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My Techie Life

I've been sleeping, eating and breathing computer programming since middle school, and I'm proud to have led a varied, interesting career in tech since the roaring 1990s. 

Having thrived in many different types of companies and environments, the last 10 years I've worked primarily with educational technology (EdTech) organizations committed to open source, cloud-based technologies. Think SaaS for students, teachers, and faculty.

Over my career I have managed, implemented and supported large scale, web-based systems for IBM, Ogilvy & Mather, the Financial Times, Oracle/Sun, Citibank, and most recently the Digital Education Solutions division of Scholastic. In 2018 I led the successful redesign and re-release of BookFlix, Scholastic’s most popular children’s literacy application used by hundreds of thousands of reading learners every day.

I was also a major contributor to the operations of Freeverse Software (1994-2012), a pioneering AI-based mobile gaming company.

What I'm Looking For

I'm seeking a senior role in the EdTech space. 

I specialize in architecting secure, scalable interoperability between multiple applications and platforms, and bringing difficult projects to completion.

What I Do

I work with educational institutions to solve their thorny, intractable technology problems - practically, economically, decisively. I have a proven track record of bringing EdTech projects to on-time completion under high pressure situations. Increasingly I am helping educators and administrators integrate AI into their institutions, taking into careful consideration the actual needs of staff, faculty, and students. 

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What I'm Most Proud Of

• The complete redo of Scholastic BookFlix application in 6 months with zero unplanned application downtime

• 5 years as tech lead of Scholastic Digital Education's global authentication service (SDM) with no security breaches and no significant downtime

• Successful year-long, complete infrastructure refresh of SDM's global authentication service with major updates to Spring Boot, Java, Aurora MySQL, and React

• Guiding product direction of EdLink in their early stages

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