Origence is committed to delivering products and solutions that meet the demands of today's and tomorrow's financial landscape by bringing innovation and expertise to indirect lending, consumer loan origination, point-of-sale, online marketplace, analytics, marketing and CRM, auto shopping, and business process outsourcing.

My advisory role supporting Sonatafy will involve harnessing their substantial resources and strengths to guide businesses in making informed decisions that align with their growth and efficiency goals in software development.Nearshore outsourcing combines efficiency and resilience, offering cost-effectiveness alongside proximity, cultural alignment, and adaptability. This approach enables businesses to navigate economic challenges effectively, delivering critical software solutions and maintaining a competitive edge. ◆ US based: Sonatafy is a distinguished US-based company headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. Accolades are inclusion in the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies and the Inc Power Partner Awards for Software Development 2023. Sonatafy’s prominent features in Forbes and Entrepreneur magazines, along with a recent spotlight in a CIOToday article focusing on the CEO.◆ Trusted: Sonatafy's credibility is further bolstered by over 20 third-party verified references and case studies, demonstrating a proven track record of excellence. The company's commitment to quality and employee satisfaction is clear, with over 150 employee reviews on Glassdoor, boasting a 4.5 rating. This is supported by the impressive CVs of current engineers and the availability of skilled engineers 'on the bench', ready to be deployed.◆ Transparent: Sonatafy's transparent business model, characterized by fixed monthly pricing, ensures clarity and predictability for clients.◆ Company Contact: Steve Taplin | CEOe: Steve.Taplin@Sonatafy.comw: Sonatafy.com

Technical advisor supporting Sportivo.AI's engineering development and processes as they rapidly scale their business.

Ascend Money is a FinTech startup company disrupting the banking industry with the mission of improving the lives of the underbanked population in the ASEAN region and Headquartered in Thailand.I directed a geographically diverse group of Engineering Directors and Senior Managers comprised of 300+ engineers across the Bangkok Thailand headquarters and the AscendTech Vietnam development teams responsible for payment/wallet and lending platform. I collaborated with third party vendors to ensure continual resource development, manage strategy and budget for the engineering division, and maintain productive workforce focused on meeting company's key business objectives. I presented initiatives and annual budgets to Board of Directors while leading improvements that drove increased customer experiences, quality assurance, regulatory compliance, and application innovation. I acted as a technical adviser representing the company during regional and international events. Some of my key contributions include… ◆ Built lending teams across two geographical regions to support the micro lending business initiative. ◆ Hired 75 engineers within a year to refocus the engineering team after a major attrition prior to assuming the position. ◆ Acted as a change agent by directing company toward a development and operations culture through the implementation of a combined engineering working model. ◆ Decreased cost of goods used for GBCQ/GCP by 30% and AWS by 35% utilizing auto scale, right sizing, and contract negotiation for fixed cost BQ utilization together with increasing engineering efficiency through cross pollination of skills and training between software development and software quality engineers. ◆ Addressed technical debt reduction without PRD delivery disruption by imposing a scrum team planning capacity holdback of 30% set to decrease approximately 5% quarterly throughout the year with a target of 10% by year’s end.

I was hired to develop a special project on iTunes commerce team responsible for the China market by researching multiple projects and providing the narrative for a new team. I functioned as the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) related to data governance for the AMP/Commerce Engineering division. Some of my key contributions included… ◆ Developed the architectural roadmap for a large data migration plan ensuring data governance requirement compliance. ◆ Ensured data ownership consensus for all customers across the iTunes platform by promoting cross boundary collaboration. ◆ Designed the architecture and strategy to successfully migrate and consolidate a large percentage of the total user accounts. ◆ Analyzed the deprecated migration application to make informed suggestions in developing the new account migration system. ◆ Developed hiring plan and feature roadmap to begin staffing an Account Migration Orchestration Services group.

I developed a new charter and team CDI (Configuration and Deployment Infrastructure) responsible for preserving the health of network devices on the AWS worldwide network. The CDI was authoritative for the storage, management, deployment, and monitoring of network device configurations and OS images for all networking devices on the Amazon network worldwide. Some of my key contributions included… ◆ Technical Project Management responsibility for defining and coordinating development of two large projects (Zero-Touch-Provisioning and Link Encryption Service). Projects were assigned as additional load while I was building a new team CDI (Configuration and Deployment Infrastructure) from scratch for a span of 6 months. ◆ Developed critical functionality for the network device audit system supporting legacy systems resulting in increased audit coverage from 75% to 100% as part of CDI service ownership. ◆ Designed and delivered an architecture document for use in implementing end-to-end tracing service to be used by Zero-touch-provisioning workflow system of services. ◆ Drove down the operations load by 30% and increased new feature development proportionately.

I began as the Principal Engineering Manager L65 before being promoted in 2014 to L66 Principal Software Engineering Manager. I led a six-member engineering team in Palo Alto alongside building a new seven-member team in Czech Republic Prague within the first six months responsible for the Event Manager for Skype. In parallel with staffing, I started a new project called “Trouter” for event notifications from initialization to completion. After the experimentation team manager left the company, I became responsible for transforming the team by developing a new roadmap direction, expanding the scope of delivery, and changing staffing to successfully achieve objectives. I acquired and stabilized two additional identity teams in Czech Republic Prague while driving the migration from Skype Identity Service to the use of Microsoft Authentication identity service. After four years, I switched to an IC role joining a previously managed team as a Principal Software Development Engineer in the Experimentation and Configuration Service (ECS) UI Architecture division. After seven months with the ECS team, I moved joined the PowerPoint iOS and MacOS development team increasing responsibility and scope. Some of my key contributions included… ◆ Promoted to level 66 Principal within two years. ◆ Began supervising six employees and grew to directing 40+ split between Palo Alto and Prague, Czech Republic. ◆ Quickly gained knowledge of never before used languages and platforms to deliver significant features. ◆ Supported Skype legacy migration by building three teams to deliver critical system support. ◆ Led team in developing and implementing a new experimentation and configuration system which was adopted by Skype and the MS Office 365 divisions.

I aided in developing user interfaces and application features by collaborating with product management and engineers. I participated in testing and usability studies to maintain a good customer experience across all platforms. Some of my key contributions included… ¨ Led user interface efforts for multiple projects such as adding PayPal to the new Payment UI, creating the first Non-Member device-based signup experience, UI and general globalization efforts for the e-commerce team, and data center account migration to use cloud micro services on EC2.

I started in 2001 as a Senior Software Engineer moved to Software Architect in 2005 then finally to the Engineering Manager and Software Architect in 2006. As UI platform manager/architect I directed all staffing, training, and retention activities from performance reviews to salary adjustments. I designed and developed new applications focused on core projects and user interfaces. I aided the Shanghai division with quarterly face to face meetings and building of a distributed team of UI engineers with seven local and two in Shanghai China. Some of my key contributions included… ◆ Studied business culture and Mandarin to support and manage staff recruiting in Shanghai performing multiple interviews in English and Mandarin between 2007 and 2008. I have additional experience alongside the positions listed above including… • Software Engineer for MS2 Inc from 1998 to 2001 • Software Engineer for Netscape Communications Corp from 1995 to 1998 • Software Engineer for AutoLogic II, Inc from 1994 to 1995 • Programmer for Bechtel Corporation from 1992 to 1994

Sr Software Engineer responsible for design and implementation of initial windows based thick client UI framework and application features. Lead the design and implementation effort involving migration of the legacy win32 thick client UI framework to a web application based UI framework.

Software Engineer responsible for design and implementation of application features for Collabra Share, Netscape Communicator and Netscape Navigator windows family of products. Designed and implemented new web application features in support of Universal Registration for Netcenter.

Software Engineer responsible for design and implementation of cross-platform UI controls and application features for an enterprise level Queue Management system. This system was used by several major news paper companies such as the L.A. Times and the Orange County register to automate the pre-press printing process.

Software Engineer responsible for design and implementation of corporate IT network automation tools.