SUMMARY:

• Innovative technology leader with excellent managerial, architectural, integration, testing, problem - solving skills, with an in-depth knowledge of video in the Cable and Media, GIS, Financial, Entertainment industries.
• Results oriented and believe in delivering high-quality products within the time frame and budget.
• A Strong believer in planning, execution and reporting using existing tools and processes as well as automated tools.
• Skilled in cloud computing, environment architecture, interactive applications, application development and virtualization.
• Proven mentor and training experience in communicating across organizational levels with cross-functional teams to drive shared vision and foster cultural excellence.
• Highly communicative, results driven, well-organized engineering management professional, who interfaces well with peers and motivates, empowers and drives teams to harness key strengths and maximize overall efficiency.
• Possess strong problem solving and analytical skills, have excellent verbal and written communication skills and a strong team player capable of working in demanding start-up environment.
• Excellent experience in managing budgets, vendors and multiple teams including Onsite-Offshore and near-near shore models
• Customizing Enhanced Television Applications From Multiple Development Environments.
• Definition of systems architecture to support EBIF application deployment nationally and potentially internationally.

EXPERTISE AREA:

Soft Skills: Good Listener, Empathetic, Sociable, Reliable, Dependable, Sympathetic, Consistent, Passionate, Teamwork

Hard Skills: Realistic, Organized, Logical, Composed, Results-oriented, Poised, Management, Video Technology, Testing, Architecture, Environments, Development

• Strategic and Tactical Planning
• Architecture Development
• Vendor Relationship Management
• Supervisory/Team Management
• Leadership & Coaching/Mentoring
• Financial Management
• Release Management, Testing and Systems Integration
• Business Process Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ITV & Advanced Advertising Technology: ETV/EBIF, SAFI 1.1 spec, SCTE 35, MUX 3.0, Fingerprinting, Watermarking, TVWorks XDK, AVN, OCAP and Tru2Way, Verizon FIOS

Data Carousel development: Softel MediaSphere

Application Server and Web Server: BEA Weblogic, JBoss, TcServer, Apache Tomcat, Internet Information Server

Frameworks: J2EE frameworks - Spring, Struts, and Grails. ASP.NET framework

ORM Tools: Hibernate, Linq for SQL server

Application development: EJB, RMI, JDBC, ADO.NET, SharePoint

Web Services development: Spring web service, groovy web service clients, Ajax web services

Web Development: JSP, XML, XML Schema, XMI, HTML

Scripting Languages: JavaScript, AJAX, JQuery, VBScript, Bootstarp.js, Backbone.js, Underscore.js

Databases: Sybase, Oracle “11g”, SQL Server, MongoDB

Cloud Platforms: Cloud Foundry, App Fog, vCloud Director, vSphere

Continuous Integration tools: Maven, Apache ANT, Opscode Chef

Confidential, Colorado

Director

Responsibilities:

• Managed Opex and Capex budgets varying from $3M to $5M and improved staff efficiency through hiring, training, augmenting and team building events
• Supervised multiple teams ranging from 5 to 20
• Administered the development of End-State and Interim-State End-to-End architectures for the releases to provide clarity to all stakeholders and identified any integration issues that can surface during deployment
• Facilitated working sessions with multiple architecture teams including operations to identify potential production changes and non-functional requirements in order to address them as part of the initial architecture rather than defining at the end
• Managed development, testing, and deployment of interactive applications and platforms, and web applications that were generating revenues close to $4 - 4.5M
• Initiated full circle system integration testing (from mobile device - micro services - headend devices - STB) for CTVA at Confidential
• Oversaw creation and management of environment requirements for current and future releases using configuration management database
• Orchestrated working sessions with multiple labs/environment teams to enable end to end platform build out to support different test cycles
• Initiated the creation of end to end environment architecture for non-production environments to provide clarity and visibility to test teams
• Established release planning and release management process flow to suite Confidential complex organization structure
• Fostered triage/support resources to provide pre and post launch support to the releases, thereby reducing the number of defects that were going in as part of releases
• Mobilized a team of architects, business analysts and technical project managers and technical writers to create unified environment strategy for SIT environments by collaborating with other environment teams
• Lead the development efforts that included building a tool to make the inventory of test accounts available to users and to implement ServiceNow platform to support configuration management database, release, problem, incident and event management to create consistency across Confidential technology teams in how solutions are managed and delivered

Principal Engineer I

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Directed entire SDLC process involved in interactive application development, configuration, integration, testing, and deployment.
• Administered multiple vendors responsible for developing and deploying the interactive application to millions of subscribers
• Managed the Opex and Capex budget for both the team and interactive application enhancements roadmap
• Collaborated with a cross-functional team such as products, Spectrum reach, and operations to define enhancements and roadmap for the interactive applications.
• Analyzed and revised existing systems technical difficulties and provided necessary guidance to improve
• Managed the entire process of purchasing hardware required for interactive technology, installation at the market site, testing and getting it integrated with rest of our systems.
• Defined and managed migration of old fashioned physical servers to VM to improve performance and throughput
• Outlined and administered the processes required to document and store various artifacts, track requirements and defects, and improve cross-functional team communications via tools.
• Mentored and provided engineering support and guidance to non-technical team such as different tiers of operations to address customer difficulties
• Developed a couple of POCs to showcase various interactive abilities such as setting remote DVR records, displaying account information and allowing users to pay via STBs

Confidential, Colorado

Advisory Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed and conducted several interviews/discussions with the client to understand their current process, its pros and cons in order to architect and provide an appropriate solution.
• Generated artifacts to provide a comparison between current infrastructure workflow, pros, and cons involved with it and moving towards IAAS (Infrastructure As A Service) using cloud and VMWare virtualization technologies and its pros and cons. This helped the organization to get a clear understanding of moving towards IAAS
• Administered the development of architecture, design artifacts and wireframes, which included all aspects of the web application such as integration layer, services layer, and UI layer. This documentation provided clarity and helped the organization to understand modularity of the portal/web application, how the whole system could be extended / reused with other cloud infrastructure and continuous integration tools without changing the core behavior of the system.
• Worked in Agile methodology and assisted PM in managing requirements, scheduling, resourcing, estimating delays and presenting status to clients.
• Worked in partnership with VMWare in getting the vCloud Director, vSphere and vCenter setup and finalizing the design details.
• Led and mentored the team with the project and processes.
• Chartered the implementation of several key modules of a web application, which involved integration with vCloud Director, Chef and Nexus repository.
• Led the architecture of data migration tool called Blackhawk using several cutting edge technologies such as backbone, bootstrap, spring MVC and data integration, mongoDB, cloud foundry and app fog.

Confidential, Colorado

Interactive Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated architecting both the front-end, content management and distribution of the ITV platform for customizing ETV application and to distribute ETV application across MSO’s and programmers.
• Produced a generic XML Schema called Asset global template and timeline global template to transform any EBIF Television Applications (ETV Applications) into Canoe’s platform for customizing and creating multiple versions. The Schema allowed ETV authors to define a signaling template, which can further be customized to suit the programmer needs. This invention was applied for Patent.
• Collaborated closely with PMO team in the agile environment by assisting in Confidential planning, backlog prioritization, status updates and burn-down chart creation.
• Administered the architecture, development and testing of Data gateway developed by the third party to process IAF, SMS (SAFI 1.1 and D.03), pIAM, and integration to PTK (Programmer Tool Kit from enSequence) tool to send the polling application response back to consumer set-tops.
• Provided solutions to third party Company in addressing performance and scalability issues for Data gateway.
• Contributed towards architecting the Data Router for processing the IAF response coming from polling application via Data gateway and generating delta CoDF to carry the response back to the consumer.
• Architected input and output adapters to ingest and regurgitate any ETV applications into Canoe’s platform for customization. The adapters were responsible for creating asset and timeline global template, using these templates to customize and package ETV applications.
• Managed the development of ETV applications such as RFI, RFI-S, Polling, Trivia and Diagnostic Application
• Developed several technical requirement documentation for several components of Canoe platform and products such as Diagnostic App, Ticker application by working closely with Product team
• As part of Canoe’s architecture team was involved in researching fingerprinting, watermarking, and trigger insertion in the VANC, second-screen experience, and virtual profile management.
• Responsible for verifying the possibilities of inserting triggers into VANC which involved setting up a lab, working with several vendors.
• Represented Canoe at the CableLabs InterOp to test the inter-operability of all Canoe applications across several user agents, multiple platforms, and multiple streamers.
• Involved in developing the specification for ETV scheduler and worked with vendors such as Softel, S&T, and Mirada to get it developed.

Confidential, Colorado

Senior Web Architect

Responsibilities:

• Research, architect, design and build Interactive Television applications using EBIF specification and OCAP RI Implementation. The application was demonstrated and press announced by our CEO. Due to this Confidential is now considered as one of the leader in EBIF technology amongst the programmers.
• Interacted and set several roadmaps with multiple teams within Confidential in getting the ITV application out to the MSOs.
• Using my past work experience especially with regards to Software Architecture, was able to come up with a well-designed and architected solution for Confidential using SharePoint technology with external vendors who were ultimately responsible for building the site.
• Designed, built, tested and deployed an admin site for Liberty Media called NetLeaders to enable its conference users to register and get information about the conference through the website.
• Designed and implemented Omniture web analytics on the Confidential .com site for both HTML and flash components. This implementation greatly helped our marketing division in determining the site performance, visitor’s information and helped them to come up with good marketing promotional campaigns to retain users.
• Maintaining/ed several in-house products such as Careers posting tool, worker search, raffle application and maintain starzencoreguides.com.