1 - About

Gregory Varghese

Technology Director & Developer

I'm Greg, a technology director & developer based in the NYC area. I am an experienced team lead and problem solver with a demonstrated history of working in the healthcare, marketing, and advertising industries. I am a strong engineering professional skilled in web, mobile, CRM, databases, mobile applications, team building, and much more.

2 - Skills

Skills

From beginning ideas to individual integrity, rich identity from the line on the paper to final projects.

25

YEARS EXPERIENCE

Crafting beautiful brands and websites. Contact me for more servies.

Development

C#, Laravel, PHP, JavaScript, Vue.js, Node.js, React, AngularJS, Python

CMS

WordPress, AEM, Drupal 6/7/8/9, Sitefinity, Sitecore 6.5/7/8

Leadership

Understanding the business and their target customers, I’m the bridges to bring the brand closer to their clients.

Database

SQL Server 2000-2019, MySQL, CouchDB, MongoDB

3 - Resume

Resume

April 2024 - Current

Minds + Assembly

EVP, Director of Technology

Responsibilities include overseeing projects and teams, building and maintaining client relationships, and ensuring project deliverables and deadlines are met
Responsible for building relationships and installing confidence in client IT teams
Worked with creative teams to explore prototypes to showcase abilities and try to utilize new technology in innovative ways
Implemented automation, streamlined workflows, and cut costs by over $250k within the first year of taking over the IT department.
Oversaw and led merger and acquisition lifecycle of three companies for development and IT

January 2021 - April 2024

Minds + Assembly

Director of Technology

Lead and grew development team to 6 full-time employees internally and augmented team with freelancers as needed.
Responsibilities include overseeing projects and teams, building and maintaining client relationships,
and ensuring project deliverables and deadlines were met
Responsible for building relationships and installing confidence with client IT teams
Worked with creative teams to explore prototypes to showcase abilities and try to utilize new
technology in innovative ways
Managed and provisioned AWS and GCP environments and services
Oversaw IT in offices in the US and UK
Managed Development teams in US and overseas freelancers
Pitched New Business with Account Teams
Implemented efficiencies, streamlined workflows, and cut costs by over $50k within first month of
taking over IT department.

May 2019 - Jan 2021

AKQA

Technology Director

Additional responsibilities include overseeing projects and teams, building and maintaining client relationships, and ensuring project deliverables and deadlines were met
Responsible for building relationships and installing confidence with client IT teams
Worked with creative teams to explore prototypes to showcase abilities and try to utilize new technology in innovative ways
Built web experience using AngularJS
Built Flask REST API for Machine Learning models and connected to client's Sitecore site
Built .NET APIs to talk to multiple third-party resources
Managed and provisioned AWS, Azure, and GCP environments and service

October 2018 - May 2019

AKQA

Technology Architect

Responsible for technology architecture and planning for client projects
Responsibilities included researching, planning, and providing recommendations for digital solutions for client needs.
Architecture planning for Google Cloud Platform, AWS, and Azure platforms depending on clients
Responsible for gathering and creating business requirements, creating documentation and presentations, and presenting to client teams.

December 2017 - October 2018

Ascend Spine Center

Director, Business Operations

Joined wife's Chiropractic office (at her request) to grow the practice by handling marketing initiatives, adding new patients, and adding additional services.
Implemented process, hired talent, and implemented multiple marketing tactics.
Saw steady patient growth due to marketing initiatives.
Designed and launched the website with SEO best practices, enabling the site to be in the top 10 results for "Chiropractor, Bloomfield NJ".
Migrating to paperless systems to improve processes, implement electronic billing, eliminate duplication of data, simplify note-taking, and more.
Managed office operations, including overseeing finances, budgeting, team management, patient support, and more.

January 2016 - December 2018

BGB Group

Lead Developer/Freelance

Lead and grew the development team of full-time employees internally and augmented team with freelancers from personal network to maintain cost-effectiveness.
Implemented development best practices, including version control, developing standard timelines with project managers, and implementing a proper QA process.
Achieved Veeva company certification to meet client demand.
Delivered projects successfully in tight timelines, including two full IVAs and a website for simultaneous product launches.
Saved the company over $100,000 in costs by handling migration from Workamajig to Netsuite instead of external vendors. Migration was completed successfully on time and confirmed to be within $2,000 of accuracy.
Assisted with pitches, developed concepts and prototypes, completed development RFPs,
Developed booth concepts, including touchscreens, games, and interactive booth experiences.
Launched multiple client brands' digital tactics, including websites, Veeva iRep presentations, emails, banners, and interactive booth experiences.
Was brought on-site to client meetings and conventions to meet with client teams, observe the usage of digital assets by attendees, and resolve any unexpected issues.
Implemented automation for reports (using both web APIs and VBA in Excel) and other tasks for other teams, including operations and finance, to eliminate repetitive manual tasks to save hours per report.
The company opted to switch me to a freelance role when I informed them I was joining my wife's practice.

December 2013 - December 2015

GSW Worldwide

SVP, Director of Development

Lead and grew development team to 5 full-time employees internally and augmented team with freelancers as needed.
Managed team consisting of Developers, UX/IA, and QA.
Managed developers on the "onshore" team when utilizing them for our projects.
Served as a single point of contact between departments, and managed resourcing for all development projects.
Responsible for interviewing and qualifying potential candidates for both freelance and full-time roles.
Became responsible for qualifying development candidates for the "onshore" team located in Midwest.
Worked with teams on pitches to represent digital capabilities.
Managed relationships with multiple external vendor IT and development partners.
Coordinated with partner IT and development teams to keep projects on track
Improved team satisfaction and morale.
Created an environment where all interviewees were eager to join.
Hired and mentored development intern, providing real-world experience, guidance on working with different teams, and how to deliver projects in a multi-team in a timely fashion.
Responsible for coordinating between project managers, artists, information architects, user experience, digital strategy, and external teams to ensure all projects are completed in a timely manner.
Hired to repair relationships between departments, increase confidence in team capabilities, and foster communication between departments company-wide. Accomplished the majority of set goals within two weeks of starting.
Successfully increased client satisfaction on all digital brands due to projects coming in on time and of higher quality.
Created an environment where other teams felt comfortable coming to ask technical questions for projects without hesitation.
Managing and developing multiple brands for companies including Amgen, Myland, Eli Lilly, and others.
Responsible for managing relationships with external vendors, offshore development resources, and client technology teams.
Developed prototypes, proof of concepts, and technical documentation to assist with pitches for new business.
Increased client satisfaction and confidence in company after identifying issues with outsourcing.
Managed multiple virtual servers on Rackspace
Launched eight new drug digital campaigns on time in extremely short timelines successfully.
Architected solution for pitch using Sitecore CMS as backend for mobile app for pitch which the client picked.
Created prototype mobile app demo to demonstrate iBeacon (Gimbal for demo) potential uses. App detected beacon in room, connected to custom REST WebAPI service which spoke to Exchange Web Services to get meetings scheduled for conference rooms.
Earned Sitecore Certified Developer certification to ensure client confidence in company capabilities during migration to Sitecore CMS platform
Earned Sitecore Advanced Certification
Launched 4 Sitecore sites

Jun 2012 - Dec 2013

JUICE Pharma Worldwide

Director of Development

Lead and grew development team to team of 8 full time employees internally as well as augmenting team with freelancers as needed.
Managed team consisting of Developers (Frontend, Backend, and Flash) and QA.
Created environment where all interviewees were eager to join.
Served as single point of contact between departments, and managed resourcing for all development projects.
Responsible for coordinating between project managers, artists, information architects, user experience, digital strategy, and external teams to ensure all projects are completed in a timely manner.
Improved team satisfaction and morale.
Responsible for interviewing and qualifying potential candidates for both freelance and full-time roles.
Architected end to end mobile application solution for Red Cross pitch that was well received by the Red Cross. Served on the pitch team to handle technical portion of the sales pitch including presentation.
Initially hired as short-term consultant to help solve three-week backlog. In one weekend, solved backlog and put teams ahead of schedule by two days.
Hired as Director of Development to replace multiple failed leads.
Repaired broken relationships, increased confidence, and fostered communication between departments company-wide within two weeks of starting.
Created environment where other teams felt comfortable coming to ask technical questions for projects without hesitation.
Managed and developed for multiple brands for companies including Pfizer, Merck, Novartis, and others.
Helped institute agile development processes to streamline project timelines using Fogbugz. Adoption rate has been 100% by development, project managers, print production, and digital teams with system now being rolled out to account and artists.
Streamlined development processes to reduce development time from an average of three months to an average of three weeks.
Trained junior and print project managers on development processes to produce better and more accurate estimates and timelines.
Helped company streamline transition from print to digital advertising including providing training sessions to other teams.
Successfully spearheaded digital routing green initiative to expedite review process and feedback between teams.
Architected and developed cross platform mobile applications for clients using Mono platform

Oct 2010 - Dec 2013

DraftFCB Healthcare/NeON/Area 23

Consultant

Initially hired for a weeklong project in 2010. Client satisfaction was high enough to retain consulting services for all web projects for over a year and a half.
Improved company satisfaction and morale.
Was responsible for leading and expanding web development team
Responsible for interviewing and qualifying potential candidates.
Responsible for coordinating between project managers, multiple internal teams, and external teams to ensure all projects are completed in a timely manner.
Only developer to deal directly with clients directly on a regular basis.
Managed and developed for multiple brands for companies including Pfizer, Nestle/Gerber, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Daiichi Sankyo.
Helped institute agile development processes to streamline project timelines.
Streamlined development processes to reduce development time from an average of three months to an average of two weeks.
Trained inexperienced project managers on development processes to produce better and more accurate estimates and timelines.
Helped company streamline transition from print to digital advertising
Managing 5-12 brand projects at any given time.
Developed branded iPad application sales aid using HTML5 and jQuery.

May 2010 - Nov 2010

NJ Urology

Consultant

Provided consulting services for largest Urology group (30+ practices) in northern New Jersey to handle networking issues, SonicWALL firewall setup and configuration, VPN tunneling, troubleshooting medical software issues, and providing custom programming services.
Increased office staff satisfaction at each location through increased reliability on both hardware and network

Jun 2008 - Oct 2009

Premier Healthcare Exchange

Lead Software Engineer/System Administrator

Worked with team to re-engineer system from ground up to clean up scalability issues left from the exiting team. Original system was unable to handle the existing workload without manual intervention that was never documented.
Overhaul included moving from .NET framework 2.0 to 3.5, implementing LINQ, and significantly improving performance of system.
System redesign allowed sharding to split resources amongst multiple servers and machines to distribute processing and workload.
Worked heavily with X12, 837, and XML files.
Developed custom reports through SQL Reporting Services.
Developed custom Office (Word & Excel) solutions to solve various management problems.
Redesigned website to use ASP.NET with Telerik components. Site includes Customer Portal which allows clients to view data in real time.
Managed Windows 2003/2008 Network:
- Migrated from legacy systems from Server 2003 to Server 2008.
- Managed and secured IIS to run intranet and internet applications
- Implemented security, Active Directory policies, and deployment scripts.
- Managed Exchange 2003 server
Implemented multiple production servers with load balancing.
Implemented additional virtual servers using Microsoft Hyper-V.
Managed Microsoft SQL 2005/2008 database servers including reporting services.
Assisted with development of OLAP cubes for data mining and reporting.
Implemented Netgear gigabit switches with automatic failover system using high speed cable internet. Also implemented content filtering.
Implemented Sun Storage array unit for SAN through iSCSI interface.
Implemented "green" cost savings initiative to reduce paperwork by implementing fax solution with digital routing and archiving.
- Estimated cost reduction based on management analysis was over $5,000 in the first month.
- Increased productivity for employees
Mentored junior developers with .NET and VSTO development.

Aug 2006 - Jun 2008

SRSSoft

Senior Software Engineer/Senior Solutions Analyst

Co-founded and co-lead custom software development department consisting of 4-10 people which became a profitable department in its first month.
Responsible for interfacing directly with clients to provide analysis of needs and requirements to solve issues.
Responsible for custom development, maintenance, and support of electronic health record system. Some of the technologies used include VB.NET, C#, XML, XSL, AJAX, and SQL.
Helped redesign GUI of flagship software. Oversaw interface design for many other projects.
Initiated and developed many ASP.NET applications including reporting framework and "Powertabs" (web-based apps based on client needs that became embedded within the core application using embedded browser). Both became profitable new revenue streams for the company. Reporting Framework was essential to closing second largest deal in the company history and became part of the core software product.
Created SDK and all related documentation to help end users develop Patient Clinical Summaries for the new version of flagship software using their choice of languages including XSL, ASP, and ASP.Net.
Developed many utilities and add-ins to augment the core software offering. Add-ins allowed end users to interface with external vendor systems such as PACS and DICOM. Utilities included tools to assist in the maintenance of the client data/database, services to capture documents related to billing to be zipped and automatically uploaded to FTP and emailed the billing company, and tools used internally (by both Help Desk and development teams) to help troubleshoot various issues.
Worked closely with other departments within the company, as well as outside vendors, to ensure that project plans/timelines are being met, project priorities are communicated to impacted teams, and that user business needs/requirements are being met.
Worked with many third-party vendors, such as Infragistics and Telerik, to maximize functionality of developed applications.
Interacted directly with clients to manage projects from all phases included information gathering, proposal and quote development, project specifications, and delivery of project.
Manage all aspects of projects including timelines/project plans, resource workload assessments, project prioritization, and resource allocation.
Design and analysis of database models and user interfaces.
Provided mentorship to both junior developers and help desk technicians

1999 - Present

Jade Designs, LLC

Owner

Provided IT consulting services including networking, development, systems support and web design to businesses and home users.
Managed and coordinated multiple outsourced resources from various parts of the world including artists, programmers, and database administrators to handle work overflow.
Developed custom software solutions and websites using C#, VB.NET, PHP, Laravel, Node, Vue, React.
Provided network & security consulting services for LANs, WANs, and Wireless networks.
Managed multi-faceted team consisting of developers, artists, sales, and business analysts.
Architected UX guidelines for multiple companies and projects to increase client usability and satisfaction.

4 - Certifications

Certifications

Nov 2015

Sitecore Certified Developer 8.0

Update for Sitecore 8.0 changes

Dec 2014

Sitecore Advanced .NET Developer 7.0

Advanced .NET implementation on Sitecore

Aug 2006

Microsoft Certified Professional

Windows Certification

5 - Clients

I've been fortunate to work with and for people from some amazing organizations.

achievements

6,142

Partners worldwide, as well as designers, developers and marketers.

100s

of Projects delivered.

11,024

Employees & Staffs worldwide at present.

6 - Testimonials

Testimonials

“He was my mentor and much of my success is a direct representation of his knowledge and teaching skills. Time after time I saw him communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical clients. He has the ability to speak with an end-user, network administrator or CEO in a calming manner where at the end of the conversation they no longer worry about their issues being resolved because they know they’re in good hands...Give him an idea and he will quickly turn it into a long term product...It seems as if there are no issues he cannot resolve. He has an outstanding work ethic and will do anything that’s required to get the job done.”

Manny Feito

Technical Support Manager at SRSSoft

“Greg is one of the few people I've worked with that has the ability to find fast technical solutions to virtually any problem. His technical abilities are only outdone by his passion for what he does. He has a wonderful demeanor and has built a solid rapport with his peers at all levels. I consider myself fortunate to have managed his efforts and to have worked alongside him.”

Manoj Abraham

Product Manager, Project Manager at SRSSoft

“Greg is a talented developer who has the ability to develop technical solutions to the highest caliber. A great team player who could consistently be relied on to mentor other team members, complete tasks independently, and be dedicated to the task at hand. He had a great rapport with his peers and built lasting relationships with his clients.”

Evan Steele

Chief Executive Officer at SRSSoft

“I always found Greg to be a very client focused individual which is unusual for someone who is so technically oriented. He has very good skills in both systems and programming, and is able to communicate technical information to a non-technical audience. He always was able to create software solutions that could be used to solve repetitive tasks or problems, thereby reducing the amount of work that needed to be done.”

Bob Harmonay

Chief Operating Officer at SRSSoft

“Greg's depth of programming knowledge has helped our Sales and Marketing Team respond to very specific requests and accommodate the client. He has been a tremendous asset.”

Scott Bogosian

Regional Vice President at PHX

“Greg is the best .Net application programmers I have had the pleasure of working with. In addition to his application software developers,Greg has excellent PC desk-top, MS SQL, network communications, networking administration and web skills. I know that I always count on help Greg for tough assignments and on managing multiple priorities. He is simply one of the most dedicated people I have ever met and it shows in his work. Greg will be an excellent addition to anyone's IT team.”

Armando Santos

Chief Technology Officer at PHX

“Gregory Varghese is easily one of the best co-workers I have ever had the fortune of calling a colleague. He is approachable, efficient, highly skilled and has an inspiring work ethic. Gregory's brilliant work is only paralleled by his attitude. Working with him has not only enhanced our projects but has made me a better project manager.”

Shai Kushner

Project Manager at DraftFCB/NeON

“Greg Varghese is a veritable dynamo. He has been absolutely indispensable every time I’ve had the privilege of working him, which has been during the course of three large-scale enterprise website redesigns. His technical knowledge and acumen are stellar, and it seems like he defies physics and is literally everywhere at once on who-knows how many projects at a time. He is extremely insightful, has deep technical knowledge, is friendly and easy to work with and learn from, and his work ethic is gargantuan. I am more than comfortable highly recommending Greg Varghese. (I worked with him directly on three projects but he was involved in many more than that, at the time.)”

Joe Farro

Senior Developer at DraftFCB/NeON

“In addition to Greg's more obvious technical expertise, one should also be aware of his advanced social leadership skills, gentle patience, and surprising [for such a superior developer] humility. He's been a pleasure to know as well as to work with, and hopefully our paths will cross again.”

Jamie Wenger

Group Account Supervisor & Technology Manager at DraftFCB/Neon

“Gregory is an extremely talented individual. He takes his craft to the next level. While most think about back end developers as sitting alone in the dark while unable to communicate with most, he breaks every single stereotype. Gregory is extremely personable and patient. He has improved the dev here at the agency through his loyalty and education that he brings every single day with a smile! I would welcome him back to the team (or anywhere for that matter) as he is quite a catch!”

Julie A. (Bowers) Toulas

Senior Vice President, Multichannel Marketing, Strategy and Analytics at DraftFCB/Neon

7 - Contact

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