SUMMARY:

• Work with an innovative and exciting technology company, leading teams to build state of the art solutions.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Philadelphia, PA

Vice President Technology

Responsibilities:

• Lead a group of software developers, software architects, testers, and project managers within Confidential ’s Customer Technology & Product group. This work involves the development of new video and communications hardware and software services for the nation's largest cable operator.
• Cloud App Streaming Service development and operations
• Cloud App Streaming STB client software development
• Accessibility product development
• STB and Home Gateway Energy Reduction
• B2B IoT Cloud Services
• In order to normalize client software on Confidential ’s Set Top Boxes and to drive towards richer user experiences than currently achievable, created, championed and led the development team to create Confidential ’s cloud based App Streaming platform. As an extension to Confidential ’s winning X1 TV platform, this technology allows Confidential to run Android, HTML5 and GPU-enabled apps in the cloud, streamed as video to Set Top Boxes, reducing the client support requirements to simple and inexpensive, low-level, video decode functionality.
• Manage an annual R&D budget of $2.5 million, which is allocated to software, staff augmentation, and hardware procurement.
• Built a distributed development team, with software development taking place in Philadelphia, Dallas, Denver, California, and India.
• Lead DevOps-based software development teams integrating Streaming Apps onto over 14 million devices in the field, to date, with plans to double that number over the next two years. The devices span x86, ARM and MIPS-based architectures.

Vice President of Product Development

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the creation of Product Requirements for the Confidential Residential Voice over IP service, and leading a matrix organization consisting of Customer Care, Security, Marketing, Engineering, Legal, Operations, PMO, and Business Unit Owners from ideation through deployment.
• Led product requirements for VoIP while Confidential voice scaled from zero to ~6 million subscriber lines.
• Led a cross-organizational team consisting of Video and Voice engineering teams, to deliver Caller ID to the TV and Caller ID to the PC. In this role, worked through all technical and product issues related to converging video and voice infrastructure within the company. Responsible for building the product requirements and working with internal and external vendors to create time to market and production based solutions.
• Led the development of a cloud based Video Instant Messaging service.

Confidential - Piscataway, NJ

VP Product Management and Software Development

Responsibilities:

• Built white-labeled, hosted IP-PBX business offering. Drove the initial internal business plan and financial models necessary for internal Confidential investment and championed hosted VoIP solution within executive management at the CEO level. Positively positioned Confidential, teaming with North American Cable Operators, enabling state of the art VoIP solutions targeted at the Enterprise market.
• Created detailed proposals and successfully articulated the Confidential value proposition to prospective customers.
• Integrated web services, e-mail, unified messaging, call control, PC client applications, conference servers, STUN servers, firewalls, routers, and servers to create a real-time communications solution.
• Led architecture and software development efforts leveraging numerous internally developed and vendor components into a CableLabs, PacketCable compliant architecture.

Confidential, Piscataway, NJ

Executive Director of Software Development

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for guiding the software product architecture and the overall day-to-day management of a software development staff consisting of approximately 200 software engineers. Recognized internally by receiving the Confidential CEO for innovation and on-time product development.
• Responsible for creating the Confidential software technical architecture and product vision for Voice over IP Technology offerings to the Cable Industry.
• Worked with customers, senior executives and lead engineers to establish technical customer relationships with multiple Cable Operators.
• Led the software engineering effort to integrate a variety of e-mail servers, unified messaging platforms, feature servers, conference bridges, instant messaging platforms, service control points, billing mediations platforms, NAT traversal solutions, web servers, SIP proxies, and more.
• Collaborated with teams within Confidential Technologies on VoIP related activities surrounding a broad range of products and solutions (e.g. Software interfaces to the Intelligent Service Control Point and the Intelligent Service Peripheral product lines).
• Led software integration of Confidential SoftSwitch architecture with legacy OSS/BSS systems at Time Warner Cable. Collaborated with customers and internal engineering resources to guide the Intelligent Gateway Call Server (IGCS) software product road map to meet customer needs.
• Created a key partner program that enabled a significant increase in the flexibility and features of the IGCS solution while dramatically decreasing cost. Successfully articulated the benefits of the IGCS solution to customers and Venture Capitalists interested in investing in spin out opportunities of the IGCS solution.
• Advised Confidential parent company on issues surrounding M&A activities in the hosted IP-PBX, VoIP space.
• ed Patent Number 6,724,747 "Method and system for media connectivity over a packet based network", as the inventor of the industry’s first Class 5 VoIP based telephone switch.

Director of Software Development

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Pioneered VoIP for Long Distance and Residential use.
• Architected, designed and led the software development of the industry’s first next generation telephony platform for the delivery of telephony service over packet based networks.
• Created the world’s first Class 5 replacement SoftSwitch, completely from the ground up from concept to deployment. Invented, delivered and documented this distributed, carrier grade software application, based on CORBA, C+, java, SIP, MGCP, H323, XMPP, RADIUS, HTTP, SS7 (ISUP and TCAP), JDBC/ODBC and XML technologies.
• Won the Info-Vision from the International Engineering Consortium in 1999.
• Won Best New Application of the year from Borland in 1999.
• Assembled development, architecture, requirements and test organizations for the product. Managed software development team consisting of over 100 software, testing, and requirements engineers.
• Drove product development for multiple releases.

Member Board of Directors

Confidential Richardson, Tx

Responsibilities:

• Led Confidential investment into Confidential, a Hosted PBX, VoIP startup, and served on the board of directors for multiple years.