Professional Summary

SENIOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE with over 24 years of progressive experience in Internet media, electronic commerce, financial services, and advertising industries. Mr. Berrios has strong entrepreneurial business and technology experience with roles covering - Founder, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Information Officer and VP of Technology within Internet startups and top-tier technology companies. He specializes in developing enterprise solutions for online product strategies and growing businesses intellectual property value. He has extensive leadership, team-building and decision-making skills, a visionary technologists with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Mr. Berrios is passionate about innovating with technologies, partners and helping teams deliver projects with cost effective results and professional quality.

• C-suite executive with extensive software development and operational experience with market successes in a variety of industries including online consumer products, electronic commerce, financial services, mobile applications, digital media, and enterprise business to business integrations.
• Strong emphasis on advanced distributed computing methodologies, high volume infrastructures, enterprise security, big data management and online media advertising industries.
• Responsible for growth and management of technology operations within Internet startups and top-tier technology companies.
• Comprehensive experience building, leading and aligning engineering teams with organizational priorities and driving intellectual property growth across various programming and architectural disciplines.
• Responsbile for multi-million dollar P&L's.
• Passionate about innovating with technologies, partners and helping teams deliver projects with cost effective results and professional quality
• Extensive research regarding cognitive behavioral neuromarketing strategies with pattern recognition, big data streams and machine learning.
• Responsbile for multi-million dollar P&L's.
• Adept at effective management of business mergers and acquisitions. Holds several advisory and board of director positions.
• Holds several advisory and board of director positions.

Areas of Expertise

• Advanced TV Solutions
• Big-Data Device Graphs
• Team Development & Leadership
• Technical Program Management
• Technology Evangelist
• Agile Methodologies, Scrum, Traditional
• Recruiting & Retaining Top Talent
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Product Management
• IP Creation/Management, Patent Creation
• Mobile Strategy, Design and Development
• Technical Business Process Improvement
• Strategic Business & Product Planning
• Advertising, Internet Media, E-Commerce
• Infrastructure Optimization and Management
• Distributed Systems Architecture
• Software Design & Architecture Management on all Major Coding /Database Disciplines
• Large Scale Data Aggregation & Management

Career Accomplishments

• Founding CTO of #3 online ad network and gaming content portal, UGO Networks was responsible for managing all aspects of technology including architectural design, implementation, and production support. Help fund raised millions in venture funding and scaled to 220+ employees. UGO was acquired by Hearst Corporation in 2007.
• Built and managed global data centers providing tier 2/3 Internet services. UGO Technology Solutions was transition into AT&T Networks operations in 2002.
• Co-Founder/CTO of Intrust Technologies an consultancy devloping enterprise software solutions for a multitude of industries, increased organizational revenue by 40% year-over-year. Company was merged into AdFast Media Inc.
• Co-Founder and CTO of In2apps.com, a SaaS Platform offering a Distributed Application Development model and global GRID computing platform for creating rich internet applications. Responsible for all technology development and engineering teams. Raised serveral million in Angel and Series A funding; company was acquired by Adgregate Markets Inc.
• Built and manage teams directly responsible for creating the first distributed e-commerce advertising solutions which became the industry standard for certification by McAfee and Symantec.
• Designed and developed a new advertising pacing & caching platform for delivering brand messages within ‘Breakthrough Moments’ through the utilization of Emotional Targeting methods. Platform currently serving billions of global messages monthly.

• BrightLine.TV - October 2015 -To Present
  
  Chief Technology Officer
  BrightLine is the leading interactive ad solution for connected TV, with the only ad products, ad server, and analytics dashboard architected exclusively for connected TV and OTT services. BrightLine’s solution suite allows marketers to further enhance premium CTV/OTT advertising with interactivity including long-form video, localized dynamic content (store/dealer locators, local pricing), social engagement with Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and a host of other interactive options that extend ad encounters beyond 15 or 30 seconds. Clients already working with BrightLine to enhance their TV advertising include AMEX, The Home Depot, Estee Lauder Companies, GM, Unilever, Nat Geo, and others, with reach spanning over 80 of the top apps across all major CTV devices, including Roku, Amazon Fire TV, and Samsung Smart TVs.
  Learn more about how BrightLine is revolutionizing connected TV advertising at www.brightline.tv or follow them on Twitter @BrightLine_TV.

  As CTO, Mr Berrios was responsible for the day to day management of all technology operations and building innovating Advanced TV advertising products.

  BrightLine.TV is based in New York, NY

• MediaBrix Inc. - January 2012 -To July 2015
  
  Chief Technology Officer
  Chief Technology Officer, responsible for the companies overarching technology strategy; including the leading, hiring, creation and management of teams responsible all aspects of MediaBrix’s technology architectural design, implementation, and production support.

  Mediabrix is based in New York, NY

• WeWin - August 2011 -To Present
  
  Board Member , Co-Founder
  WeWIN is a flexible platform that connects retailers and their fans with the causes they care about. By directly integrating with retailer ecommerce systems, WeWIN provides a completely unique way to engage with your audience. With over 10 years of combined efforts as a team in the mobile, ecommerce and on-demand environment, WeWIN specializes in providing retailers with fully customizable solutions that can be integrated into existing ecommerce systems to engage customers any place, any time. Each member of the executive team brings individual skills from their respective fields to this partnership resulting in this unique platform and company.

  WeWin is based in New York, NY

• Adgregate Markets - June 2009 -August 2011
  
  Chief Technology Officer
  Through an acquisition of AdFast Media LLC., Mr. Berrios served as the Chief Technology Officer at Adgregate Markets. Within this role, Mr. Berrios was responsible for managing the technical vision, strategy and resources within the organization. During the two years with Adgregate, Mr. Berrios lead the team directly responsible for the conceptualization, design and development of the proprietary SaaS platform, powering distributed commerce services for global brands and retailers across the web, mobile and social landscapes. The ShopFans™ product offering enabled fully transactional ecommerce stores within Facebook and was adopted by over 57 top internet retailers and brands.

  Adgregate Markets is based in Sausalito, CA

• AdFast Media LLC - January 2004 -July 2009
  
  Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
  AdFast Media was founded by Manny Berrios, Mehdi Alami, Joe Robinson and 5 developers with a mission to create an agnostic data delivery platform that could be used for high traffic/high volume distributive rich internet applications (DRIA). AdFast media successfully brought to market the in2apps Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that enabled online publishers to leverage the in2apps platform to eliminate the time, effort, resources, and financing often required for retaining audiences and monetizing services. Mr. Berrios was directly responsible for bringing the following In2apps enterprise-level solutions. The platform consisted of a custom asynchronous IO computing infrastructure modeled on parallel processing, distributed computing, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and RESTful API interfaces developed in Microsoft .Net 3.5 and C++. The platform, engineering team and intellectual proprietary were acquired by Adgregate Markets in 2009.
• InTRUST Technologies LLC - January 2001 - January 2004
  
  Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
  Mr. Berrios founded and served as CTO of inTRUST Technologies, a technology solutions provider that offered a complete range of IT infrastructure and application development services. At inTRUST, Mr. Berrios concentrated his team’s efforts on information architecture, computer security, application development and building network infrastructures for a variety of different industries.
• UGO Networks Inc. - May 1996 - September 2001
  
  Chief Technology Officer
  Mr. Berrios partnered with several media entrepreneurs in 1996 to establish and help build the online media company known as UGO Networks. The company’s mission was to aggregate and/or build e-commerce, gaming, online distribution, content-related websites targeted toward an 18 to 34-year-old male demographic. The evolution of these pursuits led to the creation of several sister companies, M & A transactions, and the successful sale of these entities including: GameDealer.com, Playlink.com, ActionWorld.com, and UGO Technology Solutions. Mr. Berrios managed the development and engineering efforts of over 150 technologists and several dozen third party consulting firms. UGO was sold to Hearst Corporation in 2007.