Mark Freedman

Hi, I'm Mark Freedman. I've been in the software development field since the mid-‘80s, consulting and leading teams since the ‘90s.

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Mark Freedman has been in the software development field since the mid-'80s, consulting and leading teams since the '€˜90s. His determination and persistence gets things done --€“ the right things. He reads between the lines and has an open mind.   Mark Freedman is extremely reliable, and believes that anything is possible at some level. Through his engineering and leadership skills, he's helped double his first startup's revenue each year throughout the '90s. As software director and architect, he made key contributions to one of the fastest growing companies in the 2000s, helping to increase its hyper growth 23,000%, and simplified their automated monitoring systems to save $100,000s and hundreds of hours of troubleshooting annually.   Mark Freedman has served as architect, developer, troubleshooter, consultant and mentor, and was the founder of two successful consulting firms, and two technical user groups. He's been named a 2010 INETA Champion for his user group and code camp leadership contributions.   As a strong believer of continuous, life-long learning through every available resource, Mark Freedman has great passion for using technology to simplify people'€™s lives. He has always loved the craft of creating something seemingly out of nothing, which is what developing software gives him. "It will always be magic to me."

Senior Director, Software Development at Webloyalty

May 2000 - February 2011

A founding member of firm’s internal IT department, and linchpin in the company's meteoric growth (in top 50 fastest growing companies in CT). Responsible for architecture, design, development, implementation, and team leadership. Exhibit an intuition for balancing business needs, developer productivity and career development, mentoring, and problem solving. Extensive experience through all aspects of running a software development department, supporting several dozen core systems. Systems include multi-vendor billing, customer service, IVR systems, data integrity and system monitoring tools, and software integration and communication across divisions and vendors. Develop standards and procedures for coding, code reviews, project artifacts, documentation and operations. Highly productive in an extremely intense, fast-moving, quick growing environment, with constantly shifting priorities and coordination of numerous roles and responsibilities.

Founder and CTO at Integrality, Inc.

2003 - 2008

Created a working prototype for an ambitious productivity software product. Presented to various investors and at investor fairs and events. Heavy involvement in the creation of detailed business plans and executive summaries, product spec sheets and slideshows, architectual workflow and design diagrams, and project plans and cost analysis. Helped recruit technical business partners, and contributed towards other business partnerships. Enthusiasm helped drive significant interest toward the company and the product.

Founder, President, and CIO at CMC International

March 1990 - May 2000

Led staff of 25, specializing in Fortune 500 companies. Mentored and guided the career development of employees and software consultants. Responsible for business development and growth, securing funding, developing business and technical partnerships, developing sales and marketing strategies and materials. Established cooperative ventures with technical and other professional firms, to provide complete business solutions to clients. Managed design and development of Web-based HR system, coded in ASP, JavaScript, VBScript, DHTML, CSS, XML, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft SQL Server. Designed and developed CUAccess, an SAA/CUA-compliant case tool / library that allowed Clipper developers to create mouse-driven applications that "look and feel" like Windows. Certified PowerBuilder Developer. Provided technical consulting, mentoring and training of technical staffs of several Fortune 500 companies.

Consultant at PepsiCo

1991 - 1995

Senior Programmer Analyst at Drexel Burnham Lambert

1987 - March 1990

Programmer / Analyst at Charles of the Ritz

1986 - 1987

Programmer at Bankers Trust

January 1985 - 1986

Communications Technician at Track Data Corp

February 1984 - January 1985

President / Consultant at LorMarSoft, LLC

March 2011

Provide software consulting services, including architecture, design, development, and mentoring of client development staffs. Current projects include the development of front-end public-facing Web sites for a top Internet-based marketing company, using ASP.NET MVC 3 and later, jQuery and numerous plugins, Entity Framework, Telerik MVC controls, and SQL Server 2008.

Board Member and Founder at Fairfield / Westchester .NET User Group

May 2007

As board member, and founder and director of the Fairfield / Westchester .NET User Group, I helped to foster the quick growth of this group, and ran code camp events in Fairfield, CT. We meet on the first Thursday of each month at UCONN in Stamford, CT.

Board Member and Founder at Fairfield / Westchester SQL Server User Group

May 2007

As board member, founder and director of the Fairfield / Westchester SQL Server User Group, I helped to foster the quick growth of this group, and ran code camp events in Fairfield, CT. We meet on the second Thursday of each month at UCONN in Stamford, CT.

Cope Vocational Institute

1982 – 1983

Computer Programming

Brooklyn College

1980 – 1982

Concentration: Computer Science

Family, computers, software, programming, music, guitar, baseball.