Raymond Monaco

armadadigital Inc.

Location: Greater New York City Area
Industry: Information Technology and Services

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Raymond Monaco's Overview

Current

Senior Information Architect & Usability Engineer at armadadigital

Past

Director of Digital Technology at Rapp Collins Worldwide
CTO at Freelance (armadadigital)
Associate Director Of Marketing Technology at OgilvyOne Worldwide

Technical Project Manager at CSC
Consultant at Robert Half International
Technical Project Manager at RazorStream
Consultant at R&R Partners
Consultant at Accenture
Director of Technology at Young & Rubicam
Consultant at Anderson Consulting

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Education

New York University

Recommendations

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Connections

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Responsible executive that offers a solid background of innovative technology expertise that takes companies and projects to the next level. Excels at defining business requirements and developing solutions that align with overall goals and organizational strategy. Experienced digital technology marketing executive with in-depth knowledge of various industry standard technologies. Outstanding communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills with a reputation for forming productive business relationships at all levels. Natural leader that forms cohesive teams and fosters collaborative efforts across organizations. Strong critical thinking, problem solving, and time management skills with proven success handling multiple responsibilities and projects in fast-paced environments

Specialties

Industry Experience
Financial Intuitions, Advertising Industry, Insurance Industry, Entertainment Industry, Design and Architecture Industry, Education Industry, Healthcare Industry, Casino and Hospitality Industry, Government experience, Military Exposure.

Senior Information Architect & Usability Engineer

armadadigital

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

January 2009 – Present (3 years 2 months)

Projects & Clients
• Multiple information, interface, and experience design projects for local, regional and global industries, such as automotive (Nissan), local government (The City of New York), healthcare (McKenzie Institute International), insurance companies (Delta Lloyd), pension funds (PGGM), transportation companies (Dutch Railways), telecom (Vodafone), software industries (IBM), dot.com (eBay), publishing (Elsevier Science), retail (KBB), international banking clients.

Skills & Competencies
• Champion of user-centered design across the organization.
• Translation of client business rules and practices into functional requirements for large, complex information projects.
• Understanding existing client business processes and rules while translating strategies into functional design.
• Analysis of user tasks and development of task models and usage scenarios.
• Strong business acumen with a focus on strategic analysis.
• Extensive experience with research techniques such as interviewing and observations.
• Needs analyses and requirements gathering for the development of audience profiles, user scenarios, storyboards, sitemaps, wireframes and navigational prototypes.
• Enterprise Taxonomy planning and implementation.
• Gestural Based Interfaces & usability testing of Gesture Base Interfaces.
• Planning and facilitation of usability tests, surveys and focus groups.
• Project management (team leader) of an interdisciplinary team of interaction designers, visual designers, front-end developers, and user researchers.
• Appropriate tools on PC/Win and Apple/Mac platform (e.g. Axure RP, Morae, OmniGraffle, Office, Visio, Illustrator, Photoshop).

Director of Digital Technology

Rapp Collins Worldwide

Public Company; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry

February 2008 – January 2009 (1 year)

Responsible for the alignment of technology and business objectives with the client facing software development team. Leading onshore and offshore development team and integrating multiple vendors to deliver projects on time, on budget and on specification for mission critical client projects. Some of the projects including the following initiatives.
Design and implementation of a enterprise Data-wherehouse that supported multiple international lines of business, utilizing Oracle technologies.
Defined the requirements and managed the implementation of a Coupon engine and web-services for a multinational client.
Built multiple Facebook and mobile applications as well as defined the business requirements for these projects.

CTO

Freelance (armadadigital)

2008 – 2008 (less than a year)

armadadigital is a technology publishing company and consultancy that I've founded to provide technology research, consulting and training to private clients.

Associate Director Of Marketing Technology

OgilvyOne Worldwide

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry

February 2007 – February 2008 (1 year 1 month)

Responsible for enterprise application architecture and multiple vendor integration for client content management systems. Ogilvy is paid to develop in these systems and we are responsible for delivering a turnkey system that our clients use and maintain once development is complete.

• Managing vendors for fulfillment of client requirements
• Being a tool mentor for junior staff members
• Enforcing application architectural standards and procedures
• Leading code reviews and architectural discussions
• Selecting, designing and implementing integration strategies
• Management and leadership of a large geographically dispersed technology team
• Technical accountability and project management for the technology team
• CMMI compliance in the daily practices of development and deployment
• GAP analysis; current state vs. future state planning
• Mapping the application software architecture to the physical system architecture

Technical Project Manager

CSC

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; CSC; Information Technology and Services industry

2004 – 2005 (1 year)

Worked with the Saudi Arabian government on a biometrics program. This included the use of the following technologies and skills. Also worked with the Department of Homeland Security.
• Biometrics: AFIS system implementation powered by NEC. This involved designing the infrastructure to accommodate this large fingerprint scanning and matching system. The data center, infrastructure, cable plant and footprint for the system were the part of the chief architect’s role and responsibility. Iris and facial scanning systems were tested and implemented as well in a test environment. The AFIS system was to support the biometric features for the Saudi national identification card. Integrated all systems and third party systems for the national identification card project. This project was a CMMI level 5 compliant project.
Smart Card Development: Responsible for All multos development and Java card development.

Consultant

Robert Half International

Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; RHI; Staffing and Recruiting industry

January 2004 – January 2005 (1 year 1 month)

Supported various clients and projects for RHI in the Las Vegas area. This involved supporting casino clients and their technical requirements.
MGM/Mirage *RHI Client*
Active Directory merge and purge migration process. This directory consists of over 15,000 ADO objects and OU's as well.

WYNN Resorts *RHI Client*
Implementation of ghost for client deployment. Deployment of Altaris and configuration of Altaris bootagents.

Mandalay Bay Resort Group *RHI Client*
Implementation of Wireless access points and bridges thought all of the hotels rooms. This project involved implementation of Motorola and linksys routers, bridges and access points.

Marnell & Carraro *RHI Client*
Implementation of two Citirx Metaframe XP servers. Implementation of Solar winds network-monitoring software. Upgrade and inventory of all Cisco routers and switches.

Technical Project Manager

RazorStream

February 2003 – January 2004 (1 year)

Build a high availability environment using Active Directory and Windows Server 2003. This includes Linux, Apache and Postgresql in the environment as well. The duties in the role also involved managing a J2EE and J2ME application development team. The position requires managing a team of administrators and developers as well as a small research and development department.
• Designed and maintained their datacenter and all of its infrastructure.
• Managed a small team of Java developers that designed and installed a J2EE compliant video streaming application.
• Created process, procedures and standards for Java development, deployment and maintainability.

Consultant

R&R Partners

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry

January 2002 – February 2003 (1 year 2 months)

Developed a management methodology to create deadlines and project phases for the multitude of technology projects at R&R Partners. Negotiated a Microsoft enterprise agreement to bring the corporate entity of R&R into compliance with end user license agreements. Designed and implemented an active directory infrastructure with Microsoft exchange to support business requirements. Created a sense of community for the I.T workers at R&R. Integrated various databases for R&R into one SQL server cluster. Developed a CRM system for R&R and business intelligence retrieval system that mines the internet for current relevant information and aggregates the information on one interface.
• Implemented 30 servers to support agency functions. These servers consist of Linux and Windows server 2003.
• Worked on a custom CRM system that was developed for managing client relationships.
• Created a SQl datawherehouse for storing customer data and relevant client data as well.

Consultant

Accenture

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; ACN; Management Consulting industry

January 2001 – January 2002 (1 year 1 month)

Prudential *Accenture Client*
Designed a strategic implementation plan to help Prudential gain a competitive differentiator for their many lines of business. Looking into operational efficiencies as well as strategic employee placement in a high level tactical methodology that articulates a directional shift in information technology practice and principles. Implementation with Microsoft consulting services of the new .net framework helps retool

Director of Technology

Young & Rubicam

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; WPPGY; Marketing and Advertising industry

March 1995 – January 2001 (5 years 11 months)

Demonstrated ability to apply sound knowledge to diverse applications. Developed and cultivated strategies to harmonize the enterprise's operating system platforms, network infrastructure and corporate wide applications, server and client systems these clients include IBM, Coke, AT&T, and various other dot .com businesses. Developed several proprietary systems to address business needs and proactively created knowledge management systems, ECRM/CRM applications and vendor and lead management databases. Also developed a global standard and distributed this to the world wide network at Wunderman. The position also included the responsibility running the client facing interactive group. The interactive group at Wunderman is where
• Utilized the Rational tool set for structured software analysis and design.
• Integrated enterprise software packages and consolidated the data.
• Responsible for all production operations and the companies data center.

Consultant

Anderson Consulting

February 1992 – March 1995 (3 years 2 months)

Citibank *Anderson Client*
Responsibilities included all executive relocations for John Reed, Chairman and CEO of Citibank. Duties were to relocate floors of personnel and their desktop PC's and all back office technology and file servers. I also put in new Novell servers and new segments for new and existing personnel. I also have deployed several TIS Gauntlet Firewalls thru-out Citibank on various platforms including UNIX, (Solaris 2.51) and several internal Windows NT firewalls. Administration of Novell and integration with windows domains were the project focus

Italian, Arabic

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New York University

Doctorate, Computer Science

1993 – 2001

Dissertation titled “Distributed Grid Computing On Pier to Pier Networks ”, 2000.

Activities and Societies: Summa Cum Laude

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Interests:

Art, Computer Science, Mensa Puzzles, Computer Gaming Technology. Immersion & Gaming, Game Theory, Grid Computing, Computational Calculations, Artificial intelligence.

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