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Responsible for defining and implementing Intuit's technology strategy. Lead all of Intuit's product development, data science, information technology, and information security teams worldwide that create and operate our global AI-driven expert platform in service to our customers.

Serve on Exec Advisory Board for Tech Women @ Intuit. The vision for TWI is to make Intuit the #1 choice for women technologists, where women are empowered and diversity is embraced. This vision will be achieved by attracting & retaining world's top technical talent and creating an environment where they can do the best work of their lives.

Building Software that is Powering Prosperity Around the World.Lead Intuit technology & platform strategy including: Futures group: Product, Design & Engineering R&D Core Services: Most leveraged platform services (Identity, Profile, Data Connectivity) Architecture: Strategy, M&A diligence, standardsOrganization Scale: 1000+ FTE, $220M budget

As the Chief Architect for Intuit’s Consumer Tax Group, I am responsible for leading technology innovation, engineering excellence, and technology strategy for Intuit’s TurboTax product offering portfolio. My teams that deliver on these initiatives are as follows: 1. Core Architecture -- Team of Distinguished Architects responsible for defining strategic technology to support replatforming of existing products lines while accelerating our ability to deliver the products of the future,2. Tech Labs -- Team of engineers responsible for exploring new technology and harnessing it for use within Intuit products.3. Engineering Excellence -- Team of evangelists and technologists responsible for raising the bar on talent, engineering execution and Intuit tech brand awareness.Additional responsibilities include:• Create environment of Innovation where engineers can solve important problems identified through deep customer empathy with emphasis on learning, pivoting and finding the right solution by getting solutions in front of customers as rapidly as possible. • Accelerate business outcomes through pragmatic architecture that declares a bold vision for the future but constantly validates the vision through rapid experimentation.• Drive the definition of key architectural designs and strategies that transform people, process and technology allowing Consumer Tax to re-energize it's position as a growth business.• Lead definition, prioritization and execution of technology roadmap including the means and pace for collecting on engineering debt.• Maintain and Grow Intuit's brand through Presentations at Technology Conferences• Mentor architects, principal engineers and identify the next generation of technology leaders.

• Chief Architect for Consumer Tax Group of Intuit whose $1.5B+ portfolio includes a broad set of SaaS and native products (iOS, Android, Windows and Mac) with penetration in US and Canadian markets. • Create environment of Innovation where engineers can solve important problems identified through deep customer empathy with emphasis on learning, pivoting and finding the right solution by getting solutions in front of customers as rapidly as possible. • Accelerate business outcomes through pragmatic architecture that declares a bold vision for the future but constantly validates the vision through rapid experimentation.• Lead a Team of Architects with a broad range of skills in both the business domain (tax), related domains (knowledge management) and technical domains (apps, systems, data) to create a cohesive and high-functional organization that leads the business technologists into the future.• Drive the definition of key architectural designs and strategies that transform people, process and technology allowing Consumer Tax to re-energize it's position as a growth business.• Lead definition, prioritization and execution of technology roadmap including the means and pace for collecting on engineering debt.• Maintain and Grow Intuit's brand through Presentations at Technology Conferences• Mentor architects, principal engineers and identify the next generation of technology leaders.

• Drive definition of Identity Domain with Product Management to create Intuit Identity Product for Product Ecosystems• Lead Team of Architects in execution of Strategic Identity Mgmt, Access Mgmt, Anti-Fraud andFoundational Data projects in support of multiple $100 million Internet businesses• Define and Manage Execution of High Availability & Business Continuity Design for criticalshared Services that support 100+ online Offerings• Develop technical strategies to achieve Intuit Business Objectives related to Identity & Data• Communicate Identity strategy and progress to Intuit Business Leaders & Steering Committee• Maintain and Grow Intuit’s brand through Presentations at Technology Conferences• Mentor architects, software engineers and other junior members of the team

• Architect of Identity & Access Management for Intuit Products & Services• Conduct Requirements Analysis, Domain Design, and Project Concept Specs• Communicate IAM strategy and progress to Business Units & Steering Committee• Maintain and Grow Intuit’s brand through Presentations at Technology Conferences

• Architecture & Development Leader for Authentication & Authorization Services• Led effort to create domain design for A&A across multiple offerings• Worked across multiple business and functional units to refine requirements into a singlecohesive strategy• Leading team of developers to implement systems and libraries

Provide strategic guidance, industry perspective, and support to the Dean for College of Computing & Information Sciences

Developed software for medical imaging devices based on the technology Optical Coherence Tomography.The company was called Coherent Diagnostic Technology (CDT) at the time that I worked there.

• Develop consumer software that operates optical diagnostic equipment• Responsible for designing, managing and implementing software projects frominception through release of the product.