Norman Katz

Background in Successfully Managing Teams that Design and Build Scalable Cloud-based, SOA, and Enterprise Software from inception to production. Well-rounded in management and customer-facing roles. Director or Lead Architect with 5-20 direct reports in all recent positions.

Core Compentencies:
Extensive experience building SOA infrastructure and managing highly-productive software teams in the following areas:
• Hosting Web Services that serve terabytes of public records data to numerous high-profile Identity Protection Marketing Companies
• Enterprise Solutions including Data Warehouses, Health Care, Financial Services, eLearning, Inventory Control, Document Routing, Tracking and Approval, and Collaboration Systems
• 50+ VMs running LAMPP Platform: Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP, Perl
• Web 2.0 Applications with jQuery and Ajax under MVC Frameworks
• Fully internationalized apps with client-side language translation
• Effective management of offshore teams in Ukraine, India, and Mexico
• Agile Methodology with Extreme Programming and Test Driven-Development
• Built out Continuous Integration and Automated Unit Test Suites using SVN, CVS, VSS, Ant, Nant, Phing, JUnit/NUnit, Cruise Control
• Well-versed in XML, XSLT, XML Schema, WSDL and SOAP