Contact-
www.linkedin.com/in/williamcrown
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Top Skills
IT Management
SaaS
Cloud Computing
William P Crown
Technical Advisor at giftz.io
Ventura, California
Summary
IT business professional with 20+ years experience. Adept in project
management and business analysis. Skilled in team leading and
directing IT projects from initiation to completion while mitigating
risks.
Certifications
MCSE
Experience working with project leads, all levels of management, and
stakeholders to gather requirements, define milestones, establish
schedules, and allocate tasks.
Demonstrated in effectively communicating project statuses across
departments and business units, both international and domestic.
Qualified in the preparation of presentations, project documentation,
reports, and budget forecasts.
Also experienced in creating process maps and workflows to identify
efficiency improvements and manage capacity planning.
Experience leading technical teams, domestic and abroad.
Experience developing, architecting, and managing software projects
for on-premise and cloud based deployment for managed and SaaS
solutions.
Proficient with the LAMP, MEAN, MERN and .net stacks with some
experience with Java+Spring.
Fluent languages: PHP, Node.js/Javascript, Java, JSP, HTML, C, C+
+, C#
Dog Lover. Blockchain enthusiast.
Experience
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StrainConnect
CTO
September 2018 - Present
San Francisco Bay Area
Responsible for defining product and technology strategy, setting engineering
direction, developing the product architecture and designing the user interface
for StrainConnect's next generation bio-science recommendation engine.
Leading a team of US-based and offshore developers using modern
technologies to implement StrainConnect's PWA and browser-based platform.
Leading all technical directionion as well as all budgeting and road mapping.
Development on this project was done in node.js using React.js and Python.
Data served from a horizontally scaled PostgreSQL
giftz.io
Technical Advisor
March 2018 - Present
Advising on IT, technology and security infrastructure on Giftz's next
generation blockchain platform.
Development on this project was done in node.js using React.js and
Express.js. Data served from MongoDB. Using Ethereum token.
Pomelo Solutions
Technical Advisor
January 2018 - Present
Los Angeles, Ca
Advised on the evaluation of new technologies and IT needs; provide guidance
to obtain complex debt capital and equity investment; and assist with the
identification and evaluation of business challenges and opportunities.
Self-employed
Senior Technical Consultant / Advisor
January 2018 - Present
Greater Los Angeles Area
Project development from inception of idea to planning and budgeting to
architecting and hiring, team leading and development to release.
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Have developed world class, multi language, scalable, web applications and
mobile apps for a myriad of industries. Have taken and fixed/updated existing
projects to work in modern frameworks and technologies.
Experience leading teams in the US and abroad.
I Have taken technical lead in several start-up ventures and lead 2 through
multiple rounds of funding.
Currently advising on several high-concept startup projects based on
blockchain and crytocurrency.
Shoppler
Senior Data Warehousing Solutions Architect
February 2017 - January 2018 (1 year)
Greater Los Angeles Area
Responsible for defining, documenting and articulating functional scope. Also
involved in the technical, analytical, problem-solving and identifying, analyzing,
tracking and managing customer and application data flow issues throughout
the platform.
Responsible for leading teams in the US and abroad to collect and normalize
data to supply and warehouse Shoppler's 1m+ product inventory. Gathering
data across 100+ systems, adapting to environmental changes and providing
systems to monitor data for changes and disruptions.
Development on this project was done on .net core, using MongoDB and C#.
FitMeNow LLC
Senior Solutions Architect, Product Manager, interim CTO
December 2013 - January 2018 (4 years 2 months)
Calabasas, CA
Responsible for defining product and technology strategy, setting engineering
direction, developing the product architecture and designing the user interface
for FitMeNow's next generation flagship product suite.
Lead a team of US-based and offshore developers using best-of-breed
technologies to implement FitMeNow's browser-based, SaaS enabled
applications and complementary iOS and Android mobile apps.
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Lead multiple initiatives across several product lines. Analyzed and managed
high-profile customer initiatives and lead development teams to modify and
support our products for white-label deals.
Lead the external integration team to integrate with industry leading enterprise
business software suites (SAP, Netsuite & Sage).
Briefly took on the CTO role in the very stages of the company and lead the
technical direction as well as all budgeting and road mapping.
Development on this project was done on PHP using the Laravel Framework.
App development was done in React Native. Data served from a horizontally
scaled PostgreSQL
William Crown
Novelist
1990 - January 2018 (28 years 1 month)
Medical Tourism Association®
Senior Architect / Product Manager
July 2011 - March 2014 (2 years 9 months)
Calabassas, CA
Drove the long-term technology, architecture and product release strategies.
Oversaw a global Research & Development team, managing the technical
relationships with the global technology partners, and innovated on all key
technology initiatives, including mobile computing, On-Demand and SaaS.
Development on this project was done in JAVA and JSP using Spring.
LetzChat, Inc.
Senior Product Consultant / Technical Lead
February 2012 - August 2012 (7 months)
Greater Los Angeles Area
Designed, architected and implemented a best-of-breed natural language
translation engine that could easily be deployed in top social media platforms.
Lead teams of developers and academic linguistic experts to produce game
changing technology.
Development on this project was done in JAVA using Spring.
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The Walt Disney Studios
Senior Consultant Project Lead
September 2011 - December 2011 (4 months)
Architected, budgeted, planned and designed the "Groops" internal calendar
system that provided staff across the world to budget, plan and execute
staged events and deliveries for all upcoming theatrical, digital and disc-based
releases. This included planning for merchandising, release trailers, rollouts,
video game tie-ins, etc. Managed teams of developers in the US and abroad to
bring the project on-line earlier than quoted and slightly under-budget.
Development was done on the Disney intranet using Python, MySQL and
JSON encoded data served to multiple endpoints including web, app and
compiled application.
Softshare
Full Stack Developer / Senior Product Management / Architect
August 1995 - August 2009 (14 years 1 month)
Santa Barbara, California Area
JAVA, ASP, C++, C#, Javascript, PHP, MS SQL Server, MySQL
Managed and Architected Softshare's flagship web-based EDI, EDIFACT &
XML human readable enterprise software. Estimated and managed project's
design, delivery, resources, and client relationship to budget.
Designed and planned resources for integrations of external systems,
including SAP, Oracle and other leading ERP systems.
Maintained customer support system for maintenance and warranty issue
logging by customer and internal personnel. Corresponded and consulted
directly with clients to resolve their issues by implementing requested
modifications.
Troubleshooting of legacy website and database issues in order to resolve
software bugs, add functionality and build integrations to Softshare's current
and up and coming suite of products.
Created alternative internet and intranet solutions using existing technology
and development procedures.
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Designed and developed static and dynamic web sites to customer
specification.
Architected and implemented relational databases and stored procedures for
use by internet and intranet systems.
Performed maintenance and development of internal time, billing, and project
management systems.
Initialized and maintained monthly web traffic reports from server logs and
delivering results to the customer.
MLS
Regional IT Manager and Support
1993 - 1995 (3 years)
Managed regional UNIX hardware and database. Supported client hardware
and software via person to person, phone and email.
Education
Emory University
· (1990 - 1992)
Shiloh High School
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