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Barry Goldberg
| 202 Alexander Avenue Nutley, NJ 07110 |
(973) 667-8259 bigb@siteny.com |
| THE PRINCETON REVIEW | |
| New York, NY | 11/2004 - Present |
$200 million provider of K-12 assessment services, classroom and online test preparation. The Princeton Review helps students, parents, and educators achieve the best results at every stage of their educational careers. By focusing on preparation and practice, The Princeton Review helps students improve their performance in the classroom and on standardized tests.
VICE PRESIDENT, APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
Senior executive and chief architect responsible for defining and implementing technology and product strategies and process re-engineering to meet corporate needs.
Further Responsibilities
- Oversight of all software development, management of 50+ professionals, vendors and contractors.
- Administration of $8 million budget.
- Determine outsourcing opportunities to reduce costs and increase productivity.
- Supervise all vendor engagements and negotiate software licensing agreements.
- Manage/Architected many systems as SaaS such as Assessment Center (K12 Services); refactored existing system so they could be offered as SaaS.
- Promoted from AVP of Strategic Systems 3/2006.
Strategic Leadership Initiatives
- Lowered development costs $4.2 million and streamlined staff from 61 to 36 while facilitating merger of 3 divisional development groups into 1 technical team. Led release of 3 major systems in less than 1 year following consolidation.
- Developed/Architected new corporate portal with Intranet/Extranet, based on open source technology (DotNetNuke).
- Played key role in winning contracts with several school districts, including $16 million deal with Los Angeles USD.
- Saved $1 million and improved redundancy of major systems by migrating production systems to new managed data center. Significantly reduced total server footprint.
- Enhanced project consistency by establishing Architectural Review Committee and creating vendor standards and guidelines.
- Participated in limited Microsoft beta program for .NET 3.0 Windows Workflow Foundation technology.
Operations Management & Infrastructure Development
- Implemented new corporate website using Ektron CMS and established authoring and quality workflow.
- Maintain over 99.9% uptime for all of The Princeton Review (TPR) websites, which receive 1.3 million unique visits per month and have over 18 million registered users.
- Achieved 18% reduction in data center utility costs by decommissioning 50 servers.
- Improved finance department and field office productivity by implementing ecommerce framework that consolidated reporting, lowered account reconciliation times and reduced credit card processing fees.
- Reduced hardware and management costs and enhanced ability to test new software releases by deploying virtual server technology (VMware) in development, QA and staging environments.
- Implemented Federated Identity Management to provide single sign-on across all TPR applications and seamless authentication from one TPR application to another.
| ZEDAK CORP. | |
| Valhalla, NY | 3/1997-8/2000 & 3/2002-11/2004 |
$10 million provider of financial systems for Fortune 100 companies. Zedak helps financial services companies sell more asset management services by freeing human labor in the asset gathering business, automating manager search, client presentations, and the due diligence processes.
VICE PRESIDENT OF APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
Senior manager and chief architect of software development teams creating complex financial applications for clients such as Morgan Stanley, UBS and Smith Barney. Directed cross-functional teams developing custom features/interfaces supporting clients’ multi-billion dollar revenue streams. Generated millions of dollars in revenue by successfully closing contracts and ensuring highest levels of customer satisfaction at all times.
- Served as senior architect and program director for web-based classified ad submission system for The New York Times. System allowed agencies to post ads directly to the paper’s backend systems.
- Helped develop XML standards for newspaper industry while serving on Newspaper Association of America (NAA) committee that defined classified advertisement XML markup standards. Published in XML Bible for work done on classified XML standards.
- Defined/built internal corporate infrastructure to support collaboration, source control, incident tracking, document management and customer support.
- Grew company and developed team from 5 to 25 individuals in 1 year to meet corporate growth.
| ACTV INC. | |
| New York, NY | 8/2000-1/2002 |
$20 million provider of convergent online and TV media products (an emerging Liberty Media property) including the HyperTV Networks, eSchool, BottleRocket and Intellocity subsidiaries.
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
Recruited to executive team to serve as chief architect of ACTV’s web-based applications, including mission-critical synch-to-broadcast applications. Responsible for oversight of company-wide software management. Corporate clients included McGraw Hill, Discovery Channel, TBS Superstation, Game Show Network and the NBA.
- Served as chief architect for new product development.
- Advised on intellectual property issues and served as a technology witness in litigations.
- Championed several successful acquisitions, including Intellocity and BottleRocket.
- Facilitated strategic acquisitions by re-architecting diverse applications and databases into 1 system.
- Grew geographically diverse technical team from 15 to 50 professionals, managed multi-million dollar budget, and implemented new build, migration and monitoring processes.
- Streamlined applications for ACTV’s corporate, B2B and B2C websites and customer markets.
- Promoted from Vice President of Application Development 8/2001
| ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS, INC. | |
| Chicago, IL | 12/1994-3/1997 |
Software company providing solutions to the healthcare industry, now merged with Allscripts
PROJECT LEAD - SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
- Technical project lead and developer of a 32-bit client/server materials management B2B healthcare shrink wrap product.
- Quickly moved from programmer to project lead where I managed two small teams of 3-4 people each.
- General responsibilities included management, design and development of the entire product migration effort from DOS to Windows.
- Mentored DOS developers in retraining from deprecated technologies.
- Technologies included C++, Pascal, Java, SQL Server, Crystal Reports, ActiveX, VB, PowerBuilder
- Promoted from Programmer/Analyst 12/1995
| CAM SERVICES | |
| Cocoa Beach, FL | 4/1993 - 12/1994 |
Software company providing solutions to the healthcare industry, now merged with Allscripts
PROGRAMMER ANALYST
Designed and developed property management shrink wrap product targeted at small business having government assistance integration needs. Chose Delphi as best of breed technology for migration from DOS to Windows.
| Applications/DBs: | MS Office, Project, Visio, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, JDBC/ODBC, Data Warehouse |
| Tools/Languages: | HTML, XHTML, XML, SOAP, Web Services, JavaScript, AJAX, VBScript, .NET, ASP, IIS, Apache, Tomcat, Cold Fusion, Web Sphere, MVC, Java (Servlets, JSP, MVC, J2EE), C/C++/C#, Delphi, Pascal, SQL, Delphi PHP, Cold Fusion |
| iTV Technologies: | ATVEF, WebTV, AOLTV, Liberate, OpenTV, VBI |
