SUMMARY:

• Lead enterprise architecture and application development in global, highly regulated businesses. Guide agile development with strong DevOps practices. Particular strength in large scale analytics, BI, and high performance Java.
• Hadoop from top level enterprise architecture through to cluster, HDFS, map/reduce, and HBase detailed design.
• Spark design, leadership experience. Analyzed Storm, Cassandra and Voldemort systems during M&A due diligence.
• Manage processes for creating predictive models and machine learning using CRISP - DM methodology.
• Lead teams using Tableau, Qlik, and advanced Excel including Power BI for front end development.
• Extensive data warehouse leadership. Strong with Oracle RAC and Exadata, and SQL Server.
• Experience leading numerous C/C++; C# and ASP.NET; Java, Scala, Clojure; and Python and R development teams.
• Expert at high scalability. Design high volume/low latency systems with in-memory design patterns and, and JVM and Linux kernel tuning. Expert at database scalability, resilience, and operations leadership.
• Data center: broad experience designing resilient, globally distributed systems with high i/o for analytics performance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Principal

Responsibilities:

• Design and create massively scaled analytic platforms primarily for digital marketing and financial services.
• Currently interim CTO at a securities broker/dealer and proprietary trading firm. We are creating new capabilities integrating data across functional areas, e.g. unifying digital marketing events with risk management. The platform uses Azure cloud services with Google TensorFlow machine learning for categorization and clustering algorithms.
• Designed a data - driven sales automation platform integrating ERP data from an office furniture manufacturer with CRM data from its distributors. The system uses Azure to identify patterns of opportunities (e.g. fully depreciated prior sales) and prompts salespeople through the company s sales performance model using a mobile application.
• Created an analytic platform enabling clients of AOL to benchmark and optimize video ad targeting.
• Experian Marketing Services, Head of Global Product Development
• Led development of consumer data products, data quality tools, predictive models, and a cross-channel marketing engine used by banks, ecommerce companies, and retailers. Guided design, and built alignment across a complex matrix structure, to implement an advanced, new enterprise architecture. Evolved from mainframe data platforms to Hadoop and HBase (with MongoDB), and from Perl to highly performant Java and Scala.
• Accelerate Formed a new product management process across units that evolved into a unified global team.
• Defined roadmaps, target architectures, and portfolio simplification plans, then aligned incentives.
• Implemented agile development processes with rapid prototyping and automated testing.
• Integrate Aligned people and led change to integrate consumer data, data quality tools, segmentation, targeting, a cross-channel marketing engine, and attribution analytics into the Experian Marketing Suite.
• Achieved scale economies by consolidating data centers and operations teams for cloud products.
• Innovate Led technology and cultural change from mainframe to Hadoop/HBase and MongoDB. Clients like Confidential cited our innovation, leading Cloudera s CEO to create a video with us on Hadoop innovation.
• Personally drove new innovation, such as continuous real time segmentation to optimize content and creative in digital campaigns. This enables real time analytics across over 3 trillion annual marketing events for 2.3 billion global households including 1.3 trillion consumer attributes in the US.
• Formed a Data Science team to create new products applying advanced quantitative techniques, e.g. enabled clients to import new data sets to identify predictive significance, like weather for retail sales.
• We significantly increased scalability and reliability, with in-depth tuning of Oracle Exadata, SQL Server, and mySQL. We piloted new analytic technology, like Distributed R in Vertica and Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse. We enabled strong data governance and controls, including HIPAA controls for healthcare data and complying with EU privacy mandates.
• Every major release met roadmap dates and budgets. We won large new clients including Confidential and Williams Sonoma. Gartner and Forbes recognized our product innovation. Financial results:
• Limited total technology organization cost growth from FY11 to FY14 to 2.8% CAGR while sales increased 27%.
• Decreased dependency on capitalization with capex reduced from $21.1mm in FY13 to $14.2mm in FY14.
• Partnered with Distribution leadership to transform sales and marketing with data - driven prioritization and tools. We unified workflows and data from Barclays and Lehman Brothers across all asset classes. We then embedded analytics-driven optimization transparently within how sales traders, bankers, and financial advisors perform their processes.
• Applied predictive analytics to identify sales opportunities by mining client data, transactions, news, and filings.
• Measurably increased cross-selling directly attributable to our initiatives.
• Invented new technology for massively scaled, real time business intelligence. We created a system that intercepts how applications and Excel connect to SQL Server cubes (SSAS), and continually generate new virtual cubes.

Confidential

Principal

Responsibilities:

• Founded a practice advising analytic software vendors, hedge funds, and private equity investors.
• Advised a large Confidential adopting new analytic technology with a MPP, columnar, shared - nothing cluster design.
• Served as interim head of technology for a new equities broker/dealer formed by a leading hedge fund. I led design for a new enterprise architecture, managed a complex data center migration, and guided an offshore development team.
• Architecture, Strategy, and Principal Investments
• Integrated Salomon Brothers, Smith Barney, and Shearson people, technology, and processes. Executed a complex reinvention of trading and risk analytics enterprise architecture tightly aligned to business needs for competitive edge. Delivered rapidly to comply with fast-approaching regulatory mandates governing the shift to electronic markets.
• We engineered Quantum: a high performance Java application server, written in C++ and x86 assembly, and service oriented architecture. The system pioneered design patterns now found in Apache Druid and Google Big Query.
• Reduced costs ~60% from legacy platforms through efficient design patterns, commodity infrastructure, and open source software, e.g. moved internal crossing from 288 high cost Sun SPARC CPUs to 64 low cost Intel CPUs on Linux.
• Achieved scalability goals exceeding 1000 orders per second with single digit millisecond latency for key flows. Worked directly with Sun s CTO to optimize JVM performance in key areas such as string handling and garbage collection.
• We invented a massively scaled new platform for risk analytics. Initially, Citi performed only overnight analyses limited to exotic derivatives. We created Risk Services, providing a rich set of scenarios with real time intraday updates for all equity-linked securities. The system included an object coherent cache synchronizing data across >1500 servers.

Confidential

Investment Management Group, CTO

Responsibilities:

• Forged people from acquisitions into a unified, disciplined team across product development, data ingest, client services, and operations. We transformed seven acquired information products into Thomson ONE Analytics.
• Designed a new enterprise architecture including personally driving detailed design patterns for data management.
• Within nine months, created Thomson One Analytics as an integrated cloud - based analytics and workflow suite.
• Collaborated with Intel to pioneer among the first 64 bit commercial database for massively scaled analytics.
• We consistently executed on time and within budget-without exception. Results included:
• Turned around a failing, three year project to rebuild portfolio performance analysis. I halted investment, triaged personnel, adopted agile iterations, and personally designed architecture. The product shipped in less than one year.
• Influenced Microsoft to include new features in SQL Server, e.g. modifying the database s query plan optimization.
• Successful cybersecurity defense for the First Call Network, the SEC s systems of record for disseminating earnings in the US. We secured the platform with zero breaches despite constant attacks from advanced persistent threats.
• Confidential, Chief Architect, and then Global Industry Manager (acting) for capital markets
• Initially my role centered on designing high volume/low latency platforms, then added business development.
• Designed architecture for high performance, real time systems such as options market making and exchanges.
• Collaborated with peers to introduce new functionality, e.g. Real Time Data (RTD) Server in Excel for market data.
• Completed in-depth internal and external, e.g. Developmentor s Guerilla C#, and learning CLR internals.
• In 2000, earned recognition as an Outstanding Achiever in the Enterprise & Partner Group, and in 2001 as a Key Contributor to launching the .NET platform.

Confidential

Engagement Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led technology components of enterprise transformation engagements. Promoted in year one to manage engagements, and in year two to P&L responsibility across multiple projects.
• For a leading publisher, we redesigned analytics, business processes, and ultimately the organization structure starting from product silos into a new cross - product structure based on customer segments.
• Designed data models, ETL, and business intelligence front ends. Earned several Oracle and Microsoft s.

Confidential

Platoon Leader then Asst. Battalion Operations Officer

Responsibilities:

• Led a platoon of light infantry to deploy, fight, and win. Recognized for action in Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti, then selected for a captain-level role while a lieutenant as Assistant Battalion Operations Officer.
• One of five people in a class of 120 to pass Ranger School without recycling any phase.
• Received highest possible ratings for officer performance.