| Independent Consultant / Business Analyst |
- Perform commercial and technical due diligence on digital media assets for potential acquisition partners.
- Provide overall M&A support and analysis.
- Conduct industry research and devise digital media strategies.
- Audit technical architecture and advise on scalability.
- Review staff and optimise team organisation, including recruitment, interviews, training, off-shoring and right-sizing.
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| CTO |
- Recruited and led the technical team of an advertising technology start-up in the UK and Ireland.
- Analysed the emerging digital outdoor advertising industry and devised business and product strategies.
- Ran network operations and established procedures for compliance with customer Service Level Agreements.
- Performed technical sales support; demonstrated products to prospective customers.
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| Co-founder, CTO |
- Founded and operated a Web 2.0 social-networking start-up.
- Recruited and managed an off-shore team of developers.
- Commissioned content creation.
- Designed and developed recommendation engine and search engine.
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| Vice President of Technology, Feb 2003 - Apr 2005 |
- Managed the technical department of one of Europe's most successful web companies.
Set the department's goals and direction.
- Recruited staff. Expanded team from six to thirty-five members in three countries.
- Coordinated external programmers with internal engineers, administrators, project managers and developers.
- Established a software development life cycle to assure the quality of all programs and stored procedures,
including stages for requirements, design, unit testing, development, functional and regression testing, code review,
stake-holder acceptance, and launch.
- Directed complete redesign of several major web sites.
- Set deadlines and managed tasks of project team, including several "dotted line" reports from other departments.
- Identified critical path dependencies.
- Developed launch scenarios and contingency planning.
- Led Ciao's technical due diligence proceedings during the firm's successful acquisition
(April 2005) by Greenfield Online Inc., an American market research firm. Audited, documented, and presented Ciao's
technical procedures and systems.
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| Chief Architect, Nov 2002 - Apr 2005 |
- Responsible for the hardware, software, and network architectures for major e-commerce web sites.
- Reconciled the needs of a rapidly changing, technology-based company with its legacy architectures.
- Achieved scalability and greater development agility by transforming the company's architectural model
from a centralised single-database system to a distributed multi-database network with an n-tier application
layer to seamlessly unify systems.
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| Chief Programmer, Jul 2001 - Feb 2003 |
- Developed a large-scale data integration application, including an XML parser and robust processing
objects, to transform the data to a relational structure and feed them into MySQL and Sybase databases (following a
pipes-and-filters design pattern).
- Designed and developed a sophisticated, high-speed, fault-tolerant caching system.
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Lead Application Developer
- Designed and developed a web-based, multi-tiered stock-trading system.
- Designed and developed an object-oriented stock-feed parsing program to capture market data from a NASDAQ Level II
quote feed using socket-layer programming.
- Created objects for dynamically maintaining and enforcing user-level privileges and preferences within the system.
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Co-founder, President
- Created and operated a small software corporation.
- Designed and developed a browser-based travel and airline reservation application.
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Application Developer
Provided clients with programming services including:
- Created and customised intranet and client/server object-oriented applications.
- Troubleshooted existing database applications.
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Programmer / Analyst
- Developed query generating modules and customer targeting modules for a sales force targeting application.
- Performed QA on existing macros.
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Co-founder, Executive Director
- Established and operated collegiate travel corporation.
- Responsible for all levels of marketing, reservation, sale, and operation of tours.
- Negotiated with supplier representatives.
- Managed budget for all marketing and advertising.
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PHP, JavaScript, AJAX, WMLScript
XML, XHTML, CSS
Structured Query Language,
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, data modelling / schema design
Linux, CVS, SVN
Extensive experience in web architecture strategies including caching and performance, SEO,
load distribution and fault tolerance, session management, usability, and information architecture.
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Beginning PHP4 Databases,
Wrox Press, 2002 (co-authored).
Professional PHP4,
Wrox Press, 2002; Reprinted by Apress, 2003 (co-authored).
Professional PHP Programming,
Wrox Press, 1999 (co-authored).
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Instructor - Princeton Adult School, Princeton, NJ, USA; Feb 2000 - Dec 2000
- Created and taught courses in XHTML and in web architecture and technologies.
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Rutgers College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
B.A. in German, May 1994
Minor in Political Science - concentration in International Studies
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English: Native
German: Good
Italian: Elementary
French: Elementary
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United States, Italy (dual citizenship)
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