Jan Drake

Empowering Families With Great Birth Teams

M&A CRM Industry Architected and coded graph-based analytics system as hybrid cloud CRM solution. Stream-oriented continuous processing resulting in near real-time updates. Performance tested on multiple graph engines and designed to use both Tinkerpop and native stacks. Technologies: Java, Tinkerpop, Neo4J, OrientDB, Titan, Elasticsearch. Telecom Industry Designed distributed system architecture for management, sale, and delivery of internet services. Fully distributed architecture with eventual consistency to centralized cloud enabling new products to be brought to market, fully autonomous service delivery, decreased capital and operational costs, decreased feature delivery time, improved network management, and API for partner publication. Evaluated data infrastructure and analytics capabilities. Recommended product and logging stream changes to enable customer analytics such as conversion rates, offer performance, and churn across multiple markets. Optimized use of google analytics and internal elasticsearch/kibana infrastructure. Hospitality Industry Customer had many in-market products and plans for revolutionary mobile-first play for the hospitality industry. Mobile platforms supported: multiple flavors of Android & iOS. Architected new next-generation platform and stack to enable creation of new market offerings and migration of existing in-market products to the new platform. Also provided executive education and guidance, vendor evaluation/selection/negotiation, off-shore team management, due diligence for partners and M&A, product management. Mobile first (android/ios), hypermedia, localized, hybrid on-prem/hosted cloud architecture, hybrid data storage (mongo/sql), rules engine (drools), analytics optimizations (optaplanner), integration strategy, linux, Java.

Helping expand and personalize opportunity, experience, and access at public venues for those with extra accessibility needs and their communities.

Providing strategic, business, and technical advice to help CrewGuru in its mission to connect and enable businesses and individuals delivering any type of media experience to consumers. Company formation, cap table structure, technical review, business and technology roadmaps, technical execution, and product management.

Practice Lead for service delivery and architecture. Design and deliver cloud-native and managed Kubernetes cluster operations services that increase customers’ speed to market, reliability, and competitiveness. Managed Kubernetes as a service provided to a top tier media company to design their entire hybrid container platform, a new e-commerce player to design and manage their entire container cluster and production systems, and a major fleet service provider to transform their solutions to cloud-native and manage their production systems.