Clayton T. Brown

Winston-Salem, NC – ***** – 336-***-**** – aczv2o@r.postjobfree.com

www.linkedin.com/in/clayton-brown-988b8a28

Vice President of Product Technology

Leader with strong technical foundation, business acumen, disciplined approach

and demonstrated success mentoring teams to meet – and exceed – corporate goals

Executive Leadership

Software Engineering Offshore Development

Agile/Waterfall Methodologies

Technical Troubleshooting

Technical Writing

Project Management

Quality Assurance

Systems Analysis

Product Lifecycle Process

Cross-Team Collaboration

Hands-on technical leader with proven track record delivering top quality software in short iterations. Extensive experience developing, deploying and evaluating systems aimed at improving quality and efficiency. Excellent design skills, and proven ability to develop state-of-the-art solutions for complex and ambiguous problems.

Collaborate closely with internal and external stakeholders, clearly communicate project vision to designers and engineers, delineating teams’ objectives, ownership, roles, and commitment. Take product from concept to market, execute consistently, rapidly, and efficiently to meet strategic goals.

Credited with implementing mission critical applications used in B2B and B2C Web Commerce, Mobile, Retail Deal Management, Retail Supply Chain Analysis, Retail Sales Analysis, Payroll, Employee Benefits, Manufacturing, Banking, Healthcare, and Finance.

Benchmarks & Milestones

Realigned and reengineered Hatch’s technology and product line investment strategy resulting in increased product line profitability of 12%.

Received eight outstanding innovation awards, one Business Valor award and one Outstanding Attitude award from executive management and co-workers.

Responsible for development and deployment of large enterprise application used by Regions Bank to record and process back-office transactions resulting in greater compliance and elimination of costly delays.

Collaborated with third party vendors to develop new tools, or enhance existing ones, including: Server Logic PB2000, Great Plain MAS90 Accounting software; and XMLPDF.

Programmed and implemented inventory control system for Clay Hill Knits, resulting in company being able to reclaim $400,000+ due to inaccurate inventory and invoicing from outside contractors.

Career Progression

HATCH Winston-Salem, NC 2013-Present

Educational Technology Company whose mission is to assist children with the acquisition of essential skills needed for success in school and beyond.

Executive Vice President, Product Technology

Principal strategist and visionary for company’s product technology which accounts for 85% of annual revenue. Lead all aspects of technical development, provide leadership to and manage corporate operational activities. Member of Executive Management team, overseeing and influencing strategic direction of company.

Client Management: Manage product quality and customer technical support. Implemented emerging technology to save on time to market and development cost. Developed and managed relationships with Apple, Google and Microsoft to deliver proprietary mobile and cloud based solutions for Government funded Head Start schools and private education organizations.

Budget Management: Reduced costs by working with Android and Intel to better align hardware options with software solutions.

Director, Product Technology and Operations

Established company’s product technology vision, lead aspects of development, provide leadership to and manage corporate operational activities, including purchasing, distribution and customer fulfillment. Member of Executive Management team, overseeing and influencing strategic direction of company.

Operations Management: Managed operational activities, including logistics, purchasing, distribution and customer fulfillment.

Project Management: Ensure product technology strategies meet financial and operating objectives of corporation.

INMAR Winston-Salem, NC 2001-2013

Develops technology and uses advanced data analytics to make commerce work smarter, operating intelligent commerce networks that improve the quality, efficiency and collaboration among retailers, manufacturers and other trading partners.

Senior Software Engineer, IT Consulting Services, Management

Responsible for full life-cycle development of Enterprise level mobile and web applications. Led large internal and offshore technical teams with 40+ team members and 12+ direct reports to implement wide variety of mission critical web and

e-Commerce solutions used in B2B and B2C. Served as company liaison to Microsoft to maintain Gold Partner Certification status.

Project Management: Responsible for full life-cycle development of numerous applications in Retail Deal Management, Payroll, Benefits, Manufacturing, Banking, Healthcare, and Finance industries with budgets per project in excess of $5 million. Responsible for project estimation, proposal writing and delivery, business analysis, project planning, resource planning, requirements gathering, application security, design, construction, testing, documentation, transition, maintenance, and all other aspects of technical delivery.

Cross-Functional Management: Worked with Sales to deliver proposals and budget estimates for proposed projects or enhancements for new and existing client projects. Responsible for evaluating and implementing new technology and third party tools.

Additional Professional Experience includes Aon Consulting, Guilford Mills, Inc., Regions Bank, Associated

Grocers of the South and Clay Hill Knits, LLC.

Technology Proficiencies

Protocols/Services:

HTTP, HTTPS, SSL, RSA, Email Services, Text Services, Active Directory Services, Team Foundation Services, Git, Subversion, Microsoft Gold Partner Services, RESTFul and Web API Services

Operating Systems / Development Software:

Windows, Android, IOS and Linux, SQL, MVC, JSON, CURL, ASP Forms, HTML, DHTML and XHTML, CSS, Jquery, Cassette and .Less, VBScript, JavaScript, JavaScript Libraries, XML, XSL and XSLT, Visual Studio (ASP.NET, VB.NET, Mobile, COM+, C#, InterDev, VB, ActiveX and COM/DCOM), Microsoft Enterprise Libraries Exception Management and Data Access, JSON

Database Technologies:

Microsoft SQL Server with Reporting Services, Big Data, No SQL, Analytic Services, Data Cubes, Sybase SQL Server, Sybase SQL Anywhere, DB2 (Mainframe and iSeries versions), Oracle (writing Stored Procedures and Packages), SQLLite, MySQL and MariaDB.

Market Technologies:

Ecommerce, credit cards processing, Marketo, Apple App Store, Google Play, and Microsoft Store

Packaged Solutions:

Microsoft Office, Visio, ADP, MAS, Rational Rose, SalesLogix, Jira, Microsoft Project, SAP, Halogen, Concur, Peacon, ADP, and Microsoft Team Foundation Server, HipChat, Slack, HockeyApp, Test Flight

ISO/OSI layers, Ethernet, LLC(802.2), T1/T3, FDDI, ATM, ISDN, Frame Relay, X.25, SONET, SNA SDLC, IPSEC, TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, OSPF, PPP, HTTP, TACACS, CHAP, PAP, Cable DOCIS.

Education Certifications Awards

Education

HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY, High Point, NC Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Technology, 2000

Certifications

Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer Microsoft Certified Database Administrator

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist Microsoft Certified Professional Developer Java XML Certification HIPPA Certified Instructor SCRUM Manager Certification

Awards

8-Time Winner of Outstanding Innovation Awards Business Valor Awards Outstanding Attitude Awards

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