Michael Ricotta

CEO Arcane Strategies

www.arcanestrategies.com

Web Solutions Engineer, B.A, CEH

Mike is a veteran of Madison Avenue digital media, with 18+ years of professional experience. As an expert in digital media, Mike has been a partner in founding several web and apps products, has built 3 international development teams through acquisition, and appeared on media networks and publications such as CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg, Business Insider, and CIO Magazine, among others.

1. Highlights

   • Education: Bachelor of Arts, College of The Holy Cross
   • Experience: 15 years. Development, Design, IA, Project Management, Systems Administration
   • Managed Nationalities: 9
   • Team Size: Range 10 - 35;
   • Trilingual: English, Spanish, Italian
   • SOP’s: Agile and Waterfall sprint and release cycles, Emergency response

2. Frameworks

   • PHP: WordPress & WooCommerce, Drupal, Typo3, Joomla, Oscommerce, Magento, Laravel
   • Javascript: NodeJS, ReactJs, PhantomJS, CasperJS, JQuery, Prototype, Angular, VueJs
   • .NET: AP.NET Core, NopCommerce, DotNetNuke, Dapper
   • SAAS: Shopify, WordPress
   • Java: Android SDK
   • Python: Django

3. DevOps

   • Supported Platforms: AWS, Rackspace Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Compute
   • CI/CD: Jenkins, AWS, Ansible, Celery (RabbitMQ), Puppet, Git, SVN, Mercurial, BitBucket.
   • Network Config: SMTP & Exchange servers, DNS, Active Directory
   • Supported Stacks: LAMP, LEMP (nginx), WAMP, WIMP (IIS), XAMPP Debian & RPM based distros (CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu, Debian), & Windows 2003+
   • DAD: Invented tool unifying project plans, repos, QA (regression, stress, unit, pen). Deploys VM's, forms audits/remediation plans, risk assessment.

4. Databases

   • eComm & ERP API’s: ZingFit, TradeGecko, Shopify
   • CRM Integrations: Salesforce, ACT
   • ERP Integrations: DB2/AS/400, Quickbooks
   • Other DB Management and Markup: MariaDB, MongoDB, Memcached, XML
   • Relational DB Engines: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and MsSQL

5. APIs & CDNs

   • FE and Fonts: CloudFlare, Typography.com, Myfonts.com
   • AI: Watson Alchemy, Amazon Elastic Search, Facebook Wit.ai
   • Amazon: AWS Cloud, AWS Product API, Amazon Elastic Search
   • Google: Sheets, Maps / Local, Analytics, Fonts, Drive, Adsense
   • Social and Digital Media: Ebay Product, Amazon Product, Facebook SDK

6. Background

   • Industries Supported: Small businesses to large Bio-Pharma
   • Experience In: Design and planning to development and systems administration.
   • Other Tech: Virtualization, Hardware build, Arduino, Raspberry Pi
   • Additional Info: Advanced security and encryption protocols, injection testing, OWASP, Gov't 508 compliance, PCI compliance, FDA 21 CFR 11 compliance.

7. Languages

   • Client-Side: HTML 5, CSS3, RSS, JavaScript (Angular, Prototype, JQuery), PineScript
   • Server-Side: PHP, Python, Javascript (Node.js), Bash, CMD, Java, Batch