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Joshua Drew

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Accomplished technologist with over 12 years of technical expertise and proven results in

product delivery, project life cycle development and client facing relationships. The

ability to lead, mentor, motivate team members and co-workers as a result of strong

communication skills. Has obtained responsibilities from programmer to business analyst,

and has executed multi-million dollar, high-profile, internet-based projects.

Education

Sacred Heart University Fairfield, CT

Bachelors Degree Computer Science. 3.3 GPA

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WELD media, LLCApril 2011PresentVP of Technology

Responsible for all web and mobile architecture and technology development

Participate and lead project lifecycle from inception to optimization

Deliver technical and functional specifications along with creation of use cases and

functional flows

Hands-on development for all technology builds

Lead mobile development for the iOS devices, Android devices and Windows Phone

Manage Windows network infrastructure running VMWare Virtualization

Affinion Group Stamford CT

Sep 2010March 2011Director of Technology, Mobile Technology

Define mobile technology strategy for Affinion products (loyalty, protection, membership)

Deliver mobile web application solutions sets across all of Affinion products by

collaborating with multiple internal teams

Work with business stakeholders to define mobile web and mobile application experiences

Collaborate with IT Solution Architects for defining technical requirements for mobile

web applications

Manage and communicate business requirements and goals to IT product teams

Manage creative and technology vendor relationships for multiple engagements

Setup testing services, development environment and mobile best practices and patterns

for enterprise

Built enthusiasm surrounding mobile devices and mobile applications by training and

establishing patterns

Deliver mobile web and native mobile applications using the latest technology (Sencha

Touch/PhoneGap/HTML5, Xcode/Objective-C, Eclipse/Android SDK, jQtouch/HTML5)

Skunk Works projects to innovate and keep abreast of emerging mobile technology using

PayPal API, Amazon payments and Card Readers

Story Worldwide Norwalk CT

Mar 2007 - Sep 2010VP, Director of Technology North America

Responsible for all technology development and application architecture in North America

with a platform agnostic approach using the internal unified process

Acted as Technical Architect and Lead Developer on several major client web applications

Work closely with client IT stakeholders on integration policies and protocols with back-

end systems

Participate in strategy, branding and creative concept brainstorming

Determine best practices and feasibility of technical build from creative concepts

Work closely with Information Architecture to determine user flows and wireframes

Manage budgets, resource allocations and results management for North America Technology

team

Provide leadership and management to Technology Development team, Quality Assurance team

and Information Architecture team

Design and develop applications using the following : .NET 2.0 & 3.5, C#, Flex, Flash,

PHP, MySQL, SQL 2000 & 2005, MS Share Point, Interwoven, AJAX, and other client side

technologies (jQuery, Prototype, Dojo, iUi), Social Networking platforms (Wordpress,

joomla, BlogEngine)

Byte Interactive LLC Norwalk CT

Jan 2005Mar 2007Director of Technology

Oversee all technical development projects with Microsoft .NET Framework and ASP using

Service Oriented Architecture

Provide leadership and guidance to client stakeholders for technology direction working

as a technical lead

Participate in client brand planning and provide recommendations for all engagements

Responsible for technology recommendations and architecture

Manage all operational assignments for development staff

Detail complete architecture from elaboration to construction phase

Manage development and network infrastructure team

Maintain relationships with third party vendors

Byte Interactive LLC Norwalk CT

Feb 2003Dec 2005Technical Lead

Manage development effort utilizing Microsoft .NET technologies using C#. Define business

requirements for Fortune 1000 clients and translate them into software business rules

Technical lead for all application builds for a Fortune 500 client

Provide technology direction for brand planning during a given year

Build E-Commerce, product portfolio, sales extranet and consumer relationship management

systems

Develop software and database models of web applications

Determine best practices on development projects

Manage and allocate developers project tasks for engagements

Write and compile all technical documentation

Enforce standards, code-reuse, code reviews, and unit/system/integration testing

Readers Digest Pleasantville NY

Jul 2001 - Feb 2003Senior Internet Engineer

Develop software using J2EE and JSP for e-Commerce web site with ATG Dynamo Java

Application Server, MS SQL Server, IPlanet Enterprise Server and Sun Solaris

Enhance current ecommerce site by creating new one-click ordering and sweepstake entry

points with Java and JSP

Develop middleware applications with Visual Basic and MS SQL Server from web database to

fulfillment systems

Use J2EE and XML to process middleware transactions from web system to partner systems

Create new solutions to existing system architecture and back end data systems with

Visual Basic and MS SQL Server

Provide maintenance to current Solaris and IPlanet Enterprise Server architecture using

Perl scripting

Responsible for code review from junior engineers

Modem Media Norwalk CT

Oct 1999 - Feb 2001Senior Software Engineer

Lead Engineer on site builds, review team member s work as well as micro-manage the site

development process providing updates to senior team members and clients

Build ecommerce sites for Fortune 1000 clients using an n-tier architecture using

IPlanet, Apache or IIS Web Server, ATG Dynamo or IBM Web Sphere Application Server, and

Oracle or MS SQL Database Server and IBM MQ Series Middleware, Microsoft ASP

Design Java components with UML and design use cases

Write technical documentation on site builds

Configure development and staging environments on servers by installing operating systems

and application servers. Configure and test production systems on site rollouts

Maintain existing Fortune 1000 client web sites using Perl, ASP, XML, JSP, and Java

Servlets

Hold training classes on best practices with ATG Dynamo and Microsoft ASP

Mentor junior engineers

Commonfund Wilton CTJul 1998 - Oct 1999Business Systems Analyst

Build, maintain and test web fund portfolio system using Microsoft ASP and MS SQL Server

Design and build customer relationship database using Saratoga Product Solutions on

Windows NT Platform

Develop solutions using Visual Basic for internal departments and clients

Manage development process of financial estimator written in Mat Lab and Microsoft Access

Design and build custom solutions for departments using MS Office software with VBA

technologies

Design and build internal web applications using ASP and MS SQL Server

Lead company lunch and learns on various computer topics

Arthur Andersen LLP New York NY

Jan 1998 - Jul 1998Tax Consultant

Reengineer tax processes by building custom applications using MS VBA

Train clients and internal staff on software solutions

Communicate with client IT team and arrange project deployments

Black & Decker Shelton CT

Jun 1996 - Dec 1997IT Specialist

Provide ongoing support to employees and projects

Assist in building company data warehouse using Visual Basic and MS SQL and department

intranet with ASP and MS SQL

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