• Inventing/Creating a medical device to detect medically significant issues while sleeping
• Project milestones, Agile (via Trello), DevOps (Bitbucket/GitHub)
• Hands on coding and database management, full stack development
• Node.JS, Computer Vision (OpenCV), AI, Deep Learning, open source. Loopback/Express
• Angular 8, JavaScript, Python, MariaDB (MySQL), Raspian, Debian, Ubuntu, Linux, C++
• System On Chip (SoC); hardware evaluation. ARM Cortex-A72, CortexA53, Raspberry Pi SoC (Broadcom BCM2711)
• Amazon AWS, Lambda, HIPAA compliant agreements
• 3D Printing of prototype parts; Blender, Fusion 360
• Mentoring 3 developers

• Built an Unity 3D VR art project for a client, and an Unreal engine 3D real time video project for an art festival
• Published a book on React VR (React 360), JavaScript, React, React Native, about WebVR software development for Packt publishing (Traditionally published).
• Helped deliver VR Theater for SIGGRAPH, over 70 VR workstations with Oculus Rift S headsets. Mass PC Cloning, VR setup, calibration (Oculus Rift S)
• Technical Director for the Advanced Imaging Society convention (2019) in coordination with Paramount
• Mobile (iOS, Android), React Native, Unity Mobile, Arduino / SoC hardware
• Developed an indoor AR GPS Scheduling system for Yuri’s Night (non-profit)
• Developed an Augmented Reality / Computer Vision interface for aerospace (under contract)

• Providing part time CIO/CTO advice to a mid market EOL part supplier
• Support via FastCTO.COM, a network of CTO’s
• Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise grade Security.
• Setup Office 365 Azure Active Directory synchronization, Single Sign on, Azure file cloud redundancy
• Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams conversion
• Office 365, Active Directory, Teramind, Salesforce, QuickBook

via FastCTO

• Oversaw all technical aspects of C3 Biz; Managed and mentored all (45) employees in programming and technical support departments, established Strategic technical roadmap, Cloud Vision and strategy, and project management.
• Interim CTO
• Presales, lead acquisition for major Oracle ERP AIX to Linux project (Harbor Freight, 13TBdatabase). Developed new upgrade methodology for C3, leading to 100% faster upgrade
• Architected Cloud architecture strategy, created Technical Vision for team; AWS and Oracle’s cloud
• Accelerated 50% of new C3 business for Oracle SaaS Cloud
• Implemented DevOps to manage $2M+ of IT infrastructure serving 40 business with 10K+ users. MongoDB, Python, monitoring SaaS
• Accomplished real-time tracking of 40+ data centers when spearheaded implementation of monitoring dashboard; first CTO out of 7 to accomplish this.
• Saved over $10M in licensing costs implemented open source performance/monitoring and built custom Oracle connectors (for Nagios/Shinken)
• Code reviews, improved from 90 seconds to less than 300ms per shipping label a 27,000 % improvement
• Java code reviews, Java interfaces to Oracle Cloud, source control, build procedures
• Worked directly with the Bank of the Internet’s financial services company; worked with compliance and regulations

As 10th hire, drove P&L revenues to >$75M from <$1M by leading all technical delivery for this $75M Oracle consulting company through delivery of >450 mission-critical Oracle Application Solutions to companies ranging from startup to Fortune 500. Increased professional services/cross-functional/technical team to 350 people from 16. Managed 15 direct reports, 70-80 task specific reports.

DAZ Systems was acquired by Accenture in 2018

Business Development

• Developed Offshore DBA support services concept with “InShore” daytime US coordination. Supported 200% more clients with existing staff.
• Average personell retention > 10 years (us), 7 years (India)
• Created technical delivery of our hosting business by architecting a 46% reduction in hosting costs for the first client.
• Cinched many technical sales by offering innovative solutions; for example, “Red Stack” for the DAZ hosting business. Went from 0 to over 40 hosted servers in less than 2 years.
• Won coveted (1 in 10) DARPA Small Business Innovation Research Phase I grant funded when developed proposal for innovative 3D VR environment for server visualization.

Practice Management

• Enabled rapid growth by doubling productivity of DBA support staff as grew company revenues and staff by 1800% & support staff by only 1000%
• Oversee DBA work, programming standards, back end IT infrastructure, Data center architecture, build up & management of offshore technical support.
• Increased profitability by >150% by reducing rates up to 50%, while maintaining quality & customer satisfaction through closely monitored offshoring of DBA support
  • Keep >100 customers live with only 5-10 DBA’s in support
  • Code quality significantly improved when developed coding standards from scratch
• Saved $12-20K over cost of separate firewall, load balancer, and backup/failover LAN connections when architected and installed Microsoft TMG (Threat Management Gateway)
  • External corporate web site never hacked since architected & installed web server & firewall within enterprise (on-prem)
• Increased by 10% customers surveying “extremely happy” after prices cut dramatically for routine after-hour support, while boosting U.S. DBA retention
• Tripled number of internal servers with no hardware increase needed when setup internal private cloud
• Kept 100%/5 websites up with continuous provision of services when decommissioned, obtained & installed 2 new servers & migrated all firewall rules to new setup in 3 days after corporate merger abruptly “Unmerged”
• Achieved 14+ years in average employee retention by enabling DBA’s to work remotely
• Reduced exiting employee equipment thefts by 400% via institution of positive inventory control & cross check
• Earned ROI of 320% on 3COM VOIP System when exceeded expected lifetime by 11 years when normal system life is 3-5. Maintained system personally for 15+ years.

Service Delivery

• Delivered 90% of 450 Oracle ERP implementations on time & under budget by leading teams of 3 to 25
  • Ensured 100% uptime to Oracle, WebLogic, IIS, and SQL Server solutions by architecting 10+ different production HA/DR solutions.
• Generated $45M in total revenue for client over 16 years & saved $2M project for firm, when turned-around custom Human Machine Interface “Smart Control Panel” Project for Solar Turbines, division of Caterpillar.
  • Delivered on budget & within 10% of milestone time, enabling on time product shipment.
  • Managed total of 8-10 direct reports, including 3 client developers
  • Developed custom bug tracking solution, automated builds & architecture and personally wrote >2000+ lines of code in 2 weeks when 2 programmers quit before a major milestone
• Interfaced to Salesforce by architecting a custom SAML solution for Oracle Single Sign On
• Ensured accurate real-time pollution auditing/logging for Client, Solar Turbines by enabling fast maintenance of gas turbine performance data when increased by >250% speed of logger & reduced CPU load to 20% from 90-100%
  • Personally redeveloped & wrote 1000+ lines of data logger code in 1 week to maintain schedule.
  • Used Nyquist sampling statistical theory to develop C++ scheduler to accurately graph data
• Backup policy created & instituted enabled American Sporting Goods (ASG-Avia) to survive hardware crash 1 week after arrival
• Improved the efficiency of order fulfillment at Belkin by 1800% by implementing coding standards
• Gained 1^st reference-able client in new hosting business model when led Hosting Swap across 17 servers of very complex systems.
  • Coordinated team of 6 DBA’s to move all production and test servers to own hosting facility
  • Saved the client $588K over 3 years
• Developed AI code around circuit board routing algorithm (A* or A star) extension allowing games such as Age of Empires to maneuver AI opponent’s forces even on difficult terrain. Invited speaker at Computer Games Developers Convention on AI; coined phrase “Artificial Stupidity” vice Artificial Intelligence

• Data Systems, Telecommunications
• Active Duty
• Managed 8 section chiefs and 70 Marines
• In charge of 4th Marine Aircraft Wing IT assets.

• Full 4 year academic scholarship
• Completed all Masters Level courses in EE during 3rd & 4th years as Undergraduate: Computer Architectures, Networking architecture, Circuit Design.
• Significant class work in Computer Science and Creative Writing

Publications

• BIL Technology conference, 2018. WebVR
• Invited speaker, West Coast Writers conference on Microsoft Word and other software – 2013-2019
• Developed and taught ePublishing for LA Valley College, 2013
• Publications: 2 articles on Leadership in the 1st and 2nd issue of The Cursor, the magazine of the Independent Game Developers Network.
• Invited Speaker: Computer Game Developers Convention – “Torching Fahrenheit”
• Guest Speaker, Computer Game Developers Convention – “Opening the Box; 3D Toolkits”
• Invited Speaker, Software Development (San Francisco) Presented a class on Real Time 3D toolkits (VR)
• Guest Presenter, Meckler VR Conference (San Jose) Presented a speech on the Visual CompuServe project.
• Lecturer: Business Computer literacy class for Gouverneur Chamber of Commerce.

Executive Education

• UCLA extension Certificate student in Writing, (August 2008)
• MBA courses: Economics for Managers, Management and Leadership Golden Gate University
• Profession Education: MITT Training, Oracle University DBA performance tuning, Oracle JD Edwards summit, Sales summit/education, Oracle Cloud Fusion installation, Oracle High Availability, Windows Server internals, Windows Developer Partner Airlift, TQM, Software project management, Privacy act, IT Contracting, Systems Development methodologies
• Lecturer: Business Computer literacy class for Gouverneur Chamber of Commerce.