Alex Paransky

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Retail industry

January 2007 – September 2011 (4 years 9 months) Pasadena, California

• Managing retail channel specializing in providing consumers with green alternatives to OEM printing supplies
• Grew annual sales from zero to profitability
• Managed direct B-to-B as well as B-to-C sales activities.
• Researched and developed new products and tools
• Optimized production processes
• Trained employees
• Selected key vendors and negotiated product costs
• Priced products and oversaw inventory management
• Website SEO activities
• Oversaw customer service and support
• Developed strategic partnerships

Technologies: Google Sites, Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Tools, Google Local Search, Google AdWords, Constant Contact, Twitter

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; yhoo; Internet industry

2007 – 2009 (2 years)

• Managed implementation of APEX Publisher facing web application
• Directed a development team of 5 to 25 developers
• Architected major system functionality and interface API
• Used a 2 week SCRUM process for unit of development
• Engaged with product team to define, organize and solidify backlog requirements as well as ensure consistency in user experience
• Collaborated with members of engineering team to build a 2 week development schedule with individual developer buy-in and commitment
• Participated in weekly meetings with the leadership team to work out project dependencies and launch schedules
• Presided over daily stand up meetings with members of the development and QA teams.
• Lead across teams to resolve development/product conflicts and synchronize delivery of dependencies
• Visualized UI with interaction designers to ensure that user interface meets product requirements
• Verified with QA leads that test cases were adequately developed to test the finished functionality
• Spearheaded automated nightly build and launch processes into QA environments
• Performed team member yearly reviews and recommended salary adjustments and bonuses
• Administered weekly 1-on-1 meetings with direct reports

Technologies: HTML, Javascript, JSP, YUI, YInst, Maven, CSS, Java, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, JBOSS, Linux, V1, and Sub Version

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; yhoo; Internet industry

2006 – 2007 (1 year)

• Managed development and maintenance of CRM application
• Directed and mentored a team of 4 to 6 developers
• Engineered and presided over architectural decisions
• Worked with product team to define product enhancements
• Interfaced with QA organization to track and prioritize product issues
• Reached out across multiple teams to coordinate interface functionality
• Optimized functionality to enforce published SLA
• Ran weekly team meetings
• Interfaced with upper leadership to plan launches and feature roll outs
• Administered weekly 1-on-1 meetings with direct reports
• Performed team member yearly reviews and recommended salary adjustments and bonuses

Technologies: Swing, Java, EJB, J2EE, Weblogic, Linux, CVS, SQL, Bugzilla, and Oracle

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; OVER; Internet industry

2002 – 2006 (4 years)

• Provided architecture vision for current and future product direction
• Mentored development staff in areas of software design, architecture, and implementation strategies
• Guided managerial staff in areas of time management, project priorities, and project time estimates
• Managed successful deliveries of key software project initiatives
• Engage product managers and stakeholders in meetings designed to elicit new product requirements
• Suggested future product scope and overall product vision to product managers and development staff
• Participate in design and architecture reviews
• Spearheaded converting development team to use Linux running on local boxes for development purposes
• Analyzed/ optimized system performance and reduced long standing blocking locks

Technologies: Java, Weblogic, IntelliJ, JMS, Swing, Web Services, CVS

Retail industry

1993 – 2003 (10 years)

• Gathered requirements for enhancements
• Architected new solutions from given customer requirements
• Implemented business reports
• Managed posting routines
• Managed databases and entity relationships
• Improved speed, reliability and overall usage experience

Technologies: Dataflex

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; OVER; Internet industry

2002 – 2002 (less than a year)

• Manage, lead, and develop J2EE applications for classification of advertiser listings
• Developed a rating engine for automatic listing classification based on keywords found in the listing
• Reduced listing publish time from days to minutes

Technologies: Java, J2EE, EJB, JDBC, JSP, Weblogic, Oracle, Sun/Solaris/Linux

Nonprofit; 10,001+ employees; Hospital & Health Care industry

July 2002 – August 2002 (2 months)

• Reviewed and evaluated newly developed system
• Provided a guidance and recommendation document
• Suggested various code optimizations and enhancements

Technologies: Java, JDBC, JSP, Weblogic.

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Consumer Electronics industry

January 2002 – July 2002 (7 months)

• Resolve issues with Ceiva.com site
• Build new functionality as well as modified existing code
• Optimized overall system performance
• Enhanced user interface for easier usability
• Eliminated 99% of all system related failures.

Technologies: Resin, Java, JSP, JDBC, Microsoft SQL.

2001 – 2002 (1 year)

• Implement a media streaming and ad engine based on users preferences, likes and dislikes
• Architected user interface, middle tier and database layout
• Designed user interface
• Built SQL necessary to populate the database
• Implemented back end services and matching engine

Technologies: Java, J2EE, JSP, Orion Application Server, Oracle, Lucene, XML

Public Company; 201-500 employees; IACI; Internet industry

1999 – 2001 (2 years)

• Implemented new search server based on Verity Search Engine
• Designed multi-state caching solution
• Considerably improved Citysearch search pagination performace.
• Created a linearly scalable solution
• Implemented new tags for existing publishing system

Technologies: C++, HTTP, Java

Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; TKTM; Entertainment industry

1999 – 2001 (2 years)

• Gathered requirements for the new transaction engine
• Architected a stateless scalable architecture using CORBA
• Implemented custom load balancing based on actual CPU workload
• Designed a proxy mechanism that hid all the complexities of load balancing from developer using the architecture
• Implemented a data caching mechanism which allowed back-end servers to be completely stateless

Technologies: Java, CORBA, Event Queues, JSP

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Investment Management industry

1998 – 1999 (1 year)

Architect, design, develop applications for fixed income security management. Implemented mortgage backed securities trading system processing billions dollars worth of trading while reducing administrative head count from 4 to 1.

Technologies: BEA Weblogic, EJB, Oracle, Sybase, ODBC, Java, Visual Basic, Servlets, CORBA, Swing, Visual C++, Windows NT Services, Multi-tier application development, JavaMail.

Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Banking industry

1998 – 1998 (less than a year)

Architect, design and develop systems to automate online processing of loan applications.

Technologies: C++, TCP/IP, SQL, Java 1.1.x, Visual C++ 5.0, Oracle

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry

1995 – 1998 (3 years)

Design, architect and develop components for system monitoring and management software suite. Technologies:
Visual C++, CORBA, Visual Age C++, ICLUI library, RogueWave Tools, Java.

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Business Supplies and Equipment industry

February 1994 – January 1995 (1 year)

Design, architect and develop system for AM/PM store HR automation.

Technologies: DataFlex 2.3b, Microsoft C++, Watcom C++ (protected mode programming using DOS4GW.EXE), PVCS.

1990 – 1994 (4 years)

Engage in development projects/consulting for various clients. Creator of the Dataflex FileView utility used to maintain and administer Dataflex databases.

Technologies: Dataflex 2.3b, C++.

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry

1987 – 1990 (3 years)

Architect and develop Dataflex 3.0 packages. Profile phone support for Dataflex priority customers.

Technology: Dataflex, C++