Nick Varacalli

Software Engineering Manager

SUMMARY

Experienced software engineer turned engineering manager with over a twenty years experience producing or leading teams to produce custom software solutions.

SKILLS

• Software engineering management
• Lightweight, adaptive process initiation
• Hiring and building high-performance international teams
• Starting new offices

Boston, USA & Winterthur, Switzerland
2007—present Vistaprint.com
Associate Director, Technology

Vistaprint is hiring: http://careers.vistaprint.com/

What I appreciate about working at my current job.

1. I work with smart, talented people. Everyone has something that they can teach me.
2. The environment fosters collaborative growth.
3. The company provides me opportunities to stretch and apply the lessons that the people and environment teach me.

• Hired, onboarded, developing, and managing international team of 20 software engineers, QA engineers, project managers, business analysts, and managers across multiple countries.
• Responsible for development process and metrics for 50-person global manufacturing software team.
• Customer relationship management for production facilities around the globe.
• Liaison between Global Emerging Markets business unit and internal delivery organization.

Boston, USA
2004—2006 Evare
Senior Software Engineer

• Implemented tri-party collateral confirmation status extract, clearance trade status extract, and other complex financial B2B solutions for Fortune 500 companies using C# and ADO.Net.
• Architected, designed, and implemented clearance and failed trade dashboard customer reporting tools using ASP.Net, JavaScript, CSS, and C#.
• Designed and implemented metadata-driven framework for formatting, validation, and serialization of detailed SWIFT financial messages using extensive reflection in C#.

Boston, USA
2003—2004 Vistaprint.com
Senior Lead Software Engineer

• Rewrote large, multi-country e-commerce site in .Net, using ASP.Net, VB.Net, C#, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
• Managed junior developers through process improvements to facilitate and automate weekly marketing releases, reducing manual effort required.
• Technical lead on various projects, including automated build system, pricing re-architecture, product bundling, and seamless upgrade of company's MAS 500 accounting system through two major release versions, including migration of 3rd-party and in-house customizations.

Boston, USA
1998—2002 D. E. Shaw & Co., acquired by Merrill Lynch
Vice President

• Designed and implemented front end and middle tier of Wealth Management suite of applications that enabled clients to manage their assets online, using C#, COM Interop, VB, HTML, and JavaScript.
• Authored code libraries in C# and VB used by over 100 developers.
• Designed and implemented web interfaces for order entry and e-fulfillment systems in ASP, HTML, JavaScript, and VB.
• Designed and implemented large, real-time, complex GUI applications to support online trading, account maintenance, evaluation of risk and suitability, and proprietary build system using VB, COM, and DCOM.

Boston, USA
2000 University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Instructor

• Prepared and taught weekly introductory programming course in VB6 to 20 students. Duties included developing syllabus, giving lectures, and grading classwork.

Montreal, Canada
1997—1998 Hartco
Software Engineer

• Produced retail order management system used by over 150 stores, using VB, MS SQL Server, and SQL Anywhere.
• Designed and produced order management authorization tool, a data-filtering tool featuring wizards, plain English translations, and other ease-of-use enhancements.
• Instituted developer mentoring program. Spearheaded implementation of coding standards and code reviews.

London, England
1995—1997 Russell Consulting
Consultant

• Analyzed, designed, and implemented business solutions including: multi-user work flow system to speed processing of claims, graphical insurance coverage analysis tool for at-a-glance display of reinsurance layers, insurance retrocessional exposure management system, and credit control/recovery system using VB, Access, Excel, and Crystal Reports.

 
1993—1997 Self-Employed
Developer

• Developed shareware, utilities, productivity tools, and IDE add-ins in VB and Delphi.

EDUCATION

Montreal, Canada
1992—1998 Concordia University

• B.S. cum laude, Mathematics and Statistics, Minor in Computer Science.