VP, IT - Product Owner - Engineering Manager - Leader - Coach - Team

Jared Antonyzyn

773-***-**** **********@*****.*** LinkedIn Profile Chicago, IL

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I am a hands-on, data-driven senior professional, who loves technical details, solving problems, and turning vision into action. Encouraging developers to focus on what’s new and next, while keeping operations stable and consistent. I bridge the space between strategic vision, business practice, and software implementation. Experience

Dec 2013-Today Pay With Gather Chicago, IL

Gather provides the ability to view, pay, and split a restaurant bill via a mobile phone in real time. Gather also offers point-of-consumption analytics to restaurants, brands, and manufacturers, to assist them in making effective marketing and sales decisions. Gather is a native built application that resides on iOS and Android.

Co-Founder/Vice President, Technology

■ Lead the in-house and off-shore technical and creative team consisting of 10 developers. Served as the Product Owner and DB Architect

■ Following Agile methodologies- successfully recommended business model pivot that included complete product rebranding and development. Pivot completed in less than four months

■ The Gather core API is RESTful and built on Microsoft Web API Framework and running in Microsoft Azure as a cloud service using SQL Server on Azure

■ In addition to the mobile app, a backend portal was developed (for account management and reporting) in MVC and uses angularjs and jquery. Hosted in Azure

■ Azure Service Bus used for Transaction Queue Management and Push Notifications

■ The platform is integrated with various third parties such as Braintree, Twilio, SendGrid, Constant Contact, Facebook, Apple Pay

■ Increased efficiency of information flow between three teams working in different global markets by planning and building centralized repositories (Asana, active.collab, TestLodge, Google Analytics)

■ Primary contact to investment team; managed monthly financial forecasting, burn, annual budgeting processes, and KPI’s

■ Performed an IT Audit to examine the infrastructure and brought on a third party to perform a penetration test of the platform

■ Continued to be a hands-on, innovative, strategic, and technical leader; not only overseeing progress but writing code as well

■ Collaborated with a User Experience Designer and potential customers to prepare wireframes of the application

■ Facilitated technical decisions; incorporated feedback and emergent patterns from the team and advisors back into the overall design and functionality

■ Managed all major vendor contracts, negotiations, and wire transfers

■ Identified, negotiated, and green-lit projects with external developers

■ A member of the Board of Directors; assisted in securing over $2M in funding for Series A Feb 2011-Dec 2013 BidMyWay Chicago, IL

BidMyWay was an ‘online-to-offline bidding service’ that allows people to name their best price, in true Priceline.com fashion, but for local goods and services, specifically. Director of Technology

■ Managed an off-shore development team of 5 members, as well as, hired a creative agency to develop the branding

■ Transitioned from a White Label solution to a native mobile application running in Microsoft Azure as a cloud service using SQL Server

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Jared Antonyzyn

773-***-**** **********@*****.*** LinkedIn Profile Chicago, IL

■ Wrote the functional requirements in use cases and visually modeled them in wireframes (balsamiq) to get the stakeholders and developers in agreement

■ Established and supervised the software development process, setting short-term objectives and assessing progress as defined by the Agile methodology

■ Created and monitored a quality assurance process, including integration and system testing

■ Primary author of patent PCT/US2012/027600 (providing merchants with UI for managing online deals)

■ Assisted in securing over $1.4M in funding in 2 rounds Oct 2008-Feb 2011 First Communications, LLC Chicago, IL First Communications is a leading technology solutions provider offering data networking, voice, and managed services throughout the Midwest.

Manager, Data Engineering

■ Managed a team that consisted of 15-20 in-house developers and analysts located Chicago, IL, and Akron, OH

■ Lead a successful migration of the billing system, as well as all internal provisioning information, automated reporting, and commission information - with zero downtime

■ Created all-in-one document for Agile development by combining materials such as Architect design, use cases, UML, DB Design, Business Process, Business Rules, Testing & Quality Assurance, and deployment plan

■ Collaborated with the appropriate departments to assess and recommend technologies that support company organizational needs

■ Performed monthly revenue and expense forecast and provided detailed analysis of variances versus operating budget

■ Designed and developed new reporting templates to enhance business management

■ Reduced operational costs through consolidation of server technologies following the acquisition Oct 1999-Oct 2008 Globalcom Chicago, IL

Facilities-based telecom carrier. Over 2,000 route miles of fiber optic network. Serving the small to medium sized business market. Sold in 2008.

Project Manger/Manager Application Development

■ Built and lead a team of 15, involved in Application Development, Database, Data Warehouse, and Network Administration

■ Architected, designed, and developed Order Provisioning System incorporating workflow management including Third Parties and Billing System Integration

■ Provided End-to-End solutions integrating in-house-developed Sales Commission Platform, which serviced the national sales team and agencies

■ Used MsSql’s DTS, Oracle’s Sql*Loader for moving/migrating data from DB2 to Oracle and SqlServer to Oracle

■ Lead DWH/ETL developers for Business Intelligent reports for circuit profitability analysis using Pentaho open source DWH/ ETL and Information Builder

■ Worked as team leader during application migration from AS400/DB2 and Oracle Forms to Oracle and J2EE/J2SE

■ Managed Telecommunication Billing conversion project to support in-house Billing. This conversion included Integration with all applications developed by Globalcom JAL/XBi via Billing EJB

■ Accounted for procurement, maintenance contract management, configuration standards, security, remote access, change management, disaster recovery testing, deployment, maintenance, and support

■ Used open source technologies and tools for application development to save licensing costs

■ Participated in merger and acquisition due diligence and integration teams

■ Additional duties included purchase of software, hardware, hiring, mentoring new hires, and performance reviews Page 2

Jared Antonyzyn

773-***-**** **********@*****.*** LinkedIn Profile Chicago, IL Programmer

■ Co-leader in Design and Development of the in-house-designed Order Tracking System for Globalcom; this platform spanned across all departments from Sales through QA

■ Wrote shell scripts to schedule jobs with the variable file names and SQL*LOADER jobs to load the data from the scheduled jobs using crontab

■ Wrote Stored Package Procedures, functions, Database Trigger, Views, Materialized Views, Tables, Index, Constraints, and web page using Pearl script, Java Servlets, and DB design Education

OHIO UNIVERSITY – ATHENS, OH

Bachelor of Business Administration, Management Information Systems, 1995-99 Page 3

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