Project Manager/Consultant/Architect

BARRY FREINDLICH

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Flemington, NJ *8822

908-***-**** (Work) 732-***-**** (cell) ******.**@*****.***

https://www.linkedin.com/in/barryf

Summary:

Consultant/Data Architect/Project Manager – Extensive experience with web applications (particularly search), client server as well as mainframe projects. Well versed in Cloud (AWS) and Search technologies, Application and Data Audits, Search Recommendations, Knowledge management, classification, taxonomies and Text analytic tools, text enrichment, Information Architecture, techniques and capabilities. Developed Business Cases, managed teams and vendors. Well versed in gathering customer requirements, system architecture/design. Managed technical implementations as well as stakeholder expectations.

Actively participated and/or managed many projects at Raritan Technologies since inception. Many projects were focused on Life Sciences, Publishing and Digital Media or eCommerce. Extensive prior history as a consultant/developer at AT&T. Maintains hands on approach to technology.

Technologies:

Databases, CMS’s,

Search Engines

SOLR/ Lucene, ElasticSearch, Amazon AWS CloudSearch, IBM Azure, Endeca, Autonomy, Fast, Verity/K2, Oracle, Couchbase, SQLServer, MySQL, Sybase, Teradata, IDMS, IMS, Focus, eRoom, Lexalytics, Documentum, SharePoint

Skills (Business & Technical)

Data Architect, Project Management(Agile & Traditional), Knowledge Management, Taxonomy, Semantic Enrichment, Vocabularies, Metadata, Text Analytics, Agile, eCommerce, Search Assessments, MS Project, AWS Cloud Services, SDLC

Employment History:

CoBird (Aug 2016 – Oct 2017)

Search and Data Infrastructure Architect for eCommerce Startup

Provisioned AWS environment with EC2, RDS, S3, security groups

Designed architecture to crawl and normalize (ETL) data from hundreds of websites into common structure for SOLR Search Engine. Content volume will approach hundreds of millions of records and social data volumes in the Billions. Couchbase used as a NOSql transactional data store.

Gathered requirements and turned them into architecture, design & program specs. Designed taxonomy and classification strategy. Prototyped voice and visual search.

Responsible for oversight on entire system design

Provided guidance to junior & senior developers both remotely and on-site

Raritan Technologies (2001-Current)

Founder and CEO of Raritan in 2001. Active in all phases of managing business. Negotiated partnerships with LucidWorks, ElasticSearch, AWS, Autonomy, Fast, Verity, Endeca and Lexalytics. Focused company on providing Search expertise across multiple search technologies and on enriching content to provide a better search experience. Performed Sales/Business Development activities. Performed numerous search audits for clients. Provided technical support and guidance on most projects. Building out products for sale on AWS and LucidWorks marketplaces. Managed and technically guided projects with offshore teams and remote developers.

Architect/Project Manager/Consultant

Avention(2016) – Project to crawl, extract and validate content from various social media sites for Big Data projects.

Lucidworks (Solr/Lucene) (2012 – 2015) – Managed and key participant for multiple projects subcontracted to us by LucidWorks. These projects included search assessments, tuning and upgrades as well as problem resolution for Move.com, AtTask.com, UCLA, Gannett Media, StarTech, StatsCanada and NorthShore.

ClassyLlama – (2014-present) – Data/Search Subject matter expert for projects at 3M and Long Motor Co.

Sanofi (2014-2015)– Implemented visualization and content enrichment for R&D content. Used Carrot2 and Banana for visualization and clustering of content in SOLR. Managed developers who indexed content into SOLR and also used Entity Extraction tools. Client liason for requirements.

Amazon Web Services(AWS-CloudSearch) / LucidWorks(SOLR/Lucene) Search Applications (2011-present) - Designed and managed development of pre-built software utilities (AMI) for sale on AWS Marketplace and LucidWorks Marketplace. Designed architecture and specifications, managed development and testing teams, built website pages and collateral, managed partner relationships, email campaigns and sales efforts to bring products to market. Trained as AWS Technical and Business Professional.

Pearson Publishing (2010-2012) - Managed development and deployment of Classification and Search software for client. Included use of Linked-Data/Wikipedia, Endeca (and Open Source tools) for custom ETL tool, search and J2EE as development platform. Built project plan, gathered requirements, participated in architecture/design, supported implementation and testing.

Johnson & Johnson (2007 – 2014) – Managed 3 Fast/SharePoint project implementations and upgrades in the US of the MAKE/JAKE applications) and EMEA (Navigator). Projects included multiple releases of search, classification using Fast/ESP 5.09- 5.3. Participated in sales, architecture/design, requirements, implementation, testing, support and problem resolution.

AstraZeneca (2008 – 2013 – Placed and supported team involved with Autonomy, Lucene/SOLR and federated search and AZ vocabulary/taxonomy project. Managed customer relations, provided advice regarding content enrichment

Brystol-Myers Squibb, Pfizer, Sanofi Pasteur, GlaxoSmith Kline, Sanofi Aventis, Amgen (2003 - 2008) – Managed multiple projects from sales and requirements to development, testing, delivery and support. Technologies included Verity, Fast, Autonomy, Federated search, Taxonomies. Content from multiple search-silos were brought together for integrated view.

eCommerce/Endeca (2009 – 2014) – For a variety of online vendors (including Lenox, Belk, UnderArmour, ePromos) was involved with sales, requirements and supporting staff doing Endeca implementations. Sales averaged 25-50% increases.

Library Sciences (2001 – 2007)

IEEE (2003- 2010) – Supported multiple upgrades of Publication Search Site from Verity through Endeca. We provided guidance on performance improvements, classification and taxonomy integration. Provided guidance on Search Engine Selection. Partnered with Endeca on IEEE upgrade in 2009-2010 and Subscriptions have increased at least 100% since then.

Gale Group, American Chemical Society, Jane Information Group, Forbes (2003-2007) – Various initiatives providing guidance on Search Engine Selection

Alcoa (2004) – Managed delivery of new Product search site for Alcoa with Verity Parametric engine.

HW Wilson (2001 – 2004) – Managed & designed all phases of implementation of HW Wilson new system implementation of Verity search engine resulting in 200% increases in subscriptions for client.

Project Manager / Architect

PCSI/Blueflame (2000-2001)

Project Manager/Architect for web based HW Wilson Library Science Information system. Moved system from Print based subscription model to Online Search model. Managed large IT team to deploy for client. The system was hosted on solaris servers accesses a state of the art Verity collection through an ATG/Dynamo/Java/XSL web interface The new system resulted in a many fold increase in revenue. In addition to managing, had hands on role of design/architecture and implementation

DBA/Systems Analyst/Designer (2000)

Gathered requirements to support large telecommunications system workflow process. DBA, Analysis, Design and coding. This system supported the network infastructure buildout to support small to mid size companies.

DBA/Systems Designer (1999)

Joined team responsible for upgrading large real estate support system from SQL Server 6 to 7. In addition remote sites and functionality were merged into single system.

Architect/Technical Lead (1993-1998)

AT&T – Residential Billing

Technical leader/designer for several Client Server systems which perform various functions. The functions include: Verification of AT&T Local and Long Distance Phone Bills, Financial Reconciliations, Unguidable Processing(Re-billing of Bills returned from Local Exchange Companies), and Summary Reporting. These systems are deployed to clients using Windows 95/98/NT and Workgroups for Windows. The clients are connected to NCR UNIX servers running Oracle DBMS. Clients access their data using both Visual Basic and Centura applications. Responsible for work of 10-25 developers, providing them with specifications and guidance as well as implementing critical pieces of projects.

Information Systems Specialist (Project Leader) (1986 - 92)

AT&T Communications

Numerous large projects including General Ledger project, Financial reporting systems, on MVS,UNIX and VM with Teradata,Sybase, Ramis and Focus. Provided direction and technical guidance to immediate staff of 10-15 programmers and/or analysts. Conducted design and code walkthroughs. Designed Sybase security tables and views.

Programmer/Analyst (1981-1986)

AT&T Communications

Worked on a variety of systems in various technologies (MVS, PLI, IMS, VM, Ramis, IDMS). Coded numerous programs of increasing difficulty. Debugged problems as they arose.

EDUCATION:

MBA: Pace University, NYC, 1981. Major: Computer Information Systems

BA: Queens College, NYC, 1978. Major: Economics

AT&T Programmer Basic Training Course, 1981

Various in-house software and management courses and conferences.

Search Training at Endeca, Fast, Verity and Lexalytics

Sales and technical training - Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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