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• CTO, D. Harris Tours, Inc.

  Feb, 2020 - May, 20233 years 3 months

  • Led the development and implemention of business processes and technology that allowed D Harris to grow from a fleet of two buses to 12 buses.

  • Updated and enhanced the company's systems with modern tools to better manage the growing business, including real-time bus data, automated maintenance notifications, and automated trip confirmations and notifications via email and SMS.

  • Implemented route optimization algorithm to identify opportunities for one bus to handle multiple trips, increasing their daily revenue by 30%.

  • Implemented automated notifications for trips, bus maintenance, and billing and invoicing.

• Manager, Software Engineering, Conversant, Inc. (formerly Mediaplex)

  Jul, 2010 - Feb, 20209 years 7 months

  Led the Rich Media Ad team and later the Mobile Ad team.

  • Designed, developed, and maintained the infrastructure and code-base that served many millions of mobile and rich media ads each day.

  • Led the Rich Media effort and helped modernize the ad serving infrastructure and metric collection.

  • Designed and implemented a RESTful API for serving rich media ads and built out scalable backend services to handle integration with existing servers and infrastructure.

  • Contributed to the IAB MRAID 2.0 standard, implemented MRAID SDKs on iOS and Android platforms, and developed and deployed mobile ad solutions for multiple platforms.

  • Architected and deployed 'Rich Media' ad delivery and reporting infrastructure, RESTful API for ad serving, tracking metrics, and reporting, and developed client-side Javascript 'ad controller' for mobile and web.

  • Developed flexible metrics tracking with non-blocking endpoints.

• Web Architect, Mindjet

  Sep, 2007 - Jul, 20102 years 10 months

  • Migrated the Mindjet website from PHP to an ASP.Net solution and headed up Mindjet's foray into the Software as a Service (SaaS) arena-- Mindjet Catalyst.

  • Ported the Catalyst client canvas from Flash to a more standards-based implementation utilizing HTML canvas and Javascript.

• CEO / Founder, Simple Software, Inc.

  Apr, 2006 - Sep, 20071 year 5 months

  Provided contracted software development and consulting, developed the Simple Software Application Platform that provided content management systems and business process management applications to small to mid-sized businesses.

  • Developed custom solutions for:

  • GC Homes (Contractor documents and blueprints online)

  • Bay Docs (Document preparation services and tools for generating documentation for reverse mortgages)

  • Tzero Technology

  • Metrika

• VP Engineering, Genetic Savings & Clone

  Jun, 2004 - Apr, 20061 year 10 months

  Genetic Savings & Clone was a genetic services company that offered commercial pet gene banking and cloning where Mr. Robison led the Engineering department.

  • Architectured, developed, and deployed Clonesoft, custom business process automation software that ran every aspect of the business from the website to cloned pet delivery.

  • Cloned a cat and delivered it to a customer.

  • Designed and developed a database-driven feline DNA identification website, CatBank.

  • Implemented all backend code for Retro vs. Metro, an online companion website to the New York Time's bestseller: Retro vs. Metro - The Great Political Divide in America.

• Technical Director, Inter@ctivate, Inc.

  Dec, 2001 - Jun, 20042 years 6 months

  • Managed and maintained IT resources, including customer applications and websites, and helped grow the company from 10 to 65 employees.

  • Designed and architected network infrastructure using both Windows servers and various legacy Unix boxes, built out server clusters, and managed a farm of over 60 machines including a SAN.

  • Designed and implemented web-based network management, monitoring & systems analysis tools.

  • Developed web-based tools for creation and maintenance of customer websites, DNS, and email services.

  • Designed and developed email marketing application using 3 tier architecture and XML and XSLT for transporting

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