Kevin Fitzgerald
Chief Technology Officer at Okanjo- Claim this Profile
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Brendon Thomas
Kevin is a genius. There's literally no other way to put it: Kevin does things with multiple languages and platforms that should be impossible. In my ten year career working with technology, I've only once before met someone with the software development prowess to hold a candle to Kevin. Any development shop would be lucky to have him!
Brendon Thomas
Kevin is a genius. There's literally no other way to put it: Kevin does things with multiple languages and platforms that should be impossible. In my ten year career working with technology, I've only once before met someone with the software development prowess to hold a candle to Kevin. Any development shop would be lucky to have him!
Brendon Thomas
Kevin is a genius. There's literally no other way to put it: Kevin does things with multiple languages and platforms that should be impossible. In my ten year career working with technology, I've only once before met someone with the software development prowess to hold a candle to Kevin. Any development shop would be lucky to have him!
Brendon Thomas
Kevin is a genius. There's literally no other way to put it: Kevin does things with multiple languages and platforms that should be impossible. In my ten year career working with technology, I've only once before met someone with the software development prowess to hold a candle to Kevin. Any development shop would be lucky to have him!
Experience
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Okanjo
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief Technology Officer
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Nov 2012 - Present
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Co-Founder
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Jun 2004 - Present
Founded the company with two partners to help area businesses with their online marketing goals. Responsible for all company server hardware, software direction, software security and maintenance of over 120 domains and customer sites. Work with customers on solutions to technical problems. Founded the company with two partners to help area businesses with their online marketing goals. Responsible for all company server hardware, software direction, software security and maintenance of over 120 domains and customer sites. Work with customers on solutions to technical problems.
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Cardinal Stritch University
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United States
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Higher Education
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300 - 400 Employee
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Portal and Applications Development Manager
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Mar 2009 - Nov 2012
Managed the applications team to design and develop software solutions for the university. Responsible for maintaining the university portal, web servers and over 100 software projects. Evaluates and recommends software products and solutions for the university, focusing on the end user experience.- Designed and created a comprehensive helpdesk system, integrating multiple websites, services, databases and customer support tasks into a single platform. The system audits security and events across all internal websites and services and has greatly improved the efficiency across university departments and customer service.- Co-lead a comprehensive two-year initiative with vendors and university leadership in a multi-phase project to evaluate and redesign the university’s web presence resulting in a successful rebranding of all university sites and services, launching in October 2012.- Designed and built a system for university faculty and departments to collaborate on reviewing the university catalog. The system facilitates the catalog review process, and has dramatically improved the workflow by increasing efficiency and ease of use by faculty, department chairs, and the registrar and academic affairs offices.- Implemented coding standards, best practices and development process for the applications team, improving code quality and relations with other departments.- Identified and reported numerous critical security issues with the university’s ERP software vendor, prompting immediate action from the vendor and a service release which also affected hundreds of other universities.- Identified performance issues with existing web applications and rewrote them to increase efficiency, capacity and resolve severe bottlenecks for customer applications.- Proposed and implemented Subversion as the revision control system for the university, greatly improving team collaboration and document access across departments.
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Thin Air Software
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer (Intern)
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Oct 2007 - Jan 2009
Brought in as the second hire to the company by the initial officers to help develop and contribute web knowledge to the team. Responsible for making JavaScript, CSS, and graphical contributions to projects, in addition to developing applications in .NET in small teams for customers all over the U.S. Participated in project estimation and planning utilizing agile software programming techniques.- Redesigned the company website (www.thinairsoftware.com) from Flash to a dynamic, easily updateable database driven system. Utilized .NET, MSSQL, web services, business objects, AJAX, URL rewriting, and specialized SEO techniques to create a web site that demonstrates the company’s capabilities.- Evaluated a prospective customer’s web application for security and usability problems, reported and demonstrated major vulnerabilities, which resulted in awarding of a project to redesign the customer’s application.- Designed several ASP.NET web site user interfaces for customer applications.
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Emageon
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Engineer - Workstations (Intern)
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Jun 2005 - Oct 2007
Developed product tools and assisted team members with .NET projects in a cross-functional environment.- Developed ASP.NET applications for exporting data by facsimile though the web interface and storing/searching product support records via intranet.- Created a complete log archival system to collect and consolidate Windows event logs from systems on a hospital network in a single location. Also developed a graphic web interface for searching and reviewing the logs utilizing web services, DHTML and AJAX.- Developed a graphic ASP.NET patient information management system, utilizing DHTML and AJAX to create a functional, drag-and-drop system to match study, patient, and visitation records.- Developed a comprehensive, automated product update tool capable of updating the product from any past version to the latest version, applying patches, software installations, file-system changes or database upgrades with extensive logging to simplify auditing and reduce support times.
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Web Developer
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Oct 2001 - Jun 2004
Responsible for maintaining and upgrading the Franklin High School website.- Developed an extensive internet application to establish a hotline for students to view their daily homework assignments online.- Redesigned and completed the entire high school site in under a week to meet deadline. Responsible for maintaining and upgrading the Franklin High School website.- Developed an extensive internet application to establish a hotline for students to view their daily homework assignments online.- Redesigned and completed the entire high school site in under a week to meet deadline.
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Education
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University of Wisconsin-Parkside
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FHS
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FHS
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