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SUMMARY

Technology Director with experience assembling effective development teams, technology management, business development and expert knowledge of information technologies, web application development, and digital marketing for Fortune 500 companies to startups. Focused on operations, product and developmental methodologies, digital marketing strategies, infrastructure architecture, and future technology direction.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Director of Technology, Ford Social 07/2010–Present
Team Detroit – Dearborn, MI

• Development of strategies to compete in the interactive space by leveraging Ford’s core strengths. Integrate measurement and analysis, content distribution, and social media principals into Ford’s website offerings.
• Build and manage a team of interactive, design, and user-experience specialists.
• Develop complex web applications using PHP, CSS, AJAX, JavaScript, jQuery and MySQL including integration of social platform API’s such as Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and twitter.

Ford Build Manager 01/2010–07/2010
Team Detroit – Dearborn, MI

• Overhauled the existing build process by spearheading the creation and development of the Build Master App, a software application implemented for all internal and external developers that greatly increased efficiency and development productivity company-wide.
  
• Responsible for implementation and maintenance of internal continuous integration server to facilitate Ford builds using Java, FreeMarker, Hudson/Jenkins, and Apache ANT.
  
• Manage patches and build updates to the Ford and Lincoln web applications requiring merging of assets from internal developers and external third party entities from individual SVN branches and repositories into various development, QA, & trunk environments.
  

Director, Information Technology 03/2008–11/2009
CJPS Enterprises – Troy, MI

• Identify demographics and target audiences, monitor, evaluate, and implement online marketing strategies including pay-per-click campaign set-up and maintenance, ROI/conversion rate improvement, click fraud analysis, organic search engine optimization, and website analytics.
  
• Manage our internal & external IT staff responsible for technical and web application needs of each of our clients and as well as our proprietary intellectual property portal.
  
• Manage product selection, purchasing, implementation, network management, security, hardware/software maintenance, and disaster recovery.

Senior Web Developer & SEO Specialist 10/2007–03/2008
Pushtwentytwo – Pontiac, MI

• Coordinate the creative design needs and web development aspects of web-based applications and evangelize the importance of SEO while educating other developers within the organization on the techniques and strategies involved.
• Develop site architectures, wireframes, database designs, websites, and web applications using LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), ColdFusion, CSS, and JavaScript.

User Interface Developer 05/2007 – 10/2007
Evosyst Web Solutions – Shelby Township, MI

• Developed web applications and software modules using ASP.NET/MSSQL, Ruby/Rails or PHP/MySQL codebases with CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, C#, and C++.
• Designed user interfaces and then developed corresponding site architectures, navigation schemes, and HTML prototypes.

Information Architect 10/2006 – 05/2007
DTE Energy Company – Detroit, MI

• Worked and collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to ensure user-centered design, usability methodology, and effective ethnographic research and analysis.
• Prototyped user interfaces and navigational structures for the information architecture team using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Senior Web Application Developer 02/2006 – 10/2006
Trademark Productions – Royal Oak, MI

• Developed web applications using XHTML, PHP, CSS, AJAX, JavaScript, and XML while interfacing with MySQL databases in Linux environments.
• Created and implemented web application development standards such as various frameworks, design patterns, version control, language selection.

TECHNOLOGIES

• PHP
• HTML5
• MySQL / SQLite / MSSQL
• CSS3
• JavaScript / jQuery
• AJAX
• Facebook API
• Java (EE/ SE)
• ASP.NET
• Visual Basic .NET
• VB Script
• Ruby on Rails
• ColdFusion
• C# / C++
• XML
• CVS, SVN & GIT
• Cross Browser / Platform Development
• Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, etc.)
• 3Ds Max
• MS Access
• MS Office
• Bentley Systems MicroStation
• CATIA V5

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

• Bachelors of Computer Engineering
  University of Michigan, currently pursuing
  
  
• Bachelors of Electrical Engineering
  University of Michigan
  
  
• Associates of Science & Mathematics
  Macomb Community College
  

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