Typically fulfil interim roles such as Program Director, CTO, COO, CPO, VP Engineering, Enterprise Architect, Business Process Architect for startups, scaleups and enterprises.Management and Leadership• Lead org functions/departments/teams in alignment with board/ownership strategy and vision• Perform due diligence for, and manage mergers and acquisitions• Build new teams/culture based on goals, people and discoveryAnalysis and Transformation• Solution discoveries for startups• Capture organization's vision and strategy and map them to OKRs, process and architecture• Analyze critical business processes and enterprise architecture • Select platforms, technologies, and design end-state ecosystemDelivery and Execution• Implement changes and transform processes and architecture with clear measurable metrics and results• Listen to and coach the people in the org to align better with their individual goals and the organization's.

• Lead multiple product teams to successful deliveries.• Optimized process for up to 60% faster MVP release with smooth post-release transition plans. • Uncompromising focus on user experience, flagship quality/polish, and frequent delivery.• Hand-picked features for maximum impact on each vertical-slice release.• Curated team and project focus to meet dynamic, real-world needs such as investor meetings, conferences, and workshops to deliver key features as priority.• Built teams specific to customer/product needs and managed multi-disciplinary teams, scaling up and down as appropriate.• Managed customer relationships, product roadmaps, project delivery schedules and maintenance. • Made key software architecture decisions to support product needs with input from customers, senior engineers and DevOps.• Designed workflows to track product usage by end-users and act on findings in concert with UX designers and business intelligence analysts.• Developed project and infrastructure health monitoring plans with QA and DevOps teams.• Conduct bi-weekly activities to keep teams motivated and focused.• Performed SWOT analysis on various projects to boost project velocity, improve process, motivate teams and reduce risks.• Head of Typeqast Labs – a unit for experimentation, learning, ideation and open-source projects.

Occupied interim leadership roles as we brought together multiple companies and sought to integrate them together. Interim Head of IT, Program Management and Product+Engineering.

• Owner of multiple key features in one of the flagship products in our suite.• Drastically improved team workflow in under 2 months of joining project teams.• Optimized complex database queries in multi-tenant systems.• Worked with design, QA and product teams extensively to align product vision with development efforts and roadmap planning.• Built open-source code-generation and automation tools in use by many projects to reduce human errors and increase productivity by as much as 40%.• Planned and architected blue-green deployment infrastructure with our in-house DevOps team.

• Designed and architected experiential interfaces for system and process insights for the department of astronautical engineering in collaboration with companies such as Boeing.

• Mentored students in the Game Engine Development and Advanced Game Projects courses and helped execute them. • Authored course materials to help students learn various game development skills and build games on various devices.• Designed fun, dynamic tests to realistically test key concepts and learnings based on experience and knowledge of needs of industry.• Wrote multiple automation scripts for evaluating assignments, recording game outputs and integrating with Perforce version control, Excel and Google Sheets.

• Mentored students in the Game Engine Development and Advanced Game Projects courses and helped execute them.

• Designed, architected and developed solutions to: o Collect multi-modal playtest feedback and verify against game sessionso Deploy builds and other resources for playtests on multiple nodes and platforms (PC/Xbox/PS4)o Remotely manage executableso Capture game video and broadcast over the network across all EA locations in near-real-time

• Conducted playtests and prepared reports with clear, actionable feedback on what was observed and added recommendations backed by human-computer interaction and psychology research.

• Designed, architected and developed solutions to: o Collect multi-modal playtest feedback and verify against game sessionso Deploy builds and other resources for playtests on multiple nodes and platforms (PC/Xbox/PS4)o Remotely manage executableso Capture game video and broadcast over the network across all EA locations in near-real-time

• Led a team that designed, architected and developed software to visualize multi-format and multi-source data.

• Led a team that designed, architected and developed a Massively Multiplayer Online Game that served as a platform for behavioral, social-science and economic research. • Helped students learn various game development skills and build games on various devices such as the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation Vita.

• Mentored students in the Game Engine Development and Advanced Game Projects courses and helped execute them. • Managed the development of a game in the Serious Games course.

• Lead teams that designed and developed a Force Basketball game and a prototype exploring new ways to use the Force!• Developed an extensive real-time, interactive debugging system and engine framework for the projects building on an in-house renderer and input system for the PC and Xbox 360.

• Co-developed a prototype networked virtual environment with Wiimote support for various civilian scenario simulations.• Developed a tool to annotate and index vast volumes of historical archived video content.

• Developed samples and tutorials on web development, networking, video games, user experience, device programming and robotics. • Taught new and pre-release software and frameworks to students and instructors all over the country and helped develop customized solutions based on their needs.• Delivered many presentations to large audiences, conducted hands-on lab sessions and live TV tutorials.

• Organized conferences, workshops and hands-on labs across the country to teach new technologies and best practices in software development.• Managed personnel for multiple student groups.

• Designed various publications for print in multiple formats.• Designed and developed multiple websites for corporate customers.• Edited and built title and credits scenes for movies.