Chief Information Officer /chief Technical Officer Resume
SUMMARY
- IT C - Level leadership professional with proven results in delivering innovative solutions (Digital Transformation, Platform Generation etc.).
- Diverse disciplines and industries; global organization and startup experience. 30 years of Very Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Infrastructure, Cloud Expert, Organizational Scaling and Efficiency, Strategic Planning, Technology Innovations, System Implementation and Vendor relationship.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Cloud: AWS, Azure and Service Fabric, Open Stack and Heroku
Design: Distributed Architecture (SOA, Event Driven, Micro services etc.), Single Page Application (S3/CDN), MVC, UML & design patterns, Data Warehouse, left-shift operations (CI/CD)
Software: Kubernetes, Consul, Zookeeper, Vault, Docker, Saucelabs, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Swagger, OBIEE 11g, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Git/Github, Jira/Confluence, Rally, Jenkins, CircleCI, Team city, Junit, Soap-UI
Languages: Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, React/SPA, Java, Spring, Maven, Annotations, AOP, Restful API, RCP/Eclipse-plugin, GXT/GWT, SWT, HTML, C++, XML and JSON
Database, BI, Analytics, Data Warehouse: RDS, MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server AO, Oracle, JDBC, SQL, JPA, Hibernate, MongoDB, Data Warehouse, iPaaS, ETL (Pentaho and Talend), Analytics (Tableau, QlikView, Spotfire), OBIEE 11g, 3rd Normal Form, Star Schema
Systems/Servers: Windows, Linux, Mac, Apache/Tomcat, Serverless
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential
Chief Information Officer /Chief Technical Officer
Responsibilities:
- Digital transformation and platform creation
- Quarterly board reporting to Frontier Capital
- Enabled company growth; $16.3M to $35M revenue over 18 months
- Strategic planning and prioritization of product and technology (churn reduction, sales growth, scale and resiliency etc.)
- Product roadmap definition for 2017, 2018 and 2019 (priority vs resources vs rev opportunity and cost reduction)
- Migration to AWS (Dev, QA, UAT and Production)
- TCO - Total Cost of Operation (CAPEX/OPEX) for CoLo and AWS
- Cost reduction of 500k YoY in 7 months
- Contract negotiations
- Infrastructure stability, scaling, monitoring and alarming
- Root cause analysis for architecture and infrastructure
- Increased availability of systems from 97% to 99.98% in 5 months
- Holistic monitoring
- Containerization migration
- CI/CD implementation (rolling deployments etc.)
- Architectural oversight of enterprise SaaS platform (distributed systems; event streams, HA, DB, etc.)
- Platform definition (API, domains etc.)
- Monolith transition to distributed event driven (Kafka) microservice architecture
- Remodel of single database architecture to distributed HA database architecture
- Serverless UI (React/Material UI served from S3/AWS CloudFront) for international growth, response times and cost
- Security oversight; moving to ISO 27001
- Project Delivery (SaaS and iPaaS, AWS migration, SSO, Identity broker, Social Recruiting, Emp. Engagement etc.)
- Process definition for escalation, development intake, communications (external and internal)
- Reorganization of product and technology teams (cross functional teams); approx. 100 FTEs plus contractors
- Offshore team implementation
- Implementation of communication and tacking tools
Confidential
Executive Technical Partner
Responsibilities:
- Reporting to the CEO, working closely with C-Level executives and board on short term plan to profitability. Responsible for all IT (hardware, AWS and Openstack infrastructure) and development teams (software and architecture).
- Offers Cloud-based storage (AWS), access and licensing (B2B & B2C) for enterprise-scale video libraries and portals. Its PaaS enables media owners to generate new value from content while managing cost and complexity.
- Reporting to the CEO, working closely with C-Level executives (Operating, Product, Sales etc.) developing and implementing company architectural strategic and tactical strategies; identifying new business opportunities, scale existing revenues while reducing operating costs. Hands on direction and implementation of Architecture.
Confidential
Sr. Director of Engineering
Responsibilities:
- Reported to the Vice President of R&D. Responsible for the Agile development teams, partnerships with other business units identified and improved processes and practices.
- Contact Center’s unified reporting and analytics platform; consolidates data from customer service solutions and enterprise business resources, to deliver real-time and historical insights into customer and agent activity.
- Reported to the Director of R&D. Responsible for the Data Warehousing and Java development teams, vendor relationships, budget, staff development, project delivery and input to technical contracts.