PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Highly experienced Senior Executive with an extensive record of customer facing and Product development experience. Delivered multiple solutions to multiple tier 1 customers in the telecom and cable operator space for video delivery systems over HFC and Confidential networks.
• Highly skilled and effective in cultivating, fostering and maintaining relationships with different stakeholders from the customer hierarchy as well as the Engineering and Management organizations both internally and externally.
• Experienced in growing high power architecture and Engineering teams as well as staying current with modern technology and development methodologies. .
• Self - driven and experienced presenter to all levels of technical and non technical audiences.
• Exceeded Goals 100% of the Time.
• Delivers high quality real time software on time Builds highly technical and Productive teams Builds effective relationships with the customer Technical teams to effect better Company to Customer relationships

SKILLS:

• Software and Systems Architecure
• Systems and Partner Integrations
• Engineering Management
• Video Systems and Video Backoffices
• ABR Video Delivery
• CDNs and Caching systems
• Advertising Methodologies for Cable and Confidential devices including SCTE and IAB-VAST
• Familiarity with AWS, and OpenStack
• Content Management Systems
• Video and TV Metadata systems

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Founder and Principal

• Currently involved in consulting Projects spanning Architecture to Intellectual Property areas

Confidential

Global Solutions and Architecture Consultant

• Multiple Projects for Solutions Architecture with Confidential customers.
• These currently include working with Customers to design and implement end to end solutions for Content delivery of Video and TV to these customers.
• Prior Projects include design to prioritize Video packets on the Network and Designing integrations with SSO providers and the Confidential Media delivery Platform.
• Being the Technical face for Confidential with these Customers and work with their technology people to design the solutions needed. Work with the internal Engineering staff to bring solutions to implementation, work with Product management to prioritize and schedule any development needed to deliver solutions to customers

Confidential

Founder and Principal

• Solutions Architecture consulting to define the solution for a Confidential for an Operator in Latin America to dovetail with their current Cable infrastructure
• Technical and Expert report on the state of the Video delivery Industry for a large Vendor of Cable equipment in the Americas
• Re-architecting the Product suite to work as one solution for a Confidential software Vendor
• Patent analysis for a major Operator in a potential lawsuit against another major Operator; second phase is in the offing for August
• Custom software development with off shore resources for content management and user management targeted at specific customers. Delivered high quality software against tight requirements and tight timelines.
• M & A consulting for multiple companies

Confidential, Acton, MA

Chief Architect and Vice President of Technology

• Customer facing Chief Architect, in charge of Solutions Architecture as well as Software Architecture
• Drove the conversion of a Server based architecture to a cloud based architecture
• Function at the junction of Solutions and Software Architecture for the Orgnaization
• Functioned as the CTO of the Back Office and Advertising groups
• Ran the Advanced Engineering team to develop Prototypes of Products and Proof of concepts included an Ad Router for Video systems
• Was directly involved in presentations of solutions and architecture to Customers

Confidential, Acton, MA

Chief Architect, Americas

• Directed the Americas organization consisting of both Solutions Architects as well as the Product Architects
• Customer facing evangelist in the Americas for all Platform technologies

Confidential, Lowell, MA

Distinguished Member, Technical Staff and Engineering Director

• Functioned both as the Architect as well as ran a multi national engineering development team that spanned USA.
• Introduced the Agile model of development to the Confidential group and introduced Kan ban to the Bug fix team of ODV.
• Designed a model of working that allowed the team of Engineers to be flexibly applied to any part of the system (Fungibility to the development team). Also introduced a team metric based system to maximize productivity and induce the teams to be self improving
• Delivered as well as Architected the second generation on demand video Severs by Confidential (Release “Amazon”)
• Architected and delivered Release 2 of the second generation of the Confidential On demand video servers in 2011 (Release “Brazos”)
• Confidential representative to the nDVR working group at major cable Confidential and contributed to the Architecture of the release 1 and release 2 of the architecture specification
• Delivered the 0.5 market trial control plane for the nDVR system at a major cable Confidential
• Architected and Delivered the 1.0 first release for the nDVR system control plane
• Was a member of the Open Source Review Board for the Cable division of Confidential