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Costa Mesa, CA, US

• Experian North America 2019 Patent of the Year and Idea of the Year recipient
• ITIL Foundation certified.
• Responsibilities include product development, software engineering and technology operations.
• Teams have spanned Costa Mesa, Austin, Costa Rica, Boston, San Diego, London, India and Denver.
• Media savvy and experience with media interviews and inquires.
• Leading a team of data scientists, analysts and software engineers responsible for scouring the dark web for compromised consumer data, malware, drop zones and incorporating non-credit based data sources such as court.

Costa Mesa, CA, US

• Managed 40+ software and database engineers in Costa Mesa, Denver, and Costa Rica in the development and implementation of Experian’s vast real-time and batch services utilizing various Microsoft.Net and MS SQL.
• Directed the efforts to convert the engineering department from a waterfall and project-based SDLC to Agile/Scrum and product/service-based SDLC.
• Managed the consolidation of our SCM tool set and processes to converge towards a continuous build and integration environment using Git, Jenkins, xUnit, Chocolatey, Artifactory, and Puppet.
• Redesigned the social monitoring team and API, which mines social networking sites such as Facebook/Google+/Instagram and notifies users of any meta-data changes. The platform utilizes open-source technologies.
• Sponsored and managed the migration of our legacy billing system to.NET 4.x and upgraded our 3rd party payment processor integration with Vantiv in order to improve system design, revenue capabilities, audience.
• Facilitated interdepartmental collaboration with C-level staff, business units, product management, project management, quality assurance, and data center operations in addressing operational issues and SDLC process.

Los Angeles, California, US

• Managed an international team of 60+ technologists in Argentina, India, and US to develop and execute solutions for clients in entertainment, government and retail industries.
• Product owner of the Emerios platform, which provides a robust SaaS that delivers enrollment, data verification, ETL processes and workflow management to companies across various vertical markets.
• Restructured the technology organization to align with our strategy by creating a clear delineation of product ownership between product development and the operations teams and established a client services team.
• Set mobile vision to establish VMBC as a mobile ad agency and expanded into tablet and mobile analytics by vetting and integrating their services with an open standard mobile platform and analytics engine.

Costa Mesa, CA, US

• Managed a team of 25+ people consisting of development, IT, QA, and project managers for 4 product lines across North America, which provided batch and real-time web services for clients to access Experian’s vast data.
• Responsible for $2.0M operational and $1.0M capital expenditure budgets.
• Experian North America Patent of the Year in 2010 & 2011 & Experian Platform release of the Year 2011 for the integration of Experian data services with various DSP/DMP online media platforms.
• Coordinated with division president, sales, product managers, operations, engineering, and infrastructure across 8 locations and 3 countries for system integration, support and sales activities.

Santa Monica, CA, US

• Set vision and led the design efforts around 4 core product lines.
• Managed projects from the proposal stage to successful delivery and support, and leveraged technology such as LAMP,.NET, and AJAX to support streaming media, project management, and reservation website solutions.
• Designed and developed one of the first touchscreen kiosks in the market, utilizing open-source technology.
• Recognized by IEEE magazine in 2006 as a leader in the burgeoning recommendation technology market space.

Falls Church, VA, US

Bethesda, MD, US

M.S., Computer Engineering

B.S., Computer & Systems Engineering