Michael Mazzella

Michael Mazzella-- VICE PRESIDENT OF ENGINEERING Innovative, hands-on executive with record of leading design and development of high technology products, improving processes and procedures to drive revenue, efficiency, and market share. Results-oriented visionary with unique background in software engineering and design. 20 + years of experience in developing multi channel initiatives for customer facing products. Skilled at taking an entrepreneurial vision and making it a reality while building lean teams from scratch while developing Short Term and Long Term Product Roadmap. Demonstrated ability of using technology to consistently and positively impact business goals and instilling a results/metrics oriented culture. Successful track record of ensuring timely deliverables within a fast paced Agile environment. Accomplishing Product deliverables working with business partners on well defined OKR’s and a dev ops engineering environment. AWS, Jenkins, API, React, Node, Java, and full automation of testing through deployment. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Gartner, Inc. Jan 2013 - Present VP, Software Engineering Responsible for development of all client facing applications Responsible for 30 – 50 technologists across 5 global locations Staff includes Development Managers, Web Developers, Graphic Designers, Test Engineers, and Architects. Worked on department vendor contract negotiations Defined general architecture, strategy and standards for Development projects. Helped define our processes for development, maintenance and team management. Led the effort to implement a Test Driven Development approach with continuous integration. Migrated all applications to AWS(Vault, Elastic Search, S3, Kubernetes) within a Devops environment. Worked with GVP of Application Development on department building strategy for our growing organization. Make proposals to the business to meet their needs with the latest technologies such as react, node, typescript, mobile, API development, Java, .net – technology agnostic culture. Helped create a Lean, Metrics Driven and Results oriented culture using well defined OKR’s to help improve overall retention. Helped spear head a highly efficient Agile Scrum methodology at Gartner. Set career goals/path for the Mid-Level, Senior, and Lead Developers. Work extensively with our business partners to strategize our web products. Helped managed Product Delivery budget of 20M Jump Ramp GamesMarch 2012 – Dec 2012 Engineering Leader Lead HTML5 development effort for lucktastic scratch mobile games built in html5 Worked closely with the company founders on developing their vision and business initiative. Created strategic social media plans for lucktastic.com Developed a light weight mobile platform for current and future games. Publishers Clearing House, Port Washington, N.Y. June 2008-March 2012 Manager UI/Engineering Personally created the mobile versions of our brands website from scratch using HTML 5 and CSS 3. Managed team of 6-10 UI Engineers locally and off shore Spear headed Agile development methodology within the organization. Selling a mobile website usability and development plan to business users. Liaison between Online Technology and business side. Worked with the business to understand their needs and develop technical solutions for them. Handwritten cross browser markup and css for the pch.com brands. Developed fast, Ajax based features using JSON and Web Services. Redcats USA, New York, N.Y. April 2004 – June 2008 Manager, UI Engineering Started the User Interface team and grew it from one person to 12. Managed teams in nyc and in Europe. Building relationships and partnerships with client's to succeed together in enhancing our E-commerce platform. Working with International clients in creating business requirements. Design best practices and processes for individual clients and Redcats. Envisioned and built front-end for the sites using Asp .NET, C#, XML, Web Forms, Custom User Controls, XHTML, JavaScript, and DHTML. Assist in putting together Online Presentation Department budget. Liaison between clients and Redcats USA Online Technology to address our client’s business needs. Developed strategic vision documents to help our businesses understand what we can do for them to enhance their sites. Developed user search capability on all sites using .Net and Easy Ask Search Solutions. Part of team that created an international E-commerce platform. SNL Financial, New York, N.Y.June 2000 - 2004 Software Developer Original development team member of Investment Banking startup. Coded front end of java Platform with XSL. Java Development of Dynamically generated mapping software. Led UI effort to convert existing site to .net Platform. EDUCATION BS, Computer Science. Saint John’s University 1999.