Summary

I have over 15 years' experience delivering exceptional IT projects for a wide range of companies, including CreditSights, Shell, BearingPoint, AMP, International Creative Management, VeriSign, stuff.co.nz, Telecom and Bank of New Zealand. I also work on personal projects to keep my skills sharp, such as FavorEtsy.

Experience - Current Position

CreditSights (New York, NY)

Chief Technology Officer, August 2005 - Present

CreditSights is a leader in worldwide independent bond research. It has offices in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Singapore, and London, and small home offices around the US and New Zealand. As Chief Technology Officer I am responsible for the general IT direction of CreditSights as well as overseeing its maintenance and implementation. I still take an active role in development, since an important part of my role is staying in touch with the latest technologies.

• Lead an international team of web developers, database administrators, systems administrators, and external consultants
• Managed the implementation and continual improvement of CreditSights' content management system and quantitative analysis toolsets
• Oversaw the implementation of several extremely successful Business Intelligence / Data Warehouse projects (SQL Server / Qlikview)
• Advocated the use of Agile development processes to ensure that business owners were actively engaged in the product development lifecycle
• Primary Technologies: C#, ASP.Net, MVC, Razor, SQL Server, SSIS/ETL, Qlikview, Team Foundation Server, Topic Maps/TMCore, JavaScript/jQuery, AJAX, CSS, HTML5 and XML
• Managed multiple simultaneous work-streams, including Web Development (C#, ASP.Net, MVC, jQuery), Financial Model Development (C#, SQL Server), Systems Administration and Internal Systems
• Provided guidance and mentoring for project managers, systems administrators, and developers
• Transitioned the companies content management system to a new meta data system to enable a multi-faceted search engine using NetworkedPlanet's TMCore
• Guided the business through an Exchange Store Corruption and Server Room Air Conditioning failure, ensuring rapid restoration of normal business acitivity
• Oversaw the installation and moves of several overseas offices
• Managed the department budget of several million dollars
• Performed Technical Reviews of Senior and Junior developers' code
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Experience - Previous Positions

CreditSights (New York, NY)

Technical Architect, June 2004 - August 2005

When I joined CreditSights in June 2004 as a consultant, I focused on improving the development infrastructure and standards at the company. I was actively involved in several key projects that helped drive the successful doubling of the company's revenues since I joined.

• Established the Developer Infrastructure at CreditSights, including source control, bug tracking, continuous builds, code reviews, and coding standards
• Create a user identification service that allowed Sales People to identify people sharing accounts, leading to significant increase in new business with existing customers
• Implemented several major changes to the CreditSights website, including the implementation of a new Auditing infrastructure
• Primary Technologies: C#, ASP.Net, SQL Server, Qlikview, Vault, FogBugz, Nant, Microsoft CMS, JavaScript, AJAX, CSS, HTML and XML/XSLT
• Enabled Sales People to effectively track how customers were using the site via a Business Intelligence product (Qlikview)
• Managed the transition from ACT to Sage SalesLogix (Customer Relationship Management)
• Oversaw the outsourcing of a new accounting system, MAS 500
• Streamlined several internal business processes, reducing embarrassing manual errors significantly
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BearingPoint / KPMG Consulting (International)

Internet Developer, February 2002 - June 2004

During my time at BearingPoint, my expertise in several emerging technologies leaded to me working on a variety of projects in New York, London, Sydney and Wellington.

• Lead JavaScript UI development on a calendar system for International Creative Management using Microsoft XMLHTTP objects, data islands and client side XSLT (precursor to AJAX)
• Implemented a usage meter of bandwidth usage for Telecom Jetsteam customers in JSP
• Worked as part of a team on transitioning VeriSign from a Cobol billing system to a J2EE solution
• Primary Technologies: Java, J2EE, JSP, ASP, SQL Server, Oracle, JavaScript, CSS, HTML and XML/XSLT
• Implemented a J2EE Customer Management System for International Creative Management
• Worked on a team to deliver a ASP based global intranet for AMP
• Provided development support and maintenance for Telecom's J2EE based Intranet
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The Web Limited (Wellington, NZ)

Internet Developer, December 1999 - February 2002

• Created an extranet for Telecom International written in Perl/CGI
• Lead the development team on a major rebranding of Telecom's Vignette/Java Content Management System and website
• Supported stuff.co.nz's Vignette/TCL Content Management System and website
• Add dynamic functionality to the Bank of New Zealand's online banking website
• Primary Technologies: Java, Perl, TCL, Vignette, Oracle, JavaScript and HTML
• Developed Telecom's secure customer form system, with client side JavaScript validation / dynamic html
• Wrote a simplified document management system for Telecom International in Perl
• Managed Several IIS and Apache webservers for The Web's hosted customers
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Helios Communications (Wellington, NZ)

Internet Developer, September 1998 - November 1999

• Developed a Perl online loan application which had a large amount of client validation and display logic (JavaScript)
• Maintained and Improved an existing Java Applet currency exchange calculator / graphing tool
• Maintained and Supported the internal servers at Helios (Exchange, IIS and VPN server)

Shell (Wellington, NZ)

Intranet Developer, October 1997 - March 1998

• Migrated existing word forms on to the Intranet, using JavaScript and HTML
• Automated Word document conversion with HTML Transit

Education

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

• 2000 - Bachelor of Science, majoring in Computer Science
• 2000 - Bachelor of Commerce and Administration, majoring in Information Systems and Management
• GPA: 3.8

Panels

I have presented at several user groups and been a part of several panels, including:

• Infinity Information SalesLogix / Qlikview Client Panel, New York, NY
• Executive Briefing Series - Business Intelligence Panel, New York, NY
• Perl Mongers, Wellington, NZ

Current Projects

• FavorEtsy - An Etsy Voting application, written in C# MVC3, utilizing LINQ, jQuery and SQL Server
• An iPhone / Android application to sign photos and other documents