Alex Southgate

• Guiding product direction driven by client feedback, developer innovation, and business strategy.
• Leading all technical sales and integrations, interacting with everyone involved from CEO to developers, resulting in 10 six-figure contracts.
• Building out demos and proofs of concept in Ruby on Rails, PHP, .NET, and ColdFusion.
• Designed and developed scalable fuzzy search engine as one of a 3-person agile development team (pure Java).

• Instrumental in concept, planning, and design of network enabled learning solution
• Led team in design and implementation of collaborative learning application using C++, Qt, and XML.
• Designed and implemented efficient NT/Linux office network.

• Led team of four in design and prototyping of administrative functionality for online IPO web application in a WebLogic environment.
• Acted as main liaison between client's technical infrastructure team and Sapient development team.

• Led team of three in site creation, enhancement and maintenance of IPO web application using ASP, IIS, and SQL Server.
• Implemented database driven email management system used to keep customers informed of IPO activity.
• Streamlined workflow through legal, marketing, and production teams in maintaining email communication with customers.

• Gathered requirements for customer tracking and promotions database.
• Functioned as liaison with clients to migrate designed tables into existing Oracle databse.