SUMMARY:

• Seasoned IT and banking/finance executive with 19 years of experience in leading teams in the design and delivery of highly scalable, concurrent, and performant enterprise software solutions.
• Skilled in all phases of the SDLC/ALM, with a solid development and pedagogical/andragogical foundation in Agile (XP, Lean, Scrum, Kanban, and Scrumban) and traditional (PMI and PRINCE2) project management frameworks and methodologies.
• Possess a multi - cultural and multi-lingual background with over 10 years of international work experience.
• Extremely effective at building productive, self-managing agile teams with predictable velocities and delivery timeframes.
• Seeking a senior IT executive or management role at a leading and established company, preferably within the BFSI vertical. Particularly interested in e-commerce and Fintech companies with ample opportunity for career growth and expansion. I am open to opportunities that require hands-on technology experience as well as management experience.
• Polyglot Development (programming experience in over 20 disparate languages and technologies - e.g., .NET, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Javascript/Coffeescript, ColdFusion, C/C++, Scala, Haskell, Lisp, Perl, WSH, Unix Scripting)
• Project and Information Systems Management (Agile and Traditional Waterfall, Prince2, PMI, ITIL, TOGAF, CMMi, COBIT, EC-Council)
• Data Warehousing, Data Mining, Big Data, Data Science, and Business Intelligence (Cognos, Informatica, Oracle BI, Confidential, JasperSoft, SQL Sever OLAP, Weka, SPSS Clementine/Modeler, SAS Enterprise Miner, Hadoop, Spark/MLib/GraphX, Pig, Hive, HBase, Zookeeper, R/Rattle, ARIMA modelling, DeepLearning4J)
• Mobile Software Development (J2ME, .NET CF, Java/Android, Swift/iPhone, Apache Cordova/PhoneGap, AppGyver Steroids/Supersonic)
• Emerging technologies & Grid (Cloud) Architectures (Angular JS, HTML5/CSS3/JS, Redis/Riak/CouchDB/MongoDB NoSQL, Amazon EC2/S3, MemSQL, Cassandra, etc)
• Enterprise Application Integration (ETL, SOA, CORBA, ESB, SOAP/RESTful/HATEOS Web Services)
• IT Skills Gap Analysis & Performance Optimization
• Agile Coaching and Training (CSM, CSP, PSM I, PMI-ACP, ScrumStudy, ICAgile)
• Social Media Marketing (SEO/SEM, etc)
• Securities
• Financial planning/Wealth Management Expertise

SKILLS:

Software Project Management

Agile Project Management

Dreamweaver

Java/JSE

HTML

HTML5

J2EE/JEE

C/C++

Visual Basic 6

Oracle DB

PHP 4/5

Unix Shell Scripting (BASH/BOURNE)

Maven, Ant, NetBeans,Eclipse, Git, CVS/PVCS/VSS

Subversion, Rational Rose/RUP, J2ME

Linux (Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu/Debian, Slackware, Gentoo)

Ruby/Ruby on Rails

JavaScript

MS Project

MS SQL Server

IBM DB2

SOAP/XML Web Services

RESTful Web Services

Apache HTTPD/Tomcat

ColdFusion/CFML

MySQL

JBoss/Weblogic/WebSphere

OSGi

Python/Django

Apache Velocity

UML

Dimensional Modeling/OLAP

Data Mining (Decision Trees, Neural Networks, Cluster analysis)

MS Windows

Mac OS

Amazon EC2/S3

Heroku

CORBA/JRMP-IIOP

Apache Felix

Apache Lucene/SOLR

CGI/Perl, CSS/CSS2/CSS3,Apache Camel

COM/DCOM/COM+, Text Mining (LingPipe, Temis Luxid, Mallet, UIMA)

Eclipse Virgo, Apache Hadoop/Hive/Pig/Zookeeper/HBase, Apache Mahout/Spark/GraphX MLib/DeepLearning4J

Ansible/Vagrant/Docker

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

CTO

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing the company's software product portfolio consisting currently of remittance and exchange products
• Working with the board and senior management to lay out the product roadmap for new and existing products
• Formalizing, rationalizing, and optimizing the current IT department
• Recruitment of IT staff to meet product development needs and company growth aspirations
• Disrupting the money remittance marketplace: - )
• Defined and implemented technical architecture and technology stack for new product pipeline using a mixture of Java, NoSQL (Redis, Riak, SOLR) and Big Data (Spark, MLib, DeepLearning4J) technologies
• Defined and implemented reactive microservice API (using Play framework) for customer - facing e-commerce products
• Working with my team of 5 other IT professionals, created administration backend for customer-facing e-commerce products
• Working with an outsourcing company and my local team, helped create mobile UIs for customer-facing e-commerce products in Mobile Angular UI and Supersonic.
• Working with my team of 5 other IT professionals, developing a real-time, robust fraud detection and reconciliation engine for money services transactions using Spark Streaming, Kafka, and Cassandra. The solution will be AML/CFT-compliant.

Confidential

Solutions Architect, Scrum Master, ETL Specialist, Mobile Developer

Responsibilities:

• I am responsible for defining the company’s business tooling and technology stack across all operational departments.
• This includes choosing the right technologies for business intelligence, cloud architecture, ETL, and RESTful API development.
• I also assist team members with decisions around software design and architecture as well as best practices.
• Finally, I help to define the data models/schemas, APIs, search schemas, and various integration points required to deliver our classifieds and media solutions to the public.
• Recommended and oversaw the usage of Confidential BI for ETL within the company.
• Delivered the full data model/schema and API for the next release of the classifieds business for MySQL and PHP Yii.
• Instrumental in defining the caching strategies for the next release of the classifieds business using Redis and MongoDB.
• Oversaw the outsourcing of some ETL and Analytics API development to 3rd party vendors using Confidential Kettle.
• Developed and delivered a mobile vehicle determination application for dealers and customers for pricing new and used vehicles from Redbook DB using JQuery Mobile.

Confidential

CTO

Responsibilities:

• I oversaw the implementation of all key software projects.
• Additionally, in conjunction with the other directors of the company, I was responsible for business growth and development.
• Led the technology team responsible for development of the 1Malaysia Clinic web-based clinic management system.
• Partially oversaw development of the Perkeso medical benefits module.

Confidential

Scrum Master, Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales Consultant and Text Mining Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Recommended and oversaw the formation of small, agile teams within Polopoly MDC, leading to a 150% increase in project adoption rates.
• Established a department-wide Agile approach for future project implementations based on Scrumban, leading to the adoption of a Scrumban board and greater transparency across teams, which in turn increased productivity by 60% through lower cycle times and a reduction in QA bottlenecks.
• Directly responsible for the revamping of the introductory user training program based on feedback received from a high profile client, leading to the signing of Phase I of the project contract for that client (worth RM100,000).
• Recommended the “mavenization” and modularization of current product line, migrating from an Ant-based build system to a versioned, Maven system.
• Suggestions were incorporated into current product release.
• Spearheaded the creation of an “ATM Office” that is responsible for training and maintaining best practices for Text Mining Solutions at Confidential .

Confidential

Project Manager & Senior Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Led the development of a key e-commerce module delivery website for global software customers of the flagship credit modelling and scoring suite.
• Senior developer for the core decision analytics engine, the key component at the heart of the flagship credit modelling and scoring suite.
• Sole Confidential ETL developer, responsible for integrating Confidential within the flagship suite and training junior developers on creating ETL workflows.
• Recruited by the R&D Director to draft the training curricula for Graduate Trainees/new hires and conduct trainings on Behavior-Driven Development and other Agile approaches (TDD, FDD, Kanban, Scrum, Scrumban).
• Spearheaded the creation of the training curricula for all graduate trainees and new hires, increasing new employee retention by nearly 30% and decreasing overall churn by 8%. Conducted training in BDD for all development staff, which resulted in Gherkin being adopted by QA for preparation of user acceptance tests.
• Revamped the collection of Scrum metrics and statistics project wide and presented findings to the program manager and PMO. This resulted in greater predictability throughout future phases, allowing for on-time delivery of version 2.0 and 2.1 of the software suite.
• Implemented the e-commerce module delivery website in record time, utilizing Spring MVC technologies to accelerate development - led to a cost savings of more than RM120,000.

Confidential

Co-Founder & Chief Information Officer

Responsibilities:

• Provided consulting in Business Intelligence using Confidential .
• Led the strategic growth of the company from one classroom to four, with a total capacity of 100 students.
• Conducted interviews for new hires .
• Provided seed funding for venture, investing in office space and computer equipment.
• Collaborated with content providers, external trainers, and consulting customers to grow revenue by 200% within the first six months.
• Drove the growth of the consultancy arm of the company, providing consulting for Confidential
• Established corporate training business, conducting training in SOA, MS Office, and Spring/Hibernate for local businesses such as Hei Tech Padu.

Confidential

Senior Technical Consultant, Project Manager & Senior Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Managed project schedules, deliverables, and project-related relationships and functioned as technical liaison for all pre- and post-sales interactions with clients
• Interviewed and recruited development and QA staff and established maturation protocol for automated build management.
• Partially responsible for business development in the North American region working with the senior business development manager.
• Established BI (Business Intelligence) department and spearheaded the integration of Data mining/Data warehousing capability into the core product (PowerApps Suite) using Confidential BI Suite.
• As the technical project manager for Confidential, an Indian consortium of private banks providing debt collection services, oversaw the successful implementation of Phase I of the overall project. Project required travel to India and assisting local staff with data migration and technical development.
• Worked with the software architect to devise and steadily enhance a new general ledger system for the core product.
• As a senior software developer for the core product (PowerApps Suite), utilized Java, JasperReports, XML, iBATIS, Cruise Control, JUnit, and CVS in a Debian Linux environment to customize and enhance service offerings.

Confidential

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

• Co-founded a mobile software development company 2 years prior to the advent of extant smartphone technology with a high profile partner and angel investor located in Confidential .
• With a staff of 2 local J2ME developers and 8 outsourced mobile developers from Bangalore, oversaw the complete end-to-end development of a full mobile syncing solution for corporate and personal Symbian S60 users. Although the angel investor pulled out funding prior to product launch, the codebase was monetized and made available to other partners.
• Evaluated, chose, and managed the outsourcing of non-strategic J2ME development for MoboSync, a full mobile syncing solution for Symbian S60 phones such as the N73.
• Participated in coding and review sessions with on-site J2ME developers, utilizing Funambol and CLDC 1.1/MIDP 2.0 as core technologies for MoboSync.
• Provided consulting and development expertise to MDEC for their online Graduate placement portal, generating RM5,000 in consulting fees for 2 days of work.

Confidential, Naperville, IL

Technical Lead and Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reporting directly to the Architect and Senior Product Manager.
• Designed and developed several key components in the Medicare claims pricing module and authored comprehensive system documentation for consumption by business analysts, architects, and developers.
• Employed full SDLC practices, including gathering business requirements and UML modelling (use cases, class diagrams, sequence diagrams, activity diagrams, and workflows).
• Led integration-testing team consisting of 3 other developers on integration and systems testing of full product suite during each release cycle.
• Designed and led the development of Medicare claims pricing components for automated claims pricing of Medicare claims in a proprietary EDI format.
• Utilized JMS/JMX/EJB/JSP/Servlets and Perl with VSS as the SCM tool, Oracle 8i as the database server, BEA Weblogic as the EJB container, and Apache Tomcat as the JSP/Servlet container in implementing pricing components.
• Designed and led the development of the Claim code mapping module and the Claims comparator (for comparing pricing of Medicare claims between a legacy repricer and the Java-based repricer), the latter of which was used throughout the company to verify the accuracy of claims pricing between the legacy system and the newly developed one.