Management Project

Anthony S. Yockey

Phone: 646-***-**** • email: *******@******.*** • LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ayockey

Senior Level Technology and Operations Executive

Talented, accomplished, dynamic manager offering demonstrated operations and technology achievements. Innovative

and dynamic leader, with an excellent combination of technical and business acumen and excellent people skills with the

ability to prioritize conflicting tasks; aggressively facing challenging opportunities. Strong aptitude to identify potential new

and increased revenue streams, return on investment to costs, resources and time constraints, improving efficiencies and

processes to achieve reductions in costs; steering resources to the goals, vision and objectives of the company.

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES

Executive Leadership and Communications (Board of Directors) Corporate Development

Client and Customer Relationship Strategic Planning and Assessment Organizational Change

Strategic Partnerships Revenue Enhancement Expense and Cost Control Business Continuity Planning

TECHNOLOGY & OPERATIONS COMPETENCIES

Infrastructure Development Software Development Disaster Planning Project Management

Outsourcing Management Business Process Engineering Support & Services QA & QC Vendor Management

Team Building Recruitment Training Systems Management Systems Planning Mentoring

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Scaled organizations to their next level in management processes, establishing procedures and accountabilities

and through technology enhancement

Grew development and supporting departments from a staff of 5 to over 10 direct and 90 indirect reports in pre-

IPO environment. Integral in building organization to a successful IPO.

Identified and implemented operations processes and development changes resulting in savings of over 50%.

Instituted new business processes and structure resulting in revenue increases while reducing expenses in

driving the new revenue.

Supported sales internationally to dramatically increase revenue streams, providing technology and management

services in support of our software and consulting operations. Sales increases of more than 100% over previous

years.

Integrated acquisitions in both management and technology into core corporate environments.

Identified and evaluated acquisition targets, developed costs and ROI analysis on same.

Expert in building highly motivated and effective management teams as well as project management, support,

development, quality assurance, client service and sales teams.

Rose through technical and operations leadership to C-Level executive, continuously enhancing and building

experience, knowledge and a rare combination of technical and business acumen.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

YMJ Group LLC

Present

Member of the Board, Previously CEO (NJ/OH)

Small business B2C eCommerce site developed from conception to sales across multiple marketplaces and

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social media sites. Expanded fulfillment to integrated 3 party warehouse and shipping locations as well as from

main location. Concentrated sales to country and vintage style décor and related products.

• Continuing to build upon quickly expanding business.

• Currently operating two main B2C sites and multiple marketplaces.

• Currently migrating operations to other participants in Ohio.

Gabriels Technology Solutions

2012 to 2014

Vice President Technology (NY)

Key member of executive team offering Enterprise level Software as a Service providing services and web

presence for Real Estate companies, brokers, agents and media (newspapers, online advertising). Customers

include Sotheby’s International Real Estate and affiliate brokers, Christie’s International Real Estate, New York

Times, and Washington Post.

Created Project Management Office (PMO) defining project process and governance. Established Steering

committee and established project processes including project management and definition, design and

development, quality assurance, release schedules and roadmap and change management. Approved and

implemented Jira and modules for project management and development governance with business (operations)

and sales.

Lead all software development activity in an agile environment; including scheduling (sprint planning), release

processes and scheduling, quality control and database integrations. Assembled a team of highly talented

professionals of 65 staff in New York, India and Romania in various departments.

Anthony Yockey Consulting

2009 to 2012

Owner (NJ)

Operations, management and technology consulting services to eCommerce and eBusiness organizations.

Customers included:

eFashionSolutions: Continued with eFashionSolutions in a consulting capacity, including architecting,

software development and maintenance of various frontend and backend systems for integration with

vendors and clients. Designed and lead development of in house EDI platform and integrate with VAN

and clients. Design interface with eBay for eBay’s new FashionVault flash sale component, with ability to handle the

high traffic that eBay generates. Inbound orders were generated at rates exceeding 350 orders per hour. Integrated

marketplaces (such as Amazon, eBay and Buy) while enhanced merchandising and SEO/SEM strategies.

StyleTrek, Inc.: Consulting CTO. Define operations processes and develop platform integrating social media and

ecommerce functionality in new fashion. Development of eCommerce, blog and Social Media platforms.

Integrations with fulfillment services, supply chain and social media systems Responsible for all software

development

Bonobos: Consulting CTO. Analyze business needs, recommending platform solutions. Identify

candidates to fit the business and development platform needs.

Jewelry.com: Consulting CTO. Directed continued development on Java platform. Initiated migration to a

Magneto platform. Evaluate and recommend operations processes and changes.

Send The Trend: Consulting CTO. Technology and operations consulting with SendTheTrend.com

(Manhattan) migrating form Drupal and Ubercart to Magento and Wordpress for their platforms, integrate

and development of new features and functionality including social media marketing.

eFashionSolutions LLC.

2006 to 2009

Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Officer (Secaucus, NJ)

Key member of executive working directly with Board of Director for full service eCommerce solution provider that

handles the web presence, marketing, design, support (including call center) and fulfillment for well-known fashion

industry designers as well as other companies. Intimately involved in overall operations and relations with senior

management and board of directors. Responsible for all software development including front and back end

systems and integrations.

• Scaled the company from into an environment that can easily and quickly adjust to increased clients, volume and

traffic both on websites and through warehouse fulfillment operations.

• Defined IT and Development governance process by merging project managers into a Project Management Office,

created Director level position to oversee company project managers and defined process for development and

project roadmap. Defined project process including project planning, acquiring of requirements, ROI and risk analysis,

project management tools for project planning and development management. Processes entailed relationship

management with client, steering committee (multiple department heads), design, UI and development, quality

assurance and testing and related change management.

• Re-engineered current ecommerce platform resulting in 65% less development time for new site launches and

empowering departments and clients to perform tasks and bring them “live” immediately, trimming development

resource requirements and time required for day to day changes and promotions. Allows for easy customization of

platform for clients.

• Presentations to investors, clients, senior management and Board of Directors.

• Optimized IT infrastructure environment greatly increasing up-time and dramatically increasing performance and data

integrity on websites, backend operations and internal IT systems.

• Defined system to streamline processes between receiving, photo studio, websites and clients for accurately tracking

and making images available internally and externally.

• Negotiated and renegotiated vendor contracts resulting in annual cost savings, more beneficial alliances and

augmented support and maintenance.

• Web 2.0 utilizing SOAP, REST and php/XML.

• Multiple Avaya VoIP Phone systems supporting customer call center and all internal telephones. Multiple client

tracking across more than 30 inbound toll free numbers.

• Attracted, built, trained and mentored highly talented professionals in project management, user interfaces, backend

(back office) development, databases, systems administration, network support, help desk, quality assurance and

business analysts.

• As many as 8 direct and 45 indirect reports. Reported to CEO and Board of Directors.

• Managed annual budget ranging from $4 million to $10 million.

Licketyship, Inc.

2005 to 2007

Vice-President of Engineering (San Mateo, CA)

Key member at the founding level of startup company offering same day delivery from local merchants to

customers (now Delivery Edge).

• Designed web 2.0 ecommerce platform to query websites for inventory availability, offer complete checkout (while

processing purchase at vendor sites), calculating driving distances, times and costs and dispatching appropriate

delivery system. Developed database and system architectures. SOAP, REST and XML web services. JAVA

EE/J2EE, Tomcat application development and services.

• Identified, recruited and utilized remote and overseas to effectively develop systems savings more than 60% of

development costs.

• Designed and developed site scraping programs for availability, pricing and location checks optimizing real time

availability of data to websites

• Agile environment with development in PHP/LAMP, then migrated to .Net for multi-threading capabilities.

• Developed a team of 3 direct and 30 indirect reports.

Anthony Yockey Consulting

2002 to 2005

Owner, Project and Technology Management Consultant (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

Management and Technical Consulting Services

Technical and management consulting services offered nationally, specializing in web, software and application

development management. Interaction with all levels of management, including senior management, department

and group management through individual developers and staff. Consulted and managed activities in proprietary

and customized software solutions.

A combination of development languages were used for these projects, primarily Java and J2EE for scalability

and use across multiple platforms and database back ends. Methodologies for projects ranged from Waterfall, to

Agile, depending on the project, company and particular requirements. Focus was on cross platform

development, cleansing of data, real time sharing of data, and eCommerce and UCCnet data requirements.

Significant assignments include:

Siebel Systems Inc (San Mateo, California)

Consulting (Contract)/Project Plan Development

Consulting on Transora and UCCnet development for Siebel’s Universal Application Network technology, including

data exchange, XML messaging, XML Schemas, integration, and Supply Chain including RFID tracking for major

CPG companies. Included support for manufacturing, supply chain management, CRM (and eCRM), ERP and

financials systems. Design integration with Oracle, Peoplesoft/JD Edwards, SAP and others. CPG and FMCG

Companies.

Sterling Commerce (Columbus, Ohio)

Consulting (Contract)/Adapter Technology, Columbus

Software Development Project Manager

Manage development, enhancements, UCCnet Certification and issue tracking, integration with Peoplesoft, JD

Edwards, Siebel, including AS/400, Windows and Unix/Linux operating systems and servers. CPG and FMCG

Companies.

iWay Software Div. of Information Brokers (New York, NY)

Consulting/Project Plan Development and Management

Design specifications and project plan to develop software adapters for UCCnet, Transora and Ariba technologies

with vendor software such as SAP, Oracle (iProcurement, Purchasing, CRM) and Peoplesoft (CRM, SCM, ERP

systems). CPG and FMCG Companies.

MCPC (Cleveland, Ohio)

Consulting/Project Management for e-Commerce, eBusiness and Hardware (result of MCSi spin off)

Implemented Peoplesoft applications, data conversion from MCSi to MCPC included inventory, supply chain,

customer support (CRM), payroll and human resources (Peoplesoft) for branch off from MCSi. Included definition of

requirements (hardware, resources, etc), training and support. Consulting and directed on operations, security,

configuration and setup of B2B and B2C e-Commerce sites after MCPC was split off of MCSi.

MCSi

2000 to 2002

Director, e-Commerce and e-Business, (Dayton, Ohio)

Director of all e-commerce activities, managers, developers, support and administrative staff. Responsible for

staff development at all levels, team building, organizational structure, business development aspects with sales

and pre-sales representatives, performance evaluation, conflict resolution and strategic planning.

• Managed all eCommerce and eBusiness initiatives, with sales nearly $1 Billion, and 70% of those sales through

eCommerce portals. Acquired and managed $100 million eCommerce platform company located in Berkley, CA,

streamlining all eBusiness activities from multiple systems and platforms under one proprietary system, directly

integrating multiple sales offices, development and quality assurance locations, redundancy systems and warehouse

locations.

• Directed all IT infrastructure and development activities with 20 direct reports and over 130 indirect reports in multiple

locations worldwide, with an annual budget exceeding $50 million.

• Integrated over 10 acquired companies into corporate IT structure and systems, coordinated training and specific

business needs among those acquisitions.

Global Exchange Technologies, Inc.

1997 To 2001

President/CEO (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

e-Commerce and Software Development

Company created by merging the assets of Universal Digitech and The Bidder Network. Developed auction and

store front software that integrates with eBay auctions and stores. Software is still available today.

Ultimate Software Group, Ltd.

1992 to 1999

Director Software Development, Director Technical Support, Project Manager

Office, Lead Developer/Architect, IT/IS/QA Manager/Director (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

Started as the lead developer, progressed to direct all development, quality assurance and tax departments of

Payroll & HRMS system with some large, well known clients.

• Managed all development activities and direction from startup through IPO

• Directing the project and development managers, responsibilities included directing development staff, project

management office, client services, sales issues and development plan, re-prioritizing continuously as the needs

changed or new ones introduced, and making sure executive management was always abreast of progress, issues

and any customer relationship changes.

• Directed staff growth to over 120 professionals including developers, supporting staff and quality assurance with 10

direct reports and annual development budget between $2 and $10 million.

• Was originally recruited as the Lead Developer and Software Development Manager, and was very “hands on”

throughout tenure.

• Built and mentored highly talented professionals in development, systems, quality assurance, technical support, and

business analysis and tax experts.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

A sampling of technical expertise is listed below.

Hardware

• Linux, Unix, Windows Servers, Exchange Servers, MS SQL, Endeca, mySQL clusters, VLAN’s, load balancing,

applications servers, Sharepoint servers, MS Project servers, RAID systems, SAN’s, Firewalls (Cisco), VoIP

Telephone Systems (primarily Avaya), VPN Concentrators, Small Business Server, Web Servers, eCommerce

Servers, Active Directory, Cisco Routers, Switches, Wireless Access Points, AS400

Software

• Microsoft Office, Great Plains/Dynamics, ATG, IBM, SAP, Gentrans, Siebel Systems, ERP, CRM, BI, SCM, xCart,

Interspire, Magento, Peoplesoft, Ultimate Software, Salesforce

Applications, Languages & Frameworks

• Tomcat, JBOSS, Zend Framework, .Net Framework, Ruby on Rails, Python, Perl, PHP (LAMP), .Net, DHTML, CSS,

CMS (ez Publish, Joomla, Drupal in open source), SOAP, REST, XML, Java (J2EE), C#, bash, Cold Fusion,

Sharepoint, Lotus Notes, IIS, mySQL, MS SQL, DB2, RPG

EDUCATION

Graduated High School, 1974, Springfield in Holland Ohio

• Accelerated and Independent Course Studies; attended classes and studied at University of Toledo

United States Marine Corps, Millington, TN; Computer and Aviation Electronics

• Accelerated program, completed in 20% of normal allocated time

University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio; Business and Psychology Courses

Davis College, Toledo, Ohio; Computer Science and Business Administration

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