VP Product Development at EarthColor
Houston, Texas Area
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- VP Product Development at EarthColor
- Past
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- VP Product Development at Consolidated Graphics
- Principal Consultant at Sogeti, USA
- Business Analysis at CGXSolutions
- Business Intelligence Developer and Business Analysis at Global SantaFe
- Senior Software Engineer at Prudential Real Estate Services Company
- Senior VP at ICE Networks, LLC
- VP of Technology at 800housing, LLC
- Founder at eRealty.com
- Lead Software Developer at America’s Discount Home Realty
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Derek Alfonso’s Summary
Data warehousing architecture, systems design, solutions architecture, application builds and deployment of enterprise-wide applications. Work closely with multiple teams and provide product architecture oversight of offshore and onshore development. Extensive experience with a variety of technologies and strong ability provide architectural and strategic business direction.
Derek Alfonso’s Specialties:
Corporate Management, Application Architecture Oversight, Advanced/Analytical T-SQL, SQL Server Integration & Analysis Services, MDX, Relational Normalized Data Modeling, C# WinForms/Console/Web, HTML, Advanced CSS 2.0/3.0, XML/XSLT, DHTML, AJAX (familiarity with toolkits like MochiKit, Prototype, and script.aculo.us as well as hand tooled AJAX), Advanced JavaScript, Flash/ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0, Audio/Video Authoring/Editing/Encoding Technologies/Implementation, PHP, XML, C++, VB.net
Derek Alfonso’s Experience
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VP Product Development
EarthColor
(Privately Held; Printing industry)
October 2009 — Present (2 months)
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VP Product Development
Consolidated Graphics
(Public Company; CGX; Printing industry)
November 2008 — September 2009 (11 months)
Directly responsible for an enterprise server environment comprised of over 100 servers managing four distinct environments of a large scale, and highly integrated application. Most recently completed a large migration to a new co-location facility in Dallas, Texas that was the completion of a project which took more than two years of planning.
Also directly responsible for the architecture of over $2MM worth of solutions for customers like BP, Lexus, Midas, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, and others. -
Principal Consultant
Sogeti, USA
(Public Company; CAP.PA; Information Technology and Services industry)
2007 — 2008 (1 year )
Helped businesses face their ever-changing and demanding market challenges. Provided systems integration and technology services such as data migration, enterprise business management, product lifecycle management, software testing, and applications management. Strong background in Sarbanes-Oxley compliance consulting and implementation of software many vendors such as Microsoft and IBM.
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Business Analysis
CGXSolutions
(Printing industry)
August 2007 — November 2008 (1 year 4 months)
Consulted on behalf of Sogeti USA for CGXSolutions new-technology SOA StoreFront application. Starting with requirements gathering, business analysis, and use case development to actual hands-on development of components of the StoreFront application and integration with other applications such as ProMAIL, UPS, and FedEx.
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Business Intelligence Developer and Business Analysis
Global SantaFe
(Oil & Energy industry)
August 2007 — November 2007 (4 months)
Managed the development of complex ETL processes for migrating data from locations all over the world to a centralized data warehouse which is based on a custom architecture using SQL Server Analysis Services cubes and the new-to-the-market Microsoft PerformancePoint key performance indicators (KPIs) and dashboarding on top of Microsoft's SharePoint platform.
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Senior Software Engineer
Prudential Real Estate Services Company
(Public Company; PRU; Real Estate industry)
January 2005 — August 2007 (2 years 8 months)
Wrote back-end data management software primarily in C# utilizing Microsoft SQL Server and many custom processes to enable supporting a franchise network of nearly 2,000 residential real estate brokerages across the US, Canada, and Mexico and over 80,000 agents.
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Senior VP
ICE Networks, LLC
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
January 2003 — January 2005 (2 years 1 month)
Specializing in Information, Communications, and Entertainment my responsibilities included helping small-to-medium businesses distribute information via the Internet, Print Media, and Live Events.
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VP of Technology
800housing, LLC
(Real Estate industry)
June 2002 — January 2003 (8 months)
Responsible for the technology to support a technology based Real Estate company for low-to-middle income buyers. Supported large-scale call centers with over 400 seats and all of the incoming and outgoing dialer and database technology to support entire Real Estate transactions.
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Founder
eRealty.com
(Real Estate industry)
January 1998 — June 2002 (4 years 6 months)
Work with my father Raymond Alfonso to found the first online Real Estate company which ultimately partnered with Yahoo! Real Estate and was purchased by Prudential Real Estate and became Prudential Real Estate Services Company.
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Lead Software Developer
America’s Discount Home Realty
(Real Estate industry)
January 1996 — February 1998 (2 years 2 months)
Primary developer of the first large-scale web-based online real estate search tool in the world. Technologies used included primarily Classic ASP 3.0, Microsoft SQL Server, and C/COM as well as proprietary software Monarch used for parsing large amounts of data from Multiple Listing System (MLS) and Tax feeds which at the time were dial-up based requiring custom terminal clients to feed the data into a structured database.
