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Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

• Leading secure product development across TPD’s technology portfolio, embedding security in the SDLC. • Driving initiatives in improving security through automation and developer engagement for risk, compliance, and education for Verizon Consumer and Business. • Empowering team members to grow their careers, expand their expertise, and uplift TPD’s overall impact. • Enabling innovative products while safeguarding customer trust and organizational integrity.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Hand-selected to lead a small tiger team to quickly provide strategic feedback to align a $3.8B portfolio around unified architecture, APIs, and improved end-to-end experiences. - Implemented a suite of unified services for LLM-based chatbots, AI-assisted feedback loop using customer feedback to accelerate product decisioning.- Developed a framework and environment for 400 engineers within five end-to-end teams to design, develop, and deploy mobile applications with common architectures to integrate with other Verizon systems.- Led cross-functional collaboration with five different Verizon Consumer engineering teams, driving the development and adoption of strategic APIs. These APIs not only streamlined internal processes but also opened up new revenue streams for external customers, contributing to the goal of achieving a 100 billion transactions KPI for 2024.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Verizon Innovation Group (also known as NBI) launched as a carve-out of Verizon to build Enterprise Scale businesses developing next generation robotics, AI/ML, and IoT software platforms to drive network growth. • Engineering leader owning the end to end development of our Orchestration, Location, and Automated Robotics Fleet Management engineering teams across US, Sweden, and Austria, counting over 80 engineers under my leadership• Proved a concept leading to tens of millions incremental revenue for Verizon’s phone return and testing center by building a factory digital twin simulation and AI-focused data streaming system.• Up-leveled our security and risk posture for our Robotics, Location, and Orchestration platforms from a basic posture to Verizon’s NIST-based posture through standardized development and production environments, fully automated CICD providing end to end auditable history, and a more rigorous test automation designed to de-risk coverage.• Lowered development and maintenance costs through Increased common-code usage by 30% by establishing a Unified Architecture team with the remit to improve integration between product groups and engineering teams, as well as leverage Verizon internal platforms

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

· Consulted internally across Verizon for commercial feasibility of projects in the energy, supply chain, manufacturing, and other Industry 4.0 use cases· Designed a platform software architecture to support big data acquisition, stream processing, simulation, and digital twin for Machine Learning around labor and process optimization· Designed an infrastructure platform to support data governance, security, provenance, and developer enablement and customer deployment· Developed business and technical strategies for de-risking change for an addressable 540B market cap market with 3PL partners which I successfully presented multiple times and consistently to Senior and Executive VPs within Verizon· Directly developed the strategy, execution, and business using ML, Verizon network IP, and hardware partners to develop a unique capability that could drive $500M in ARR

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

- Shepherding new innovation ideas through a funnel to create new business opportunities for Verizon's strategic growth. - Scaled out a team of architects and engineers, working with business analysts and partners to develop and execute on our business and strategy goals- Developed partnerships with key strategic companies to help develop and validate business opportunity areas- Validated strategic venture opportunities

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

• Led multiple cross-functional engineering teams supporting Verizon’s location platforms, Verizon's 5G and MEC strategy initiatives as well as major location-based business initiatives• Technical lead within the Strategy Implementation and other internal execution teams• Partner management including requirements gathering, validation, and legal vetting• Work with our business development, partner development, legal, product, and leadership teams to support the platform initiatives and strategy.• Discover and synchronize internal team, internal, and external customers requirements and priorities to support the Product Team• Day to day responsibilities of people management, career growth, hiring, team building, and mentoring.• Direct involvement with the architecture, research, development, and engineering of AWS-based services and their mobile SDKs for Android/iOS • The Technical lead in developing the roadmap for our 2019/2020 platform initiatives along with the Product Team• Collaborated with our product managers, business client consultants, and customers on our SDK support, requirements, and roadmap• Supported leadership on strategy, product, and customer support• Member of our leadership strategy council, specifically on Developer Services, Indoor Navigation, and solutions.• Focus on improving team and organizational culture, mission, and values.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

• Led the Data Platform team that supports Verizon's location based services with our base map data and POI data-warehouse• Worked with our partner development, product, and leadership teams in bringing new Premium POI products to market• Launched a new POI ingest and data-warehouse system that brought fresher data, better performance, and improved CX system• Revamped our Data as a Service platform to meet stringent new security standards and improve deployment and performance• Day to day responsibilities of people management, career growth, hiring, team building, and mentoring.• Collaborated with our product managers, business client consultants, and customers on our SDK support, requirements, and roadmap• Supported leadership on strategy, product, and customer support

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Solutions Group Technical Lead. I work with a talented group of individuals to deliver Mobile-based solutions to support MapQuest's internal and external customers.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

• Consulting for Verizon / MapQuest to develop and engineer Navigation, Maps, Search, and Geocoding SDKs on iOS and Android

Recovery Partners was an angel startup with a vision to work with drug and alcohol treatment centers to increase the viability of their programs using AI/ML and gamification techniques to identify relapse conditions and provide resources to patients including a location-centric social circle and virtual meetups. It would also provide validation to government and insurance companies of the validity of treatment programs.• Developed the technical chapters of the business plan, corporate budget, variance reports • Developed and primary presenter to our investors • Developed the MVP architecture and led a team of engineers to implement the MVP

My original company that I started as a web-application consulting company, transitioned into mobile application development. We changed our name to Fanatic in early 2016 and sold the company to CompleteXRM in late 2016.

Owner, Teacher, and Mentor

Managed web development team members and developed public and internal facing web applications

Montréal, Quebec, Ca

Managed web designers, servers, and all technology choices and purchases before the company was purchased.

Cupertino, California, Us