Michael Ricotta
CEO Arcane Strategies
www.arcanestrategies.comWeb 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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
Languages
- Client-Side: HTML 5, CSS3, RSS, JavaScript (Angular, Prototype, JQuery), PineScript
- Server-Side: PHP, Python, Javascript (Node.js), Bash, CMD, Java, Batch