Career Portfolio

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CV

Benjamen Pyle: A genuine and resourceful technology executive

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Contact Information:

• Location: Trophy Club, TX 76262
• Email: ben@binaryheap.com
• Phone: (817) 557-7109

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Profile

I am a genuine and resourceful technology creator with over 20 years of hands-on software development, team building and leadership experience. My passion is enabling technology teams to be their best by bridging modern technical design with outstanding business problem-solving. Recognized as an AWS Community leader in the areas of Event-Driven and Serverless Architecture, I bring 7 years of pragmatic experience designing and operating modern cloud-native and containerized solutions.

To work with me is an experience and I pride myself on being able to connect individually with those on my team. It’s through that relationship-building that I’m able to do what I enjoy most, which is guiding technical talent to become better while balancing growth through innovation, continuous improvement and delivery.

Professional Experience

Curantis Solutions, Addison, TX

Chief Technology Officer November 2018 – Present

• Designed and led the re-architecture of the core EHR product from a monolith with SQL Server to a highly distributed Serverless and Event-Driven approach with many AWS Services and NoSQL Databases.
• Responsible for the design, hiring and growth of the Technology team from 10 members to a total of 45 including Engineering, Data and Analytics, Enterprise Architecture and Cloud Operations.
• By transitioning architectures, reduced annual AWS spend by 25% while deploying a multi-account setup rolled under one Main Account.
• Led the formation and the build of a real-time Lake House data architecture supported by AWS Step Functions, Kinesis, Lambda and HealthLake
• Architected and guided the build of a Patented Event-Driven billing system that processes multiple millions of dollars per month for customers.

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Thinaer, RICHARDSON, TX

Senior Vice President, Technology August 2017- October 2018

• Built an Engineering department from 1 employee up to 10 which included Product Management, Development, Quality Assurance and 4 offshore hardware and mobile developers
• Responsible for the architecture and delivery of a real-time data ingestion, contextualization platform and all related applications as it relates to IoT sensor data in the healthcare domain.
• Delivered in 60 days the real-time ingestion component which is powered by C#, AWS Serverless, containerized compute and Event-Driven Architecture that responds to 50M daily data points of streaming data at a monthly infra cost of less than $1K
• Delivered in 6 weeks the initial version of the company’s hardware gateway solution that is capable of reading Bluetooth 4.x and BLE packets to be used upstream in the cloud. Sensor support included Remote Patient Monitoring devices and Asset tracking including location approximation.

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Solovis, Irving, TX

Senior Vice President, Technology March 2016 – August 2017

• Built an Engineering department from scratch in support of the Company’s primary products which were cloud-based solutions in the Financial Technology sector using Microsoft Azure
• Instituted a DevOps practice that used common tools and components for build, deploy and test. Architected and led execution of a Deployment Pipeline which supported the pulling of built artifacts through separate virtual environments to accomplish small feedback loops and rapid advancement of user stories through the development lifecycle.
• Key member of the executive leadership team and responsible for technical due diligence during a Series A funding round totaling $8M as well as managing the annual department budget which included people, infrastructure and services
• Delivered a key speech “Igniting a Community and Cultivating Fans” at the inaugural Solovis user conference to customers and prospects

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Vizient, Irving, TX

Director of Strategic Projects and Clinical Delivery February 2013 – February 2016

• Responsible for 5 software development teams utilizing Scrum and Kanban in support of the Clinical Software Delivery Program which included Pharmacy, Clinical Outcomes, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence.
• Delivered a complete rewrite of the Clinical Enterprise Data Warehouse which leveraged SSIS, C# and Elasticsearch which reduced the time to load downstream data marts from monthly to nightly.
• Delivered Cost per Surgical Case application in 12 weeks that did physician cost and efficacy comparisons from data sources from the EMR and Inventory Management Systems inside of the hospital.
• Was the first Safe Program Consultant in the organization and filled the role of Release Train Engineer. Reduced team’s unplanned work from 60% down to 12% over two-quarters of tracking

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Rave Cinemas, Dallas, TX

Lead Software Engineer January 2012 — January 2013

• Within 6 weeks of starting delivered the initial version of a failing project to delivery transactions from the box office and concession stands across 62 national theaters to power Executives and decision-makers with up-to-date information about the key business metrics.
• Architected, developed and managed the overall project of a next generation box office decision management system
• Developed two native iOS applications that showed the capacity and rate of ticket sales per theatre per movie screen to better assist in store managers daily showings and theatre times.

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Strategic Health Services. Franklin, TN

Director of Technology July 2009 – January 2012

• Managed a team of 6 developers and report writers to go from concept to 30,000 individual subscribers in a short 6-month period by utilizing focused iterative development. At departure, the platform had gone from the initial 3 customers to 30 customers and over 100,000 individual subscribers.
• Key member of the Executive team solely responsible for the technology infrastructure and product engineering which included product development. Was the original developer who prototyped the application in Ruby on Rails and then converted into an ASP.NET MVC solution. Other technologies included SQL Server, Web API and Private Cloud Hosting
• Implemented Kanban at the team level which included metric and feature planning based upon team throughput and cycle time.

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Education

University of Louisiana Monroe, LA

Bachelor of Business Administration, Information Systems 2001

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Additional Information

• US Patent 11429460 – Event-Driven Data Processing System and Method
• AWS Community Builder — Serverless
• Speaker and Technology Writer
• Former Division I College Golfer