[Contact]
* Name: Tim Cotten
* Title: Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
* Employer: Agilla Pro
* Location: Washington, D.C. Metro Area
* Email: tim@cotten.io
* Web: https://www.cotten.io
* Phone: +16507433473

[Technical Skills]
* Software Development
* API Design & Integration
* LAMP Development (PHP/Python)
* Cloud Architecture Development
* DevOps & CI/CD

[Focus]
* E-commerce

[Summary]
Technology leader accomplished in enterprise software, ecommerce, and blockchain development. Full stack developer with
extensive background in systems engineering. Takes a handson role in rapid architecture, prototyping, and delivery of critical
systems.

Numerous high-impact projects in LAMP, Rails, .NET, and mobile
development for mid-sized businesses. Extensive experience with
database administration, development and design with a heavy
emphasis on cloud architecture and deployment.

E-commerce expertise, IaaS/cloud with AWS, online security (PCI/
DSS), system administration, DevOps, and search engine discovery
and acquisition (SEO, SEM, affiliate marketing).

[Experience]
Agilla Pro
* Start Date: 2012
* End Date: Current
* About: Agilla Pro provides professional management and software development
services for multiple e-commerce companies and digital service providers
	- Engineered a custom e-commerce platform to achieve what off-the-shelf solutions the others couldn’t offer: including a smart and blazing fast DB caching system, incredibly configurable routing and SEO logic, automated tests, and support for dozens of affiliate methodologies and rewards/incentives programs as well as a suite of product development tools for our marketing team tailored to our business
	- Developed a co-branded mobile app that tripled sales in the target sidechannel
	- Created our own proprietary APIs (REST and SOAP) to maximize affiliate opportunities and data-sharing with Salesforce integration points
	- Improved company up-time from 97% to 99.99% by implementing a highly scalable and highly redundant systems architecture using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for redundant, load-balancing infrastructure
	- Integrated Bitcoin, PayPal, and Google Instant Buy for improved conversions and marketability
	- Guided Agilla Pro through data recovery and worst-case failure recovery (disaster mitigation) during initial on-ramping when payment processing system was corrupted
	- Engineered user experience technology that instantly adapts websites and mobile applications to meet marketing source requirements across hundreds
of affiliate campaigns
	- Pioneered advanced address verification techniques and location mapping in our online and mobile apps that dropped delivery failures by 45%
	- Leveraged quantitative analysis techniques with customized metrics systems to achieve a 260% increase in online conversion rates for our customers while lowering CPC costs and greatly improving SEO rankings
	- Created comprehensive PCI/DSS compliant security strategies and delivered a fully encrypted secure billing, storage, and retrieval solution

KaBOOM!
* Director of Online Development
* Start Date: 2011
* End Date: 2012
* About:
	- Directed! an energetic and highly agile team of Rails, PHP, and mobile developers
	- Coded! in such languages as Ruby and Objective-C
	- Delivered! on time, on budget, and on target
	- Built! great relationships, great software, and great playgrounds
	- Developed the "Playgrounds!" iPhone app, sponsored by Parents magazine: find playgrounds, rate them, and make play dates!
	- Developed the "Our Dream Playground" website using gamification techniques to energize a nationwide community in crowd-sourced fundraising
	- Implemented numerous initiatives to map the "Play Desert" utilizing GIS tools and systems

Idea Fabrik / Second Star Interactive
* Title: Senior Technical Designer
* Start Date: 2011
* End Date: 2011
* About:
	- Developed social games using the Idea System platform
	- Created a fully functional demo of a 3D Farmville-esque game for Game Developers Conference (GDC)
	- Innovated key game development concepts for a cloud-based system that now boasts 10,000+ active developers

New Zhili / EduTech
* Title: Design Director
* Start Date: 2010
* End Date: 2011
* About:
	- Lead design and engineering of a complex, massively-multiplayer online game, including time-on-site management in Beijing
	- Identified and mitigated impact of under-delivering or fraudulent contractors, reducing overhead of the company by more than 20%
	- Reduced development timeline by implementing COTS middleware solution to replace poorly performing codebase
	- New Zhili was fully funded following demonstrations of our successful game projects, and is now in Pre-IPO

Electronic Arts:
* Title: Lead Game Developer
* Start Date: 2005
* End Date: 2010
* About:
	- Managed Ultima Online’s Live team, producing regular content and system updates
	- Developed in C++, Java, and proprietary scripting languages across multiple game properties; added hundreds of thousands of lines of new code
	- Delivered massive performance improvements with MySQL and Oracle databases: two hour backups requiring a daily shutdown became half-hour asynchronous background jobs
	- Created custom game add-ins and modules for Drupal driven websites in PHP to interface with our games such as a web-based character profile viewer/editor
	- Innovated new AI systems such as speech libraries, daily schedules, and graph-node movement systems to extend A*

[Tags]
* PHP
* Objective-C
* Ruby on Rails
* Python
* MySQL
* HTML5
* CSS3
* LAMP
* C
* C++
* iPhone
* Android
* jQuery
* UX
* UI
* AJAX
* node.js
* Apache
* nginx
* Social Games
* MMO
* Bitcoin
* Lua
* Cryptocurrency
* Blockchain
* Haskell
* Ethereum
* Game Design
* Web Design
* Game Development
* Online Gaming
* DevOps
* User Interface Design
* Scripting
* Agile
* Database