Experience

iPourIt

• United States
• Food & Beverages
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder, CTO (and Inventor)

  • Oct 2011 - Present

  Orange County, California Area Inventor of iPourIt's self-serve beer and premium wine on tap systems. I started with soldering circuit boards in my garage and writing almost a million lines of code. Successfully raised 3 rounds of financing.. Built a team of developers, project managers, installers and technical support personnel. 3 issued patents. We have over 6 million ounces being poured out of iPourIt every month with over 9 million unique people using it and generating over $100M for our clients in revenue.



Self Employeed

• Independent Contractor

  • Oct 2011 - Mar 2012

  I'm an independent contractor specializing in both .Net development and Systems Integration in a Windows and *NIX environment.



LRES, a division of Trident Services, LLC

• United States
• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Director of IT

  • Jan 2010 - Oct 2011

  Orange, CA Responsible for the budget management, project management and mentoring of the IT department. Oversaw all aspects of the technology department from helpdesk, operations, network and server support to software development. * Stabilized network and systems from daily outages to no unplanned outages. Stabilization was accomplished by upgrading and adding redundancy to the network, implementing Virtualization to server farm and developing a Change Management policy. * Created a… Show more Responsible for the budget management, project management and mentoring of the IT department. Oversaw all aspects of the technology department from helpdesk, operations, network and server support to software development. * Stabilized network and systems from daily outages to no unplanned outages. Stabilization was accomplished by upgrading and adding redundancy to the network, implementing Virtualization to server farm and developing a Change Management policy. * Created a technology roadmap for the internally developed valuation system. * Brought helpdesk resolution times down by over 50%. * Planned, implemented and tested a Business Continuity Plan. * Developed IT System Policies. * Planning for a SAS70 audit. Show less



Travel Event Services, LLC

• Vice President, IT

  • Apr 2009 - Sep 2009

  Newport Beach, CA



Ambassadors

• Events Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP of IT

  • Jan 2004 - Sep 2009

  Newport Beach, CA Oversaw 3 disparate divisions spread across 18 worldwide offices. Reported to the COO, CFO and CEO at different times depending on the company’s need. Provided vision and strategic management to grow the IT department to support the company’s growth from 160 employees to 3000 with yearly revenue growth from $20M to $300M. * Member of four person executive management team implementing Board approved projects such as Mergers & Acquisitions. * Successfully grew the IT teams from 4 people… Show more Oversaw 3 disparate divisions spread across 18 worldwide offices. Reported to the COO, CFO and CEO at different times depending on the company’s need. Provided vision and strategic management to grow the IT department to support the company’s growth from 160 employees to 3000 with yearly revenue growth from $20M to $300M. * Member of four person executive management team implementing Board approved projects such as Mergers & Acquisitions. * Successfully grew the IT teams from 4 people to 18 with only one turn-over in over 5 years. * Managed an annual technology budget of $2M. * Created the RCMs for SOX and implemented policies and procedures to maintain compliance. * Responsible for quarterly and yearly internal SOX audits in addition to yearly Ernst and Young audit. * Documented and maintained change control information for all systems/application changes, corporate wide. * Oversaw troubleshooting, systems backups, archiving, and disaster recovery and provided expert support when necessary. * Worked with project teams to help implement various projects. * Developed project plans for multiple acquisitions and migrations. * Developed and implemented Information Technology policies and procedures. * Challenged others to develop as leaders while serving as a role model and mentor. * Oversaw transition of development from a mix of Cold Fusion, PowerBuilder and Java to .Net. * Hands-on development of software for internal use and clients including a Change Request System, Help Desk System, ResolveIT Extranet, Corporate-Wide Intranet and internal incentive programs in Classic ASP/AJAX. Developed an incentive program for a large client and developed the online Shore Excursions Booking Engine, both in C# .Net. Show less



Triad Financial SM LLC

• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Systems Engineer

  • 2000 - 2004

  Huntington Beach, CA Built and maintained the infrastructure for company websites, roadloans.com and triadfinancial.com. These were B2B, B2C and P2P auto loan origination sites. Roadloans.com ran on iPlanet, WebLogic 6 and Netscape LDAP all running on Solaris 8. * Migrated servers in-house from our Exodus Co-Lo. * Built a new load balanced, clustered environment. * Built and maintained DNS for all external domains. * Primary support for all internal and external web services on Unix and NT.… Show more Built and maintained the infrastructure for company websites, roadloans.com and triadfinancial.com. These were B2B, B2C and P2P auto loan origination sites. Roadloans.com ran on iPlanet, WebLogic 6 and Netscape LDAP all running on Solaris 8. * Migrated servers in-house from our Exodus Co-Lo. * Built a new load balanced, clustered environment. * Built and maintained DNS for all external domains. * Primary support for all internal and external web services on Unix and NT. * Developed, in ASP with MS SQL backend, internal web-based applications for daily tasks such as code deployment and moves/add/changes of employees. * Wrote numerous shell scripts for daily maintenance of Solaris servers. Show less



Micro Systems Integration

• Systems Engineer

  • 1999 - 2001

  Mission Viejo MSI was a HP channel partner, system integrator and eCom-Incubator. * Designed LAN/WAN Enterprise networks. * Installation of NT/2000 Servers for Exchange, SMS, SQL, IIS and other Enterprise applications. * Worked with Cisco routers and switches. * Built the networking infrastructure for numerous e-businesses. * Designed and coded web sites using the newest scripting technologies available. * Configured and maintained FreeBSD and RedHat Linux servers for web… Show more MSI was a HP channel partner, system integrator and eCom-Incubator. * Designed LAN/WAN Enterprise networks. * Installation of NT/2000 Servers for Exchange, SMS, SQL, IIS and other Enterprise applications. * Worked with Cisco routers and switches. * Built the networking infrastructure for numerous e-businesses. * Designed and coded web sites using the newest scripting technologies available. * Configured and maintained FreeBSD and RedHat Linux servers for web publishing, firewalls, and PPTP. Some Linux applications included Apache, PHP, qmail, and Oracle. * Worked closely with AT&T for managed Co-Lo, Frame Relay and DSL accounts. * Worked on Sun Solaris and HP/UX servers. Show less



LanguageForce

• Systems Engineer

  • 1999 - 1999



Precision Resource

• IT Administrator

  • 1997 - 1999



Micro Systems Integration

• Systems Engineer

  • 1998 - 1998