Paul Stewart – Resume.

SUMMARY

Experienced and entrepreneurial Chief Technology Officer with a passion for leading and growing small, highly skilled, cross-functional engineering teams. Strong background in web and mobile development, with over 10 years of experience leading a full-stack digital product development agency. Skilled in project and product management, with experience working with clients across a variety of industries, including startups, software companies, and global financial institutions. Proficient in both waterfall and agile methodologies, with a ability to synthesize project-specific approaches based on client needs. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to impart complex information in a way that clients understand and translate client needs into functional requirements, stories, and prototypes.

FUNCTIONAL EXPERTISE

  • Agile Product Development
  • API Modelling and Integration
  • Product Management
  • Team Leadership & Building
  • SaaS Architecture and Service Delivery
  • Full-Stack Development

EXPERIENCE

Arck Interactive LLC.
September 2008 – Present

Founder / CTO

I created a small team of talented engineers and creatives at Arck Interactive. We work with entrepreneurs, software product managers and business leaders to build innovative web and mobile products, modernize existing platforms, and automate complex business processes. As CTO at Arck, I am accountable for the success of all projects, from concept to planning, architecture, development, testing and customer approval. I’m responsible for managing the following functional areas at Arck:

Project Management:  Collaborate with clients to establish project scope, budget, resources and timelines. Lead daily Scrum meetings and manage individual contributions from a highly technical and distributed team of senior engineers and creatives.

Business Management:  Establish and manage all business and technical and partner relationships with clients and vendors. Spearhead internal marketing and business development efforts. Recruit, onboard and train new engineers.

Key Clients: BotWorx.AI, Infusionsoft Corporation, The World Bank, Executive Networks Inc., Gatorade/PepsiCo, University of Alaska, John Wiley & Sons Publishing.

Key Projects: https://www.arckinteractive.com/projects/

Chenega Corporation (U.S Department of Transportation)
August 2005 – August 2008

Senior Developer / Team Lead

Develop large-scale application, website and database development projects for the Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA). Responsibilities included: Full-stack .NET web application development. Leading and training junior engineers, providing guidance, code reviews and project oversight across a wide variety of transportation related projects. Conducting sprint reviews and daily scrum meetings to ensure client objectives were consistently being met.

Key projects:

  • SAMO (Substance Abuse and Management Oversight), an interactive tool for conducting drug and alcohol compliance audits at federal and state transportation agencies.
  • RISC (Runway Incursion Safety Calculator), a tool for assessing the severity of runway incursion events used by FAA analysts nation-wide.

Tufts Medical Center (Lifespan Inc. & Perot Systems)                              March 1999 – August 2005

Developer / Application Analyst

Collaborate with departmental leaders to design and develop custom internal web applications. Define business requirements and provide functional solutions, primarily on the .NET stack.

Key accomplishments:

  • Spearheaded the development of a custom hospital-wide Intranet portal and content management system to support the hospital’s 85 departmental web content authors.
  • Managed the web integration team for a hospital-wide Lawson ERP rollout.
  • Developed internal IT tools for managing change control, project status tracking and executive reporting.
  • Implemented point to point and HL7 interfaces across a wide variety of clinical applications.

RECOMMENDATIONS

“In my nearly 40 years or technology, I know of few other individuals and teams that could help us move from concept to launch in less than two months.” – George A. Polisner,  Director, Civic Works (civ.works), Strategy, Transformation and Turnaround Consulting

“We required functionality that was difficult to other developers to accomplish. Not only did Paul and his team respond, they had some great input on creating a wonderful user experience.” – Marie Maher, Founder/CEO of Synapse Sitters

“Paul … has that rare ability to think ‘outside-the-box’ and has consistently offered suggestions that have resulted in significant project enhancements.” – Bill Pitts, MBA, MS, Principal, Newport Healthcare Technologies, LLC

“In very little time, we established a relationship of trust with Paul and gave his team at Arck access to our flagship CRM product. Arck are now stewards of the MVP they developed and co-responsible for managing on-going changes.” – Tyson Brown, Product Manager, Infusionsoft Corporation

(See more at https://www.linkedin.com/in/arckinteractive/.)

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

.NET, Microsoft SQL Server,  PHP/LAMP, JavaScript, Jenkins, Travis, CircleCI, Codecov, yarn, npm, composer, eslint, git/github, Virtual Box, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Visual Studio, VSCode, Swagger, Postman, JIRA, Product Board, Zeplin, InVision, Sketch, Lucid Chart, Pivotal Tracker, Trello, Adobe CS, Windows, Mac/OS, Linux.

 

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Bachelor of Science, 2003

Multimedia Studies & Computer Engineering

Northeastern University

 

Master’s Work, 2003

Communication Protocols and Internet Architectures

Harvard Extension School