Experience

Autoscale.ai
• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Chief Technology Officer

  • Jun 2021 - Present

Mary Kay Global
• United States
• Personal Care Product Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee
• Site Reliability Engineering

  • Nov 2020 - Jun 2021


Ackerman McQueen

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr. Vice President / Lead Solutions Architect

  • Jan 2018 - Nov 2020

  This is my second time around in this company. I was hired primarily in a customer facing lead solutions architect role. During this time, I have been working with a few or our top clients, leading development and deployment of various applications and web projects, successfully maintaining the on-going relationship with the clients and directly affecting the company’s bottom line. Accomplishments: • Led the efforts to develop in-house expertise for custom Wordpress development based on client’s requirements. • Cultivated successful technical relationship with client’s IT department. • Architected, built and deployed more than 7 highly custom Wordpress web sites with complicated integrations with the client’s existing systems including user accounts management, offers and rewards systems, lodging management system (LMS) etc. • Built and added interactive property maps with way-finding capabilities to the websites. • Developed custom interface for large on-premise touch screens with same Wordpress acting as Content Management system for both website and the touch screens. Added custom JSON API in Wordpress to provide data to the touch screens front-end layer built in React. Show less



FanPrint

• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Jan 2017 - Dec 2017

  FanPrint is a Print-on-Demand e-commerce platform selling custom designed apparel officially licensed by many popular sports franchises of the United States. During my short time here, I was able to overhaul company's entire technology stack resulting in significant revenue growth. Migrated from a Shopify hosted e-commerce site to an in-house self-hosted platform built on Ruby on Rails, React components, PostgreSQL, Memcached, all deployed on AWS infrastructure. While being a simple click-to-buy e-commerce site for end-users, it has a very complex backend / admin interface which allows designers to create, upload and sell their own designs and earn commission on them. It integrates with multiple fulfilling partners for various products via their APIs and webhooks. It includes sophisticated analytics and tracking mechanism to track referrals and calculate commissions for designers and marketers. Show less



CounterFind

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Aug 2017 - Oct 2017

  As a CTO, I was responsible for overseeing the development and deployment of their MVP. Multiple on-shore and off-shore teams were working on the product. The job was completed successfully and we deployed version 1.0 of the MVP in record time, resulting in the acquisition of first few of the very impressive list of clients. As a CTO, I was responsible for overseeing the development and deployment of their MVP. Multiple on-shore and off-shore teams were working on the product. The job was completed successfully and we deployed version 1.0 of the MVP in record time, resulting in the acquisition of first few of the very impressive list of clients.

• Sr. Vice President, Digital Platforms

  • Aug 2016 - Jan 2017

  Advanced through multiple promotions, culminating in SVP role overseeing company’s digital platforms. Managing development, deployment, maintenance and enhancement of our multi-million dollar flagship product “Videodigm”. It’s a suite of applications that provide on-demand and live video delivery capability for our clients through websites and apps on desktop/laptop, mobile and OTT devices and social media platforms. Accomplishments: • Managed, mentored and trained junior software developers. • Assisted in staff recruitment, performance evaluation and retention. • Led the efforts in moving all of the company’s IT infrastructure to AWS Cloud. Managed all cloud servers until appropriate resource was hired for the job. Some of the products and applications that I designed and led the development efforts on, include: • A Content Management System for “videodigm” platform utilizing Ruby, Rails, Elasticsearch and AngularJS. The front-end of this application is built using Node/Express. • A secure Readonly API using Grape (a ruby API framework) to serve content to desktop, mobile and OTT applications from the Content Management System. Deployed the API on Amazon Beanstalk for auto-scaling. • A Video Manager application that manages encoding and syndication of all videos for this platform. It’s built with latest version of Ruby on Rails, utilizes Sidekiq and Redis for background processing and integrates with Amazon Elastic Transcode service via AWS API to encode videos for various screen sizes and bandwidths. • A Show Manager application to control broadcast of live video that is used in broadcast studios on a daily basis. Its main interface is built using AngularJS with User Management built with Ruby on Rails. This application utilizes PUBNUB’s publish-subscribe service (http://pubnub.com) to communicate with and trigger live video events on client browsers and applications. Show less

• Vice President / Digital

  • Apr 2012 - Aug 2016

• Sr. Interactive Developer

  • Jun 2009 - Apr 2012

  Built a large-scale Content Management System utilizing Ruby, Rails 3.2.x, AJAX and MYSQL/MSSQL. This CMS combined with the Flash/Flex front-end is a multi-million dollar product currently deployed for tens of clients. Most of our applications are deployed on Amazon EC2 instances, use Amazon S3 buckets for assets storage and utilize Amazon Cloudfront for content distribution. I have been managing these servers since 2010.



Independent Consultant

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Independent Consultant

  • Jan 2006 - Aug 2013

  During this time, I have worked on many freelance web projects using the new Web 2.0 technologies including Java/J2EE, Ruby on Rails, latest trends in CSS2 & 3 and AJAX. Following are some of the projects that I have been involved in: • www.tagmycity.com –involved with the team who developed this project. • www.dealburnr.com –involved with the team who developed this project. • www.thingsicando.com – completely designed and implemented the front-end and partially implemented back-end. • www.xtrain.com – completely designed and implemented this entire online video learning and ecommerce website. It includes front-end, back-end, testing system with multiple choice questions and generating PDF certificates at successful completion of test, full order processing and credit card processing using chase online payment gateway, web services integration with Sugar CRM, reports generation and export in xml format. Show less



Texas Book Company

• United States
• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr. Software Engineering / Team Lead

  • Aug 2005 - Oct 2008

  Managed multiple projects with teams ranging from 3-12 persons. Responsible for the design, analysis, implementation and support of the company enterprise applications using iSeries, WebSphere Application Server, Ruby On Rails, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 and MySQL utilizing OO methodologies and best practices. Administrating multiple instances of WebSphere Application Server in both Windows and Linux environments and integrating them with IBM iSeries Mid-Range Server. Managed multiple projects with teams ranging from 3-12 persons. Responsible for the design, analysis, implementation and support of the company enterprise applications using iSeries, WebSphere Application Server, Ruby On Rails, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 and MySQL utilizing OO methodologies and best practices. Administrating multiple instances of WebSphere Application Server in both Windows and Linux environments and integrating them with IBM iSeries Mid-Range Server.



Integrated Telecom Solutions

• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jan 2001 - May 2005

  • Joined a team of experienced programmers and became productive right away. • Showed strong leadership skills by taking multiple roles • Quickly learned and successfully applied the new tools and technologies. • Assumed the role of second level support for various products and contributed towards valuable support revenue. • Joined a team of experienced programmers and became productive right away. • Showed strong leadership skills by taking multiple roles • Quickly learned and successfully applied the new tools and technologies. • Assumed the role of second level support for various products and contributed towards valuable support revenue.



Southern Methodist University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • May 2000 - Dec 2001

  Researched on Patch Array Antennas for microwave frequencies. Researched on Patch Array Antennas for microwave frequencies.



Advanced Engineering Research Organization

• Airlines and Aviation
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Engineer

  • Apr 1997 - May 2000

  Electromagnetics and microwaves. Electromagnetics and microwaves.