Seasoned operational manager who can bridge the divide between business and technology and most recently leading data science efforts. I have started, grown, and fixed startup companies spanning 10 different verticals as well as helped two Fortune 500 companies with their internal startup initiatives, and helped create educational programs at MIT and HBS. Some highlights: · Replaced a half million lines of legacy PHP code with a few thousand lines of RoR code in 5 months. · Launched a new Sears business unit, ServiceLive.com · Fixed problems at an NBC business unit, now relaunched at Hulu.com · Sold a company for $42M in 2000 · Created a new type of financial simulation for HBS and now used at the top 10 US business schools. · Helped launch an innovative new teaching program at MIT. · Grew a 20 person engineering department from scratch in 10 weeks · Have run nationally and internationally distributed teams, including offshored. · Defined process for 5 organizations · Created 3 different transactional online exchanges: financial instruments, home services, lead gen · Verticals include: wireless, video, lead gen, online advertising, retail services, social networking, OLAP, finance, retail services Technologies (and other keywords): Ruby on Rails (RoR), Java, J2EE, J2ME, R, PHP, MySQL, Mongo DB, Redis, Memcache, Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, Mognrel, AWS, Nagios, Git, SVN, CVS, REST, RESTful, OOA, OOD, SOA, XML, JSON, SOAP, javascript, JQuery, coffeescript, HTML, HTML5, CSS, SDLC Specialties: Startups, Web 2.0, Internet, Online Advertising, Online Lead Generation, Social Networks, Security, Wireless, Mobile Devices, Data Science, Big Data General Management, Operations, Fund Raising / Raising Capital, Process Development, Organizational Development, Staffing Plans, Outsourcing Extensive knowledge and experience with market design having created at 4 different organizations business models based on buyers and sellers matching each other through market dynamics.

CTO @ Actively hiring python developers, devops, and more! From June 2015 to Present (5 months) Member @ From January 2011 to Present (4 years 10 months) Advisory Board @ From May 2012 to Present (3 years 6 months) Greater New York City AreaFaculty @ I teach at Levin's JumpStart Program, covering entrepreneurship for those in career transitions. (This is an ongoing part time teaching job.) From May 2010 to Present (5 years 6 months) Greater New York City AreaInstructor @ Professional representative to faculty team, responsible for developing and teaching MIT’s new Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP). Business training for engineering students focusing on product strategy, conflict resolution, teamwork, communication, requirements gathering, critical decision-making, and leadership. (This is an ongoing part time teaching job.) From December 2001 to Present (13 years 11 months) CTO @ Brought in to 5 year old company to grow the business and launch new products. Changed to agile process and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) of RESTful services. Introduced a number of NoSQL technologies and approaches including Hadoop, Storm, Mongo, and RabbitMQ. Created automated deployment system using Chef and Bamboo. Moved servers to cloud at AWS and Rackspace. Created a new platform to handle 500 million events a day backed by a multi-terabyte mongo cluster processing thousands of events per second (later spun out into Bombora). Overseeing data science efforts to analyze data and develop data and media products around them. From February 2013 to April 2015 (2 years 3 months) Greater New York City AreaCTO @ I'm working with multiple early stage clients as a part time CTO to help them launch their online companies. From July 2012 to January 2013 (7 months) VariousCTO @ Brought in to turn around technology department and re-ignite innovation. Overseeing a team of 8 people replaced nearly half a million lines of buggy spaghetti PHP code with a few thousand lines of RoR code in 5 months. Reduced costs by up to 75% in some areas; re-staffed department in five months; increased email delivery by 200% in three months. From December 2010 to June 2012 (1 year 7 months) Greater New York City AreaGM Local Deals @ Launched local deals business unit. Within 6 months grew it to one of the top 5 deals sites in NYC (as measured by partner sales). From December 2010 to June 2012 (1 year 7 months) Greater New York City AreaCEO @ Brought in after company spent 18 months and significant money having failed to launch three times. Re-motivated team, cut budget by 60%, and released product in 4 month, having rebuilt Ruby on Rails software from scratch. Set new strategic direction and created a new team and new culture making use of both in-house, contract, and remote labor, including training staff for additional responsibilities. Became recognized as a thought leader in field in under a year. From March 2009 to November 2010 (1 year 9 months) Greater New York City AreaConsultant @ SEARS: Acting COO. Launched new service division. Involved in every aspect including (but not limited to) business plan, operations, business policies, and IT management. Oversaw accelerated $2.5m vendor selection process. Launched initial website in 6 weeks. Helped establish template for future entrepreneurial initiatives at Sears. NBC: Management Consultant. Revamp technical process and operations at NBBC, now Hulu.com. Responsible for managing vendors who provided the technology behind NBBC. NABBR: Acting COO. Oversaw operations and development at a Web 2.0 company; revamped projects and product lines. Established and monitored metrics for success across multiple departments. Responsible for budgeting and financial planning; pitched company to investors. Initiated and closed business development deals with AOL and Creative Artists Agency. INDIGO ENGINES: Consultant. Help lead RFP response for Canadian National Healthcare IT system. OPERATIVE: Acting VP of Engineering. Successfully launched product which had been a three-time failure and 66% behind schedule. Supervised team of 30 people, local and offshore. Created strategic plan for engineering team, and drafted $2M dollar budget. Hire/fire responsibility. SURF PROTECT: Brought in to restructure company. Tasks included: engineering process development, project management, corporate strategy, organizational development, financial forecasting. Reorganized product lines and services. Increased server uptime from 80% to 99.8%. Increased customer base by 33%. Moved company from CMM Level 1 to Level 3. Hire/fire responsibility. MISCELLANEOUS: Consultant. Various smaller and short term projects involving assessment and consultation of business plans, strategy and operations. From November 2003 to March 2009 (5 years 5 months) VP of Engineering @ As 7th employee, I was tasked with growing the company to 40 people by the end of the year through extensive hiring and the establishment of an engineering department. Within the first 3 months, I opened an San Francisco office, integrated an acquisition company, and hired 20 people in both offices in four months. I established and ran three engineering groups including developers, IT, QA, and product managers. Oversaw P&L with a $4M budget. Created company wide engineering processes. Responsible for initial release of Vaults product for monetization of arbitrary consumer data. From August 2005 to March 2006 (8 months) Architect / Project Manager (Consultant) @ Lead five-person team in development of financial trading simulation for use in a new class on trading and arbitrage. This J2EE-based distributed system is designed for simultaneous use on multiple campuses as well as for corporate training. Supports hundreds of securities and replicates commercial system. Responsible for leading all aspects of the project including requirements gathering, design, development, documentation, deployment and handoff. Hire/fire responsibility. From November 2002 to September 2003 (11 months) Director of Engineering / Architect @ Responsibilities included coordinating the effort of four development teams, creating a comprehensive plan for the product direction, including adapting to current and new technologies, overseeing Java API development, working with the professional services division during their training with, and deployment of the product, creation of documentation, and helping with implementation. Product was an enterprise platform supporting development and wireless deployment of secure, mobile applications. Created the software development process used throughout the company. This required authoring of nearly a dozen documents including development lifecycle, coding guidelines, templates for standard documents, and process documents, such as build and QA procedures. Moved company from CMM level 1 to level 4. Additional roles include facilitating engineering meetings, regular training sessions, and formal training program for junior developers, and informal mentoring of all developers. From January 2000 to November 2001 (1 year 11 months) Engineer @ Engineer. Designed and developed java front end tools for OLAP systems. Developed a comphrensive set of Java Beans for application development. Extended platform functionality and proprietary API. Worked on contract jobs for specific customer solutions. Created documentation for application developers. Designed and maintained revision control and build process, allowing for a single command build. Created an application framework to rapidly develop OLAP solutions using the API. Framework let non-programmers quickly assemble complex, internationalized OLAP applications through visual tools and property files. Fully designed, implemented, tested, and documented the system. Created a specialized, custom java applet for application provisioning. Applet used advanced caching techniques, as well as versioning support. From September 1998 to January 2000 (1 year 5 months) Engineer @ Sponsored Technical Research Staff at MIT (group later became Curl Inc). Designed and developed applications in the curl programming language. Participated in language development. Developed educational software for various classes. Researched applications and target markets for flexible multimedia languages. From June 1997 to August 1998 (1 year 3 months)

MEng, EE/CS @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology From 1995 to 1997 BS, EE/CS @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology From 1991 to 1995 BS, Physics @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology From 1991 to 1995 Mark Herschberg is skilled in: Start-ups, Entrepreneurship, Agile Methodologies, Strategy, Software Development, Online Advertising, Software Project..., Mobile Applications, Java, Project Management, Mobile Devices, Social Networking, Software Engineering, Ruby on Rails, Scrum, Ruby, Fundraising, System Architecture, Web Development, Digital Strategy, Leadership, Organizational..., Java Enterprise Edition, Management Consulting, Linux, Mentoring, Teaching, Outsourcing, Security, Web Services, Executive Management, Technical Leadership, Web 2.0, Wireless, J2ME, Offshoring, Hiring Employees, Internet Strategy, Strategic Leadership, Online Lead Generation, Business Process..., Server Architecture, Service Oriented..., Internet Entrepreneur, Daily Deals, Intrapreneurship, Mongo, Hadoop, NoSQL, Storm