Joshua Drew

Objective

Accomplished technologist with over 10 years of technical expertise and proven results in product delivery, project life cycle development and client facing relationships. The ability to lead, mentor, motivate team members and co-workers as a result of strong communication skills. Has obtained responsibilities from programmer to business analyst, and has executed multi-million dollar, high-profile, internet-based projects.

Experience

March 2007 - Present Story Worldwide (formerly Byte Interactive LLC) Norwalk CT
VP, Director of Technology North America 
  • Responsible for all technology development and application lifecycle in North America with a platform agnostic approach using the internal unified process
  • Acted as Technical Architect and Lead Developer on several major client web applications
  • Work closely with client IT stakeholders on integration policies and protocols with back end systems
  • Participate in strategy, branding and creative concept brainstorming
  • Determine best practices and feasibility of technical build from creative concepts
  • Work closely with Information Architecture to determine user flows and wireframes
  • Manage budgets, resource allocations and results management for North America Technology team
  • Provide leadership and management to Technology Development team and Quality Assurance team
  • Design and develop applications using the following : .NET 2.0 & 3.5, C#, Flex, Flash, PHP, MySQL, SQL 2000 & 2005, MS Share Point, Interwoven, AJAX, and other client side technologies (jQuery), Social Networking platforms (Wordpress, joomla, BlogEngine)

Jan 2005 – March 2007 Byte Interactive LLC Norwalk CT
Director of Technology 
  • Oversee all technical development projects with Microsoft .NET Framework and ASP
  • Provide leadership and guidance to client stakeholders for technology direction working as a technical lead
  • Participate in client brand planning and provide recommendations for all engagements
  • Responsible for technology recommendations and architecture for client engagements
  • Manage all operational assignments for development staff
  • Detail complete architecture from elaboration to construction phase
  • Manage development and network infrastructure team
  • Maintain relationships with third party vendors

Feb 2003 – Dec 2005 Byte Interactive LLC Norwalk CT
Technical Lead
  • Manage development effort utilizing Microsoft .NET technologies using C#. Define business requirements for Fortune 1000 clients and translate them into software business rules
  • Technical lead for all application builds for a Fortune 500 client
  • Provide technology direction for brand planning during a given year
  • Build E-Commerce, product portfolio, sales extranet and consumer relationship management systems
  • Develop software and database models of web applications
  • Determine best practices on development projects
  • Manage and allocate developers project tasks for engagements
  • Write and compile all technical documentation
  • Enforce standards, code-reuse, code reviews, and unit/system/integration testing

July 2001 - Feb 2003 Readers Digest Pleasantville NY
Senior Internet Engineer
  • Develop software using J2EE and JSP for e-Commerce web site with ATG Dynamo Java Application Server 5.1, MS SQL Server 2000, IPlanet 4.1 Enterprise Server and Sun Solaris 7
  • Enhance current ecommerce site by creating new one-click ordering and sweepstake entry points with Java and JSP
  • Develop middleware applications with Visual Basic 6.0 and MS SQL Server from web database to fulfillment systems
  • Use J2EE and XML to process middleware transactions from web system to partner systems
  • Create new solutions to existing system architecture and back end data systems with Visual Basic 6.0 and MS SQL Server
  • Provide maintenance to current Solaris 7 and IPlanet 4.1 Enterprise Server architecture using Perl scripting
  • Responsible for code review from junior engineers

Feb 2001 - July 2001 Honeywell Consumer Products Group Danbury CT
E-Business Developer
  • Maintain company web sites using IBM Web Sphere Application Server, JSP and IBM MQ Series Middleware
  • Migration of legacy web sites from internal servers to outside hosting company

Oct 1999 - Feb 2001 Modem Media Norwalk CT
Senior Software Engineer
  • Lead Engineer on site builds, review team member’s work as well as micro-manage the site development process providing updates to senior team members and clients
  • Build ecommerce sites for Fortune 1000 clients using an n-tier architecture using IPlanet 4.1, Apache or IIS Web Server, ATG Dynamo 4.5x or IBM Web Sphere Application Server 3.x, and Oracle 8 or MS SQL 7/2000 Database Server and IBM MQ Series Middleware, Microsoft ASP
  • Design Java components with UML and design use cases
  • Write technical documentation on site builds
  • Configure development and staging environments on servers by installing operating systems and application servers. Configure and test production systems on site rollouts
  • Maintain existing Fortune 1000 client web sites using Perl, ASP, XML, JSP, and Java Servlets
  • Hold training classes on best practices with ATG Dynamo and Microsoft ASP
  • Mentor junior engineers

Jul 1998 - Oct 1999 Commonfund Westport CT
Business Systems Analyst
  • Build, maintain and test web fund portfolio system using Microsoft ASP and MS SQL Server 7.0
  • Design and build customer relationship database using Saratoga Product Solutions on Windows NT 4.0 Platform
  • Develop solutions using Visual Basic 6.0 for internal departments and clients
  • Manage development process of financial estimator written in Mat Lab and Microsoft Access 7.0
  • Design and build custom solutions for departments using MS Office software with VBA technologies
  • Design and build internal web applications using Microsoft ASP and MS SQL Server 7.0
  • Lead company lunch and learns on various computer topics

Jan 1998 - Jul 1998 Arthur Andersen LLP New York NY
Tax Consultant
  • Reengineer tax software processes by building custom applications using Microsoft VBA technologies
  • Train clients and internal staff on software solutions
  • Communicate with client IT team and arrange project deployments

Jun 1996 - Dec 1997 Black & Decker Shelton CT
IT Specialist
  • Provide ongoing support to employees and projects
  • Assist in building company data warehouse using Visual Basic and MS SQL and department intranet with ASP and MS SQL


Education


Sacred Heart University Fairfield, CT
Bachelors Degree (in progress) Computer Science. 3.3 GPA