SUMMARY

• A business savvy technical leader with a proven track record of recruiting and scaling highly productive, large, globally diverse teams and creating a culture that fosters collaboration, agility, time to market and innovation.
• Hands - on leader deeply involved in open source initiatives within the Linux Foundation, Openstack and Apache foundations
• Deep experience with building partnership programs, business development, product management, program management and driving new business
• Deep experience delivering complex globally distributed infrastructure projects, thrives on ambiguity
• Early drone pilot - Part 107, Drone automation, fleet management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud: Openstack - Nova, Neutron, Heat, Keystone, AWS - Lambda, Redshift, EC2, Kinesis, Fire Hose, Dynamo, Azure, GCP

Infrastructure: Apache Spark (Graph, Machine Learning, Streaming), Hadoop, containers - Kubernetes, etcd (Docker, Rkt,, LXD), Kafka, OpenStack/Open Daylight, SDN, NFV orchestration platform, Angular, React,, NoSQL Data Cassandra, ONOS, OVS, OpenECOMP, Open-O

Mobile: iPad/iPhone (Swift), iOS (Objective C), Android (Java) mobile platforms, Mobile web (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript)

Languages: Experience with C/C++, Java, Python, JavaScript, Golang

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall to Agile transformation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Technical Consultant, Cloud, Mobile and IoT platform

• Developed business and technical strategy for large scale SDN OpenStack based confidential for Telecom manufacturer’s 5G and IoT offering. Initiated transformation of end to end product road map from hardware to software for confidential based 5G mobile manufacturer supporting networks of 800 million mobile subscribers
• Grew open source development contribution model from bottom rank to top 10 and developed an IP protection scheme that firewalled valuable IP from leaking to open source for Asian manufacturer. Represented company on confidential certification team and managed team of 50 engineers
• Built partner ecosystem and certification program for customer labs program in China, EU and US. Prospected numerous technology companies in Business development role developing relationships with open source data center software partners, server and storage hardware partners and integrators to create a robust ecosystem for integration test and demonstration of CORD and OPNFV stacks
• Developed business plan for a highly competitive, ground up $100 million opportunity for client in virtualization of networking infrastructure automation resulting in new 5000 head business unit to execute on the plan
• Drove new architecture for streaming data system for processing billions of networking events using Apache Spark (Graph, Machine Learning, Streaming), Hadoop, containers (Rkt, Kerberos,LXD) and Kafka transforming 40-year-old Telecom network to OpenStack/Open Daylight platformed NFV Cloud
• Researched, analyzed, synthesized market data, technology, effort, go to market, competitor intelligence and built a proposed business plan and presented to senior management and prospective partners
• Led development process transformation from waterfall to agile and proprietary software development to open source

Confidential, San Jose

Head, Cloud and Mobile Security Engineering

• Led team of 40 Product managers, software developers, Quality, and DevOps engineers in the multi-geographic effort for development of $85 million business for large scale security cloud, a highly available SaaS application for enterprise customers (Linux, React, AngularJS, Django, Python, and Cassandra) to process analytics for threat flows
• Managed business unit’s Mobile security apps for iOS (Objective C and Swift) and Android (Java) mobile platforms as well as Mobile web (HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript)
• Managed email security team for 15 million user’s activities resulting in new revenue source (analytics data) for the product line
• Migrated the team’s dev/QA process from waterfall to agile SDLC and reduced average release cycles from 52 weeks to 12 weeks and improving system scalability and reliability
• Built a new development center in Eastern Europe and staffed development team there focused on OpenStack and big data cloud platforms (CloudFoundry). Incorporated NoSQL Data stores with Cassandra, Streaming data analytics using Spark, batch analytics with Hadoop and Storm.

Sr. Manager, Software Engineering, Smart Home Automation and OTT Video

• Led SaaS consumer team of 40 on Over The Top video initiative. Identified the embedded platforms requirements to consolidate and deliver metadata and streamline digital content from numerous third-parties with a slick user interface to navigate real-time content on mobile and set top devices
• Devised a novel automated partner integration platform for rapid partner on-boarding for over 100 media partners. Managed 3rd party tools vendor relationships with partner companies including software features, delivery schedules, NRE content, licensing, support strategies and SLAs
• Member Technical Staff - hands-on software developer for real time fault management (C/C++, Java, Python).

Confidential

Founder

• Founded fast-paced startup delivering automated cloud management and virtual datacenter systems hosted on AWS, developed product road map, staffed and managed people in a globally distributed team of software developers, user experience and product managers
• Formulated mobile app product strategy and definition and funded startup for an innovative platform for Cloud Systems Management for Datacenter virtualization developed on AWS, and supporting AWS, Azure, GCP, vCloud and Openstack cloud management stacks
• Hired 10 and led the development of unique HTML5 iPad/iPhone (Swift) mobile app and cloud backend providing drag and drop cloud management with slick user interface to simplify multi-cloud management
• Designed and patented unique technology for federating clouds by turning infrastructure into algorithmic software managing large numbers of virtual objects
• Served as lead product manager and visionary, wrote product requirements, managed arcs, documented stories, burn down lists and conducted user feedback.