Director of IT at Alloy
Greater New York City Area
- Current
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- Director of Internet Technology at Alloy Marketing and Media
- Past
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- Systems and Architecture Manager at Takkle
- Senior Software Engineer at Takkle
- Senior Consultant at New York Magazine
- Senior Consultant at Zoomwit Corporation
- Project Manager at Safe Horizons
- NA at Personal Sabbatical
- Project Manager at Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Senior Programmer / Technical Lead at Bristol Myers Squibb
- Web Applications Developer / Business Analyst at Bristol Myers Squibb
- Adult Education Instructor at Murry Bergtraum Adult Education Center
- Web Developer at New York University
- Education
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- New York University
- New York University
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John Napiorkowski’s Summary
I've spent the last fourteen years using open source technologies to build social networking web sites, content management / new media systems and marketing platforms. I've delivered over one hundred successful IT projects. My greatest passion is creating software to help people communicate and share information in novel ways. My personal strength is an ability to bring technologists and business leaders together for a joint vision. Whether in product or business development, advertisement, sales or first-to-market technologies, I am consistently focused on aligning IT priorities with business strategy. I am ready to use my knowledge, leadership and peer network to grow our company.
Technologies I've deployed recently would include Amazon EC2 and other cloud based solutions, CDN providers such as Akamai, Linux, Apache, Perl, MySQL and other open source database technology, Bugzilla, Subversion, and other work-flow tool chains, and analytics tools like Google Analytics. I am heavily involved in developing new options for scaling MySQL, including replication and sharding strategies. I am also a key contributer and advocate of several open source software projects, including the Catalyst web development framework, the DBIx::Class database object relational mapper, Template Toolkit and Moose, an advanced meta object protocol for object oriented software development.
John Napiorkowski’s Specialties:
Web Application Development, Data Modeling, Project & Program Management.
John Napiorkowski’s Experience
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Director of Internet Technology
Alloy Marketing and Media
(Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2009 — Present (10 months)
When Takkle (my previous employer) was acquired, I initially lead the IT transition team. Later, I was asked to remain in a leadership role and to take charge of IT operations. Building on an open source platform, I have leveraged Takkle's sports oriented, social networking technology to sell innovative advertisement campaigns. I'm a key member of the team that delivered targeted, interactive advertisement products to Powerade, Nike, Gatorade and Puma. My business development efforts include partnering with the National Collegiate Scholarship Association to develop a self service sports recruiting tool aimed at high school athletes who are pursuing their dream to play college sports.
Technologies: Perl, MySQL, Linux, Apache, Javascript, Flash.
Takkle -
Systems and Architecture Manager
Takkle
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
September 2008 — January 2009 (5 months)
Responsibilities included purchasing, operations, vendor relationships, strategic partner integration and team building. I advised executive staff and board members regarding technology issues while coordinating with product managers and team leaders to develop project plans and allocate resources.
Key achievements would include: launching a recruitment portal to assist high school athletes meeting college coaches, integrating Facebook Connect into member profiles, and the successful renegotiation of vendor contacts to reduce our monthly ISP (Rackspace) and CDN (Akamai) costs by 75%. -
Senior Software Engineer
Takkle
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
October 2007 — September 2008 (1 year )
Hired as a domain expert in building scalable, social networking web sites, I rapidly assumed leadership responsibilities in this fast growing startup. In my role I designed and developed software solutions using messaging and job queues, database replication and partitioning and designed the web service interfaces for distributing our email and video conversion needs to third party providers.
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Senior Consultant
New York Magazine
(Privately Held; Publishing industry)
August 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 3 months)
New York Magazine hired me to complete a scrapbook / photo sharing project in support of marketing and ecommerce initiatives for Fashion Week 2006. Using Apache, Perl and MySQL open source software, this was an AJAX enabled web application which allowed site visitors to save and share their favorite (or most hated) fashion images. I stayed on to develop a security system for managing corporate passwords, an application to automate onboarding new hires used by Human Resources, and completed a site wide commenting system which also used AJAX and integrated with single sign-on security.
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Senior Consultant
Zoomwit Corporation
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2006 — July 2006 (7 months)
Hired by the company's founder to develop a prototype ecommerce website envisioned as a cross between Reality TV and a social network. Managing outsourced teams in China and India. Additionally, I assisted the client with budgeting, business and product development and IT capacity planning.
Technologies: Perl, Apache, Javascript (Dojo), PostgreSQL, CSS and HTML. -
Project Manager
Safe Horizons
(Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2005 — January 2006 (6 months)
I was contracted to fill a leadership gap on a multi-year project, created when the Director of IT left without a transition plan. Meeting with clients scattered across all five NYC boroughs, I developed a project plan to timely deliver a confidential customer relationship management system.
Personal Sabbatical
Starting January 2004 though June 2005, I took a personal sabbatical for a period of self-directed study. -
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Personal Sabbatical
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2004 — August 2005 (1 year 8 months)
Starting January 2004 though Summer of 2005, I took a personal sabbatical for a period of self-directed study.
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Project Manager
Bristol-Myers Squibb
(Public Company; BMY; Pharmaceuticals industry)
February 2002 — January 2004 (2 years )
Trusted to manage mission critical IT projects for a Fortune 50 pharmaceutical company. Project management duties included a comprehensive security audit of all in house developed applications. Managed both corporate and external client relationships in support of business development. Advised C-Level management on new productivity and cost savings projects.
Consolidated corporate Intranet (70+ departmental websites) to PlumTree" Portal and implemented a new content management strategy based on Documentum" CMS, XML/RDF and other open syndication technologies, saving $650,000 yearly.
Conducted technology *learn-in* sessions with Vice President*s Direct Reports Committee to explain emerging web application development trends and demo current IT best practices.
Led a team that developed a security review process and programmer guidelines for all in house developed applications. Managed projects to fix the most mission critical problems. -
Senior Programmer / Technical Lead
Bristol Myers Squibb
(Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2000 — February 2002 (2 years 1 month)
Designed and built mission critical web applications. Directed and mentored a teams of programmers and business analysts. Assumed daily and weekly operations management for high visibility websites such as *BMS.com*. Created and utilized an expanding resource network within and across departmental boundaries. Coordinated complex projects while ensuring timely results within budget.
Migrated the Corporate website to in-house hosting, reducing annual ISP costs by $400,000.
Architected and managed a business development portal which provided 'one stop shopping' for external companies interested in co-coordinating pharmaceutical product development.
Developed a self service award submission and tracking system, which replaced an error prone and high effort, non automated system for an annual savings of $120,000. -
Web Applications Developer / Business Analyst
Bristol Myers Squibb
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1998 — February 2000 (2 years 2 months)
Provided technical support, team direction, and modernization for the company*s web applications. Assumed a leadership role in high profile web publishing projects, such as Planet BMS *a company wide portal site. Was responsible for coordinating IT and content stakeholders. Advised project managers on *best practice* approaches to web publishing. Devised search engine optimizations.
Rebuilt the corporate Intranet used by 30,000 employees to reduce the effort to find published information and created a JavaScript based CMS that permitted new content to be easily added.
Migrated the corporate Internet site to an in house developed content management system.
Developed a product information and drug advisement database for the Internet web site. -
Adult Education Instructor
Murry Bergtraum Adult Education Center
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1995 — December 1999 (4 years 7 months)
This was a part time job I held while also working at New York University and Bristol Myers Squibb. I was hired as an independent instructor for various PC based application. Created and presented courses introducing adult learners to applications such as Windows and Microsoft Office, as well as taught a class on basic computer maintenance. Had sole responsibility for all aspect of teaching,
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Web Developer
New York University
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
January 1995 — January 1998 (3 years 1 month)
Developed and maintained the NYU Human Resources Internet presence in support of the department*s mission. Assumed a leadership role in researching, planning and deploying web publishing best practices. Trusted to manage confidential human resources assets, such as the careers database. Was responsible for administrative operations such as auditing security practices and software licensing.
Created a database-driven website that eliminated the need for a full-time HTML developer.
Created a web enabled search and self service application portal for the job openings database.
Built an award winning portal and publishing platform for human resource documents.
John Napiorkowski’s Education
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New York University
Master of Arts , Performance Studies , 1994 — 1996
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New York University
Bachelors of Arts , Philosophy and Literature , 1992 — 1994
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