Personal Details

• Full Name Sean Patrick Reiser  
• Location Woodside, NY  
• Phone 347.321.4338  
• Email sean@seanreiser.com  
• Website http://seanreiser.com  
• U.S. Employment Eligibility U.S. Citizen  

Professional Biography

I began my career at Computer Associates, where I was involved in developing and supporting their xBase language, Clipper. After leaving CA, I used the knowledge and skills I acquired in Clipper, FoxPro and dBase to develop applications for Verizon, the New York Law Journal, TitleServ and at The Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation, where I was a Technology Officer.

After working at Chase, I served as Vice President at AST StockPlan, where I managed their development team. During the merger of AST StockPlan and CitiGroup's Stockplan Services groups, I architected the integration of their stock option and stock purchase platforms.

Since 2001, I have performed IT consulting services as Founder, President and Chief Geek at Repair Sense, Inc. My specialties include developing desktop and web applications, and providing leadership to development teams. In recent years I have developed Drupal websites for television programs, magazines, and non-profits as well as using the platform to build intranet applications for small businesses.

Selected Drupal Projects

• Developer Bravo for NBC/Universal    
  • Upgraded Bravo's website from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6.
  • Instituted best practices in the drupal code.
  • Enhanced photogalleries to take advantage of Views.
  • Removed business logic from theme and implemented the logic in modules.
• Developer and System Engineer This Emotional Life and pbs.org for Method    
  • Developed custom Drupal modules for a website to support the This Emotional Life television program which aired on PBS.
  • Resolved scaling issues caused by spikes in traffic during airings of the program by implementing APC, memcache and varnish.
• Developer World Cares Center    
  • Developed, Enhanced and Maintained WCC’s RRN (the readyresponders network), a Drupal based social network used to manage NGOs responding to a disaster. The site makes heavy used of Organic Groups to allow NGOs ease communications between responding groups.
  • Coordinated the transition of RRN from the Department of Defense to the World Cares Center.
  • Trained WCC staff in administering a Drupal site.
• Developer and System Administrator 24/Savvy    
  • Built 24/savvy.com, a women's lifestyle site in Drupal. Site makes extensive use of CCK, Views, Advertising UserPoints and Signup Modules.
  • Resolved scaling issues caused by weekly spikes in traffic by implementing memcache and varnish.
  • Responsible for routine server administration and maintenance.
• Developer Good Earth Beauty    
  • Designed and Developed Good Earth Beauty, a Drupal eCommerce site. The shopping components of the site make heavy use of ubercart.
• Developer Garden and Gun and Guideposts for Format_Studio    
  • Served as lead developer on Guideposts and Garden and Gun, Drupal based magazine websites.
  • Evaluated the progress of an existing development projects and developed a plan to put the deliver the project on time and budget.
  • Trained existing staff in proper Drupal usage.
• Developer Brand Building Communications    
  • Developed Brand Building Communcations website in Drupal.

Selected xBase Projects

• Lead Developer thestreet.com    
  • Supported and maintained a mutual fund rating system written in Visual FoxPro, C#.net, and Visual Basic 6.0.
  • Oversaw development team in porting the stock analytics engine to a mature C# codebase.
  • Ported legacy Visual FoxPro database to SQL Server using FoxPro’s adaptive cursor technology in the applications to minimize the effect of the port.
  • Designed and implemented a system to automate the import of mutual fund data feeds from Thompson Financial Services.
• Vice President, Information Systems AST StockPlan acquired by CitiGroup    
  • Served as technical lead for a team of six local and 22 offshore developers.
  • Developed, supported and maintained in house stock plan management database applications written in Clipper, Visual FoxPro, and Xbase++.
  • Architected the merger of AST StockPlan and CitiGroup systems ensuring a smooth transition.
  • Designed disaster recovery plan. Plan was implemented in the wake of the World Trade Center disaster with no loss of data or business.
  • Managed database infrastructure.
  • Developed a methodology to automate functions such as periodic reporting and data entry of option exercises giving the company the ability double it’s client base without the need to expand operations staff.
  • Designed, developed and supported applications to automate emailing plan participants alerting them of upcoming events such as enrollment deadlines and new grants.
• Technical Officer The Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation    
  • Managed a team of 8 programmers.
  • Supported and maintained a mortgage origination system written in Clipper 5.2.
  • Designed a process to automate the process of getting credit scores allowing fast approval of credit applications.
  • Ported the application to run under Advantage Database Server.
  • Designed and implemented an application running on the Palm Pilot allowing more efficient home appraisals.
• Migration Engineer IBM    
  • Architected a port of a Clipper application to VB.NET.
  • Designed a scripting tool to translate code in an automated fashion.
  • Developed business objects based on ragged array based psudeo-objects, pushing the business logic out to rules based .dlls.
• Application Developer The Clayton Group    
  • Supported and maintained a loan review system written in Clipper 5.2.
  • Designed reporting system in Visual FoxPro.
  • Ported application to xHarbour, an open source compiler based on Clipper.
  • Implemented 3DES encryption in C# and VB.NET.
  • Separated UI, business rules and data access into a three-tier architecture.
  • Ported the back end to run under MySQL.
• Contract Programmer PCMS-Magnacare    
  • Supported and maintained in house health care management database applications written in Clipper and Delphi.
  • Managed database infrastructure.
  • Designed, programmed and implemented a CD based provider database application written in Delphi.
  • Implemented Advantage Database Server.
  • Designed tools to monitor nightly processing and page support parties in the event of processing exceptions.
• Contract Programmer Law Journal Information Systems    
  • Maintained a vertical market application, which provided New York State docket information to law firms.
  • Enhanced UNIX based search engine to allow more flexibility in searching.
  • Designed an interface to CARCO allowing lawyers to research DMV records.
• Contract Programmer Verizon    
  • Upgraded HR system enhancing security, reporting and data validation routines.
• Contract Programmer Titleserv    
  • Designed, implemented and maintained applications for the day to day running of the business including programs to track the status of title applications and billing.
• Support Technician Computer Associates    
  • Provided online and telephone technical support for the CA Clipper family of products.
  • Designed a suite of sample programs to illustrate the use of Clipper.
  • Served as secondary sys-op on Computer Associates forums on CompuServe.

Other Experience

• President and Chief Geek Repair Sense, Inc.    
  • Provide computer-consulting services to New York based businesses.
  • Hire, and manage subcontractors on an as needed basis.
• Interim Development Manager Enfatico    
  • Served as lead developer and technical architect of a job initiation system written in C#.NET using Visual Studio 2008, and SQL Server 2005. This three tier web forms application allowed clients to request work from the agency and provided global visibility to work in progress reducing duplicate work by 45%.
  • Designed and implemented an authentication infrastructure based on Active Directory. A self-service portal was created in C#.NET and ASP.NET to allow users to change passwords, re-activate inactive accounts, and request access to applications. SOAP services were created in C#.NET allowing 3rd party hosted products the ability to authenticate against the internal AD without exposing AD to the internet.
  • Designed and developed a capital expenditure system in C#.NET, using Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2005. This product included tracking of management and finance approvals of capital expenditures for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance purposes.

Skills

• Drupal Extensive    

  Drupal Developer/Architect, Versions 5/6/7, Drupal SEO, Scaling Drupal Sites (using varnish, memcache, cacherouter and pressflow), CCK, Views, Ubercart, Organic Groups, Custom Module Development, Hooks, Custom Theme Development (phptemplate)

• xBase Expert    

  Application Architect, Clipper, FoxPro, Harbour, xHarbour

• Management and Leadership Intermediate    

  Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, Training, Mentoring, Code Review, Performance Review

• Process Intermediate    

  Full Project Lifecycle, Requirements Gathering, Use Cases, Build vs. Buy, Vendor Selection

References from LinkedIn

• Greg Avon Consultant at thestreet.com and The Clayton Group    

  I have been lucky enough to work with Sean at both TheStreet.com and Clayton. He is one of the brightest and most knowledgeable technology professionals I have encountered. His ability to quickly grasp complex business concepts is exceptional. In addition, Sean is a quality person, always willing to share his knowledge and mentor other members of the team.

• Daniel Seltzer CIO at thestreet.com    

  Sean was just a pleasure to work with. He's smart, thorough, and honestly loves to make things work. He put in long days on a thankless project, maintaining great spirit in the face of numerous challenges. Despite a raft of messy legacy technologies, he dove in and kept the business running.

• Benjamin Stahlhood II Senior Architect at thestreet.com     

  I worked with Sean at TheStreet.com. I loved working with Sean. He never backed down to a problem. Sean always offered various ways to approach a problem. Sean's attitude was always positive and up beat. Any company or team would benefit a great amount by having Sean as part of it.

• Bruce Landry Lead Conversion Migration Engineer at IBM Global Services     

  Sean Reiser is one of the most talented, creative and capable developers I have had the pleasure to work with in my career. Sean joined us in a high-pressure, high-profile project at IBM Global Services and quickly became my "go to" guy for resolving difficult development challenges. His work was superior, but beyond that, Sean has a depth of knowledge combined with a very valuable real-world thought process that enabled us to rise to, and overcome complicated development solutions encountered when converting 25-30 year old systems to modern day technologies. I would very highly recommend Sean, and will always appreciate what he brought to our team.

• Dan Walter Director and Senior Vice President at Citigroup     

  Sean is one of those unique programmers who actually wants to learn the business that they are supporting. His combination of a bright mind and sense of humor make him easy to work with. His commitment to a project cannot be understated (I have seen him work multiple 20 hours days to satisfy a client). I would be happy to recommend Sean to any company.

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