Adam Zderski

***** ******** ***** ** ***********, KY 40023 Phone 404-***-**** e-mail ac6avr@r.postjobfree.com

CAREER SUMMARY

Technologist & Product executive with over 25 years of global technology leadership experience with a successful track record covering various industries such as communications, media devices, print technologies and predominantly gaming where I have spent the better half of my career. Proven ability for building and motivating global teams to improve and execute on new initiatives, implementing industry best practices and exceed expectations.

I have a passion for defining and strategizing company goals then drive the implementation assuring success and achieving fruitful growth through the commercialization of the innovation. I am results oriented balancing both business objectives with technology solutions and a willingness to embrace change.

Non-technical skills include hands on experience with mergers and acquisitions having key role in technology due diligence, contract negotiations, vendor management, operational support, business development and resource management.

Industry Specialization: iGaming, Advance Deposit Wagering (ADW) systems, Streaming, Integration, Messaging, Funding with B2C & B2B solutions.

Experiences include a broad range of functional knowledge and technologies coupled with significant depth in several key areas outlined below:

Organizational Leadership

Strategic & Operational Technology Planning

Specialize in online Casino Slots & Poker

Operations

Managed & Developed strategic Integrations & Migrations

Partner & Contract Negotiations

Technology & Languages

Product

Software Engineering

Professional Services

Process Improvement (Agile Scrum, Rally)

Emerging Technologies and Enterprise Architecture

Cloud Computing AWS, Google Analytics

SDK, Frameworks & APIs

Support

Multi-Threading, Socket Server & Security

Continuous Build and deployment Digital Audio and Video WMP, DRM

Real-Time embedded software

Research & Development

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CDI – Churchill Downs November 2016 to Present

Chief Architect, VP – New Technologies

Head of new innovations working directly with the executive team I oversee all new initiatives from conception, research and development, outsourced competitive bidding, contract negotiation, execution and delivery. Primarily my responsibilities are to ensure the company’s new innovations and platforms are engineered and aligned to product vision providing the anticipated business value.

Developing relationships and engaging strategic partners, both internal and external, I own technical strategies, architecture guidelines and standards by being the technical voice for architecture, the technology roadmap for platforms, systems and responsible for delivering successful, on time, and on budget projects for these platforms and systems.

CDI – Churchill Downs June 2014 to November 2016

Senior Director of Engineering, Architect

Member of the executive team leading multiple development teams trailblazing both iGaming and ADW platforms for global consumption delivering strategically architected extensible product add-ons for a suite of enterprise applications. Working with keys executives in multiple business units across the organization I have managed innumerable vendor integrations, implemented new policies and delivery practices achieving enormous efficiencies in product lifecycle.

Recruited to jump-start product development for a new online casino platform I joined Churchill Downs as part of the business and technology leadership team. Responsible for the enterprise architecture of iGaming & pari-mutuel platforms I play a key role in the management of development, technology and deployment operations. Leading the technology for several scrum teams I oversee, define and vet the organization’s enterprise architecture via an inspirational leadership with organic individualization for growth.

Architecture Council advisor to Churchill Downs Executive team

Reduced development churn by setting clear enterprise architecture, instilling greater confidence in our SDLC

Built key relationships across the organization strengthening strategic implementation goals

Devised and lead enterprise deployment strategy

Developed key relationships with vendors and partners working to ensure their technology meets our needs

Alternative evaluations of product and vendor selection

Architected a Micro-service Multi-tenancy platform for

oBonus engine handling significant peak loads over marquee events totalling over $1B in handle

oVIP engine

oCRM Back Office

oMultiple Remote Gaming Systems RGS

oFunding service

Executed the operations and development of a digital 50/50 program targeted at over 300k printed ticket sales in a single event

Working with key vendors and our internal teams I managed greater than a dozen vendor integrations

WMS Gaming May 2009 to June 2014

Senior Principal Software Engineer – Director of Core Platform Services

Leadership of global team architecting developing client/server casino platform for Williams Interactive. Including team mentorship and collaboration, technical requirements gathering, architecture, documentation and implementation delivering application framework technologies that reach across several B2B & B2C platforms and partner casinos.

Quintessential in the architectural development of an enterprise iGaming solution for Williams Interactive division. In this role I was responsible for technical requirements gathering, peer design reviews, documentation and implementation. Poised in the technology team that designs and implements application framework technologies that reach across several platforms spanning across Web, desktop & mobile.

Delivered highly visible iGaming products in both B2C & B2B spaces

Developed an Agile program

Served as key member of the Patent Committee

Championed a forward-thinking architecture for existing platforms

Authored several critical software components allowing high volume transactions

Fostered culture of innovation by leading product and technology brainstorming sessions

Inspired others via collaborative engagement

Alternative evaluations of product and vendor selection

Integrated 10+ vendor integrations including

oCasino Platforms

oAnalytics

oXMPP/Jabber chat

oJackpot system

Led team in applying leading edge technology to deliver innovative, dynamically interactive solutions for large online casinos

Earlier Career

AT&T October 2005 to May 2009

Technical Senior Architect

DAVE Networks, Inc. October 2002 to September 2005

Chief Software Architect

ZapMedia.com March 2001 to October 2002

Chief Architect

Colorbus Pty. Ltd. December 1996 to May 2001

Senior/Lead Software Engineer

IGT/Olympic Video Gaming June 1993 to May 1997

Senior Software Engineer - Technical Team Lead

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATES

Bachelor of Computing (Digital Technology), Monash University (Clayton), 1993.

Team Building, SportsMind, Human Performance Technologies, Inc.

Advanced Computer Security, Stanford University.

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