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Taher Scherzay

Taher Scherzay

Los Angeles, CA, United States
Member since September 9, 2013
Taher is a highly experienced engineer with lots of experience as a developer and CTO (who can code!) for a number of technologically diverse companies. His primary skill set lies in designing and developing large scale enterprise applications with significant automation and decision processing logic.
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Portfolio
  • Disney
    LAMP. PHP, Python, WordPress
  • Thaeres
    C#, ASP.NET, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, SQL Server 2012...
  • CrowdGather
    C#, ASP.NET, PHP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, CentOS, Windows...
Experience
  • HTML, 14 years
  • Microsoft SQL Server, 12 years
  • MySQL, 12 years
  • Java, 10 years
  • ASP.NET, 10 years
  • C#, 10 years
  • PHP, 6 years
  • jQuery, 5 years
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Visual Studio, Aptana, Eclipse, WISA & LAMP fluent
The most amazing...
...application I've developed is an enterprise ad server rivaling the features and functionality of Google's DFP platform.
Employment
  • Senior Solutions Architect
    Disney
    2015 - PRESENT
    • Architected web solutions.
    Technologies: LAMP. PHP, Python, WordPress
  • Founder, Creator, Lead Architect
    Thaeres
    2013 - PRESENT
    • Created Thaeres (thaeres.com), a fully automated SaaS enterprise software platform that optimizes and administers revenue management, payment processing, and long-term customer value management.
    • Designed and developed the API and web application interfaces.
    • Developed extensive web services layer accessible via SOAP, XML, and REST.
    • Designed and implemented a WordPress template for the knowledge base.
    • Designed and developed all database schemas and database network designs.
    • Designed, deployed, and maintained network operations on Windows Azure Cloud service.
    • Designed and developed outbound notification system utilizing email and text messaging via third-party integrations (SendGrid & Twilio).
    Technologies: C#, ASP.NET, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, SQL Server 2012, MongoDB, AppFabric, MSMQ, IIS, Windows Azure, Web API/REST, WCF
  • Chief Technology Officer
    CrowdGather
    2011 - 2013
    • Created a custom buy-side and sell-side ad serving platform, (enrolled user website, public web services, back-end processing applications, content delivery services, outbound notification services and database schemas); able to scale up to 1B+ ad impressions/month/server cluster.
    • Designed and developed RTB (real-time bidding) component of advertiser/publisher interface including first ever self-adjusting price recommendation algorithm.
    • Designed and developed API and web application interfaces.
    • Designed and developed all database schemas and database network designs.
    • Designed, deployed and maintained network operations on Amazon AWS Cloud service and internally owned colocation network.
    Technologies: C#, ASP.NET, PHP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, CentOS, Windows, Apache, IIS, Nginx, MySQL 5.5, SQL Server 2008/R2, Memcached, AppFabric, Amazon AWS, Citrix XenServer
  • Chief Technology Officer
    Elexity Systems
    2004 - 2010
    • Created DentalSenders (desktop client applications, enrolled user website, public web services, back-end call processing applications, outbound notification services, and database schemas).
    • Designed and developed the API and web application interfaces.
    • Designed and developed all database schemas and database network designs.
    • Designed, deployed, and managed network operations on an internally owned colocation network.
    • Designed and developed the outbound notification system utilizing email, text messaging, and telephone calls via third-party integrations (SilverPop, EnvoyWW, and Voxeo).
    Technologies: C#, ASP.NET, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Windows, IIS, SQL Server 2005
  • Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
    MLSOnline
    2007 - 2009
    • Created MLSListingsOnline.com (public and enrolled user website, back-end lead management services, and database schema) in nine months from concept to launch.
    • Redesigned MLSonline.com from the ground up in six months by overhauling the entire software platform.
    • Designed and developed all web application interfaces.
    • Designed and developed all database schemas and database network designs.
    • Developed real-time system health checks and service watchdog.
    Technologies: C#, ASP.NET, PHP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Suse, Windows, Apache, IIS, MySQL 4.x, SQL Server 2005
Experience
  • Thaeres (Development)
    https://www.thaeres.com

    Enterprise billing, invoicing and payment processing system for commercial business services.

  • Adisn (Development)

    Custom buy-side & sell-side ad server with dynamic pricing engine.

Skills
  • Languages
    C#, HTML, SQL, PHP, CSS, Java, JavaScript
  • Frameworks
    ASP.NET, .NET, Zend Framework
  • Libraries/APIs
    Authorize.Net, PayPal API, Facebook API, jQuery, Google API, Yahoo! API
  • Tools
    Visual Studio, Eclipse IDE, Aptana, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop
  • Paradigms
    Agile Software Development, Waterfall Development, Extreme programming, Scrum, Concurrent Programming
  • Platforms
    Amazon Web Services (AWS), WordPress, Azure, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS
  • Storage
    MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Memcached
  • Other
    AJAX
Education
  • Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering
    Boston University - Boston, MA
    1992 - 1997
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