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Franklin Wise Resume
Technology Executive, Software Engineer and Business Owner specializing in large scale distributed cloud computing. Franklin has a unique combination of product design, leadership and technical acumen. Past experience highlights include: delivering software that manages over four hundred million dollars in Premium Finance Loans, implementing the distributed persistence platform for the 7th largest social networking website in North America with over 8 billion requests per day across thousands of servers, and bringing to market a modern iPad based Point-of-Sale ordering platform for Food Trucks in the Los Angeles area.
- franklinwise@gmail.com
- 818.383.4261
- 17 years of Software Engineering and Product Development
- 14 years of Leading and Managing groups
- 4 years of Business Development
- Industries: Social Networking, Financial Services, Payment Processing, Cloud Computing, Point-of-Sale, Appraisal, Fashion, Insurance, Technology & Sales
- Large scale, full stack, web and mobile applications from conception to delivery
- Agile Development, Continuous Integration, Automation
- Leading, Educating and Mediating
- Distributed Computing, Frameworks, Micro-Services
- Simple, Effective, Efficient
- github.com/gotansible
- Galaxy
- Letters of Commendation: George Bush Sr. (US President), William Sessions (FBI, Director), George Tenet (CIA, Director)
- Patent - http://www.google.com/patents/US8776097
- Los Angeles Mayor’s Certificate of Achievement – Tom Bradley
- The Secretary of Defense Certificate of Achievement – Dick Cheney
- Eagle Scout – Boy Scouts of America
- Entered College at 15 (skipped 2 grades, Jr. and Sr. years of High School)
- Award of Contribution – University Children’s Center
- Black Belt – Aikido
- Performing Salsa Dancer – San Francisco, Palm Springs, Las Vegas, Los Angeles
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Summary: Established and ran a technology company to bring to market a revenue generating iPad based Point-of-Sale platform for the restaurant industry. Lead a team that consists of talent in the following areas: iPhone & iPad development, Web Site Development, graphic design, data acquisition, sales, marketing, legal, investors, PCI regulatory compliance, partners, business development, interns and fund raising.
- Envisioned and brought to market revenue generating iPad-based point-of-sale system that includes credit card processing, customer & kitchen receipt printing, web site reporting & analytics.
- Established PCI Level 2 compliance for payment processing for the credit card industry which included validation by a 3rd party Quality Security Assessor.
- Procured, negotiated and secured contracts and relationships with 3rd party companies that include banks, legal, graphic design, merchant card processing, associations, data mining, office space, accounting and others.
- Identified and acquired top talent in a variety of roles.
Technologies: C# 3.5, CCR 2.0, Distributed Computing, Asynchronous Programming, Massive Caching, Sockets, Custom Server Development, XML
Summary: On the core platform team I Implemented MySpace’s first fully asynchronous server platform for distributed transactions. Led others in creating a custom high performance persistence product. Implemented MySpace’s first middle tier that sits between the Web Servers on the front and the Databases and Caching tier on the back. Provide 24/7 production support for thousands of servers. Maintained and enhanced the custom clustering, redundant, scalable, high-performance server platform. Filed for a patent. Maintained and enhanced the custom serialization framework. Participate in architectural overviews, code reviews and mentor junior developers.
- Designed & Implemented MySpace’s first fully asynchronous execution platform for distributed transactions against thousands of servers including Databases, Distributed Caches, Web servers and other REST providers, SMTP servers, SPAM, Abuse & Logging Servers. The foundation of the implementation includes inventing algorithms for thread scheduling, thread starvation prevention, deferred execution.
- Implemented & Deployed MySpace’s first true Middle-Tier execution platform. Which executes against the same servers as the above distributed transaction client.
- Matured the existing custom Clustering, Load Balancing, Replication, Message Transport code base. Including being one of the few people in the company to root out latent hard to find bugs in our core server platform.
- Presented and Acted on several internal educational videos.
- Coordinating Teams that span Engineering, QA, Systems Engineering, NOC, Build Services, API, Data Services, Security, Customer Service, Product.
Technologies: C# 2.0, ASP.Net 2.0, XHTML, CSS, MySql 5.0, CCR - Microsoft Robotics Library for asynchronous calls
Summary: Designed and implemented a social dish review site for food served at restaurants. Created a search engine for food that understands food taxonomy and gives accurate results to discovering new dishes.
Summary: Created a 80-person organization dedicating to Leadership, Communication & Personal Growth.
- Created 7 Chapters: 5 in Los Angeles and 2 in San Francisco
- Mentored and Trained others to lead small groups
- Grew the organization from eight people to over eighty
- Members Produced Results as a direct result of their participation in the areas of Community Development, Family, Carrier, Communication & Self Expression.
Skills: Recruiting, Inspiring, Leading, Negotiating, Listening, Delegating Technologies: C# 1.0 & 2.0, .Net 1.0 & 2.0, ASP.Net 1.0 & 2.0, ADO.net, XHTML, CSS, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Perforce, Visio, Code Generation, n-tier architecture
- Led a team of developers, stake holders, executives and testers to deliver 6 applications in 3 ½ years
- Built and designed a reusable software framework used across 5 of the 6 applications
- The Applications Delivered: Loan Administration, Software Change Management, Help Desk & Network Issue Management, Quoting for Premium Finance Loans, Data Import Server, Paperless Office and Imaging System
- Successfully presented the software design & architecture for MBNA acquisition to their security and architecture teams. Their Senior Executive Vice President said of my presentation “I’m not a technical person… and your presentation is the most comprehensive and easy to understand of any I’ve seen”.
- Architecture highlights: Security Chokepoints, Data Driven Rules Framework, Lazy Loading, Object Relational Persistence Framework, Data Auditing Framework, C# Code Generation for Stored Procedures, Unit Tests… etc
Technologies: C#, ADO.net, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Remoting, Visio, CVS, NUnit
Summary: Designed and Implemented an Equipment Appraisal Application and Equipment Classification Application that made use of a common application server which hosted the middle tier for both client applications. The amount of data per client session ranged from 10,000 to 60,000 rows. The project included importing and exporting large amounts of data over the Internet as well as organizing and categorizing large quantities of data.
Technologies: C#, C, VB, XML 1.0, XSLT 1.0, CSS, XHTML, Peer-to-Peer computing, , Linux, Oracle 8i, Sybase ASE, Proprietary Binary Packet Protocol, Perforce, Visio, OPNET 7 (Network Simulation), Sybase CT-Lib Open Client, make, bash, Berkeley Sockets etc..
Summary: Contributed to network topology simulations, projection and the design of an IP based network content distribution system for distributed Video-On-Demand and DVR functionality. Designed and implemented a multi-threaded Software Process Management application that tracked Requirements, Use Cases, Scenarios, Bug Tracking, and Test Cases.
Technologies: C++, InstallScript, STP (Scout Transfer Protocol), COM, Peer-to-Peer Computing, Windows SDK, Rational Rose
Summary: Created a utility application to map and convert hierarchical file structures to a flat structure and vice-versa. Created installer and Automation Enabled COM wrappers for Win32 API from the installer for ScourExchange.
Technologies: Visual Basic 6, C++, HTML, COM, ADO 2.1, Sybase ASA, Sybase SQL Modeler, Crystal Reports 8, IIS on NT 4.0
Summary: Designed and implemented a Task and Time Management client server application to enable employees to manage their own responsibilities while facilitating communication and prioritization with their manager. Created the initial company web site.
Technologies: VBA, DAO, Microsoft Access 97, Relational Database Design
Summary: Designed and implemented a computer based purchase order, invoice, accounting and inventory control system using Microsoft Access. Performed as the network administrator for a mixed Mac and Windows based environment with Windows NT Server 4.0 and Microsoft Exchange 5.5.
- Award of Distinction in the Psychology Major
- Award of Exceptional Academic Performance
| Language | Interest | Ability (10) |
|---|---|---|
| Go | High | 9 |
| Javascript | High | 7 |
| Objective C | Medium | 7 |
| C# | Low | 10 |
| REST* | High | 9 |
| HTML,CSS | Low | 7 |
| Python | Low | 2 |
| Ruby | Low | 2 |
| Java | Low | 1 |
*REST is not a language.
| OS | Interest | Ability (10) |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu | High | 8 |
| CentOS | High | 7 |
| OSX | Medium | 5 |
| iOS | Medium | 6 |
| Windows | Low | 7 |
| Andriod | Low | 0 |
| Server | Interest | Ability (10) |
|---|---|---|
| Redis | High | 8 |
| HAProxy | High | 7 |
| Nginx | High | 8 |
| Consul | High | 8 |
| Kafka | High | 7 |
| ElasticSearch | High | 5 |
| Logstash & Kibana | Medium | 6 |
| Zookeeper | Low | 4 |
| MongoDB | Medium | 4 |
| MS SQL | Medium | 7 |
| MySql / MariaDB | Medium | 4 |
| Druid | High | 1 |
| Many More | Medium | 1 - 4 |
| Tool | Interest | Ability (10) |
|---|---|---|
| Ansible | High | 9 |
| Terraform | High | 9 |
| Vagrant | High | 9 |
| Github.com | High | 8 |
| VIM | High | 8 |
| SSH | High | 8 |
| Chef | Low | 7 |
| Service | Interest | Ability (10) |
|---|---|---|
| AWS | High | 10 |
| Datadog | High | 7 |
| Pingdom | Medium | 9 |
| Pagerduty | Medium | 7 |
| NewRelic | Medium | 7 |
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Team, Management & Leadership Program (1 year program) – Feb 2006 – Feb 2007 Landmark Education
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Led a team of 90 fellow students in accomplishing: registering 140+ People into 3 Communication Courses, Logistics of running 3 weekend courses, Collecting Payments, Greeting Participants & Registering Coaches
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Self Expression & Leadership Program (4 month program) – 2005 & 2007 Landmark Education
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Participated in training program around leading a small project. Two years later I coached this same course.