CTO

Looking for a challenging opportunity in an energetic and motivated technology company. I want to apply my years of product and technology innovation and management to a leading edge and fast paced company culture and environment. I want to take my proven record of successful development or teams and products to the next level and help drive your company to greater success.

Managed Yahoo engineering teams across two continents including system development, big data ingestion and analysis, audience data warehouse, and data modeling related to user targeting and first/third party data acquisition. - Utilized agile based development processes, integrating Product, Engineering and Support- Implemented next generation Data Acquisition Platform using high performance web services for first/third party data integration system utilizing Hadoop cluster, Zookeeper and Oracle DB.- Development of Audience Data Warehouse utilizing Hadoop and Druid technology providing for a robust, scalable and near real-time analytic and reporting platform.o Development of Objective Based Targeting system using Hadoop and search based technology. VP Engineering (Genome) - Led the engineering activities and teams at Genome developing systems for premium targeted online advertising solutions. Genome (interclick) was a public company that was acquired by Yahoo. interclick’s proprietary advertising and advanced user targeting technology solutions enabled it to dramatically improve data targeted solutions and optimized returns for advertisers across a variety of pooled premium supply (website) sources. - Development of application and systems utilizing Microsoft technology such as Visual Studio/C# and SQL Server. - Audience targeting and Ad management applications - Ad serving system - Third Party Data Integration platform - Directed the development of Business Intelligence system utilizing three tiered model using Microstrategy, Infomatica and Netezza (later Vertica). - Development of event based analytic/targeting DB utilizing in memory version of ParAccel. System handled 1 billion user records, ~20k events/sec and data storage of about 32gbytes per day. - Development of high performance user profile and lookup system to serve real time ad serving. Based on AeroSpike (NoSQL) technology storing user profiles for ~250 million active users.

System and application software for On-Demand, fractional and commercial regional air carriers.• Played an integral part in defining company’s initial business strategy and helped refine business plan and financing strategy including market strategy and financial models including ASP and customized product models.• Developed strategic plans for the productization of the aviation technology for both domestic and international markets.• Led Systems development system design, implementation, QA and deployment.• Took key role in transitioning team from DayJet Corporation to DayJet Technologies including all finance, operations and human resource activities.• Played key role customer briefings and sales lead activities.• Lead Project Management activities with customers, partners and vendors including requirement analysis, project scoping, project sizing and scheduling.• Managed all banking, general administration, health insurance, payroll and human resource activities.

Responsible for architecting, building and managing all internally developed systems required run DayJet’s On-Demand Airline.• Built engineering team from scratch to a team of 35 technical professionals including development, quality assurance, technical publications, release management and technical support. • Lead Systems development activities through three major releases in addition to numerous versions and patches.o Automated flight operations systemo Customer reservation web portalo Electronic flight bag application (windows application running on tablet PC) for pilotso Customer support web portal• Member of Executive management team with responsibility for overall technology strategy and systems development.• Helped coordinate and perform business intelligence and data analysis activities for business process improvement, marketing/sales initiatives, system tuning and management reporting.• Worked with IT architects in defining infrastructure required to support 24x7, scalable and highly available operational business and systems. • Part of cross departmental operations team tasked with improving flight operations activities utilizing daily post mortem reviews and provided/implemented improvement recommendations.• Lead all technical Due Diligence activities with investors and consultants as part of fund raising team during multiple rounds of fund raising activities over 5 years.• Architected and managed million dollar software contact with Eclipse Aviation for the development of an aircraft data acquisition and routing system and data center.o Worked with IT team to define data center hosting proposal for Eclipse Aviation.• Coordinated ERP systems integration, with all internally developed systems. • Managed level 2 and 3 technical support for DayJet’s 24x7 flight operations systems.

Vice President, Software Product Development; A Privately-held venture funded by Cisco Systems, Net2Phone Corporation, and Softbank Infrastructure Fund. • Manage organization composed of approximately 25 software engineering professionals.• Lead Product Development activitieso Developed and fielded Advanced Routing Manager and Provisioning Manager as add-ins to Cisco-powered Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Networks.o Initiated and developed new high performance VoIP Advanced Routing Manager with 4X performance improvement over previous release.o Moved Network Element Management Application from MS Windows application to Java based application.• Worked jointly with Cisco Systems and customers on coordinated projects, product and customer requirements.• Worked closely with marketing, sales, technical support and senior management to develop product roadmap, resource plans and budgets.

Joined Motorola as a software development manager in a newly formed software engineering group developing both embedded and PC based software for two-way wireless products. The two-way pager PC based client software allowed users to send and receive pages through Motorola’s two-way pager using a serial interface to pager. * Designed, developed, tested and shipped Window’s based application as part of the two-way pager product.* Managed Product Development Team including scheduling, resource allocation and problem resolution as well as software process activities * Was the main focal point for interaction with System test, Technical Assistance and Support, Sales, Hardware development groups and Marketing

Joined IBM as a software engineer directly out of college. During my eleven years with IBM I held numerous software engineering functions and positions of increasing scope and responsibility.• Lead Architect for OS/2 Multimedia Subsystem Provided the multimedia architecture of the portable operating system Workplace OS• Team lead and programmer for OS/2 Multimedia Subsystem Developed 2 releases of the OS/2 Multimedia Subsystem application interface component• Videotex programmer for Series 1 system • Performance modeling and simulation of disk and communication subsystem Developed simulation models for disk and communication subsystem in order to evaluate capacity and performance