• aVinci Media
• Rain
• DegreeMe
• Lisztonian
• BYU

aVinci Media, LC (AVMC.OB), Draper, Utah, 2006 – Present

Industry leader in consumer media

Lead Technologist

Promoted from Senior Management over enterprise development, testing/QA, IT, and product fulfillment to Lead Technologist, architecting business-critical systems and products; serving a key role in partnership development and the end-to-end product life-cycle.

• Stimulated market and investor excitement by innovating an online, viral poster-creator for ESPN
• Increased product awareness through developing social apps for Facebook, Blogger, MySpace, others 
• Attained market dominance via systems integration with Wal-Mart, HP, Walgreens, Costco, others
• Stabilized and scaled product fulfillment by architecting and administering $2MM+ hardware and integrating with Kodak Qualex and Fujifilm; building 100% nationwide redundancy through load balancing, clustered servers, DRBD, Heartbeat, and 50TB+ of storage (NAS) 

Senior Development Manager

Managed teams of highly skilled engineers, testers, IT, manufacturing and non-technical personnel.  Architected and implemented the world’s highest capacity one-off DVD fulfillment system.  Integrated with local and international fulfillment partners including Fujifilm, Kodak, Utah Bookbinding, and others.

• Brought worldwide industry recognition by travelling to the nation’s top photo product labs to research, architect, and lead development of the world’s highest capacity consumer-based DVD fulfillment system; capacity of 7 MM+ units per year; highly scalable; < 0.02% errors (compare to industry average of 4-5%); managed security architecture of all systems including customer data and billing
• Increased development efficiency by developing enterprise applications  and E-commerce systems based on SOA and by customizing Agile/CMMI development methodologies to corporate culture
• Expanded product offerings by developing nine web-apps capable of 10,000+ conversions per day
• Built highly focused, synergistic teams with diversified skills including: C, C++, C#, Perl, PHP, Ruby, XHTML/CSS, Flash/Flex, IT, Quality Assurance, testing, product fulfillment, and manufacturing

Rain (formerly mediaRAIN), American Fork, Utah, 2004 – 2006

Utah’s leading marketing and web-application development company

Director of Technology and Development

Promoted from Senior Developer, to Project Manager, to Director of Development through proven project management acumen and interpersonal abilities.  Created development practices, oversaw application architecture, and managed personnel.  Refined and developed a keen insight into online marketing.

• Improved value proposition through HIPAA compliance and experience with healthcare software
• Drastically decreased development cycles by implementing best practices, policies, and methods
• Improved client expectations by meeting projected timelines (90+% accuracy)
• Increased company profits through accurate project estimates (0% loss; average 41% profit margin)
• Expanded project throughput by managing multiple teams each of 5-6 developers and 2-4 designers
• Generated local market dominance by successfully completing 20-30 client projects per year

Project Manager / Senior Developer

• Promoted from entry-level developer to project manager / senior developer within three months
• Enhanced service offerings through building Object Oriented (OO) web apps using Java, Javascript, CGI, JSP, ASP, PHP, XML, .NET, C#, VB, AJAX, XHTML, ColdFusion, MySQL, and MSSQL
• Increased clientele through excellent interpersonal skills, solid ethics, and critical thinking

DegreeMe, Inc, American Fork, Utah, 2005 – 2008

Entrepreneurial lead-generation business for the nation’s top private educational institutions

Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer

Co-founded an innovative business to harvest and scrub online leads for 100+ educational institutions totaling over $10MM in annual contracts through SEO and SEM efforts.

• Attracted and retained clients by developing a cutting-edge management and lead generation system
• Accomplished industry-leading conversion rates valued at $50+ per lead via SEO and SEM efforts
• Played the key role in bringing the company to a positive cash flow within the first quarter

Lisztonian.com, Lehi, Utah, 2003 – Present

The Internet’s leading public service for license-free, classical piano recordings

Founder and Artist

• Grew the service to over 2MM unique downloads per year using social network marketing strategies
• Accomplished continuous ranking as an iTunes top-50 audio podcast
• Developed “gadgets” and “widgets” shared through iGoogle, MySpace, blogs, and other social sites
• Enhanced conversion rates via statistical analysis of customer usability and marketing strategies

Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 2000 – 2004

A  Leading Private University

Lab Manager, Research Assistant, Technical Specialist

Selected for highly specialized positions throughout all years of schooling.  Promoted from support agent to technical specialist and from teacher assistant to research assistant and lab manager.  Was deeply involved in redesigning security policies that affected a customer base of more than 200,000 individuals.

• Supervised advanced networking research for more than 20 graduate students
• Planned and carried-out research activities and curriculum for the graduate program
• Managed and instructed a lab of 50-60 students
• Architected and implemented network structure, management, and vulnerability analysis
• Analyzed and researched networking protocols and development (Ethernet, ATM, etc.)
• Security and software testing on more than 200 university applications