Passionate IT / Technology Executive
Greater New York City Area
- Current
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- Chief Information Officer at Portero, Inc.
- Past
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- VP Technology at Portero
- VP Development / Lead Developer at Takkle Inc
- President / Founder at Supernerd LLC
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- Education
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- Brigham Young University
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Steven Francia’s Summary
Deep experience in e-commerce, social networking and social media. Expertise includes development, technology turnaround, strategy, organizational planning, restructuring, cost reduction, funding, productivity, and the translation of business needs into technical implementation and delivery. Focused on providing decisive leadership, alignment of technology with business around a common vision and serving business stakeholders. Skilled in project management (Agile/Scrumm), usability, security, scalability, and system and software architecture. Strong communicator with excellent problem-solving and analytic skills. Author of spf13.com, a blog on IT, leadership and social media recently featured in CIO Magazine (Aug 09). Recognized social media industry leader (ciozone.com).
Steven Francia’s Specialties:
Development, technology turnaround, strategy, organizational planning, restructuring, cost reduction, funding, SEO, SEM, IT, telephony & VOIP, negotiation, team building, vendor management, SDLC, scalable infrastructure and software architecture
Extensive background in Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MacOS X, Windows, Perl, ASP, .net, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, Apache, Oracle, Javascript, XHTML, XML, CSS, Flash and AJAX.
Steven Francia’s Experience
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Chief Information Officer
Portero, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Responsible for Operations and Technology for Portero, Inc. The only destination to buy authentic luxury goods online. Guiding Portero's web, technology and infrastructure developments.
