Management Development

STEVE BUKO

*** ****** ****** **. ■ Lawrenceville, GA 30043 ■ T: 770-***-**** / C: 678-***-****

******@*****.*** http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevebuko CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER & SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE TECHNOLOGY, OPERATIONS, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

Technology Solutions Management, Implementation, Operations, Execution, & Leadership Solutions-focused, senior executive and technology professional with experience leading best in class software development, technology roadmap, IT, business development, operations, and R&D initiatives to streamline and support technology operations for various organizations. Particularly effective directing the evolution of products from concept through execution, constantly managing the needs of the customer, the team, and the project. Exceptional at breaking down technology strategies into tactical plans and processes to achieve aggressive business goals. Possess excellent interpersonal skills to collaborate with development and cross-functional teams to identify and remedy quality issues for successful implementation. EXECUTIVE CORE COMPETENCIES

Corporate Executive Staff Web Hosting / Data Center Mgmt. Digital Media/Marketing

Software/Hardware Development Corporate IT / Infrastructure Project Management

Architecture, R&D

Web Development

Technology Roadmap Development

C-Level customer relationships

Business Development

Offshore Development Management

Agile/Scrum SDLC

P&L Management

Digital Asset Management (DAM)

eCommerce

Team Building

Talent Recruitment

Customer Relationship Management

Mergers and Acquisitions

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Summary of Professional Experience

Chief Technology Officer & EVP

PureRED (formerly GA Communications) – Stone Mountain, GA May 2012 - Present

VP of Software Development

GA Communications – Stone Mountain, GA

May 2010 – May 2012

CTO Office - Director & Chief Architect

Intel Corporation – Parsippany, NJ

Jan 1999 – May 2010

Director of Software Engineering

Melita International - Norcross, GA

Jun 1996 – Jan 1999

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

Web Services ■ Host & Embedded Development ■ Online Interactive Media ■ Mobile video delivery ■ iOS/Android ■ Internet multimedia delivery ■ Social Media ■ eCommerce ■ First Data / Payeezy ■ Kentico ■ Magento ■ DemandWare ■ GSI ■ Media adaptation and transcoding ■ Digital Stratagy, Social, Web 2.0 ■ SOA ■ SaaS ■ GUI ■ J2EE ■ AJAX ■ SOAP ■ REST

■ JSON ■ XML ■ Voice over IP (VoIP) ■ Video over IP ■ Video Conferencing ■ SIP ■ FFMPEG ■ HTTP progressive download

■ RTMP ■ FLV/Flash ■ H.263/H.264 ■ MPEG4 ■ 3G324M ■ SDP ■ H.323 ■ MSML ■ MSCML ■ IETF ■ 3GPP ■ Media Server ■ MediaCtrl ■ MS SQL ■ XML ■ SDLC ■ Agile ■ Scrum ■ RAD ■ RUP ■ UML ■ Streaming Video ■ RTSP ■ Darwin ■ JBoss ■ Tomcat ■ GlassFish ■ WebLogic ■ Sailfin ■ NetBeans ■ Media Player API ■ VideoLan VLC ■ Visual Studio ■ C,C++,C# ■ .NET ■ ASP ■ Java ■ JavaScript ■ CORBA ■ Orbix ■ Distributed Object Development ■ COM ■ OOD ■ OMG ■ Telephony ■ ISDN ■ BRI ■ PRI ■ Dialogic ■ Q.931 ■ Linux ■ Windows ■ MFC ■ IP Networking ■ TCP/IP Sockets ■ TAPI ■ SQL Server

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710 Spring Forest Dr. ■ Lawrenceville, GA 30043 ■ T: 770-***-**** / C: 678-***-**** ■ ******@*****.*** Professional Experience Details

Chief Technology Officer & EVP

PureRED – Stone Mountain, GA

May 2012 – Present

VP of Software Development

GA Communications – Stone Mountain, GA

May 2010 – May 2012

Staff size is 75+ FTEs nationwide spanning 8 PureRED facilities. Additional staff includes outsourced resources in Belarus and Romania. The CTO is the senior technology, product development, strategy, and operations executive of PureRED reporting to the CEO. Member of the Senior Executive Leadership team and responsible to the Board of Directors. C-Level relationship builder with both customers and vendors. Major customers include Lowes, Michaels, Sears, Walgreens, Bed Bath Beyond, Safeway, and Dollar General. Responsible for the vision, roadmap, architecture, management, operations, budgeting, and P&L of four(4) software development, digital, and technology organizations.

- Software and Product Development & Management, Digital, Web Design, eCommerce, SEO, & Analytics

- Corporate Integrated Strategy

- Corporate Information Technology

- Software Technology Services

Technical Summary

Responsible for the vision, roadmap, architecture, and development & rollout of the following products & services. PRIME (PureRED Integrated Media Engine) – Open standards based SaaS web services framework providing product data feeds for large retail organizations delivering real-time store specific product data to the consumer’s mobile device as well as the retailer’s website. Data is delivered via the Open Data Protocol (OData) and is formatted in XML, Atom, or JSON. Designed with fault tolerance in a load balancing co-location configuration. Ad Portal – A customer (Michaels) specific ad planning and digital asset management platform providing ad creation, workflow, proofing, and photography asset management and approval functionality. Serving over 500 users, both customers and vendors, Ad Portal is comprised of 3 distinct web user experiences serviced by a common core SQL Server database and backend framework.

Retailer web user interface design, development, and 24/7 management – Led the team that architected, designed, developed, and continuously maintains the public facing websites for numerous major big box retailers such as Safeway & Dollar General. eCommerce website integration with Magento utilizing First Data / Payeezy payment processing. Accomplishments

Joined PureRED in May of 2010 to rebuild, energize, and focus the existing product development organization and build a new software development organization from a staffing, vision, and execution perspective. Responsible for the software development, web services, design, and hosting organizations as well as the software services organization. Reorganized the existing staff to better define roles and responsibilities as well as clarify the accountability of each organizational leader. Re- engineered the work flow and software development practices, streamlining existing processes and introducing new agile processes & technologies to make the organization more reliable, efficient, accountable, and profitable. Recruited new high energy talent to fill existing roles as well as roles for future growth ensuring the new talent was a fit for the organization from a personality and goal perspective. Transformed the historical “loss leader” organization into a profit center in less than 6 months.

Responsible for the corporate Software Services organization at all eight(8) locations nationwide. The staff includes directors, project managers, developers, DBAs, and technicians.

Responsible for the PureRED corporate Information Technology organization. This responsibility is companywide encompassing the corporate headquarters in Atlanta as well as seven(7) remote locations nationwide. The staff includes VPs, directors, managers, team leads, DBAs, and technicians, both locally and remote at the various nationwide facilities.

Successfully reorganized/restructured technical staff, modifying product/customer focus based on profitability

Increased year over year revenue by double digit % over a 5-year period.

Responsible for the successful start-up of the PureRED Digital business unit. This Digital organization consists of web services, software development and hosting, digital content development, digital content management, creative & design, outsourcing, e-commerce/payment processing solutions, advertising solutions development, social media community management, email marketing, mobile website development, interactive strategy, and information architecture.

Successfully managed the build-out of a new 8000 sq. ft. state of the art facility for the Digital organization.

Responsible for the successful overhaul of the software development organization.

Participated in the successful private equity buyout of the existing ESOP company. Steve Buko, Professional Experience, continued...

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CTO Office - Director & Chief Architect

Intel Corporation – Parsippany, NJ

Jan 1999 – May 2010

Technical Summary

As a director and architect in the Intel (Dialogic business unit) CTO office, was responsible for the vision, roadmap, architecture, and host & embedded development & rollout of the following products & services. ICCP (Intel Converged Communication Platform) – Embedded (headless) communications platform providing standard office voice communications as well as conferencing and voicemail. Intel IETF representative and mediactrl working group member defining the new media control protocol. Dialogic Global Call API – Architected and developed the Global Call media control module using cross platform coding standards to support both Windows and Linux. The application facing interface was a REST interface. Underlying logic was object oriented written in C++.

Designed and developed a media control enabled enterprise audio/video conferencing platform written in Java (NetBeans IDE) utilizing the Global Call media control module.

Accomplishments

Telecommunications Service Provider – Audio/Video Conferencing Software Product Development & R&D

Embedded Software & New Product Innovation, Development Mobile Multimedia Streaming

Dialogic Research business unit

Selected Highlights

Direct, indirect, fulltime, contractor, and offshore staff management

Responsible for various matrixed teams for development, R&D, and prototyping efforts for 11+ years

Member of the CTO Office

IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) working group member – mediactrl working group

Official Intel IETF representative

Offshore staff management (New Zealand)

Investigate new technologies and standards and incorporated into upcoming products.

Web 2.0 technical strategy ownership - audio/video conferencing

New market customer relationship, business development, and strategic alignment

Provide executive technical leadership

Strategic planning and execution

Competitive Analysis

Build versus buy decision making

Coordinate efforts of multi-disciplined team members in a matrix environment.

Evaluate and track new technologies and techniques pertaining to the systems development environment

Identify areas where existing policies and procedures require change

Led SIP compliance efforts for the Dialogic global call interface,

Devised and executed a cross platform compliant development plan that consisted of a single source base supporting Windows and Linux operating systems to reduce cost of maintenance and decreased time to market for future updates.

Analyze customer needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.

Strategic customer relationship and support management

Designed and managed the development of the Intel Converged Communications Platform (ICCP).

Manage remote engineering staff and related projects in a matrix environment.

2005 Intel Quality Award Recipient

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Director of Software Engineering

Melita International - Norcross, GA

Jun 1996 – Jan 1999

Technical Summary

Telecommunications Hardware & Software Product Development Ran a 25 person software development and quality assurance team. Redesigned the old call center predictive dialing, IVR system from the top down. Introduced new hardware as well as a fully redesigned software module approach utilizing CORBA for inter-module communications. Software development encompassed both host and embedded development. Selected Highlights

Direct, indirect, fulltime, and contractor staff management

Responsible for new product R&D, maintenance, installation and customer support, and development labs

Provide management direction for the application programming group including setting priorities, coordinating and reporting of the group activities

Manage the daily activities of the members of the application programming group

Managed customer support for product and/or services for key “high value” customers.

Provide senior technical leadership

Works closely with other groups to coordinate plans and activities of development

Review the status of all development projects with the VP of engineering

Identified areas where existing policies and procedures require change

Keep abreast of new technologies and techniques pertaining to the systems development environment

Develop from conception to implementation new software and hardware platforms that replaced the current legacy product, resulting in increased efficiencies, cost savings, and customer satisfaction.

Lead a team to implement a telephony platform for the company’s enterprise call center offering.

Conferred with engineering staff to consult on specifications related to the interface between hardware and software, identifying and resolving operational and performance requirements of overall system before product introduction.

Worked closely with product management and account teams to identify and resolve critical product quality issues, maximizing resources to stabilize software products and enhance product delivery.

Researched and prototyped new hardware and software technologies to replace the company’s legacy telephony solution offering with a standard based, cutting edge solution.

Managed a software development team to design the company’s Universal Telephony Platform (UTP), an industrial strength Intel based PC platform.

Implemented a distributed application utilizing the Orbix implementation of CORBA, completing the project within established timelines and budgets.

Additional Work History

Digital Communications Associates 1992 – 1996

Entergy Corporation 1989 – 1992

Texas Utilities 1985 – 1989

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

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