Professional Summary:
Versatile, results-driven IT Professional with 13+ years experience leading
and contributing to technical and online marketing solutions with a high
degree of success and profit. Broad background spans management, digital
marketing, software engineering, application development, operations,
multimedia distribution, and client relationship management. Excellent
communicator who thrives in fast-paced environments, and readily adapts to
evolving business and technology challenges. Strong team builder and coach,
skilled at inspiring confidence, leading by example and managing loyal,
high-performance teams committed to quality. Innovative professional with
proven ability to identify, analyze and solve problems to successfully
bridge the gap between Internet technology, marketing and business.
Exceptional ability to launch and manage highly successful projects and
ideas on time and within budget. Recognized for reliability and "getting
the job done" through persistence and a strong work ethic.
Professional Experience:
Toshiba
Wayne, New Jersey April 2008-
Present
Senior Internet & Development Manager
Responsible for strategic vision, planning, infrastructure, development and
creative direction for all Toshiba America Consumer Products websites and
micro-sites, content management system, as well as Interactive Toshiba
content on all partner, retailer and industry sites. Accurately plan
scope, budget, schedule and risk management for development, upgrade and
maintenance of Internet applications. Manage a multi-million dollar budget
targeted for creating and updating websites and online marketing content.
Responsible for Search Engine Marketing Strategy and traffic/site analysis.
Provide technical direction in support of sales teams with key Internet
accounts. Provide creative direction on marketing and advertising efforts
for online and event campaigns. Responsible for providing direction with
social media campaigns. The Toshiba sites include: tacp.com, toshibatv.com,
toshibaxde.com, tacptraining.com, tacpgreen.com, tacpservice.toshiba.com,
tacpnewsroom.com, and resellers.tacp.toshiba.com. Partner, retailer and
industry sites include: CNET.com, Amazon.com, BestBuy.com, and
TigerDirect.com.
Key Achievements:
> Significantly increased traffic to product showcases on etailer
sites by improving content and usability.
> Provided direction to change creative and structure for
Toshibatv.com to target a broader audience and improve user
experience and ease of use on the site. Also provided
infrastructure changes to take advantage of reusable content and
assets to improve consistent branding across etailers and reduce
maintenance and development costs.
> Successfully managed and provided vision/direction on a $6 Million
video project to market the SV670 Series LED Television for use in
Best Buy stores nationwide as well as key online retailers.
> Provided creative direction for new media marketing efforts
including Toshiba video content for Internet and retail use.
> Developed and designed all interactive demos, online banners for
the launch of Toshiba's Digital Media Frame Product.
> Developed and designed Toshiba XDE site which is targeted at
marketing the launch of Toshiba's new XDE DVD player.
> Provided Direction for ToshibaGreen.com which was designed to
promote Toshiba's green efforts with Toshiba's Consumer Products.
> Provided creative and direction for all interactive content on E-
tailers such as the Toshiba Brand Store on CNet.com as well as
others.
> Provided direction to create mobile device content for Toshiba
products.
> Provided direction, architecture and management for development of
a "where to buy" system that integrates with sales administration
and provides model driven information which saved the company over
$100,000 a year. This application was previously outsourced to a
third party provider.
> Successfully provided direction, architecture and management for
development of Toshiba media hub, a centralized location for all
social media and public relations efforts.
Consultant Feb 2006 - April
2008
Flemington, New Jersey
Successfully provided web development, Internet marketing, content
management, and e-commerce solutions. Created Internet and multimedia
solutions for clients such as NBC Studios, Century 21, and Sterling
Financial. Successfully managed off site web development through
strategy, design knowledge and architecture experience.
Key Projects
> NBC Studios
Developed and managed the production and development of an
Internet media marketing solution for the NBC Studio Tour, NBC
Store, and Rockefeller Center. The campaign included
development of an interactive flash media player for the NBC
websites as well as video tours which showcased their tourist
attractions by reaching millions of viewers.
> Sterling Financial
Developed the company's website and internal web based financial
tools. Provided creative direction to represent the company
branding on all online creative. Created Web ads, banners, and
e-newsletters to drive attention to Web site. Developed social
media strategy to target a younger audience for their website.
> Century 21
Developed and managed the production and development of an
Internet media marketing solution for Century 21 Realtors. The
campaign included a development of a flash media player for
realtor websites with key corporate and real estate video tours,
and online creative to market the campaign.
> City Loyalty Card NYC
Developed the company's website and business portal. The
project included the design and implementation of a content
management system, as well as an online marketing solution which
included online video, banners, and online advertising
campaigns. Also developed a search engine marketing strategy
which targeted millions of New York City tourists.
Inspireworks, Inc.
Florham Park, New Jersey 2002-
Feb 2006
Senior Developer /Manager of Internet Technology
Lead a team of 15 developers to successfully create various software
applications targeted towards education and sports. Provided
expertise in program development and management, new media strategy
and architecture, client training and management and cross functional
team leadership.
> Involved in all aspects of the project life cycle.
> Provided project leadership for production and involved in all
aspects of the project lifecycles
> Planned scope, cost, schedule and risk management for development,
upgrade and maintenance of application.
> Managed all technical aspects of the project.
> Managed software budgets, and personnel.
> Managed graphic designers to develop all graphics for the software
and websites.
> Managed video editors in all Internet video efforts.
> Designed video workflow utilizing Apple's QuickTime codecs.
> Designed and coded the clients for students and parents, coded in
Visual Basic. Designed and coded the interactive client for on-
demand content, coded in Flash/Action Script 2.0.
> Designed and coded the client for school/district/state asset
management, coded in Flash/Action Script 2.0.
> Designed the MYSQL databases for the education asset management
application, and the on-demand education content application.
> Coded middle tier methods for retrieving data from the database in
PHP utilizing XML/RPC.
> Designed and coded the clients for athletes and coaches, coded in
Flash/Action Script 2.0.
> Designed the MYSQL database for the media management portion of the
sports application.
> Coded middle tier methods for retrieving data from the database in
PHP utilizing XML/RPC.
Accessible Software / IBM (acquired by IBM)
1997-2002
Florham Park, New Jersey
Senior Software Engineer
> SWIM - Senior software engineer of Tivoli Systems Workflow
Integration Manager. SWIM is a powerful web based workflow
solution that leverages the Tivoli Business System Manager Data
Store along with the workflow engine of MQ Series to manage host
and distributed systems.
o Involved in all aspects of the project life cycle.
o Designed and coded the SWIM client along with 4 other developers.
o The client is composed of 35 ActiveX controls that can work
independently or work as one seamless application.
o The client was coded in Visual Basic.
> TBSM - Software engineer involved in development and
maintenance of many key projects within Tivoli Business
System Manager. TBSM is a software application that extends
the capabilities of Tivoli to manage host and distributed
systems providing a new paradigm for applications
management called Business Systems Management. It enables
customers to manage groups of related applications with a
single point of management and control to utilize the
concept of end-to-end business systems management and
organize related components while giving business context
to management decisions. TBSM is currently managing the
enterprise systems of many of the Fortune 100.
o Responsible for the TBSM Alert Broadcaster. This application ran a
simulation of an enterprise workday generating simulated alerts to
test emergency procedures. The application was also used in the
IBM sales department to demonstrate the capabilities of TBSM. The
application was coded in Visual Basic connecting to a MSSQL
database.
o Responsible for coding and maintaining the Line of Business TBSM
Client. The client displayed enterprise data in views /
terminology relevant to the user's role. The client was an Active
X control written in Visual Basic.
o Responsible for maintaining code within the TBSM project. Code
written in C.
o Responsible for maintaining business logic in MSSQL Stored
Procedures to support many of the TBSM client views.
Technical expertise:
Proficient in:
Action Script 2.0, Visual Basic, Ajax, ASP.NET, HTML, ASP, VB Script,
PHP, XML, Java Script, CSS, MySQL, MSSQL, Access, Omniture, Google
Analytics, Microsoft Project, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, Flash,
Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Fireworks
Management experience with the following:
C, C#, Flex, Java
Education:
> B.S. Computer Science 1997 - Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
> New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
Other:
> Fluent in Spanish (spoken and written).
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