Engineer Manager, Developer, Systems Engineer, CTO, VP of Engineering

Mark A. Labbe Mobile: 203-***-****

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SUMMARY

Hands-on technology executive with background in development, systems engineering, project management and product management. Manager, developer and systems engineer with experience managing diverse technology portfolios. Managed both small and large engineering teams, including international teams. Experience in online publishing, e-commerce, consumer goods, ad-tech and high-performance computing.

EMPLOYMENT

KARATE COMBAT (JUNE 2018-Present)

International full contact karate league.

Chief Technology Officer

Supporting website with heavy focus on video content

Development of real time data server

Show technology management

Node.js development

React development

Back office support

TRUOPTIK (OCTOBER 2015-JUNE 2018)

Ad-tech/analytics start-up focused on monetizing audience and consumer data.

VP of Engineering (Jan 2018-Jun 2018)

Product definition and documentation

Manage Product Pipeline

Manage Company Roadmap

Manage Tech Documentation

Project Management

Manage engineering staff

All other related VP of API Development responsibilities(below)

VP of API Development (Oct 2015 – Jan 2018)

Project/scrum management

Facilitate communication between tech and non-tech

Spearhead documentation efforts

oSpecification development

oCode documentation

oProduct documentation

oDevelopment of tech/product roadmap

Lead effort to apply rigorous testing to all systems/code (TDD)

Design and develop management and monitoring tools

DMP backend development

API development

oAPI supports DMP, RTB, and Ad server

Ad server development

RTB development

oMostly building tools to support primary developer

NLP applied to categorization of unstructured data

oLarge scale categorization of torrent data

oApplication of Elastic Search to catch misses

oWeb front end for workflow management

LOCAL YOKEL MEDIA(Acquired by PubSquared 2014) (2012-2015)

Ad tech start-up focused on hyper-local online advertising.

CTO

Management of all technology efforts and shared responsibility for determining product features

Ad server development

oUsing AWS with Route 53 for east-west load balancing

API development supporting ad server and reporting tools

Migrated legacy ad server and supporting interfaces to use new front end and new ad server

Managed remote/off-shore development resources

Wrote traffic analysis/forecasting programs to better understand and manage inventory

Redesigned databases and deployed using Amazon RDS

Wrote programs to crawl publisher sites (clients and prospects) to determine their covered geographies and subject matter

Reported to board of directors every quarter

PHOTOBYTE (2011-2014)

B2B and B2C online stock imagery licensing and photography business management solutions.

Co-founder

Defined and documenting e-commerce site platform requirements.

Responsible for e-commerce systems project management.

Developing systems using PHP, Perl, Solr, and MongoDB.

Developing meta-data analysis software in Perl to help categorize images.

Developing clustering software in Perl.

Developing website using PHP and Code Igniter.

Seeking venture capital and responding to due diligence requests

MYPUBLISHER INC. (2008-2011)

B2C maker of proprietary software that allows users to create and purchase photo books, cards, and calendars.

CTO

Led IT department of 20 full time and contract staff in multiple locations, setting strategic and tactical goals to support consumer-oriented photo book publishing on manufacturing business.

Responsible for project management of software and infrastructure resources and initiatives.

Responsible for budgeting and planning for all IT activities.

Made key management hires to solidify IT department.

Responsible for managing relationship with contractors developing multiple major releases of the MyPublisher Bookmaker client on Mac and PC.

JUPITERMEDIA CORPORATION (1998-2008)

B2B and B2C online media business with publishing, research, and stock imagery divisions.

Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

2006 - 2008

Led IT department of over 100 people in 12 offices in North America and Europe for a public images, internet and events company, setting technology direction and strategic goals for IT as well as establishing operational guidelines for the different IT groups.

Member of executive team, responsible for participating in all strategic initiatives.

Responsible for project management, product development, acquisitions, staffing, budgeting, and business processes.

Built offshore teams to augment existing development teams. Teams were located in Hungary, France, Belarus and India.

Lead effort to consolidate multiple financial systems to Oracle Financials. Restructured financials tech team and brought in consultants and new staff to help with design and execution of new Oracle Financials implementation.

Managed a portfolio of 150+ web sites/e-commerce sites across multiple hosting facilities in the United States and Europe on a wide variety of platforms including .NET, Java, Perl, PHP, and Cold Fusion.

Involved in all phases of acquisitions and divestitures for all divisions. Extensive experience performing due diligence and developing integration plans for both staff and technology.

Restructured IT to meet the demands of a rapidly growing organization with a large amount of legacy systems while building out new systems and platforms.

Proposed search upgrades to the business units, evaluated solutions and then managed search engine replacements for both images and online media divisions.

Developed and enforced Sarbanes-Oxley compliance procedures.

Vice President, Development

2003 – 2006

Responsible for development for online media, events and images divisions, managing over 150 different websites and systems on over 40 platforms with a team of 40+ developers working on a variety of platforms including .NET, Java, Perl, PHP and Cold Fusion.

Restructured development teams and developed a staffing plan to allow for growth and better legacy support in all divisions.

Project managed numerous major development projects. Worked with business to improve project methodologies.

Managed customization of existing platforms to accommodate new product lines in effort to provide continual improvement for both Online Media and Images platforms.

Director of Development

2002 – 2003

Responsible for all development for online media and events divisions, managing a team of 12+ developers.

Responsible for all project management for multiple simultaneous running projects as well as legacy support of existing systems.

Development Manager

1999 – 2002

Managed team of twelve developers working on Vignette Story Server platform, building a variety of web sites.

Senior Systems Engineer

1998 – 1999

Responsible for systems administration for the internet.com network of websites.

EDUCATION

B.S. in Physics and Philosophy, Florida State University

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