343 W. 14th St, NY, NY 10014              http://www.linkedin.com/in/drewbollmann              drew@orangedevelopment.com

Professional Chief Technology Officer seeking executive-level technical positions within NYC.

CTO with 25 years enterprise engineering, 15 years executive-level IT management and enterprise architecture experience, with a proven track record of end-to-end delivery for consumer products (B&N’s Nook and Nook Color), technology services (consumer-facing APIs), E-Commerce websites (Chanel.com), and enterprise systems integration (Pifzer, Bloomberg, Wells Fargo).  Technology thought leader with broad platforms experience on Python, HTML5/Javascript, Java/JEE/Spring, Scala, Ruby, Microsoft .NET, Amazon EC2/S3/EMR, Apple iOS, Google Android, Hadoop/  MapReduce, Apache Flume, Pig, NoSQL (MongoDB), Erlang distributed systems, BlackBerry/BES, PHP/LAMP, Groovy, Grails, Rails, IBM WebSphere, Oracle WebLogic, Oracle SOA/BPM/Fusion, Adobe Flex and LiveCycle Services.  Build, mentor and manage cross-functional teams primarily for Fortune 100 - 500 firms within New York City.

Specialize in enterprise digital strategy, technical vision definition and execution through LEAN technical teams management, enterprise architecture and mapping of strategic business objectives to enterprise technology solutions.  Enterprise best practices include: application portfolio management, EAI, EDA, business process development, omni-channel CMS, E-Commerce, big data and machine learning, MDM, EC2 cloud, RESTful services and consumer-facing API development (BAPIs), SOA, web services, digital content, mobile, social and tablet.

Clients include: CHANEL, Barnes & Noble, Pfizer, Bloomberg, Wells Fargo, Credit Suisse, Hewlett Packard, Caremark, Cleary Gottlieb, ITG, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Princeton Review.

Orange Development (New York, NY)              Jan 1999 - present

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Orange Development is an NYC-based technology consultancy for E-Commerce, web, digital, mobile, social, cloud and big data.

As co-founder and CTO, responsible for defining technology strategy, establishing projects pipeline and recruiting top-notch software engineers, PMs, QA analysts, database engineers, big data and cloud specialists.  Successfully implement multi-million dollar enterprise projects within the retail/luxury brand, finance, technology, pharmaceutical, medical and entertainment industries.  Lead architecture, development and support initiatives for the following engagements:

CHANEL, Inc. (New York, NY)               Jan 2011 - present

Senior Technical Platforms Architect

Chanel is a global luxury brand leader in fashion, fragrances and fine jewelry with approximately $4 billion in revenue per year.  Chanel is privately held with approximately 3,000 employees worldwide.

Responsible for cross-functional teams management, development, implementation and support for Chanel.com's global E-Commerce and digital strategy.  Drive technical backbone behind digital marketing and advertising campaigns, E-Commerce and CMS integration, product inventory management (PIM) integration, syndication and web analytics for multi-channel (browser, tablet, mobile and social). 

§     Define and drive technical vision for US office to provide stable technical backbone to support pipeline of creative vendors

§     Teams management, architectural analysis and systems integration for global initiatives in eCommerce, mobility, CMS and web analytics

§     Manage 50+ technical project portfolio end-to-end (average size $50K - $2M), including creative and technical partner alignment, B2B integration, CDN integration, hardware procurement and setup, and application development activities

§     Establish partnerships with vendors, create delivery processes to guarantee on-time delivery, foster cohesion within distributed teams

§     Manage CMS migration to new vendor: CMS process analysis, planning, migration, support, create CMS Center of Excellence

§     Manage CRM implementation: ETL, customer record de-duplication, E-Commerce transactions analysis to deliver single Point of Truth

§     Develop and successfully implement iOS infrastructure for in-house iPad/iPhone apps, resulting in savings of approx. $500K/yr

§     Develop and successfully implement E-Commerce monitoring applications to ensure 365/24/7 E-Commerce stability

§     Manage implementation of email marketing and luxury-brand campaign tracking and 3rd-party analytics (MEC, DoubleClick)

§     Replace Flash-based assets with HTML5, Javascript and JQuery to provide iPad and iPhone-compatible web content

§     Work closely with DevOps team to transfer responsibilities as part of Global Support initiative

§     Establish SLAs, align technical and business processes, provide status to C-level executives and senior leadership team

§     Environment: iOS/iPad/iPhone, Objective-C, iPad native apps, APIs, MDM, MDM services, REST services, EC2, Hadoop/Pig, Akamai, CDN, Python, PHP/CodeIgniter, Java/Spring, JQuery, Facebook Graph API, social commerce, LAMP, Unix, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, .NET daemons, BlackBerry, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, memcached, Solr, Lucene, Apache/Tomcat, IIS, SVN, Mantis, JIRA, Agile/Kanban/LEAN

Barnes and Noble, Inc. (New York, NY)              Mar 2009 – Jan 2011

Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect

Barnes & Noble is the largest book retailer with 705 stores across the US, and 636 college bookstores, serving more than 4.6 million students and faculty members nationally.  B&N has approx. 40,000 employees and 7 billion in yearly revenue.

Responsible for systems engineering, product development, teams management and implementation of B&N's multi-million dollar NOOK and NOOK COLOR projects: digital content management, digital content ingestion, mobile device management, mobile device build out, mobile services, B2B integration with digital publishers.   As of 2012 estimates, there are 4.5 million Nook and NookColor devices in use.

§     Established B&N as an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) by connecting AT&T digital platform to, and creating, Nook cloud

§     Provided strategic direction, platforms architecture, services technical roadmap, digital solutions architecture and teams management

§     Created a device management platform capable of provisioning millions of devices within seconds to support consumer product launch

§     Managed vendor technical integrations, process alignment for Nook on AT&T Data Network (3G / WiFi at 88k hotspots, incl. Starbucks)

§     Managed engineering team providing E-Commerce digital content ingestion, transformation and integration

§     Trained engineers in RESTful services development, SOA principles and SOAP/RPC web services for Java & .NET

§     Developed and successfully implemented Nook's Cloud Services layer for digital content & device management across multiple channels

§     Developed scalable file-streaming solutions to serve millions of mobile customers efficiently and effectively

§     Authored stored procedures (Oracle, SQL Server), integrate DAL/service layers, database schema analysis and refactoring

§     Authored software planning artifacts (UML class diagrams, sequence diagrams and systems integration diagrams)

§     Authored performance testing plans, test cases and scripts, perform stress and endurance tests on LoadRunner

§     Environment: Amazon EC2, GlassFish, Apache/Tomcat, IIS, Android, iOS, C#, WCF, WPF, Java/Spring/Hibernate, Maven, Ant, JAX-WS, Axis2, Oracle, SQL Server, LoadRunner, GIT, SVN, IBM ClearCase/ClearQuest UCM, JIRA, Confluence, Google protobuf, GAE, Agile

Pfizer, Inc. (New York, NY)               Apr 2007 – Mar 2009

Chief Enterprise Solutions Architect

Pfizer is a global pharmaceutical company with approximately 105,000 employees in 200 offices worldwide.  Pfizer is the world's largest pharmaceutical company by revenue, with $67.5 billion yearly revenue.

As Chief Solutions Architect for a $4 million dollar multi-channel media platform build out for Pfizer, responsible for 25-person team implementation end-to-end including project global strategic direction, product development, technical stack definition and road map, on- and offshore teams management, and infrastructure build out

§     Provided global strategic direction and end-to-end implementation analysis, architecture, development, implementation and support

§     Content platform operated as peer-to-peer and included an offline mode with push-based transport using Microsoft Groove, and online support using a pull-based YouTube model.  Platform supplied on-demand, downloadable and RTSP streaming modes on a Cisco CDN.  The content delivery network was federated across three data centers worldwide with approximately 150 resource hubs.

§     Aligned architectural vision with operational strategies and IT roadmap.  Established consensus and overarching plan-of-delivery with cross-functional teams consisting of program managers, project managers, onsite and offshore engineering teams, system architects, app architects, line architects, business analysts, SMEs, project sponsors and C-level executives.  Led architectural deep-dives.  Evaluated and assigned workstream leads.

§     Established charter, vision & scope, project plan and architectural artifacts including architectural requirements, specifications (meta, conceptual, logical, physical and validation models), data models and schemas

§     Recruited on- and offshore development teams.  Set up dev environments, established best practices, implemented delivery strategy

§     Researched and evaluated content federation models within existing infrastructure: Cisco CDN, CDM and ACNS for content delivery network media federation.  Authored content delivery plan and tested delivery mechanisms

§     Evaluated several SOA/ESB and BPM stacks: Oracle BPEL, Oracle SOA Suite, IBM WebSphere (WAS, WPS), BEA's WebLogic/AquaLogic, WCF, OpenESB, JCAPS, SOA Software.  Compared implementation, development and maintenance: WSM and governance models

§     Involved in all aspects of SOA-based services implementation: requirements gathering, developing canonical form, schema validation, message transformation, endpoint deployment (virtual and physical), testing, governance and HA.  Created SoapUI-based test beds for services to regression test changes against schemas and underlying LOB app functionality

§     Integrated mobile platform with Identity & Access Management (I&AM) Single-SignOn (SSO) technology.  I&AM provided access to Active Directory groups through an LDAP proxy (direct access) and an Oblix webgate using Oracle Access Mgr

§     Analyzed existing infrastructure and integrated WAP platform with BES server farm.  Designed, delivered and tested on WinMobile app server farm.  Developed iPhone testbed using IPSec VPN over WiFi

§     Analyzed enterprise agreements for software licensing, drafted Software Procurement Plan, LoadRunner Performance Testing Plan.

§     Environment: Agile/Scrum, SVN, Confluence, JIRA, iOS/iPhone, BlackBerry BES, MDM, RTSP/streaming, progressive download, Akamai CDN, CDM, Cisco ACNS, media platform dev, SOA, ESB, WSM, atomic/composite services, Oracle OFM, Oracle SOA Suite/BPEL engine, SQL Server 2005, Java/JEE, Spring/IoC, Hibernate, Request Tracker, Apache, Linux CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, WCF, WPF, Silverlight, Infragistics, Telerik, Groove, SharePoint, MOSS 2007, MOSS integration, SSO, Oracle I&AM/Oblix, Documentum, Sparx EA, LoadRunner

BIntro (New York, NY)                            Nov 2006 - Apr 2007

Technology Director

BIntro is an NYC startup, co-founded by Marcus Trevisani, Chief Architect for eHarmony.  A privately-held firm in NYC, BIntro's SaaS multi-tenant platform provides matchmaking services for business opportunities, connecting like-minded individuals, businesses, employers, job seekers, freelancers, and entrepreneurs.

§     Responsible for strategic direction, multi-tenant SaaS platform development, tech roadmap, teams mgmt and infrastructure plan

§     Provided business development (business plan, project funding, operational strategy, product branding, patent research and project planning) for next-gen search, semantics-based discovery platform

§     Researched and evaluated advanced semantic technology approaches, models and algorithms. Engaged ontology and taxonomy SMEs to build knowledge base of semantic models and rules

§     Evaluated several SOA/ESB-based stacks and WSM tools: IBM WebSphere (WAS, WPS), BEA AquaLogic, OpenESB, JCAPS

§     Evaluated multiple technology stacks and application servers (IBM, Oracle, Sun, Microsoft, Adobe, open source)

§     Defined JEE and Oracle technology stack: JBOSS AS, JTA, JDBC, JNDI, JMS, JAX-RPC, Drools, Oracle 10g

§     Established charter, vision & scope.  Generate conceptual, logical, physical, service tiers and data models using Sparx EA and Visio

§     Aligned architectural vision with operational strategies and IT roadmap.  Established consensus between teams, report to C-level execs

§     Developed informational architecture including wireframes, graphics and composites using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator

§     Researched, retained and engaged external UX team as UI-based requirements increased

§    Performed competitive and comparative analyses to develop marketing plan, branding and strategic positioning

§    Environment: Agile/Scrum, SOA, ESB, WSM, IBM WebSphere (WAS, WPS), WebLogic, JEE/JBOSS, Oracle, Drools, Redmine, SVN, open source

(Orange Development – Corporate Engagements)              Jan 1999 – Nov 2006

Investment Technology Group (ITG) – New York, NY             

Senior Platform Engineer - OMS Trading Platform Build Out

§     Architected, designed and developed desktop-based client for OMS trading platform using WPF/C#, MVVM, .NET 4.0 and MEF

§     Provided WPF and MVVM domain expert knowledge, developed core framework, integrated with Slim/Fitnesse and Selenium regression

§     Worked with Telerik and Infragistics to improve grid capability and functionality. Ultimately chose custom grid implementation instead

§     Developed pluggable architecture utilizing MEF and advanced MVVM design patterns (RelayCommand, custom ViewModelBase)

§     Environment: Agile/Scrum, WPF, Advanced MVVM, MEF, Entity Framework, OMS/EMS, SVN, trading, low latency, real time market data

Con Edison – New York, NY             

Sr. Enterprise Solutions and Database Engineer – Large-Scale, Mission-Critical Maintenance Tracking Platform

§     Performed root-cause and RDBMS analysis for an enterprise workflow tracking system experiencing significant latency.  Analyzed SQL RDBMS and ASP.NET apps responsible for delivering time-sensitive, mission-critical utilities infrastructure location info to field techs

§     Analyzed data models, schemas, underlying table structures and stored procs. Established and implemented clustered index strategy

§     Assisted in company-wide adoption, implementation and training for Mercury LoadRunner Testing Suite

§     Led knowledge transfer, enterprise architecture and infrastructure discussions. Authored DB performance improvement plan

§    Created source code repository and change management procedures, which increased manageability of business logic

§    Environment: Agile/Scrum, SQL Server 2000, Index tuning, RedGate SqlProfiler, Erwin, Toad, SQL Mgmt Studio, Mercury LoadRunner, SVN

Bloomberg – New York, NY             

Sr. Enterprise Solutions Engineer – Bloomberg Trading Systems Conversion

§     Provided technical guidance to cross-functional teams for trading systems conversion (C++ to C#), using smart clients and web services

§     Established WSDL code-first approach to services design: canonical form and service analysis.  Developed unit/regression test framework

§     Provided architectural vision, guidance, influence and rationale.  Developed best practices, evaluated technology stacks, trained devs

§     Environment: Agile/Scrum, SVN, XMLSpy, VS 2005, C#, C++, Unix, Windows, Reactivity WSM, open source

Hewlett Packard – New York, NY             

Sr. Enterprise Solutions Engineer – Enterprise Financial Reporting Application using OLAP

§     Responsible for architecture and development of localization changes to a large-scale, globally distributed online financial application.  The application was used for financial data ingestion, analysis and reporting.  User input was previously entered in USD amounts only, causing discrepancies with fluctuating conversion rates

§     Developed ASP.NET composite controls and web service interfaces for front end, MSF dev (Façade, Controller, Data Adapters/Managers)

§     Analyzed SQL Server 2000 RDBMS using OLAP to determine appropriate architecture point-of-entry for system changes.  Data was ETL'd from Hyperion/Oracle RDBMS into SQL Server and rolled into OLAP cubes which fed a calculations engine

§     Environment: Agile/Scrum, OLAP, Sql Server 2000, EDW, data marts, web services, Hyperion, Oracle, MSF, SVN, C#/ASP.NET

Princeton Review – New York, NY             

Sr. Enterprise Solutions Engineer – Large-Scale, Distributed Online Aptitude Testing Application

§     Responsible for architecture, development and updates to an existing Microsoft ASP.NET and SQL Server-based large-scale, online testing application.  Implemented changes to the UI layer, business logic and data persistence layers

§     Provided custom Single-Sign On (SSO) solution using RSA-based Federated Identity Mgmt (FIM) product.  Analyzed & updated COM and custom bus. objects. Analyzed SQL Server sproc execution paths, made performance optimizations, LoadRunner Performance Tests

§     Environment: Agile/Scrum, C#, ASP.NET, COM, SQL Server, SSO, Oracle Identity Manager, I&AM, RSA, SVN, open source, LoadRunner

Credit Suisse First Boston – New York, NY             

Sr. Software Engineer – Custom DMS Project

§     Provided architectural direction, platforms analysis and coding for document management system build out

§     Developed custom VBA, DLLs and COM+ components for Word/Excel/PowerPoint integration with the DMS layer

Morgan Stanley – New York, NY             

§     Consultant in WP Division - developed suite of custom WordBasic and VBA macros for word processing automation and support

Goldman Sachs – New York, NY             

§     Consultant in WP Division - developed reusable Word, Excel and PowerPoint templates for word processing automation

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (law offices) – New York, NY              Dec 1997 – Jan 2000

Sr. Software Engineer – Custom Enterprise Apps Suite

§     Provided global strategic direction, systems and software evolution for a large-scale applications suite (10 offices worldwide, 1500 seats)

§     Implemented change management system and object-oriented design for software layer.  Managed PCDocs to iManage conversion

Houlihan Lokey Howard and Zukin (investment banking) – New York, NY              Oct 1994 – Nov 1997

Software Engineer – M&A Pitchbook App

§     Analysis, design and implementation of customized HLHZ pitchbook application.  Pitchbooks were used to secure multi-million-dollar M&A and company valuation projects

§     Technical analysis and legacy database conversion: from flat-file system to RDBMS using VB-ISAM programming language

Arizona State University - Bachelor of Science in Business and Computer Info Systems. Graduated Cum Laude, Core GPA 3.78

Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD)

Database Design and Implementation Certification (SQL Server)

Oracle Application Server 10g (in progress)

Operating Systems:              Win2008/2003, Win7/XP, iOS, Android OS, MAC OSX, Linux Enterprise, RedHat, Ubuntu, CentOS, Unix, Sun Solaris, WinMo, BES

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