Jarret Rackoff

Experience

Grassroots Technologies

March 2000 to Present | New York, NY

Founding Partner Internal Company Growth and Leadership

• Worked alongside other partners from early stages of business model inception, through incorporation and full support of company operations.
• Ongoing member of board of directors involved in all executive and operational decision-making.

Scholastic Education Technology Group - Central Engineering

• Served as Strategic Lead and Acting Director of Technology for Scholastic Education Central Engineering, the central control for all new development and legacy product maintenance activity.
• Managed a team of 12 internal and over 30 external vendor personnel through multiple/parallel project lifecycles.

Scholastic ECommerce Systems Development and Maintenance

• Managed temporary ownership over all Scholastic.com ECommerce systems leading up to and through the 2002 holiday sale season. Responsibilities spanned business stakeholder relationship management through cross team deployment planning.

Scholastic Professional Development Project

• Owned the full strategic analysis and functional specification effort to define product relation to corporate business model.
• Worked as central party between corporate IT and consulting group in application of requirements to architectural design.
• Served as project management and client relationship lead throughout project implementation that included a new build using ATG Dynamo, Iplanet Webserver, Oracle, and Solaris.

Forbes.com 4.0 Rearchitecture Project

• Served as lead of an accelerated, cross department business requirements analysis effort.
• Co-lead translation of requirements into high level, and subsequently detailed level architecture design.
• Served as project management lead throughout entire architecture implementation, which included migration from an IIS and SQL Server architecture to a newly designed architecture using ATG Dynamo, Apache, Interwoven's TeamSite, TIBCO quote feeds, Oracle, and Solaris.

BigStar Entertainment Incorporated

Director of Application Development (6/99 - 3/2000) Interim Vice President of Technology (9/99-12/99) Senior Technical Project Manager (10/98 - 5/99) October 1998 - March 2000

Business Requirements Analysis and Modeling

• Served as lead member of 3 person team through all phases of requirements analysis and modeling.
• Acted as main liaison with executive team, facilitating all meetings and presentations.

End to End Design of New Version of BigStar Systems

• Led team of core BigStar personnel in complete redesign of all aspects of proprietary systems including the Front End Site, Database, and Back End Pre-site and Post-site processing.
• Evaluated feasibility of all enhancements, incorporating cutting edge functionality according to time and resource constraints, as well as performance and system integrity implications.
• Constructed and maintained all levels of design documentation.

Construction of New Version of BigStar Systems

• Served as lead manager for development effort which involved 8 application developers, 3 database administrators and a 4 person system administration team.
• Managed all workplanning activity for development effort which included 3 main focus areas:
  1. Front End Site - Cold Fusion/Oracle on Solaris
  2. Back End Order Fulfillment System - Perl/Oracle on Solaris
  3. Back End Administration Facilities - Cold Fusion/Oracle on Solaris
• Designed and oversaw implementation of code review procedures for all 3 main focus areas.
• Acted as direct liaison with executive team for all issues surrounding development effort.

Test/Rollout Planning of New Development

• Assisted Quality Assurance lead in executing all testing while subject to extremely challenging time constraints.
• Managed entire Beta Testing effort from planning stages through implementation and rollout.
• Owned rollout and database conversion from legacy to new systems from early planning through successful on-site execution.

Accenture

Consultant July 1996 - October 1998

AT&T Universal Platform Internet User Interface Feasibility Study
March 1998 - October 1998

• Supervised team members and served as chief developer for prototype.
• Acted as liaison for high level consultant and client project management.
• Conducted high level design of prototype providing technical expertise within HTML, JavaScript and Java skill areas.

AT&T Universal Biller CADM Technical Architecture Team
August 1997 - March 1998

• Developed CADM physical database model for use in application design.
• Designed database extraction SQL and developed supporting documentation.
• Carried out design, configuration and maintenance for all project Oracle testing environments.

AT&T Universal Biller LAN Support Team
January 1997 - August 1997

• Acted as first point of contact for Windows NT LAN support team.
• Managed the configuration of all new tools for project development.

Pepsi Cola New Hire On-Line Software Training Project
August 1996 - January 1997

• Supervised on-site configuration of multiple training locations.
• Conducted sessions to facilitate knowledge transfer to client administrators.

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

Java/J2EE, PL/SQL, JavaScript, Perl, CFML, HTML, C, CGI, K/C Shell Scripting

Applications/Databases

Dynamo 4.5 / 5.1 / 5.6, Apache, Verity, Interwoven TeamSite, Netscape Enterprise, Oracle, Cold Fusion, Real Media, SQL Server/Access

Operating Systems

UNIX (HP-UX and Solaris 2.6), Linux, Windows NT/95/98/2000

Education

University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana College of Engineering
B.S. Electrical Engineering, May 1996
Independent Concentration: Mathematics
Cumulative GPA: 3.3/4.0
Honors: Dean's List; Eta Kappa Nu—Honor Society; Golden Key National Honor Society