Jonathan Gerhard

About Jonathan Gerhard

I enjoy leading business-facing technology teams and thrive on fast-paced delivery. Progressive career developing and supporting business-critical ordering platforms and best-in-class digital experiences with a deep focus on integration. Experienced with online-to-offline marketing technologies, DevOps and CI/CD delivery, event-based systems, cloud migration, IT cost optimization, and technology acquisition. I have a demonstrated record of partnering with internal and external business teams to innovate and grow solutions using lean software development principles. I have led ground up development of core proprietary technologies for business teams as well as multiple large enterprise platform and cloud migrations.My experience includes leading teams of 50+ developers with multiple organization models to provide platform, product, application support, and rapid innovation delivery models to meet business goals. I am a goal-oriented team player, hands-on leader, and self-starter with strong technical, leadership, organizational, and interpersonal skills. Competencies:• New Product Development• IT Strategy • Leadership• Software Architecture• Application Development• Program and Technical Project Management• Continuous Delivery• Vendor Management• Technology Acquisition• Integration• AWS• Domain Driven Design• Teams in multiple tech stacks including JEE, C#, PHP, React, Node

Experience

1. Vice President Software Engineering

   Red Ventures

   Jan 2019 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US

   Leading technology teams within Red Platform vertical. Team of 30 developing core data platform and analytics capabilities.Prior role leading technology for Telecom vertical using continuous delivery model. Team of 50 onsite and 35 offshore. Rebuilt team organizational and delivery structure to enable growth model. Led datacenter to AWS migration and technology uplift to enable best in class digital experiences. Responsible for web, digital cart, telesales, and ordering platform used across 30+ site experiences for partnerships including the top Telco and Broadband providers as well as proprietary brands such as CordCutterNews, Allconnect.com and Allconnect Utility. AWS, CI/CD, MySQL, React and C#- adding Golang to the mix.

Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, Cooperative Plan, Mechanical Engineering

  1993 — 1998

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

  1998 — 2001

Skills

• Web Services
• Design Patterns
• Jms
• Jboss Application Server
• Continuous Delivery
• Leadership
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Web Applications
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Java
• Product Development
• Software Solution Architecture
• Agile Methodologies
• J2ee Architecture
• Servlets
• Management
• Software Development
• Program Management
• Offshore Resource Management
• Mule Esb
• Oracle
• Hibernate
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Integration
• Soa
• Team Leadership