SUMMARY:

• With 20 years of international leadership experience in Information Technologies and executive advisory services, I outstandingly perform in the following roles
• Principal, Partner or Director in consulting
• Corporate technology C - Suit: CTO, CISO, CIO, VP or Director
• Management of complex technology portfolios, programs and initiatives

• Rapidly turning company into digital enterprise
• Elevating corporate innovation capabilities and their ROI
• Reliably delivering technology initiatives/programs/portfolios of any scale and complexity, starting at any point in their lifecycle, with wide-scale or focused implementation of Agile/Scrum methods for accelerated delivery

Confidential

CTO/CIO 

• Manage entire technology shop of the company
• Develop and implement technology strategy, including scaling strategy
• Lead development of product technology and software architecture
• Lead UX design, software development, quality assurance and DevOps, preparing for go-live
• Lead infrastructure architecture and management (Amazon AWS - cloud-based)
• Manage ongoing IT operations

Principal

• Advisory to executive and senior IT management
• Management of complex technology initiatives
• Innovation management, with specialties including: web & mobile applications and platforms, e-commerce, distributed processing, Big Data, cryptocurrencies & blockchain, cybersecurity

CIOResponsibilities:

• Complex Big Data solution completed in 9 months, following 2-month POC, using Agile/Scrum methods, JIRA/Confluence, Java, Scala and Python, DevOps and Continuous Integration with git/GitLab/Bitbucket, Vagrant, Docker, Fabric/Ansible and Jenkins, TDD and BDD approaches, cluster technologies: Hadoop/YARN/Hive, Spark, NiFi, Kafka, RabbitMQ, ELK ( Elasticsearch-Logstash-Kibana, now Elastic stack), cloud-based environment
• Team included up to 10 consulting (system analysis, architecture, development and testing) and internal (infrastructure, cybersecurity and business analysis/Data Science) resources
• Initial data analysis models developed for anomaly detection using Data Science methods
• Solution transitioned to support performed jointly by internal and consulting resources
• Spark jobs-based data processing, telemetry and accumulated data migrated between Hadoop-centered cluster environments
• POCs and benchmarking completed for various solution configurations including distribution of processing across data centers, to allow faster data collection from sources
• Frameworks reviewed for future integration of Internet-of-Things (IoT) with Big Data solution
• Coordinated with other Big Data and data management initiatives across the enterprise
• Negotiated contracts with consulting company that supplied key resources for the initiative
• Interviewed key consulting resources and candidates for internal Lead Data Scientist positions, conducted performance assessments, made decisions on replacement of resources, assessed client resources

CIO

• Automation of Cybersecurity workflow and its integration into enterprise IT fabric proposed based on micro-services frameworks
• Endpoint Security and Incident Response solution selected via POC among Carbon Black and CrowdStrike Falcon products and selected solution deployed using cluster technology collecting and processing security data from thousands of hosts
• Endpoint Security and Incident Response solution integrated with Big Data solution: streaming technologies used to continuously collect security data and store it in Hadoop for automated advanced analytics

Confidential

CIO

Responsibilities:

• Manage implementation of Identity Governance and Lifecycle Management platform based on RSA Via (former Aveksa) and working on business case for switching to CA Identity Suite
• Manage implementation of Multi-Factor Authentication solution based on Entrust Identity Guard
• Facilitate development of enterprise Identity and Access Management architecture
• Analyzed feasibility of current identity and access management technologies based on blockchain

Confidential

CIO, CTO

• Defined technology strategy and product roadmap
• Oversaw all technology resources
• Managed product architecture, development, design and usability (Drupal/PHP-based, MySQL, Solr, Hadoop, REST)
• Contracted, managed and evaluated technology staff
• Managed conformance with security and privacy regulations: PCI DSS, PIPEDA and CASL
• Managed communications and collaboration with innovation centers, incubators and potential investors

Vice President 

• Managed Quality Assurance (QA) portfolios for banking software development
• Wire, ACH and Cross-Currency Payments, Trade Finance, and SEPA Payments solutions
• 10+ initiatives in portfolio, 50+ test automation and performance testing resources on-shore, near-shore and off-shore (Canada, US, Mexico, UK, India)
• Delivery using SDLC/Waterfall and Agile/Scrum
• Hired, mentored and did performance assessments

Confidential

Project Manager

• Managed IT strategy development engagements and provided related SME advisory on key domains in Enterprise Information Technologies to C-level and senior management of client companies
• Contributed to sales of professional services

Senior Consultant

• Led teams and provided advisory services for ERP implementations (Oracle Enterprise One/JD Edwards and Microsoft Dynamics AX), IT strategy development, IT audit for IT General Controls, ERP package/vendor selection
• Contributed to sales of professional services

Consultant 

• Designed KPIs for CPM implementation (Cognos for planning/forecasting/budgeting) at transportation company
• Worked on proposals for various consulting projects, including business process optimization for insurance company

Project Manager

• Managed full-cycle ERP implementations (Microsoft Dynamics AX/Axapta and Microsoft Dynamics NAV/Navision)
• Managed communications with all key stakeholders at client companies including C-level and senior management
• Provided senior advisory and conducted trainings on ERP implementation and functionality
• Mentored consultants
• Contributed to sales and marketing activities for professional services

Entrepreneur and Lead Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Development of MRP solution for manufacturing: collected and analyzed business requirements, developed solution using PowerBuilder and Sybase/SQL
• Development of portal for business information: designed solution, developed solution using ASP (Active Server Pages) and MS SQL Server/SQL