VM TRAVEL / SURETICKET Web Developer / Infrastructure Engineer
Mar. 2001 - Mar. 2003Greater New York City AreaFirst project lead that was landed at final stages of “dot.com bubble”. This was a promising company that could’ve been competing with Travelocity and Expedia. Virtual Miles loyalty program which compounded with travel miles given by airlines gave a good start to this venture. However, the events of 9/11 shook the travel industry leading to eventual demise of smaller companies, leading only industry giants. Was responsible for leading a web application development team on developing travel agency’s web application. Acted as senior developer and technical project leader tasked with both development and managing an array of contracted developers. Was responsible for maintaining all application and database server, code repository, network infrastructure and in-house data center.