Brandon G. Pav

**** ********* **, ************, ** 46106 • 727-***-****

adycb6@r.postjobfree.com • www.linkedin.com/in/brandonpav/

Chief Information Officer – Chief Technology Officer

Executive Vice President Engineering

Technology Strategy Alignment Innovation Startups Turnarounds Programs Teams

Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Product, expert in eCommerce-focused solutions, scalable architecture, and cloud platforms. Entrepreneur who brings emerging technologies to new markets, manager who drives efficiencies and productivity, strategist who aligns business with market, boosts productivity, and optimizes ROI.

Technology SME with progressive experience as software engineer, technology lead, director of development, VP of Product, CTO, and equity holder at large and small firms. Headed POS, inventory management, EdTech, and legal solutions, and SaaS eCommerce and platform development for financial, pharmaceutical, medical device, logistics, and insurance fields.

Technology advisor to board and executive team. Defines strategy, leads execution, trains teams. Understands technology market sectors, vendor selection, and SDLC CI/CD processes. Turns around operations and teams to slash expenses while gaining world-class performance. Consistently delivers major programs on schedule and within budget.

Technology Leadership Contributions

Reduced hosting costs 92% and improved system stability to support 3X traffic at scale, cutting SLA interruptions from >46 to 2 per year, and driving 10% growth in SaaS renewal ratio, transforming company from loss to 20% YOY profit.

Ecommerce guru having architected dozens of start-up payment integrations and hundreds of web applications, wizards, workflows, and multi-tenant portals, including the latest at Swagify.com, boxes.swagify.com, stickstuff.com, print-on-demand.swagify.com and backend eCommerce Apps with Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Wix, Tiktok Shops to publish web-to-print items using ReactJS, PHP, and MySQL on Linux/Apache systems.

Restructured offshore hiring and resource management for software consulting firm to simplify cross-team coordination and streamline cross-functional projects; created new digital marketing department for cross-selling opportunities.

Created Google API-driven GPS tracking web app, first of kind, to track delivery of new trucks; system still used by auto industry today.

Transformed mismanaged development operation in 6 months, evangelized and implemented Agile Scrum methodology to gain 40% productivity with same budget, and created new, e-commerce-integrated POS solution.

Areas of Expertise

IT Governance • Technology Strategy • Technology/Business Alignment • Technology Evaluation • Startups • Turnarounds

Project Management • Process Improvement • Agile/Scrum Resource Optimization • Project Delivery/Budget Metrics

Vendor Management • Negotiations • Team Building • Recruiting & Training • Resource Optimization • Data Modeling

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Portfolio Vice President of Product and Technology 9/2017 – Present

Dyknow/Securly Indianapolis, IN

Concurrent product development executive role with growing EdTech eCommerce SaaS cloud-based, remote classroom management technology. Focus on turning around product quality and development team to reverse ongoing losses.

Led team in identifying 25 areas of SaaS product improvement, and reduced hosting costs by 92% while stabilizing system to handle 3X traffic, slashing downtime from 45 to 2/year, and boosting usage 250% and renewal rate by 10%.

Drove elimination of $500K/year in losses and achievement of profitability, with margin continuing to grow.

Resolved over 100 cloud-based installer problems, simplified data importing, extensive data migration between schools and Dyknow FTP/direct API systems and implemented system health check for users to cut inbound support volume for student monitoring by 72%.

RICS Software Indianapolis, IN

Recruited by rapidly growing, $6M developer of cloud-based POS/eCommerce and inventory management solutions to restructure product development function and team. Led transition to 100% virtual operations after COVID pandemic.

Boosted team productivity by 40% while maintaining budget, converted SDLC organization to Agile Scrum to increase throughput and transparency, and turn around failing deliveries and quality.

Led reorganized team in developing innovative new e-commerce product now used by major online run specialty retailers, including Fleet Feet and Sheikh Shoes to integrate with Shopify, Amazon BigCommerce, and WooCommerce.

Slashed ~$40K/month hosting costs 45% by building new data management and API platform, with further savings forecasted after full depreciation of legacy system.

Directed data migration between legacy systems, documentation, and cybersecurity due diligence preparing company for potential future merger or acquisition.

Portfolio Chief Technology Officer 12/2021 – 03/2023 (per diem)

Scalablebrands/Swagify.com Houston, TX

Recruited as CEO of Swagify.com and CTO of Scalablebrands start-up portfolio to build next generation web-to-print software published to multiple eCommerce channels:

Managed offshore vendors to build 5 applications in under a year at a fraction of the cost and produced approximately 12 deployments PER DAY

Established Agile and CI/CD processes to automate and minimize human error to simplify release channels

Reduced the hosting cost by 94.5% and rebuilt infrastructure to scale multiple web applications for high traffic volume, order processing via API, and searchability.

Built and got Approved 5 eCommerce applications where custom designs could be published and orders received for drop-ship fulfillment: Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Wix, Tiktok Shops

Built a custom design tool for making web-to-print custom apparel for reselling and printing (DTG, Sublimation, UV, Embroidery, and more)

Chief Technology Officer 11/2015 – 06/2021 (per diem)

CloudLaw Traverse City, MI

Recruited by PE/VC-funded legal services search engine eCommerce startup to turn around quality and delivery; promoted to CTO in 4 months. Concurrent role heading product strategy, development, and enterprise IT operations with 12 on-/offshore resources.

Rationalized resource requirements to cut hosting costs 20% while reducing labor costs with new offshore vendor.

Standardized state bar association onboarding procedures to enable easier state additions 4x faster; quickly added Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Georgia bar associations; received praise from Illinois for ease of process.

Evangelized and implemented a scaled-down version of Agile Scrum development methodology and created cost-effective tooling using JIRA and its Kanban features to standardize quality assurance, user acceptance testing, and production smoke testing.

Chief Information Officer, Advisory Board Member 4/2016 - 3/2019

BTech Group Chicago, IL, Toronto, Canada, Islamabad, Pakistan

CIO and board advisor to digital marketing and web/eCommerce software development firm. Imposed standard procedures and quality checklists for offshore technical hires, directly affecting costs and profits of company and its 4 sister companies.

Transformed offshore organization, injected new hiring processes and standards, and pod coordination for 45+ employee office.

Consultant 5/2013 - 8/2017

ZS Associates, US Bank, Thatcher Technologies, KeHE Distributors, Navistar Chicago, IL

Led team turnarounds, product development, delivery release planning, Scrum implementation, quality assurance testing, and automation efforts for multiple eCommerce and enterprise companies.

Built the first “Express Funds” feature for US Bank's personal banking app enabling immediate funds receipt with temporary credit underwriting by Fidelity, working with Fiserv offshore teams.

Earlier Roles 8/2005 - 4/2013

Application Development Manager FreightCenter.com, Palm Harbor, FL. Reported to CIO. Led team in developing company eCommerce websites and applications on 8 external and local servers receiving Millions of views for SEO scalability.

IT Systems Manager, Mezrah Consulting, Tampa, FL. Reported to COO. Oversaw financial infrastructure and data management operations supporting COLI and BOLI and deferred comp policy growth plans.

Sr. Software Engineer/Architect, Tampa, FL. Reported to CTO. Client-facing role that designed, collected scope, engineered, coded, and released 45 eCommerce solutions for multi-level marketing start-ups from start to finish.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science (magna cum laude), University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, Graduated 5/2005

Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering (cum laude), University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, Graduated 12/2005

Microsoft Certified Professional

AREAS OF TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Industries: FinTech, EdTech, Logistics, MedTech/Pharma, MLM, POS/Inventory Management, Wholesale/Retailer, InsurTech

Verticals: Strong eCommerce prowess, dozens of Payment Systems (including PCI-DSS and SOC2 certification), SaaS, B2C, B2B

Cloud Systems: Both Azure and AWS cloud infrastructure management and DevOps

Microsoft Products: All, Microsoft Certified Professional supporting MS Silver and Gold Partner teams

Project Management Software: JIRA, Rally, GitHub, Zendesk, Microsoft Project, Visio

Design Software: Invision, Proto.IO, Adobe InDesign, WordPress, Wix

Languages: C#, VB.NET, C++, Python, Powershell, ReactJS, PHP, AngularJS, NodeJS, VueJS, SQL, REST & SOAP Webservices

Big Data Stacks and Solutions: Cosmos, Hadoop, Tableau, PowerBI

Sales Tools: Google Ad Words, SalesForce, Hotjar, Hootsuite, Drift

Form Factors: IOS, Android, UWP, Web Applications, WPF, WCF

Design Patterns: MVP, MV*, MVVM, MVC

Project Management Styles: Agile Scrum, Agile XP, Waterfall

BOARDS AND HONORS

Pavtek Consulting (Executive – Founder/CEO, formed technology consulting organization to support PE Firms and their start-ups scale) – ACTIVE since 04/2023

Center Grove Education Foundation (Executive Committee - Vice President raising $90k per year for teachers/students) – ACTIVE since 07/2021

BTech Group (Advisory Committee – CIO, reforming offshore hiring and digital marketing sales channel collab with engineering) – completed 3 year term

Phi Kappa Phi (top 10% of all college Seniors, National Academic Fraternity)

Tau Beta Pi invitation (top 20% -- Engineering Honors Society)

Outstanding Student Honor Society, 2003, Highest Honors

Honors College Graduate, University of South Florida, 05/05

Who’s Who among American High School Graduates

Solutions-focused technology leader and board advisor

transforming technology stack, products, and teams

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