About
Executive Leader
Love what you do, do what you love. - MeI'm a Florida based technology executive with over a decade of experience leading organizations and their teams in creating effective and efficient software solutions for companies of all sizes around the globe. I deliver tangible, measureable results.
Exceeding expectations is what I have built my professional reputation on.
Currently leading Asponte Technology, my focus and drive is to exceed our customer expectations while fostering our deep technical talent to deliver exceptional experiences and products. I utilize my wide range of experience and industry exposure to deliver innovative solutions to solve complex business and technical challenges from inception, implementation, and beyond for our customers worldwide.
Outside of work, I can be found fueling my passion for driving and racing automobiles at the racetrack with my wife. We have two turtles, a dog, we enjoy traveling the world and new experiences. Even outside my career, I'm a leader. As the chairman for volunteer organizations, I've worked with volunteers to ensure events were held in compliance so we all could enjoy what we love.
Years of IT Experience
across a myriad of industries.
Years of Management Experience
leading internal, vendor, and hybrid teams.
Successful Projects
(and counting!) delivered to customers since 2013.
Skills
My entrepreneurial spirit, natural leadership ability, technical competence, and the desire to learn has helped me gain skills that help me manage and deliver successful projects and organizations, both professionally and personally.
Resume
Summary
Proven and reliable technology executive with over six years of executive leadership experience managing fast paced, highly skilled engineering, management, and executive teams who help customers across all industries.
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Professional Experience
Asponte Technology, Inc.
Chief Executive Officer
Lakewood Ranch / Saint Augustine, FL
As the leader and public figure of the organization and executive team, I oversee all activities and responsibilities for all aspects of our organization. To the public, maintaining customer and partner relationships are my primary activities. My responsibilities as our internal leader include driving the sales team, ensuring successful delivery of the project management and services teams, human resources matters, technical direction and challenges, internal and customer conflict resolution, accounting and finance including bonuses, salaries, and departmental budgets, all to drive the company’s vision and mission to deliver the highest quality services and solutions to our customers while maintaining our company’s culture and employee satisfaction.
- Officially appointed CEO by corporate Board of Directors (07/2022)
- Researched and reduced erroneous corporate spending, reducing operating expenses by 10%
- Executed on updating of state corporate tax filings, bringing company to 100% compliance in relevant states
- Led strategic planning initiative to establish new lines of business to secure increased revenue
- Established business partner relationship with Liferay, introducing a new customer revenue stream directly aligned with the company's core competencies
- Navigated forced vendor licensing transition from PVU to consumption, resulting in unprecedented increases to customer licensing expenses
- Performance optimization of accounting department and facilitation of CFO replacement
- Introduced KPIs/metrics and data based business decision models for tracking company and employee performance and efficiency
- Performed strategic restructuring of senior management, resulting in an increase in productivity and employee output.
- Established OpenAI business case and rolled out artificial intelligence company wide, resulting in increased programmer and marketing content generation efficiency by leveraging AI as starting point for software and marketing projects.
Interim Chief Executive Officer
Serving as the internal and public facing leader of Asponte Technology, I oversee and am responsible for the day to day operations of all business units. In this interim role, my primary responsibility is to ensure day to day successes within the organization and serve as the new point of contact for all corporate relationships.
- Stepped up to lead organization when previous CEO and co-owner announced an extended leave of absence
- Officially appointed Interim CEO by corporate Board of Directors (10/2021)
- Secured 3rd highest sales year in company history amongst pandemic conditions, including a forecasted 30% increase in managed services revenue
- Identified corporate inefficiencies and implemented policies and procedures to increase back office operational efficiency, reducing operational costs by 5%
- Served as liaison to board of directors for all company matters
- Researched and secured new corporate legal representation
- Stabilized and funded sales and marketing teams through established budgets
- Led initiative to transition internal to outsourced accounting to continue to increase back office operational efficiencies and separation of responsibilities with administrative staff, eliminating single points of failure and common blockers within back office
Director of Engineering / Chief Technology Officer
As a member of the executive team, I am responsible for the technical direction of the company and ensuring my team and our customers are successful. I represent Asponte Technology to our software partners and vendors, customers, and at technical conferences. I work hand in hand with my fellow executives to strategically align our business objectives, internal software usage, product offerings, and sales/marketing initiatives with the technical direction of the digital experience industry. Working directly with other executives, I oversee and mentor the project management staff, engineering staff, and advise the executive team in all aspects of our business.
- Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) pro tempore
- Increased productivity in sales and marketing, engineering teams by leveraging SAFE methodologies and tools
- Conceived, architected, and oversaw internal and customer product development
- Implemented container based development & Redhat OpenShift internal cloud strategy adoption reducing licensing requirements by 50%
- Managed services LOB product improvements yielding a 75% increase in managed services revenues
- Write and deliver employee evaluations, manage product development budgets
- Instrumental in company direction and resource utilization during COVID-19 pandemic
- Principle project manager, consistently delivering on time and on budget projects
Innovation and Mobile Practice Leader
This position entailed researching and implementing mobile, new and cutting edge technologies for us and our customers such as artificial intelligence and cognitive software. I mentored and sculpted junior and senior developers to become better consultants both with business interaction and technical skill. Between myself and my technical peer, we were positioned as the top guru's of the company.
- Designated Chief Executive Officer (CEO) pro tempore
- Conceived, architected, and developed internal software products
- Engineering team Agile SDLC adoption
Solution Architect / Technical Lead
Responsible for architecting, implementing, developing, and leading projects based on IBM and Open Source software platforms both internally and for our customers.
- Lead and mentored engineering peers
- Installed and migrated software deployments
- Provided custom coded solutions to meet customer requirements
Computer Science Corporation (CSC)
Software Engineer
Jacksonville, FL
- SME and developer for IBM WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager.
- Performed code reviews and mentored other developers both on and off shore.
- Team liasion for off shore management and team members
Kemper Corporation
Application Developer III
Jacksonville, FL
- Portal and portlet applications developer developing JSR 286 portlets and portlet services for public portal and Agent facing portal utilizing IBM WebSphere Portal v6.1.5 and v7.0.0.2, IBM Web Content Management (WCM), jQuery, Dojo and Google JS frameworks, JMS, Web Services and Java 6.
- Architected, designed and developed custom web metrics solution for portal sites across multiple portal implementations and domains.
- Aided in architecting and primary developer for five corporate affiliate Websphere Portal v7.0.0.2 sites.
- SME for portal development across all corporate affiliates.
- Wrote and taught five day custom developed portal and portlet developer course.
- Co-founder and co-leader of portal governance committee.
- Mentored other developers and performed code reviews.
Winn-Dixie
Application Developer III
Jacksonville, FL
- Technical lead over new development for Marketing and Pricing IT Solutions Team
- Developed JSR 168/286 portlets, portlet services, utility applications and web services for the Enterprise Portal.
- Created and implemented development and deployment standards, guidelines and applications for portlet and web service developers.
- Formed and led the Java Developer's Group meetings, mentored junior java developers, and performed code reviews
- Conceived, designed and developed a customer facing portal for reward card holders and led the technical integration with 3rd party vendors.
- SME and key resource for the enterprise portal upgrade, Vendor Portal implementation, and IBM Lombardi Business Process Modeling projects.
- Utilized IBM Websphere v6/6.1/7, IBM Websphere Portal v6/6.1.5, JAX-RPC/JAX-WS, WS-Security, EJB 3.0, Ant, XMLAccess, shell scripts and IBM Rational Application Developer 7 & 7.5.
State Farm Insurance
Systems Analyst
Bloomington, IL
- SME for WebSphere Portal projects across multiple business units
- Pushed architecture review of portlet services to an eventual approval
AFNI, Inc.
Software Engineer
Bloomington, IL
- Designed, developed, and supported web based applications, web services, and portal services using IBM Rational Application Developer, IBM Websphere 6, IBM Websphere Portal 5.1, J2SE, JSP, JSF, SQL 2000, CSS, Apache Tomcat 4, JTDS JDBC driver, Linux, and ASP
- Key developer in the migration of 50+ web applications and web services from Apache Tomcat 4 to IBM Websphere 6 and IBM Websphere Portal 5.1
- Designed and developed modular automation application to automate the new hire and termination activites.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
Middle Georgia State University, Macon, Georgia
Professional Achievements
- Presenter at several conferences
- Book Reviewer for Packt Publishing: IBM WebSphere Portal 8: Web Experience Factory and the Cloud
- Designed and built business process software designed for small business
- Provided custom software solutions and IT department management for manufacturing company
Personal Achievements
- Eagle Scout, B.S.A.
- 1st Place SCCA Tire Rack National Tour E Street Prepared
- Chairman for Buccaneer Region SCCA Jacksonville Solo
- Chairman for Central Illinois Region SCCA Solo
- Webmaster for Champaign County Sports Car Club
- Champaign County Sports Car Club Spark Plug Award Receipient
Contact
Saint Augustine, FL
