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My Resume

Lucas McGregor

CTO (Architect)

Santa Monica CA, 90404=
mcgregor_lucas at hotmail.com

 


Brief

I have successfully led technology companies t= hrough the key challenges of Development, Operations and Management:=




Expe= rience


VP of Data Engineering
Adconion; Santa Monica, CA; October 2011 - Present
I report to the CTO and the Head of Product where I am responsible for prov= iding our business with the ability to operate efficiently, accurately, and= intelligently through the delivery of robust reporting tools that drive be= tter business intelligence, more self-serve analysis, and a focus on action= able insights.

I work with the business and product teams to develop strategic plans= , technical policies, and engineering practices to achieve our goals reliab= ly, repeatably, and predictably. I work with project managers and engineers= to develop plans, designs, and requirements. 

My team develops and operate systems for the large scale, near time p= rocessing of massive data. We ingest data from a wide range of internal and= external sources, normalize the data for warehousing and provide reporting= , analytics, and insights.

We work with 200+ core Hadoop cluster for raw processing, maintain mu= ltiple PostgreSQL based warehouses for reporting and directly support analy= tics via MicroStrategy and support a Tableaux reporting team.

I coordinate teams and work across geographically separate office to = support Adconion's global business footprint. We have offices in 27 countri= es using these reports 24x7x365.

We ensure strict QoS and SLAs with our customer teams, provide traini= ng and customer support, and handle product development.

 

 

Director of Technology: Disney Online Architecture and Central Engi= neering
The Walt Disney Company; North Hollywood, CA; October 2010 - October 20= 11

 I report to the VP of Technology for Disney Online whe= re I am responsible for architecture, shared services, technology standards= , and technical strategy for Disney Online


My primary responsibility is leading the team developing the next gen= eration of Disney Content Management Systems and development tools.

I work with different technical teams across Disney to represent Disn= ey Online's technical strategy, participate in designs, and to help manage = co-owned programs. 

My team works with other Disney Online divisions to lead architecture= and code reviews, and reconcile various disparate and legacy technologies.= I am charged with developing technology roadmaps and creating strategies t= o address our cost/risk/opportunity portfolio for our division.

 

 

Director of Technology: Disney Online Mom and Family Portfolio = ;
The Walt Disney Company; North Hollywood, CA; April 2009 - October 2010=
I dual-reported to the VP of Mom and Family products and the VP of Technolo= gy for Disney Online where I was responsible for development, operations; a= nd project and portfolio management.

I was charged with development and maintenance for the Disney Online = Family portfolio, which includes approximately 30 minor content products, 1= e-commerce site, and four keystone properties:

I managed a staff of 20 developers, two development managers, and thr= ee project managers. 

I introduced program management to control workflows, change manageme= nt, and delivery of work. These changes increased department wide work thro= ughput by 52% (as tracked by deliverables) over a 3 month period with no in= crease to staff. I built the project management team and led the adoption o= f iterative product development and portfolio management. We led scrum and = agile management for technology and the rest of Mom and Family Products. We= adopted tracking and reporting tools (Version One). My staff led training = for the whole department and corporate-wide evangelism for agile/iterative = processes and tools. 

I instituted modern development and automated practices, using many o= pen source and off the shelf tools: 
  • continuous integration
  • unit and integration testing
  • code coverage testing 
  • peer and team code reviews
  • modern source code management
  • change and configuration management 
  • deployments and rollbacks
These changes allowed us to go from irregular and error prone deployme= nts to regular weekly releases and daily candidate builds. Defect rates dro= pped and rollbacks went from an average of 2+ per deployment to 8% of deplo= yments requiring a rollback 

I oversaw the acquisition of multi-million dollar technical purchases= and the migration of assets into the Disney hosting facilities. I managed = all Family's third party hosted infrastructure. I coordinated with Disney T= echnology Shared Services (TSS) to develop deployment practices and standar= ds for TSS hosted applications.

As the Project and Portfolio Director, I lead business and technical = prioritization for the department. I managed cross-functional workflows, ca= pacity plans, and budgets. We ran processes which allowed for an adjustable= blend of maintenance, strategic work, and rush opportunities. 

In this role, I launched 3 major new products:
  • User Generated Content Contest Framework, which was used for the 2009 G= ap Kids Casting Call
  • Family Trip Planner, an interactive GWT web planner for family trips an= d budgets
  • Family Single Sign On, an OAuth based authentication system for the wid= er DOL Family Portfolio 


 

CTO (Userplane)/Director of Software (AOL): 
AOL/Userplane; Santa Monica, CA; November 2008 - April 2009

I reported to = the GM of Userplane where I was responsible for the development and operati= ons of Userplane's services and its technical staff. 


I took over management of existing Userplane technology and staff = which provide web applications and widgets to 300,000+ publisher sites and = corporate customers. We deliver "instant" community web based app= lications and allow for customer control via our web services APIs. 

I oversaw the operation= s and development of the enterprise ColdFusion and Flash farms to support:<= /span>

  • Real time Audio/Video chat
  • Instant Message and Presence system
  • Video recording and transcoding
  • Authentication and API integration


I managed a staff of 13 software engineers, database administrator= s and network/sysadmins. 

I worked with project and product management to bring the organiza= tion into compliance with AOL's SDLC practices and to create systems for tr= acking various aspects of engineering, operations and product development.&= nbsp;

I created new sy= stems to increase uptime and lower impact of maintenance to our customers. = (Core application servers have gone from being restarted once every 2-3 day= s to a monthly scheduled maintenance that does not require a full outage).&= nbsp;

I reduced cost b= y introducing open source solutions for presence, video and chat; and refac= toring our current data center and network deployment.



Chief Architect (Personal Media)/Director of Software (AOL): <= /strong>
AOL/Xdrive Inc.; Santa Monica, CA; July 2005 - November 2008
I was responsible for all technical development and operations of the Xdriv= e division. 

I reported to the VP of Digital services, where I was responsible for= Xdrive, AOL Pictures and BlueString. 

In the first 5 months, I completed the following:
  • Migrated service form our data center to an AOL center.
  • Led a technology refresh that ported the service to new hardware, OS an= d software versions.
  • Upgraded from 8i on Solaris to a 10g RAC on Linux.
  • Integrated with the AOL billing and account provisioning system.

As my group transitioned into AOL corporate, I:
  • Led the development and launch of the new media product Blue= String.
  • Created APIs and a developer community product, OpenXdrive= .
  • Built a platform technologies team that developed core technologies com= mon to the Personal Media storage and media products.
  • Worked with AOL finance to create SDLC processes that feed into capital= ization practices that aided in financing development efforts (More than 50= % of budget for some projects).
  • Managed overseas and 3rd party development groups.
  • Worked on patents: 7,337,207,&n= bsp; 7,171,472 and several on = going applications.
  • Evangelized AOL technology at EclipseConMashupCamp, <= a href=3D"http://www.techcrunch.com/" class=3D"external-link" rel=3D"nofoll= ow">Techcrunch 40 and Twiistup.


 

Chief Technology Officer/Co-Founder: 
Xdrive Inc.; Santa Monica, CA; July 2003 - July 2005

I was responsible= for all technology development, technical operations, quality assurance, p= roject management, product development, vendor management and intellectual = property. 

I created/managed a service that support= ed 310,000 active accounts that drove 3,500 simultaneous requests, 180Mbs o= f traffic and 1 million database transactions per hour. 

I reported directly to the CEO to help c= reate Xdrive's corporate strategy and product vision. 

As the CTO I:
  • Was one of three executives that handled the sale of Xdrive to AOL.
  • Handled all of Xdrive's technical due diligence.
  • Represented Xdrive to various brokers and companies.
  • Controlled Xdrive's technical and product strategy.


As head of technical operations, I:
  • Worked directly with the CFO to manage a multi-million dollar budget fo= r hardware, services, staff and facilities.
  • Worked with vendors to define requirements and negotiate contracts and = services.
  • Managed requirements, projects and deliverables for internal developmen= t staff, outsourced teams and marketing. 
  • Handled hiring and managing technical staff. Grew staff from 5 engineer= s with 15 years of experience to 18 with 160+ years of experience. Created = separate development, operational, project management and QA staffs.
  • Implemented processes and automated tracking for project specifications= , project status, defects, system changes and developer metrics.
  • Started a system for tracking system health by monitoring "vital&q= uot; system metrics and code profiling each release.


As the technical lead I:
  • Upgraded from Weblogic5.1 to JBoss 4.0.2
  • Unified Xdrive's various code bases into a singular, modular code base.=
  • Refactored legacy code and tuned servers for faster, more stable operat= ion. (Reduced "Application Down" errors served to users daily 172= 7%. Reduced login time from 22sec to 2sec.)
  • Migrated users from legacy systems to a newer system and database schem= a.


As the product development lead I:
  • Worked directly with marketing and analysts to create specifications fo= r new products and improvements.
  • Translated Business/Functional Requirements into Technical Requirements= and insured "buy in."
  • Launched over 20 new services including: music streaming, faxing, photo= galleries and upload accelerator, which led to 823% increase in utilizatio= n (Average account size went from 70MB to 576MB, new files added daily incr= eased from 80,000 to 4.2M+.)
  • Created new user channels: pre-paid users (sold as kits on CompUSA), fr= ee space users and various promotion and referral channels.
  • Managed the successful roll out of five package suites. Defined the bus= iness rules and migrated existing accounts.
  • Launched the Xdrive support forums.


As the inventor of Xdrive's Intellectual= Property, I:
  • Spearheaded the successful settlement of a patent suite.
  • Created an additional 5 patent filings.

 

 

Senior Software Architect, NovaWorld Project Lead:
Novalogic; Calabasas, CA; January 2001 - February 2003

I was responsi= ble for NovaLogic's long-running Massive Multiplayer environment, NovaWorld= . I was charged with developing new technologies, making old systems scale = and increase their QoS, handling operations, QA and project management.&nbs= p;


I created/managed the second generation = NovaWorld system which supported 13+ million active users and 1+ million ga= me joins a day with high availability (99.9+%) on a small budget (<$20K = of hardware and in-office hosting) 

As the Technical Lead I:
  • Used cutting edge technologies (Apache, JBoss, JoNaS, MySQL, HyperSonic= SQL, Linux, BSD, LVS, JUnit, JMeter, ANT) and industry leading software (S= olaris, SQL Server 2000) to implement a scalable solution that handled 1.3 = million game joins per day on commodity hardware costing approximately $12,= 000 ($8,000 under budget).
  • Redesigned Massive Multiplayer Persistent (MMP) environment using J2EE = clustering and management software that dramatically improved the stability= and uptime of NovaWorld. The average time between server reboots went from= 2.1 to 65.8 days. In the last year, unscheduled downtime was less than 6 h= ours. All components had complete load balancing, fail over and redundancy.=
  • Led the technical aspects of the project including: capturing requireme= nts, analyzing and selecting technologies, architecting solutions, developi= ng code, facilitating QA and planning launches and maintenance.
  • Redesigned NovaLogic's non-normalized data models. Worked with SQLServe= r DBA to implement data logic using triggers and procedures. Designed data = paths and transformations for data warehouse. 
  • Converted proprietary legacy software to industry standards including X= ML, SQL, J2EE, DNS, TCP/IP and HTML; allowing NovaLogic to retire expensive= , broken, non-maintainable homegrown software in lieu of off the shelf solu= tions.


As the Product Manager I:
  • Created and maintained project plans (MS Project), enforced change cont= rol (CVS), gathered metrics and data (JUnit and JMeter) and tracked and com= municated project status. Used UML and modeling tools (Rational Enterprise,= Argo, Visio) to create and verify test cases, component views, requirement= s and project dependencies. Created automated project tracking (documentati= on, bug tracking, development status, etc.) processes and tools.
  • Managed all QA operations. Created test plans. Trained testing staff. I= mplemented NovaLogic's first load testing lab. Created automated build/test= process.


As the Operations Lead I:
  • Designed and built the development, QA and production networks and syst= ems.
  • Automated monitoring and metrics gathers.
  • Enjoyed only 6 hours of downtime in my last year, due to an unexpected = power outage.

 

 

Software Architect, Consultant
Managed Ventures; Irvine, CA; January 2001 - February 2001

We worked with= biomedical companies to implement solutions for tracking, managing and syn= thesizing large amounts of medical and research data. 


I was responsible for providing clients = with software design and application server expertise. I would work with st= ake holders to identify requirements and design high level architecture. I = would prepare documentation ranging from code samples and UML to full techn= ical specifications. 

I would work with the designers and oper= ational staffs to select technologies and launch projects.


 

 

Chief Architect
(promoted from Chief Application Architect in April, 2000; promoted fro= m Director of MIS in December, 1999)
Xdrive Technologies LLC; Santa Monica, CA; July 1999 - January 2001

I was responsi= ble for running Xdrive's engineering and operations departments. As one of = the founding members, I was responsible for establishing a technology, staf= f and a service and then scaling it through all the phases from start up to= multi-million dollar company with hundreds of employees. 


I invented and managed the Xdri= ve service to support 9.7+ million users; all with rapid growth in user bas= e, utilization and complexity. 

As the Chief Architect, I:

  • Designed the Xdrive system which handled over 7.2 million transactions,= 100GB of file transfers, 30,000 new user registrations per day; more than = 120,000 logins per hour; and 12TB of storage.
  • Invented and maintained Xdrive's technology using Sun Solaris servers, = BEA WebLogic, Oracle, Apache, MySQL and implemented our technology using J2= EE, Perl, C++, XML, HTML, WebDAV and WAP. 
  • Served as architectural lead for business strategy team to develop and = refine business initiatives, market strategies and product goals.
  • Technical lead in all four rounds of financing, securing 100+ million d= ollars.
  • Created Xdrive's patent and intellectual property and worked with exter= nal legal team to create the patent application (patent 6,351,776, Shared i= nternet storage resource, user interface system and method).



As the Engineering Lead, = I:

  • Responsible for the rapid growth and leadership of an expert technical = team (grew from 3 engineers to approximately 40 in one year: 19 Software En= gineers, 3 DBA's, 5 Project Mangers, 5 SysAdmins and 7 QA Engineers).
  • Created and implemented Xdrive's design, QA, publish and launch process= es, which allowed Xdrive to carry out daily publishes of the web site.
  • Adapted established team building methods and principles from Extreme P= rogramming (XP), Quality Functional Deployment (QFD) and other industry bes= t practices to build the engineering department structure, which produced c= lear channels of communication, fostered teamwork, promoted rapid growth an= d scalability, leveraged the talents and experiences of a varied group of p= eople and maintained a high degree of motivation, team awareness and person= al growth.
  • Implemented departmental practices to maintain change control, create a= ccurate project tracking, set expectations and produce documentation.



As the Operations Lead, I= :

  • Responsible for vendor management and selecting vendor and technology c= hoices.
  • Managed 24 hour NOC staff that coordinated with local Sysadmins and Dat= a Center managed resources that guaranteed 5 nines of availability of the s= ervice.
  • Ran a staff of 5 project managers which handled our 24 publish and chan= ge process.

 

MIS Application Developer
Epoch Internet; Irvine, CA; June 1998 - July 1999
I developed and deployed systems to moni= tor and control Epoch's tier-1 national backbone (since bought by XO commun= ications) with 20+ million users, 200+ border routers and 7 peering/Data Ce= nters. 

I led for projects to:
  • create a system that aggregates and assigns IP addresses to Epoch's cus= tomers in order to best utilize Epoch's routers and network topology. =
  • migrate network tracking systems from heterogeneous legacy databases to= a standardized Oracle back end. 
  • created trouble ticket and equipment tracking systems.
  • standardized various databases to common Oracle system.

Served on Epoch's Software Design Life C= ycle and UI committees. 
Created Epoch's plan for executing the S= oftware Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model (CMM) framework.&= nbsp;
Designed and implemented Epoch's securit= y model and code libraries. 
Responsible for designing and building w= eb based MIS applications using C/C++, Perl and Java. 
Handled database design and integration,= using SQL Server, Oracle, DBI, ProC, PL/SQL and JDBC.


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Skills

Software Architecture 

  • Well versed in several software design methodologies: Domain Analysis, = Reference Method Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP), Unified Process (UP/= Rational Rose) and UML, Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM).
  • Experienced with Internet based N-tier architectures, distributed compu= ting models and established patterns in the field. 
  • Knowledgeable in the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute's (= CMSEI) recommended management and engineering practices.

Development

  • Expert with Java (EJB, Servlets, JSP, Applets, Applications, JMX, JMS, = JDO, JAAS, Axis, Struts, Spring, JGroups), DAO technologies (DataNuclues (J= POX), Hybernate, Torque), C/C++, JavaScript, Perl (Mod_Perl), Unix and BASH= scripting, SQL and PL/SQL. 
  • Familiar with Objective-C, ColdFusion, OS X, Windows and T-SQL. 
  • Worked with and implemented various Web Services: SOAP, JSON, XML-RPC.&= nbsp;
  • Experienced with a wide range of industry leading software including UN= IX (Sun Solaris, Linux, BSD), Windows, J2EE Servers (JBoss, BEA WebLogic, J= oNaS), Web and Servlet Containers (Apache, Tomcat, Light HTTPD), CFML Appli= cation Servers (Adobe ColdFussion, Railo), and RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server, M= ySQL, HSQLDB, InstantDB). 
  • Knowledgeable of CASE tools: source control systems (CVS, SVN), IDEs (N= etBeans, Eclipse, XCode, FlexBuilder) and architecture tools (Rational Rose= , Argo, Visio, Erwin, InterfaceBuilder). 
  • Automated building, testing and deployment systems using ANT, JUnit, Cr= uiseControl, JMeter, Mercury LoadRunner and Mercury WinRunner.

Distributed Systems

  • Have solid background and 10+ years of experience in distributed state = and transactional systems. 
  • Worked with common distributed technologies: J2EE, JSON, SOAP, XML-RCP = and CORBA. 
  • Designed and implemented various clustering and distributed technologie= s using existing clustering technologies (JGroups, T-Spaces), or through st= andard communication channels (JMS, HTTP, SNMP), or over the wire when exis= ting systems could not be utilized (TCP/UDP).  
  • Expert in JMX management of distributed systems.

Management

  • Led small to large technical teams (4-60) using established practices i= ncluding Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and Feature Driven Development (FD= D). 
  • Managed development with Object Oriented and Architecture driven proces= ses. Used self-documenting code, case tools and development repositories to= create automated channels of communication among team members. 
  • Implemented and automated processes and reporting schemes to create eff= icient departments that were able to meet goals repeatedly and with predict= ability. 
  • Well versed in SDLC best practices as proscribed by Project Management = Institutes (PMI) and the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute's (= CMSEI): project management, schedule estimation, risk analysis, work breakd= owns, cost benefit analysis, defect and change tracking, concurrent develop= ment and requirement management.

Bu= siness

 

  • Experienced in budget forecasting, resource and capacity planning, cont= ract management and negotiations. 
  • Dealt with data centers, off-shore development consultants, vendors, co= ntractors and customers. 
  • Familiar with legal and Intellectual Property concerns. 

 


Affiliations

= Patents:

Granted:

    • 7,496,578 = Shared Internet Storage Resource, User Interface System, and Method (Group = 4). February 4, 2009.

    • 7,337,207, Shared Internet Storage = Resource, User Interface System, and Method (Group 3). February 26, 2008.
    • 7,171,472, Shared Internet Storage = Resource, User Interface System, and Method (Group 2). January 30, 2007
    • 6,985,927 Shared Internet Stor= age Resource, User Interface System, and Method (Group 1). January 10, 2006=
    • 6,351,776 Shared Internet Stor= age Resource, User Interface System, and Method. February 26, 2002


Appl= ications:

    • 11/601,234, Network personal digital vide= o recorder system (NPDVR). Nov 17, 2006.
    • 2 additional applications in process

Open Source Projects: 

 Founded:


Contr= ibuted:

    • The JBoss Application Server is one of the fastest growing J2E= E solutions with over 6 million downloads. I added network socket timeout m= anagement for JNP RMI services.
    • Apache Tomcat is the defacto open source servlet/JSP containe= r. I contributed load balancing code to the mod_jk connector that allows it= work with the Apache web server.
    • ObjectWeb is an open-source software community created at = the end of 1999 by BullFrance Telecom R&D=  and INRIA. I contributed JMX automation to the Fractal project. 
    • Eclipe Spaces, Users can develop, publish, and consume co= mmercial and third-party Eclipse plugins, creating an open online community= of plugin providers. I worked on the storage and storage protocol team.

Published: 

iPhone: = ;

Member: = ;

    • Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focus= ed on building an open development platform comprised of extensible framewo= rks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software acros= s the lifecycle. (Member since 2006)
    • Association for Computing Machinery is a major force in advancin= g the skills of information technology professionals and students worldwide= . (Member since 2001)
    • Java Community Process holds the responsibility for the developm= ent of Java technology. (Member since 2001)

 

 


Education

 

1994 - 1998 Indiana University Bloomington, IN
B.S., Chemistry with emphasis in Nuclear/Theoretical Chemistry
Minor in Information Technologies
  Minor is Analytical Philosophy


 

 


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