trouble
tickets by 50%.
- Standardized the company’s hiring practices for technology candidates. Grew the IT team from 7 people to
25 people over 3 years.
- Created a combination of on-shore/off-shore software development and project management capacity with Luxoft.
- Key stakeholder for the search engine optimization (SEO) strategies for nymag.com.
- Initiated best practices forum for nymag.com to ensure that all new functional product enhancements
have passed through a series of usability testing.
- Content management domain expert for nymag.com
- Core team member involved in the data center migration from Primedia to a co-located server facility
at Equinix Secaucus IBX with zero downtime. Assisted in the design of the high-availability architecture
of the new data center.
Thomson Reuters,
Philadelphia, PA (formerly Thomson Scientific)
Oct 1996 to Mar 2005
Software Engineer II (2003-2005)
Software Engineer I (1996-2003)
- 8 years as a team leader and founding engineer for several large scale web-based research database
systems for Solaris and Linux platforms running in an Apache mod_perl environment. These products
comprise the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge platform.
- Participated in project resource planning, candidate selection, assignment of engineer resources,
and development of project timelines
- Created high-level and low-level software engineering design documents for new product requirements
- Led design reviews and architectural reviews for new software projects
Palisade Corporation,
Newfield, NY
Aug 1995 to Jun 1996
Internet Administrator/Webmaster
ATSIM, Inc.,
Ithaca, NY
Jun 1993 to Aug 1995
Systems Engineer
EDUCATION
Cornell University, College of Engineering, Computer Science, Ithaca, NY
IN THE MEDIA
MISCELLANEOUS
