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Palo Alto, CA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

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Los Gatos, California, US

• Trusted technology advisor providing interim CIO/CTO/Chief Architect services focusing on mid to large companies. Recently delivered the multi-year data strategy for ECRI, global independent leader of patient and.
• Established partnerships with Silicon Valley CIO and CTO leaders to share technology best-practices (cloud practices surrounding container, microservices, and orchestration), critical industry issues (SolarWinds.

• Lead development of a direct-to-consumer software product suite and client solutions, leveraging Generative AI (GenAI), Large Language Models (LLMs), and data pipelines to create market-disruptive innovations.
• Focus on transforming industries such as consumer products, health tech, and entertainment, applying disruptive innovation principles to create new market opportunities.Partner with Fortune 500 companies to deliver.
• Plug and Play - Health Tech Advisor: Advise healthcare and biomedical companies on integrating advanced technologies like remote patient monitoring and predictive analytics.
• My-E-Health - Board Member: Support growth of a global employee wellness platform offering access to mental health services through certified wellness providers.

Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, US

• Spearheaded and launched the multi-year ECRI Data Strategy, transforming ECRI into a data-driven organization that significantly advances global patient and medication safety guidance impact.
• Led IHSI (International Horizon Scanning), the world’s most extensive compound and indication insight solution using public pharma data, which catered to the vast majority of the EU Ministers of Health; solidified.
• Drove final ISMP integration into ECRI as part of merger, encompassing the seamless migration and integration of CRM, ERP, and E-commerce systems into the workflows; included implementation of best-in-class Shopify.
• Established offshore engineering and IT team to facilitate asynchronous project delivery and empower the “follow the sun” operational model.
• Drove a new standard for customer feedback user-interface across all ECRI products with Usersnap.
• Led migration of outdated infrastructure to best-in-class Pure Storage at lowest cost in close partnership with CFO, ensuring that this new foundation serves ECRI’s mission for the next decade.

Brisbane, CA, US

• Served as CIO driving company transformation across enterprise applications (Arena PLM, Office365, BambooHR), ERP (Dynamics 365 migration), CRM (Salesforce refactoring), infrastructure (Azure cloud transition).
• Improved operational efficiencies by automating and accelerating Order to Cash operations by 51%
• Delivered enterprise mobile credit card solution which reduced transaction costs by 70%, enabled PCI Compliance, and increased productivity for global Sales, Service, and Marketing.
• Delivered Zoom enterprise-wide (e.g., Zoom rooms, shutting down legacy channels, enhancing audio conference calls) and increased remote worker productivity by 45%

San Francisco, CA, US

• Served as both CIO and CTO driving enterprise applications (UltiProHR, Arena, Anaplan), ERP (SAP migration), infrastructure (Azure cloud), end-user services (standardize to TopDesk), security (NIST practice, OneLogin).
• Shifted IT to global operating model to support company worldwide growth aligned to OKRs and North Star Metrics; improved automated processes by 20%.
• Implemented technology governance, by creating and leading transatlantic tech governance councils covering 15 countries in NORAM, EU, APAC to prioritize key Tech Pipeline projects, to ensure cross-functional leadership.
• Audited and assessed master data, including identification of enterprise systems of record to improve reporting and application data source quality.
• Implemented Zoom enterprise-wide to every conference room and client across the globe which transformed regional/global collaboration and dramatically increased remote worker productivity by 30%

Oakland, California, US

• Led 60-person cross-functional team of business analysts, solution engineers, data analysts/scientists, and innovation engineers supporting the $28B Northern California Kaiser health-care provider organization..
• Led pioneering clinical predictive analytics solution (KP Advance Alert Monitoring) to proactively predict patient acuity to reduce mortality and increase in-patient efficiency proven across multiple hospitals..

Oakland, California, US

• Served as Chief Solution Architect for California & Hawaii regions and Kaiser Health Plan Insurance.
• Drove and led KP-IT enterprise adoption of the KP App Strategy Framework to drive investment planning, app rationalization, and senior executive decision-making serving the $60B organization. Rationalized $1 billion.
• Launched unprecedented enterprise app KP app portfolio repository across all regions with sustainable process, data quality, and executive reporting.
• Delivered enterprise KP Mobility Technology Guardrails and KP Mobile Application Standards (e.g., Java, C++) to equip software developers with the right practices and tools to develop KP mobile apps.
• Led investigation and delivery of go-live in-flight architecture assessment for the $250 million National Pharmacy program (Java, C#) with definitive recommendations in 72 architecture domains which drove remediation.
• Initiated and led delivery of Patient Room Aware POC as a foundation to enabling secure push messaging mobility architecture as well as expansion of KP patient room of the future innovation.

Oakland, California, US

• Drove and led architecture for $300 million National Claims program (Java, C#, MQSeries) across 8 regions in direct coordination with cross-functional technical and business teams to serve as a blueprint for solution.
• Led the entire Kaiser Permanente (KP) Health Plan BIO/business segment in strategic and tactical architecture across all sub-portfolio domains: Claims, Membership, Benefits, Medicare, Sales, Marketing, Enterprise.
• Designed, and delivered to senior executive leadership the KP Enterprise Architecture Maturity Model in coordination with multiple external subject-matter experts (e.g., EAEC and Forrester).
• Led architecture reviews and recommendations of all solution and system architectures delivered by KP Health Plan and eBusiness.
• Established and sustained strong ongoing relationships with KP-IT and business partners. Relationships strengthened through continued successful track-record in serving KP Health Plan BIO/business segment.
• Drove architecture evaluation for vendor RFP proposals and a decision-maker in product selection.

• Focused on helping parents find, discover, and share local family events, experiences, and activities.
• Led full end-to-end software development delivery of server-side event aggregation platform with mobile app (PHP, MySQL), growing customer base by 10x in 6 months and 100,000 active events.
• Architected and developed aggregation engine to capture and update family events covering majority of large US cities.

Stanford, CA, US

• Led the National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) in the architecture, development (Java/Spring, Ruby, Flex, NetKernel, OOR, Eclipse), and delivery of microservice-enabled platform to share scientific knowledge.
• Managed 6 software development teams in delivery of NCBO products from leading institutions such as Stanford, Berkeley Labs, and Mayo Clinic. Included delivery of BioPortal (http://bioportal.bioontology.org), the.
• Drove nationwide NCBO Developers Conferences and NCBO Code Reviews.
• Launched first Open Ontology Repository (OOR) software platform and established open source collaboration across international developer communities.
• Established GForge and communications infrastructure.

Burbank, CA, US

• Functioned as Chief Architect for Disney West Coast. Delivered innovative software development standards management (Java, C#) serving Disney application developers and executive stakeholders globally including.
• Drove requirements, architecture, and design of workflow solutions for HR on-boarding, entitlements, and off-boarding of Disney’s workforce of 60,000 contingent workers. Led collaboration with business partners (WDW.
• Led the Application Architecture & Development Working Group, a governance body.

Burbank, CA, US

• Established Disney platform competency center and governance to serve 600 engineers across all business segments to share best-practices, accelerate solution delivery, and strengthen security. Accelerated Disney.
• Spearheaded SOA/microservices business case with buy-in and architected strategic SOA infrastructure for Disney Enterprise Portal (DEP) including elastic Hardware Abstraction Layer and web-service orchestration.
• Delivered first round-trip POJO (Plain Old Java Object) build/deployment for Disney Services Framework (DSF) web services
• Led virtual team in technology selection of web service-enabled F5 content load balancer
• Led partnership to industry (Gap, webMethods) and Disney business units (WDW Library, WDW Architecture)
• Delivered first enterprise Disney Wiki to encourage knowledge sharing with app dev teams

• Designed, implemented, and deployed fee-based web application for Shape Magazine: iShape 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2 (http://www.ishape.com), generating revenues of over $1 million/yr
• Architected all tiers: presentation, business, integration, and resource tiers (Java).
• Initiated Agile methods within RUP both in process and in application; in process, built applications using business-driven iterative life-cycles, in application, directed creation of testing frameworks (JUnit) and.
• Executed Continuous Integration strategies, including implementation of daily build/smoke tests with electronic notifications
• Aligned all product and community development with media and consumer drivers, including publications look-and-feel, live recording of customer/product sessions, and consultation with subject-matter experts
• Headed-up project planning and change management in coordination with marketing, production, and business departments

• Designed and developed components for BrainEKP 1.0, 2.0, and 2.5 which were successfully deployed at Accenture, GE Equity, U.S. Dept of Defense, and the FAA; application provided enterprise knowledge and.
• Designed, implemented, and deployed WebBrain 2.0 (http://www.webbrain.com) and its back-end process (Java) which integrated the largest human-edited URL directory using a combination of prior-feature extraction and.
• Integrated software development strategies and application architectures with extensive use of UML; led incorporation of servlet-centric (Model 2) architecture using Command and Factory Design Patterns
• Incorporated Agile methods into development practice including unit testing (JUnit) and establishment of debug frameworks (Log4j)
• Conducted full life-cycle risk and project management

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Designed and implemented award-winning ITMVisualSRR 1.0 and 1.1 for annual RSNA convention (with 55,000 medical providers); clinical round-trip workflow through service integration with natural language processing (NLP.
• Designed and implemented components of ITMScheduler 1.0 for Harris Corporation in Florida serving a population of 10,000 patients; application included development of electronic patient medical record using an OODB.
• Delivered full unit test framework and unit test practice with JUnit at all levels of engineering
• Coordinated graphical user interface design and user evaluation (QUIS) for UCLA healthcare applications; process included in-person interviews and walk-throughs of software-prototypes
• Managed project planning for research and commercial deployment using Microsoft Project
• Presented technical seminars at major academic and commercial conferences

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

Bethesda, MD, US

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