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EMAIL AVAILABLETel: PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLESUMMARY:With over 25 years of experience in executive technology leadership, project management, architecture/design,and senior software development, Mr. Barenboim is a results-driven professional with significant expertise invarious project-management concepts. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Boston University, aMaster's Degree in Computer Science and Business Administration from the University of Oxford, and certificationsin Scrum Master, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, and PMP. Mr. Barenboim has led large software engineeringdepartments with over 400 personnel and has transformed and reorganized entire departments to align withbusiness needs and objectives. He has successfully completed audits and ensured IT governance processes andSLAs were met. He has also managed the development, management, and maintenance of enterprise-classwebsites with over 100 million visitors per month. Mr. Barenboim collaborates with other C-level executives todrive strategic decisions and ensures product vision is realized. He has managed diverse, multidisciplinary, andgeographically dispersed teams and is a creative and strategic visionary who energizes and motivates his teams. Heis a strong technology executive and business problem solver with an exceptional commitment to quality and afocus on processes, architecture, and technology solutions, making him an effective leader, advisor, and mentor.EXPERIENCE:Custom Financing Solutions, LLC; Boca Raton, FL 2018 PresentCo-Founder, CTO and COO. Responsible for all technology and operational aspects of the company, including:architecture, software development, infrastructure, UX/UI, quality assurance, project management, productmanagement, marketing, sales and operations. Worked closely with the CEO and other executives to ensurebusiness needs transformed into technology solutions. Took the founders vision and converted it to a fullyfunctioning solution consisting of web and mobile platforms for various business verticals that offer financing fortheir end-users. Business verticals included: automotive, home improvement, medical, emergency transportation,marine, and others. Established a 20-person team in Colombia to provide lower-cost technology development,customer support, sales, and operations. Created investor presentations, private placement memoranda, andother business and legal documents for the purpose of investor fundraising efforts, and company operations. Oncethe system went live, over 5,000 businesses across the United States registered. The platform has processedthousands of financing applications.AAJ Technologies, Inc.; Ft. Lauderdale, FL 2015 - 2018Vice President, Enterprise Solutions. Responsible for the 300+ technology personnel consulting practice, focusingon mobility and enterprise application development. Established and grew the Argentina office to over 150employees, to leverage same time-zone outsourcing solutions to US-based clients. Responsible for creating andnegotiating MSAs and SOWs with clients at the C-level, to secure outsourced software development projects.Created a client-engagement process to ensure repeatability of successful consulting projects. Created anemployee/consulting career-path process to enable employee career-path progress, including the tracking of theirsuccess and accomplishments. Secured new projects and created dedicated off-shore and near-shore teams andtook on several interim-CTO and/or project/product management roles for Fortune 500 firms, including Citrix,Broward Health, Magic Leap, Red Lobster, Seminole Gaming, Carnival Cruise Line, Runzheimer International, e-Builder, Mercy Hospital, as well as various Florida state and local government agencies, including, FDBPR, FDEO,FDCF, FDOH, and FFWC.EMAIL AVAILABLE Confidential Candidate's Name Resume Page 1 of 4Logic Nation, Inc.; Shreveport, LA and Boca Raton, FL 2012 - 2015Chief Technology Officer and Board Member. Responsible for all technology departments including: softwareengineering, architecture, UI and UX design, QA, Business Analysis, Project Management, Customer Support, and IToperations. The Logic Nation platform is a Facebook-like social media model with monetization, attracting usersfrom all over the world. Highly scalable architecture, using Amazon cloud services and a mixture of a Microsoft C#MVC/.NET, TFS, SQL Server technology stack, along with open-source technologies including Node.js, Java/J2EE,JQuery, CoffeeScript, Cassandra, Jira, and Redis, along with 3rd party technologies for CDN and video transcodingservices. Architected, designed, and developed a native Apple iOS mobile app, currently available in the Apple AppStore with over 50,000 downloads registered in the first 3 months, as well as a native Android mobile app,currently available in the Google Play Store. Worked with Akamai executives and engineers to provide live-videohigh-definition streaming to an unlimited viewing audience; scalability confirmed by having a video event viewedby over 75,000 simultaneous users worldwide in a real-time video feed, originating from a cellular phoneconnected with 4G running at 720p resolution. Opened and staffed a Boca Raton Florida technology office, asstrong technology talent was scarce in Louisiana. Authored, submitted, and defended three patents with theUSPTO. Became a member of the Board of Directors and provided updates with monthly presentations to theboard and to all shareholders. Participated in investor presentations to raise over $6.5 million in capitalinvestments. Several celebrities, including Cameron Dallas and Shawn Mendes, utilized the app to increase theirsocial media presence, with one video stream being watched in real-time by over 75,000 simultaneous users.Netflix docuseries produced and released several years after company shut down.Bankrate, Inc.; (NYSE: RATE) North Palm Beach, FL 2009 - 2012VP, Software Services. Responsible for development and management of the companys premier consumer-facingwebsite, attracting more than 100 million visitors per month, and generating more than $500 million in annualrevenue. Responsible for a staff of over a dozen software engineers, technical managers, architects, product andproject managers, located in North Palm Beach, New York, Denver, Austin, and India. Also responsible for the 20satellite web properties and their continual development and maintenance, including CD.com, CreditCards.com,Mortgage-Calc.com, Interest.com, Bankaholic.com, InsureMe.com, NetQuote.com, and CreditCardGuide.com.Developed a widget for Yahoo for their finance page that would be viewed at over 700 times per second using aninnovative two-tier caching algorithm. Developed a cross-platform mobile app which garnered over 5 milliondownloads from Apple and Google app stores with features for mortgage refinancing, mortgage rates, and otherpersonal finance capabilities. Improved the consumer-facing e-commerce platform to reduce click fraud byintroducing an automated algorithmic-based solution, which resulted in a 90% reduction in customer disputes overa 6-month timeframe. Responsible for the SEO ranking of over 3,000 keywords to ensure placement in the top 3positions on Google and Microsoft search, resulting in over 50% organic traffic, and over 2 million inbound links.Introduced a new pipeline prioritization process to better streamline business requests funneling into IT, as well astransforming the entire IT organization into a transparent workflow process engine, with business and technicalROI gates. Instituted Agile/Scrum and acted as Scrum Master to facilitate faster and more predictive developmentcycles. Mentored direct reports on acquisition of 3rd party web-based firms and technology integration efforts.Performed technology due-diligence on acquisition-targeted firms, and established career paths and quarterlygoals for all departments.Tyco/ADT, Inc.; Boca Raton, FL 2007 - 2009Director, Application Development. Responsibility of restructuring and reorganizing the application developmentorganization at their Boca Raton Florida, Jacksonville Florida, and Denver Colorado facilities. The IT department,after the restructure, was comprised of project managers, development managers, QA managers, architects,developers, business analysts, and production support personnel, with an overall department staff of over 400.EMAIL AVAILABLE Confidential Candidate's Name Resume Page 2 of 4Responsible for 175 external 24x7 customer-facing and internal-facing systems, Oracle financial applicationsincluding sales management compensation and consolidated billing systems, Siebel and legacy CRM systemsincluding the North America call center system, and e-business systems, generating more than $4 Billion per yearin revenue using the ADT security brand. Implemented NetSuite for a small 5,000 user base for ERP truck partsmanagement for home and business security installation. Drove requirements gathering sessions, using PMBOKbest practices, with key stakeholders of sales, marketing, finance and other departments to plan strategies forsolution delivery. Identified and managed risk areas using SDLC and Lean Six Sigma best practices. Collaboratedwith business leaders to establish and refine requirements for new product capabilities. Provided LOEs anddelivered on those promises ensuring complete feature set was implemented to exact specifications. Implementeda new ITIL-based Solution Delivery Framework, to deliver consistent and successful technical solutions to thebusiness, using J2EE, IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, Oracle and Siebel applications, as well as creating plans forsun-setting legacy AS/400 systems. Introduced Microsoft Project Server and HP/Mercury ITG for projecttimesheets, demand funneling, and case management. Established strategic partnerships with offshore vendors,including Lionbridge, Cognizant and Wipro, to enable outsourced cost-saving efforts. New processes wereinstituted to ensure all systems were PCI, SAS70 and Sarbanes-Oxley compliant. Mentored management staff onproject management best practices. Established career path objectives and quarterly goals for technical staff.Verizon, Inc.; (NYSE: VZ) Tampa, FL 2003 2007Senior Technical Manager. Managed the conception, development, and rollout of eCOSystem, the 24x7 next-generation work platform for Verizons Network Operations. The architecture, development and deployment ofeCOSystem involved the creation and management of several teams: over 100 developers and their respectiveteam leads and managers located in several US-based locations - Tampa FL, White Plains NY, Silver Springs MD,and implemented an offshore development center of over 150 developers and QA personnel in Chennai India.Worked closely with product managers to establish product rollout roadmaps. Ensured all teams effectivelyinterfaced with various external departments including DBA teams, production support, deployment and changemanagement. Managed the $100mm hardware and infrastructure build-out across three data centers (NY, FL, andCO) to ensure disaster recovery and high availability of the 5 petabyte datastore environments. Ensured all dataconformed to government security standards. Continual improvement of development methodologies and internalaudits to ensure coding standards were met, and systems were in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley regulations.Received Six Sigma Master Black Belt certification. Achieved CMM-5 following the first rollout of the system toproduction. Project management utilizing the traditional waterfall approach was updated in favor of Agile/Scrummethodology. Updated executive management with weekly status reports, ran daily conference calls with internaland external clients to report production usage metrics and deployment status, as well as provided mentoring andcareer planning, performance reviews and quarterly goals. Managed department budget and ensured expenseswere within agreed forecasts. Patents issued: 1.Scient Corp.; (NYSE: SCNT) San Francisco, CA 1998 2003Director, Software Engineering. Managed all technical and software development activities for this professionalservices and development-outsourcing firm. Assisted business development personnel in establishing relationshipswith Fortune 500 firms to secure potential development projects. Managed full-lifecycle projects includingdiscovery, requirements gathering, architecture and design, development/construction, iterative testing/QA,documentation, deployment, and post-delivery training for clients including: Enron, Ericsson, Hartford Insurance,eTrade.com, and Digital Dynamics. Projects included development of e-commerce and financial transactionsolutions, deployment of warehouse management and call center systems, order management/fulfillmentsystems, and customer relationship management solutions. Received PMP certification. Projects were managedusing the Rational Unified Process (RUP) with rapid prototyping, as well as Agile methodologies. Interaction withclients at the C-level to ensure projects were delivered on-time and under budget.EMAIL AVAILABLE Confidential Candidate's Name Resume Page 3 of 4International Business Machines Corp.; (NYSE: IBM) Boca Raton, Florida 1990 1998Technical Manager. Managed the IBM OS/2 Video and Multimedia Device Driver Team, comprised of a 20-persondevelopment group, and a 5-person QA group. Patented a video device driver application that enabled the fullcertification, without human intervention, of all supported video/graphics APIs, including GPIs, VIOs, GraphicsEngine APIs, Workplace Shell APIs, as well as OEM drivers from S3, ATI, Weitek, Matrox, Diamond, Trident, andmany other video chip and video card manufacturers. Software development efforts were managed using CMM-4specifications. Responsible for all the base operating system device drivers for Intel and PowerPC platforms,including: serial, parallel, keyboard, mouse, floppy, SCSI, IDE, CD-ROM, PCMCIA, APM, tape, and scanner devices.Several drivers were ported from AIX. The Device Driver Test Tool, an object-oriented application written in C++,was developed and used via white box and black box testing methodologies to automate the QA effort. Alsodesigned, developed, and published The ViewerTool, a multi-threaded object-oriented OS/2 PM application,written in C++, utilizing the MMIO subsystem to display popular various video file formats, such as BMP and TIFF,and the OpenGL interfaces, using special custom-written DLLs, which automatically sized and scaled all displayedimages. Both DDTT and the Viewer Tool were published in the IBM OS/2 Developer Toolkit. Developed NexSys,an IBM NetView/PC OS/2 PM application written in C++ for the infamous Amadeus project, an IBM 3090-VF200mainframe-based airline reservation/ticketing system, written mostly in COBOL, servicing the top dozen US-basedairlines, including Eastern Airlines, Delta, PanAm, TWA, and United Airlines. Also was a deputy manager duringIBMs site-wide ISO9000 certification process in Austin, Texas. Patents issued: 2.EDUCATION:University of Oxford; Oxford, England 1991 1993Awarded a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Finance and Management. Cum Laude. GPA: 4.0.Thesis on financial analysis and benefits in management of software engineering using objected-orienteddevelopment methodologies. Received degree while working full-time at IBM.University of Oxford; Oxford, England 1990 1991Awarded a Masters Degree in Computer Science. Magna Cum Laude. GPA: 4.0. Thesis on the design andimplementation of an artificial intelligence application emulating a Prolog Interpreter, written in LISP. Sections ofthe application were published in AI Magazine in May 1991. Received degree while working full-time at IBM.Boston University; Boston, Massachusetts 1985 1989Awarded a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, with a double minor in Mathematics and Physics. GPA: 3.8.Worked part-time as a student programmer for the University and developed an email facility using C++ and IBMSystem/370 Assembler to enable students and faculty to communicate with one another via UseNet, BitNet, andthe Internet.Personal and professional references available upon request.EMAIL AVAILABLE Confidential Candidate's Name Resume Page 4 of 4 |
