Allan Cantos

 

978-692-0146 (home)

978-496-0760 (cell)

allan@cantos.us

 

 

 

 

Perspective

 

Seasoned internet and mobile application specialist with a demonstrated ability to create and deliver sophisticated software solutions that deliver real value. 

Change agent and catalyst driven to deliver quality products and services.

 

Qualifications

 

§     Track record of delivering internet enabled products & services to Fortune 100 clients

§     Leadership – development and operational teams of over 50 people

§     Management – optimizing people and finances to meet objectives

§     Budget Maximization – effective use of finite resources

§     Creative Thinking – solving business and technical problems

§     Customer Satisfaction – delivering quality service and support

§     Technology Transition – navigating teams from concept to development through production

§     Project Management - skilled and effective Project Manager

 

 

Achievements

 

Technology start-up development and operations executive. 

 

Leadership and Vision

§     Founded enterprise software company providing world class internet delivered services.  Grew to $1M revenue preparing company for technology acquisition by industry leader SCO/Caldera.  Developed and executed product strategy; negotiated OEM deals.

§     Doubled customer base in one year by providing superior product & services. Identified competitive issues and executed corrective action.  Reengineered business processes for the delivery of enterprise service solutions to Fortune 500 clients.

§     Reduced service delivery time by 20% by reengineering deployment processes resulting in improved quality and faster delivery.  Assumed control of R&D to redefine tooling and affect operational changes.

 

Technology Development

§     Hands on development of mobile applications

§     Led numerous sophisticated software development programs with highly skilled distributed technical teams.  Used offshore development team minimizing R&D costs.

§     Built fault tolerant, highly scalable 24x7 e-commerce internet service, utilizing commercial and open source technologies.

§     Built extensive testing lab utilizing virtualization technology to  replace physical lab

 

Operations Management

§     Managed Implementation teams delivering Professional services world wide. 

§     Built and managed world class distributed customer support teams supporting sophisticated technology products

§     Renegotiated supplier contracts to reduce data center costs by $500K/yr (25%) while improving customer delivery time 80% through process automation

§     Skillfully managed 24x7 data center operations delivering enterprise applications and services to Fortune 100 clients worldwide

 


 

 

Technical Skills

 

§     iPhone apps. E-Commerce, Web Apps, SOA, Web Services, .NET, XML, OO technologies

§     Full Software Development Life Cycle, Agile, TDD, RUP

§     Java, J2EE, Oracle RDBMS and Apache, IIS, Weblogic, Tomcat, application servers

§     Internet Security tools, policy, and administration

§     RDBMS Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL

§     CISSP, Certified Information Systems Security Professional

§     Linux and open source development, tools and technologies

§     Network and Systems management for MS Windows, Unix & Linux, Linux Clusters

 

Employment

History

 

§     FRS Global, Director of Development and Professional Services, US & APJ 2007-2009

§     Alpine Swift, Technical Consultant 2003-2006

§     Emptoris/Zeborg, Vice President of Development and IT Operations 2002-2003

§     Acrylis/Caldera International, CTO, Founder, Director of Online Services 1998-2002

§     Uniprise Systems,  VP of Engineering 1994-1998

§     Migration Software, Director of Consulting Services 1990-1994

§     Apollo Computer, Manager of Integration Tools 1987-1990

§     MIPS Computer Systems, MTS 1985-1987

 

 

Education

 

§     M.S Computer Science, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

§     B.S. Mathematics SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY

 

 

Patents

Method & Apparatus for Monitoring Computer Systems and Alerting Users of Actual or Potential System Errors, 2003

 

Publications

 

§     Atlanta Linux Showcase 2000,  “Knowing When to Say No”

§     Int’l Oracle Users Group, 2000, “Engineering a Data Driven Application in Java on Linux”