Arcserve is a global leader in data protection and disaster recovery. Serving the mid to upper-mid market, Arcserve generates $200 million in annual revenue making it the 5th largest data protection company in the world.Migrated the legacy, on-premise management console to a mature web stack. Mentored team leads, managers, and individual contributors on web architecture, development, and deployment best practices.Introduced an agile development process (eg issue tracking, scrum teams, sprint planning) and development pipeline (eg DevOps, Jenkins, AWS environment, etc) into an historically waterfall development process.Plan and direct all aspects of engineering activities for two major product initiatives.- Cloud Direct: A direct-to-cloud backup solution. Cloud Direct has been named a PCMag Editor’s Choice award for the last 4 years.- Arcserve Business Continuity Console: A multitenant administration portal allowing customers to manage all of their Arcserve products behind a unified UX and information architecture.Managed up to 5 internal and outsourced engineering teams (React, SpringBoot Java). Oversaw the QA test plan and resource allocation for multiple QA teams.Excelled in building cross-functional partnerships with our global teams (UK, Barcelona, Tokyo, Hyderabad, Minneapolis, Campbell, etc) to drive roadmap and foster cooperative and efficientcollaboration. Within the last 3 years, I effectively leveraged these relationships to coordinatethe engineering effort for the acquisition of Zetta and merger with StorageCraft.Helped architect the automation and performance testing framework to ensure that each sprint does not regress and thereby enabling Arcserve to release every three weeks. At present, the framework supports 10,000 API tests and 3,000 UI tests.

Staffed and managed the software, quality engineering, and product teams. Worked closely with the executive team, product manager, and engineering leaders to deliver the product roadmap and define and execute realistic yet challenging development cycles.Instituted and actively managed the agile software development process. Responsible for the administration of all internal development environments (dev, test and stage), continuous integration, and release management.Worked with the QA team to build diagnostic tools and establish a robust automation framework that decreased the one-month error rate of the Zetta Replication Agent by 20% and ostensibly eliminated all upgrade failures. Architected and implemented a web service platform to support the customer and operations web portals.

Lead developer and architect of a SaaS document management system built to support a novel electrophoretic ink (E ink) tablet. The cloud-based platform hosts different M2M clients and includes a RESTful web service, user portals and a control panel for server and account administration.Defined and articulated the feature set for each release. Oversaw the deployment of all code releases and administered the developer, QA and production server infrastructure. Collaborated with the Web Operations team and NOC administrators to provide a monitoring, troubleshooting and escalation framework for all production machines.Recruited and managed a team of up to nine software engineers in a test-driven development environment. Incorporated a comprehensive suite of unit tests which led to quicker and more predictable development cycles. Worked closely with QA to instrument the end-to-end performance of our document solution under various load and network conditions.

Charged with managing the IT resources, operations and finances of a small startup focused on the development of sports-related web applications. PicksPal.com was acquired by a Fortune-300 media company (Liberty Media) in late 2009.Developed the technology strategy and made all relevant hardware and software decisions needed to support the company's business objectives. Tasked with configuration, upgrades/patches, user management, DNS, security, monitoring and tuning. Responsible for the design and maintenance of several MySQL servers including configuration, tuning, query optimization, backups and monitoring. Responsible for the management and professional development of the entire engineering staff. Project manager and lead developer for the majority of our content. Oversaw the development and maintenance of over 50 web applications and 10 websites.