Assess and evaluate technology platforms and systems for investments & M&A.

Led DevOps automation across all teams at RethinkFirst. Leadership in automation, architecture, infrastructure, and cloud cost/resource optimization. Microservices automation on elastic infrastructure through agile DevOps processes and continuous delivery workflows.Enabled continuous integration/delivery/ test automation pipelines.Established workflows, including stage gates and releases.Comprehensive cloud (Azure and AWS) resource and cost optimization via Azure cost management portal and CloudCheckr.Built CI/CD security automation.

Led 20-member in-house and virtual team of product managers, SMEs, DevOps, software engineers, and QA managers on platform implementations. Led the transition of internal legacy systems to leading-edge technologies (IBM to Microsoft Azure). Conceptualized, architected, and coded enterprise SaaS offering in Microsoft Azure using Microservices architecture, C#, cloud and application services, key vault, site-to-site VPN, and etc., along with open source software (OSS) front end technologies.Recommended solutions and reduced Azure services costs by 40% through advanced de-provisioning and automation techniques.

Conceptualized go-to-market technical strategy for patented enterprise security platform born out of the Intrusion Detection Lab (Columbia University, NY) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for fast-paced environment enterprise security startup. Led 15-member and provided mentorship to technical team of architects, coders, and software engineers in the build of data-loss prevention and alerting security products for enterprise customer readiness. Architected and coded platform using AWS, Windows, Objective C, Java, C#, Python, and Android mobile. Collaborated on machine learning processes for big data analytics platform with DARPA participants and cybersecurity firms—Mandiant and FireEye. Lead security initiatives development and new product features for West Point Military Academy. Reported to the CEO. Led software design, product features, and coded SDK product in C#, ASP.NET, and Web API via Scrum Agile methodologies.Led product design, product management, and transitioned machine learning and artificial intelligence interface enterprise product component from Python to C# using Agile development. Reviewed and assessed engineers’ (including Columbia U’s computer science Ph.D. candidates) cross-platform application, data structures, algorithms, and code accuracy.

Designed architectural and engineering effort for AICPA’s national Peer Review System. Collaborated with senior management, internal, and external IT team in directing infrastructure, technical design specifications, risk management, cost-efficiency, and resource allocation. Provided analysis and guidance for parallel business applications. Liaised between senior management and IBM Headquarters to resolve nuanced technical issues. Reported to COO, SVP, and Group VP.Cultivated growth and strategic direction of Peer Review system via best practices architectural principle and design.Managed engineering, coded, and transitioned legacy Peer Review system to Oracle in Java and PL/SQL.Reinforced architectural updates to applications in accordance with government legislation and reduced overall development maintenance costs by 35%.

Architected and coded enterprise applications in Oracle and .NET. Led business analysis in case management and provided solutions for communications and document management to advance IT initiatives. Directed successful transition of legacy AS/400 (IBM iSeries) systems to Oracle. Utilized virtualization (VMware & Oracle VM) for development and production application frameworks and reduced infrastructure costs. Increased end-user productivity by integration of strengths of disparate technologies (Microsoft to Oracle) for client-side applications.Architected several commercial applications, database, and front end development for enterprise customer use. Decreased overall offshore vendor costs via risk assessment, analysis, and evaluation for the design and implementation of new enterprise systems