CHAMPtitles is a blockchain technology company focused on unlocking business growth and making government more efficient through paperless and digital solutions. Led the company from seed-round of 3 employees, pre-revenue, to Series B with over 50 team members and revenue generating SaaS product company. Created a patented Proof of Claim, Proof of Validation, and Proof of Attestation consensus algorithms that eliminates the need for paper, wet signatures, and notary for titled asset transfers (US Patent# 11,223,474).Designed, architected, built, and launched a new Digital Title & Registration Suite (DTRS) SaaS product to digitizing vehicle title, registration, and electronic liens for State’s Vehicle Titling Administrators, Dealers, and Lenders.• Develop and execute the company's technology and product strategy.• Establish the technology and product roadmap aligning to the business objectives.• Oversee the development and management of product design, product pricing, and go to market strategies.• Lead a team of engineers, designers, and product managers to ensure that the DTRS product meets customer needs and delivering value to the business.• Manage the technology budget to ensure that the company is making cost-effective decisions that drive margins and EBITDA.• Assess emerging technologies and industry trends.• Build partnerships and collaborations with external partners and vendors.

Responsible for the overall product technology strategy and delivery. Leading a global technology workforce to drive technology innovation, continuous improvement, and improve speed-to-market velocity. Shifting the team to an agile and continuous integration methodology and drive automation to unlock time-to-value for our clients. Responsible for transforming, while support legacy systems, to deliver a market leading end-to-end Marketing SaaS platform backed by powerful analytic capability that helps our clients manage their marketing budgets, execute their marketing programs, and measure their marketing effectiveness.Responsible for building a marketing intelligence big data program to help our clients maximize their ROI on their marketing campaigns. Responsible for increasing company valuation by leveraging open source frameworks to productize the SaaS platform that deliver value to both our clients and our shareholders.

Served as the head of digital, Omni-channel, and customer analytics technology function with responsibilities for both the strategy and execution. The focus was to shift from a channel-base customer experience to a customer centric experience regardless of touchpoint while ensuring brand consistently across social, customer care, store, online, and marketing touchpoints.• Established the strategies and funding approvals from the exec management team and board of directors to support the digital, customer analytics, and clienteling programs. • Successfully launched the digital, customer analytics, and clienteling programs that directly impacted growth of online sales. • Successfully launched the customer analytics capability that integrated multiple retail brands, across lines of business, and products & services to create a single and consolidated view of the customer. The customer analytics capability powered the in-store clienteling system, customer care systems, and online ecommerce systems. • Led the $300m North America Ecommerce Business (Zales, Pagoda, Jared, Kay, and PeoplesJewellers) • Managed and improved the 3,500 North America Retail Store Technologies, specifically modernizing the POS system, launching new clienteling and instore tablet selling system, and improving the store network.• Oversaw digital marketing, campaign management, and recommendation capabilities.

Led a team of 76 architects and engineers that promoted the strategy for an IT organization of ~2000 IT professionals that served a $90 billion banking business. Defined and socialized the IT strategy to support the directives set by the CIO and ensure proper prioritization of the $400 million IT budget. Influenced the $100 million investments of business projects and tech-for-tech initiatives. • Influenced the paradigm shift of thinking from procuring technology to integrating business capabilities. • Streamlined the System Development Lifecycle Process (SDLC) to reduce the redundant tollgates and improved the project approval process from up to 4 weeks to 1 week. • Oversaw and managed strategic vendor management to ensure vendors were aligned with our strategic direction and aligned their sales approach that was relevant and appropriate.• Effectively collaborated across a highly consensus culture to introduce new concepts such as Cloud SaaS, self provisioning systems, and a core modernization assessment to potentially migrate from the mainframe to distributed computing.• Led a continuous improvement committee, represented by members from across IT departments, to identify opportunities to improve processes. Influenced 20 new process changes that had material impacts to streamlining business process functions in IT.• Raised the team’s engagement score by 30 points in 1 year through active leadership, monthly all-hands meeting, and communicating how individuals’ role played into the overall IT strategy and vision.• Recruited new talent—shifting the focus from an ivory tower tech centric to a pragmatic business first IT approach.

Led the technology delivery team (architects, PMs, developers, testers, and infrastructure engineers) to deliver digital marketing, mobile, omni-channel, and ecommerce solutions.• Established a solution architecture review committee lead by senior technologist to ensure clients got a quality, extensible, scalable solution.• Provided hands on oversight on development and delivery of business enabling technology solutions.

Led the retail banking architecture group that supported a 10 million user based for the dot-com website, online banking, branch, call center, atm, small business banking, wholesale banking, and CRM systems.

Led the entire application lifecycle from design, development, testing to implementation of a web based supply chain management applications.