Development Management

Steve Nowicki

Contact: *****@************.***

Street: *** ******* ***

City: Ho-Ho-Kus

State: New Jersey

Country: United States

Zip: 07423

Mobilephone: 213-***-****

Years of Work Experience: 7 to 10

Current Employer: The Content Project

Current Title: Director of Software Development

Current Salary: 100K to 149K

Current Duties: Management of software development, systems engineering, and data security teams.

Looking for: Director/manager-level position in IT/Software Development/Systems Architecture

Maximum Travel: 100

Position Type: Permanent

College Attended: New York University

Available Start Date: 2003-07-24

Cover Letter

In the resume that follows, I've highlighted some of the technical aspects of the projects I've been involved with over the last 8 years. My experience ranges from Microsoft technologies, through most of the major Unix platforms (Linux, Solaris, BSD) in programming languages from VB/ASP to Java and the J2EE platform, PHP, C and C++.

Over the last 4 years I've been managing technical staff. At 's London office I built the team from 5 relatively under trained staff, to a group that was recognized across western Europe for the quality, complexity, and innovation of our products. Within a few months of my arrival, our managing director was named by Time magazine as one of the 25 most influential people in the European technology scene.

I've been fortunate enough to work with some of the dom.com eras biggest companies, as well as some venerable brick and mortar institutions. Whether it was beauty.com (which was built, launched, and sold for $42 million within 6 months during the dot.com heyday) or polo.com (the first online presence of Polo Ralph Lauren, the launch of which was so successful that David Lauren, Ralph's son, appeared onstage with Bill Gates at Comdex to talk about the site we had designed and built), or channel4.com (the website for one of Britain's major broadcast networks), I've had a fairly successful track record for delivery of a high quality produtct, on-time and on-budget, and effective management of the teams that worked on those projects.

While I have been involved in management of technology departments and staff for the last few years, I have never been removed from the day-to-day cycle of coding, debugging, and release. I've always been a hands-on manager, heavily involved in the development process and one who likes to keep his hands dirty. I believe most of my present and former staff would testify that I do so without micromanaging, but rather in a mentoring style with which most of them found it easy to work.

If you have any questions about my background, experience, or methodologies, please do not hesitate to ask. I can provide salary requirements and references should you need them.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Regards,

Steve Nowicki

*****@************.***

cell: +1-213-***-****

Resume

Steven D. Nowicki

Contact Details:

* Email: *****@************.***

* Cell Phone: +1-213-***-****

* Address:

135 Elmwood Ave.

Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ 07423

BACKGROUND

SKILLS:

* Management of software development, systems engineering, MIS, and

telecommunications staff

* Advanced software architecture, systems architecture and project

management techniques

* Database design, architecture and administration on MSSQL

7.0/2000, Oracle 8.x, MySQL, PostgreSQL

* Advanced Linux, Solaris, BSD, Mac OS X, Windows NT/2000/XP

administration, including high-availability solutions

architecture, globally distributed architecture, and security

analysis and planning

* Extensive e-Commerce development and leadership experience

creating major multi-million dollar web site projects from custom

developed code

* N-Tier application development with C/PHP/Visual

Basic/ASP/Java/PERL/C++/Objective-C

* XML, XSL, XSLT with VB/ASP, Java, PHP, C/C++/Objective-C

* Telecommunications systems planning, implementation and support on

Lucent, Nortel Meridian, and Panasonic PBX and Voice Mail systems

* Microsoft Platforms: Advanced configuration and administration of

NT 4.0/2000/XP, IIS 4.0/5.0, SQL 7/2000, MSMQ, MTS, Exchange 2000,

WINS, DNS

* *nix Platforms: Advanced configuration and administration of

Linux/Solaris/BSD/Mac OS X; SAMBA; Apache, OpenSSL; Bind (DNS),

MIT Kerberos, PAM modules, LDAP (commercial and Open Source

implementations); PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle; IPTables, IPchains;

Tomcat, iPlanet, BEA Weblogic and other servlet containers and

J2EE environments; and much more

* Networking: Cisco and HP switches and routers; F5 Labs BigIP load

balancers, HA solutions from a number of different vendors,

including Veritas; Cisco, Nokia, and open source firewalls

* Hardware: IBM, Dell, Compaq enterprise-class servers and

networking equipment; Dell, Gateway, Siligon Graphics, Apple

desktop workstations; Custom-built cables (ethernet cross-over

cables), serial connections, etc.

* WAP (mobile phone) development expert, Director of 's

research and development task force on WML/PDA application

development and m-Commerce issues

WORK HISTORY:

Director

of Software Development: The Content Project (Santa Monica, CA)

1/2002

- Present

Head of the software development group for this growing advertising

and marketing firm with such clients as Pfizer, Fox, Turner and

Discovery Communications.

Largest projects include The CityCares National Technology Initiative

(CNTI), a large project management, resource management, financials

reporting and personnel management application for 30 organizations in

the US and abroad, managing over 375,000 volunteers and 33,000

projects annually. Written primarily in PHP and C, the application is

composed of over 280,000 lines of code and a team of 8 software

developers.

To better facilitate the data migration of over 30 legacy databases

(all on different platforms and of different designs), we created a

new programming language to make the process easier and more

maintainable. At present, the parser for the new syntax is written in

PHP, but we are currently porting it to C using Flex/Bison as the

lexer/parser to improve performance and syntax checking.

My additional responsibilities include oversight of systems

architecture staff, telecommunications infrastructure, internal

training programs of both technical and non-technical staff,

purchasing recommendations, and departmental policy development.

Mixed Windows 2000/XP, MacOS X, Linux desktop environment. Windows

2000/NT4, Linux, BSD back-end infrastructure running Exchange 2000,

SQL Server 2000, Win2K ADS, PostgreSQL, MySQL and others.

Director of Technology

: Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)

10/2001

- 1/2002

Similar responsibilities and budget sizes as the London office. Major

projects included:

* Warner Home Video - http://www.whvdirect.com - Vignette/J2EE

implementation with integration of internal product catalog

systems. Also, DAMS solutions research/proposal for all of Warner

Bros. and RFP responses for major Internationalization effort.

7-figure budget.

* Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino - http://www.mandalaybay.com and

Mandalay Bay Convention Center -

http://www.mandalayconventions.com - J2EE application development,

integration of custom-built and commercial CRM tools, development

of back-end convention center management solution. 7-figure

budget.

* Princess Cruises - http://www.princess.com - J2EE application

development and systems integration effort for this top cruise

line. Application development, and integration with existing CRM

systems (Siebel), customer information data mining (Equifax),

Lotus Notes, reservations mechanism. Ship deck-based webcams. J2EE

application development on Websphere with Oracle DB. 7-figure

budget.

* SixFlags Theme Parks - http://www.sixflags.com - MS ASP-based

Interwoven CMS implementation. IIS 5.0 and SQL Server 2000. High

6-figure budget

Due to 's financial situation, my stay (and that of my team) with

Los Angeles was considerably shorter than originally

anticipated.

Director of Technology

: Europe (London, UK)

7/2000

- 10/2001

Leader of a team of 24 software developers, systems engineers, MIS

staff, telecommunications administrators, database administrators and

technical project managers. Built the team from an initial group of 5

to become a leading presence in the European media and entertainment

industry. During this time, our Managing Director came to be named one

of the "25 most influential people on the European technology scene"

by Time magazine.

Following the "bursting of the bubble", lead the team through two

rounds of redundancies and worked with the Managing Director, CEO, CTO

and other members of senior management to define our financial targets

and expand our service offerings to include iTV, wireless application

development, multi-player game platforms and corporate infrastructure

consulting.

Set and managed a GBP 650K departmental budget (not including

salaries) and maintained a multi-million dollar production and

development infrastructure. Introduced an educational series for the

non-technical staff known as the "Geekly Weekly", designed to get our

sales and business development teams more familiar with technology

concepts.

A market-leading team in content management systems, including

Interwoven and Vignette, we also spent several weeks extending OpenCMS

(an open-source content management system) to create a low-cost

CMS/DAM solution specific to the media and entertainment industries,

and worked with the NY office on the creation of Sparrow - our

in-house CMS built using Java technologies, and XML/XSL transformation

to function as the CMS for sites with needs and budgets that made the

large commercial solutions impractical.

Highlight projects include:

* Channel4 - http://www.channel4.com and http://www.e4.com - The web

presence of Channel 4 and Channel 4's new digital television

channel, E4. J2EE application development on iPlanet, Solaris,

Oracle, using Interwoven's TeamSite for CMS. Software back-end

drives the web site for the UK's version of BigBrother - currently

handling over 25Mbps of traffic at it's peak, with hundreds of

thousands of unique user sessions a day when the show is running.

7-figure budget

* Fotango.com - http://www.fotango.com - Europe's first

photo-sharing and film-processing web site. mod_perl application

development on Linux with MySQL. Mid 6-figure budget

* AppleBelly.com - http://www.applebelly.com - The UK's top site for

clubs and nightlife. Written in OO PHP using PostgreSQL, running

on Linux with F5 Labs BigIP load balancers/SPI firewalls in a

high-availability configuration.

* CosmoGirl.co.uk - http://www.cosmogirl.co.uk - British version of

the popular teenage girl's magazine CosmoGirl! Good example of a

web site implementing the "Sparrow" CMS application mentioned

above. Medium-traffic web site with tight budgetary constraints,

utilizes our CMS to allow an organization with virtually no

technical staff to manage a complex content-heavy web site with no

ongoing vendor-support contract. Email marketing campaigns,

customized content, and ad server management all incorporated into

the product.

Manager of e-Commerce Development: New York (New York, NY)

3/2000

- 7/2000

Primary responsibilities included the development of an e-commerce

platform for use by 's clients, strategic advisor to in-progress

projects as to the technologies and services they should use to best

accomplish their commerce goals.

Also served as director of 's R&D task force on wireless

application development. Resource for 's clients looking to

expand their Internet presence to include WAP-enabled cell-phones and

PDA content.

Major projects include:

* Polo Ralph Lauren - http://www.polo.com - The Internet presence

for Polo Ralph Lauren. Vignette/ASP on IIS 5/MS Commerce Server/MS

SQL 2000 implementation with intense brand and user-experience

sensitivities. web site was successful enough for Bill Gates to

invite David Lauren (Ralph's son) to present the web site during

Gates's Comdex 2000 keynote speech (video of the presentation

still available from http://about.polo.com/comdex.asp). With the

collapse of NBCi, the biggest investor/backer of the original

polo.com, the web site has been scaled back and redone in JSP by

the new backers.

Senior Software Architect

: New York (New York, NY)

8/99

- 3/2000

Lead Software Architect for Beauty.com. A top-tier B2C e-Commerce web

site (and "classical" dot com) specializing in prestige beauty

products and original content for that market. In charge of the

database design, systems architecture, application architecture, fraud

detection mechanisms, enterprise business reporting application

creation, data warehousing and third-party systems integrations.

Managed a team of 7 developers and coordinated the activity of 2

database administrators, 2 systems engineers. Responsible for the

technical end of the project management with the client and executive

producer.

Highlights:

* ASP/VB/C++/Oracle on WinNT and Solaris 7

* Custom-built CRM, product catalog, financials reporting, inventory

management, automated purchase order creation/transmission for

inventory restocking, marketing tools, fraud detection/prevention,

and content management application components.

* Fully automated warehouse systems integration and real-time order

status tracking

* Hardware budget of just over $1 million

* Launched Thanksgiving weekend 1999. Sold January 2000 for $42

million stock swap with Drugstore.com

* Spent 3 months in Seattle leading the systems integration effort

with Drugstore.com, following the acquisition.

Other projects included those with the British Broadcasting

Corporation (BBC), Sunbeam, Inc., Ark Restaurants, and Starbursts

candy

Senior Applications Developer

: Sullivan & Cromwell (New York, NY)

12/98

- 8/99

In-house application developer responsible for the creation,

development, and policy setting of the corporate Intranet. Maintenance

of 4 IIS 4.0 web servers and 29 MS SQL servers and 43 NT 4.0 file

servers. Chief architect of the conversion from legacy Mainframe and

paper-based applications to web-based solutions.

Developed desktop applications, MTS components and client-side

business objects using Visual Basic 6 and C++. Development of

enterprise-wide information mining and reporting applications.

Supervisor of a staff of 5 full-time programmers and consultants.

Sullivan & Cromwell was the law firm representing Microsoft in their

lawsuit against the US Justice Department. Due to the massive staff

increase in the Washington, D.C. office and the increased need for

data and voice security, I was sent to Washington as part of the team

that architected the data and telecommunications infrastructure for

the MS vs. DOJ team. This included both secure data solutions,

telecommunications infrastructure improvements, and

counter-surveillance consultants who helped to detect listening

devices and improve physical security measures.

PC Support Specialist

: Sullivan & Cromwell (New York, NY)

9/97

- 12/98

2nd-tier Technical support for a 2200 user legal environment.

Responsibilities included application troubleshooting, software

testing and rollouts, intranet development using such technologies as

Active Server Pages, Dynamic HTML, Visual Basic and Java running on

IIS 4.0. Worked closely with the attorneys to build automated software

distribution routines for off-the-shelf and custom-built software

packages.

Research and Development Chemist

: Madis Botanicals, Inc. (S. Hackensack,

NJ)

5/97

- 9/97

Analytical chemist responsible for the evaluation and creation of new

products using such analytical methods as HPLC, GC, TLC, and wet

chemistry methods of analysis. Architected software solutions to

automate the data collection and reporting process and generation of

research publications by through VBA macros that directly interfaced

with an RS232 interface on the lab equipment and generated reports in

Word and Excel based on statistical analysis of the data gathered.

Assistant Online Editor

: MacFadden Publishing (New York, NY)

2/97

- 5/97

Worked with the Online Editor-in-Chief in designing and maintaining a

large corporate web site including client-side scripting using

JavaScript and server-side CGI development in PERL.

Freelance Web Developer

(New York, NY)

9/95

- 2/97

Designed and implemented web sites with PERL and performed technical

support for a wide base of small businesses. I would occasionally

provide short-term hosting and maintenance contracts (1-3 months).

ACTIVITIES:

* Technical Editor for the upcoming edition of The Action Script

Bible published by Wiley and Sons.

* Currently pursuing a private pilot's license

* Patissier - Worked in the pastry kitchen at Le Cirque 2000 in New

York under the tutelage of master pastry chef Jacques Torres

* Bellevue Hospital PAVERS program -- Trauma Room volunteer at

Bellevue Hospital in NYC

* Political Spectrum - Operations Officer of this non-partisan

political discussion and research group at NYU and coordinator and

host of Welfare: Moral Necessity or Economic Monstrosity - a panel

discussion on welfare reform in the United States, held in

conjunction with senior members of Mayor Guiliani's

administration, prior to the introduction of his "workfare" programs.

* Op-ed columnist in several university and general-distribution

publications

LANGUAGES:

* English (native language)

* French - intermediate conversational and written skills

EDUCATION:

* New York University,

College of Arts and Science

HONORS:

* National Merit Scholar

* New York University Trustees Scholar

* Presidential Scholar

* Dean's Honor List

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