SUMMARY

• Technology leader, solutions architect and software and systems engineer - expert in design, architecture, implementation and delivery of impactful, innovative, high performance and cost-effective technology solutions.
• Skilled in all phases of the product and service development life cycle, from envisioning, feasibility analysis and conceptual design through implementation, enhancement and maintenance.
• Experience in both enterprise and startup environments, product development and management, sales cycle support, managing devops teams, while providing outstanding business processes, strategy development and re-engineering skills.
• Customer advocate with the ability to initiate strong alliances with vendors and partners. Broad range of hands on skills and ability to mentor IT staff.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Technical Vision and Strategy
• Product Design, Development, and Management
• Software Architecture and Engineering
• Infrastructure Design and Implementation
• Scalability, Capacity planning, Performance
• Team building and team management
• Technology and Business alignment
• Contracts and due-diligence
• Data Center Operations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technical Advisor, consultant

Confidential, CA

Responsibilities:

• Technology advisor for an online commercial real-estate fund company. me has set the technology strategy, product development roadmap and implemented the first version of the online solutions.
• Management consulting for LA based online/land based travel company (one of the largest in the US market). Performed assessment of technology teams, development and operations, and cross functional communications and processes. Provided guidance in eliminating risks, technical debt and organizational deficiencies.
• Designed and implemented online destination with focus on sustainable and healthy consumer products. Site is supported by user generated content and provides a resource and an engagement platform for consumers and providers of products and services.

Sample Technologies: Amazon EC2, Linux, SpringSource STS, Eclipse, Grails/Groovy, java, JBoss, Tomcat, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Sybase, MongoDb, Spring, Hibernate, Lucene, jQuery, AJAX, JSON

Confidential, Torrance, CA

CTO, Product Engineering Operations

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for company's technology P&L
• Support sales cycle, customer engagement, and channel partner processes and
• Work on patentable ideas and on obtaining patents (e.g. an SMS bank account verification service)
• Build and manage the product development and infrastructure support team, both in-house and outsourced.
• Lead architecture, design and implementation of the RDC/Check 21 solution. Place dis platform into production in four months while maintaining outstanding quality and a minimal technical debt. Won an exclusive multi-year contract with Confidential (NYSE: HPY), displacing Confidential (NYSE:MV now FIS) as the check processing provider.
• Scale IDC infrastructure capacity to support growing transaction volumes. Currently systems process hundreds of millions dollars a day and support benchmarked throughput of several million deposits per day.
• Envision, implement and enable vertical software providers to consume transmodus services from within vertical host applications. As a result of dis SOA (SDK/API) initiative and its implementation, the company has made an aggressive entry into a number of verticals, partnering with the leading vertical software providers. The company saw significant growth in processing volumes and revenues.
• Design and build data center infrastructure, company’s data network and VOIP communications.
• Build relationships with third party providers and partners, provide system integration solutions. Negotiated vendor contracts and agreements.
• Guide product development from envisioning to implementation.
• Adapt, tailor and implement SDLC/ALM practices, processes and documents. Utilized combination of an iterative and Agile methodologies.
• Mentor and provide hands-on expertise and support in the areas of application design, systems and applications implementation, database architecture, performance tuning and trouble resolutions, modeling, design and administration, network design and management, and project management, and business and requirements analysis.

Sample Technologies: AIX, Linux RHEL 4.x-5.x, Websphere v5.x-6.x ND, MQ, JBoss, Tomcat, DB2 v7.x-9x, PostgreSQL, ODS, NoSQL, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, SpringSource STS, Grails/Groovy/Scala, other Java frameworks. .NET/C#, Network hardware/software, Storage, Cloud Computing

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

CTO VP of Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for both Product and Operations throughout Los Angeles, Ventura and Seattle offices.
• Managed multiple teams of up to 50 technical personnel
• Led efforts in e-Procurement product re-architecting and performance tuning in order to improve scalability.
• Led processes of assessing company’s legacy product viability and internal due-diligence.
• Led and guided technical due diligence during the merger and acquisition phase.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

CTO, Product Engineering Operations

Responsibilities:

• Managed on-shore/off-shore engineering and creative teams of up to 50 professionals
• Within three months of the seed funding, built and brought online the company’s data center, infrastructure, and the flagship product LiquidAuction ™, an SaaS branded auction platform. dis allowed the company to make its first sale to a public company, consumer electronics commerce portal.
• Within the next six months implemented and delivered to production LiquidStore™ and LiquidMarketplace™ complementary solutions. dis suite of solutions halped the company launch an aggressive sales campaign and bring the revenues up by 400% as it supported the sales of 100K to 250K per marketplace.
• Built and managed consulting team for platform implementation.

Sample Technologies: Linux, NT, Apache, IIS/ASP, WebSphere, VisualAge, MQSeries, Sybase, SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, J2EE/java/frameworks, Firewall One, Fortigate, Netscreen, CISCO, VOIP