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Infinite Corridor Group's team of supply chain experts provide strategic leadership and curated solutions to leading retailers and emerging brands. I provide strategic advising, technology leadership, and product direction to portfolio clients.

Morrisville, North Carolina, Us

Affordable Robotic & Automation Pvt. Ltd. (ARAPL) is provides automation solutions for a varity of industries. My focus is proving guidance on addressing the supply chain space, technical advising, and product strategy.

Lincoln, Ne, Us

Spreetail is a full-service ecommerce acceleration partner, built to scale online sales for hard-to-ship products and more. As a technical advisor, I provide strategic guidance on supply chain technology and retail automation.

As a Technical Advisor to the VNYLabs, I’m providing technology guidance and strategic direction as they launch the first truly collaborative music platform

Via is an AI-powered supply chain data and optimization company. I provide the leadership team with technology and supply chain insights to guide product development and strategic direction.

Devens, Massachusetts, Us

Quiet's transforming the way ecommerce is fulfilled through an easily integrated, pay-per-service model versus the traditional inflated, underperforming cost-plus options. Quiet’s national network offers efficient, robot-enabled fulfillment through an extensive portfolio of carriers to achieve a best-in-class retail offering.Single-threaded owner for all technology. Multi-development site organization included product and platform engineering, data science and data foundations, cloud infrastructure, security engineering, corporate and warehouse IT, technical support and quality assurance.Led Quiet’s evolution from a set of disparate acquisitions into a single unified Kubernetes-first cloud platform. Launched a comprehensive microservice platform responsible for automating all aspects of retail fulfillment and delivery. Upgraded the company’s IT infrastructure and culture to achieve certified security certifications and 24x7 mindset. Introduced self-service to enable rapid carrier expansion and network management. Drove Quiet’s data imitative creating Quiet’s data for analytics, metrics and Data as a Service offerings. Developed a full complement of logistics capabilities including connected edge facilities, micro-fulfillment through 3P providers, intelligent inventory solutions and an integrated transportation network.

Seattle, Wa, Us

MileZero delivers premium last mile solutions for retailers. MileZero’s cloud-based solution increases efficiency and delivery density to achieve the lowest cost per shipment while enabling services beyond customer expectations. Connected retailers can quickly begin offering high quality delivery services regardless of product mix or customer segment. Powering retail deliveries of groceries, parcels, heavy & bulky, B2B across multiple geographies and multiple retailers. Founded MileZero. Lead product and platform. Recruited and lead high performing engineering team across two development sites, Seattle & Hyderabad. Participated in fundraising and investor relations until company was acquired in 2019 by Capstone Logistics. Lead in enterprise sales and engagement prior to acquisition. Built a high performing platform to enabling last mile logistics from 200+ stores, 100+ warehouse, 2000+ drivers daily in multiple countries

Seattle, Wa, Us

Responsible for Amazon’s Transportation Technology enabling Amazon’s worldwide delivery network. Led the evolution of Transportation Technology which enabled Amazon’s growth and unlocked international expansion including Europe and Asia. Developed massively available, distributed systems supporting ordering and fulfillment of Amazon’s global business. Built big data solutions for classification, agent based decision framework and learning based systems for automated logistics evaluations. As leader of engineering team, grew engineering team from single site (Seattle) to five sites (United States, India, China, and Canada), launched new development sites, led staffing and execution of global roadmap.Technology leader for Transportation By Amazon which ultimately became Amazon Logistics. TBA included creation and rollout of Amazon sort center technology, last mile platform, line haul management and orchestration engine. Early business deliveries included Amazon Fresh's expansion, Amazon's National Sort Center Network and delivery services in the UK and emerging markets such as India. This work laid the foundation for Amazon's delivery network.

Brookfield, Wisc., Us

Architect and leader of First Data’s unified Internet Gateway Offering. At the time, this gateway was the third largest processing platform for Internet payments in the world. As the head of the combined LinkPoint and EFSnet divisions, responsible for all architecture decisions, development strategy and technical direction of high-volume payment products serving hundreds of merchants and retailers including McDonalds, Subway and emerging internet retailers. Lead a team of 200+ software engineers, program managers, and quality assurance engineers across two sites (LA and Phoenix). Oversaw product efforts, engineering direction and provided technical leadership for various FDC initiatives including Gateway engineering, new payment support, and merchant solutions.

Headed development division for enterprise security firm. Responsible for all aspects of the company’s product and development efforts. Architect for portfolio of Internet / E-commerce products featured at Comdex 2000. Products addressed under-served vertical markets such as education and media providing time-locked encryption for digital media and streaming content. Developed core encryption, authentication and content delivery systems. Supported technical discussions / planning with clients and potential clients including Motorola, FBI, Cal State Long Beach, Michael Murphy Investments, Musicrypt, Hewlett Packard and others. Led internal and offsite development, built entire infrastructure and installed quality assurance process. Responsibilities included management of development team, staffing, product design, project management, competitive analysis, architecture, implementation, and coding for all phases of the development.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Senior software engineer and system architect for Helix Design Studio, 3D industrial CAD system. Designed and developed numerous modules used for product rendering by aerospace, industrial manufacturers and numerous other industries. Wrote HML (Helix Markup Language) parser and renderer providing an extensible engineering drafting symbol creation / modification annotation language. Added XML extension modules to provide natural support for drafting standards literals. Responsibilities included competitive analysis, technical planning, technical design focusing on migration and legacy concerns, architecture design including object design specification, implementation, and coding for all phases of projects.

Team lead, senior engineer and project manager on ModaVision, a 3D visualization solution, for Sears’ spin-off store: the Great Indoors. System allowed industrial designers to layout floor designs using an extensive digital catalog of actual products in 2D and 3D space then producing full 3D walk-through and visualization of design (in addition to plan and elevation views). System integrated with Sears POS system and provided integrated shopping experience for complete kitchen remodeling. Components integrated with two other company products: Broderbund's best-selling 3D Home Interiors and ModaPlan, a retail store-planning product.

JungleBots, SBG’s the Hive, Tribune’s Food Portal and Rocket Science’s Darwin’s Pond. Managed engineering and art teams, responsible for budgeting, product management and customer relationship management.

South Pasadena, Ca, Us

Built entertainment-engineering infrastructure for special-effects company expanding into game development arena. Built engineering team and implemented product lifecycle / release process responsible delivering company’s first titles in less than 10 months: Sega’s Star Strike, Midnight Raiders and Exterminators (featured on Discovery Channel’s Movie Magic and Special Effects show). Provided technical project management for Phillips early interactive MPEG games and managed entertainment engineering team creating special effects for TV and film. Entertainment engineering work included high-end particle filters, custom CAD plug-ins and custom development featured in television pilots (Hackers) and TV shows (NBC’s miniseries - Asteroid).

Glen Cove, Ny, Us

At Acclaim (formerly Sculptured Software), I was a team lead and senior engineer on Wing Commander II and Mech Warrior projects (both for the SuperNintendo). Wrote tools to import Origin’s proprietary script and artwork; built 65816 assembly code and converted 256 MCGA art into 16 color tiled art using Heckbert Color reduction algorithms. Built Mode7 code for 3D sequences, and sophisticated 4 plane, 3D engine for MechWarrior. System projected 3D buildings and scenery at a pixel accuracy. Built tool to provide complex AI ‘playbook’ for opposing Mechs. In addition to engineering responsibilities, managed delivery of all aspects of products: planning, architecture, technical direction and schedule. Led efforts of supporting engineers and art team responsible for modeling, texture maps, cut scene art.

Senior programmer for two Super Nintendo projects: Super Offroad – The Baja and IndyHeat. Both projects were part of the company’s initial move from arcade development to the home market. Led development of tools such as recursive sprite ripper, which converted art to proprietary Nintendo formats. Built game shell based on conversion of corresponding arcade versions of games. All Nintendo code was written completely in 65816 Assembly. Tools implemented with a combination of C++ and assembly.

Contractor for consulting company that worked with Akron area tire companies. Led and implemented workflow management product for Goodyear Tire. Solution automated a retread operation for large trucking centers using a proprietary engine with dedicated relational database. Solution supported numerous scanning devices and barcode types used across work stations in retread operation.

Paterson , Nsw, Au

Engineer for majority of Paragon division’s titles. Products were built in short periods of time using RAD principles. Environment relied on engineering team collaborating with art and business teams to deliver highly successful products with minimal missteps. Initial title, Dr. Doom’s Revenge, was an Amiga product featuring Marvel comic characters. Product was delivered in a record nine months and received excellent reviews. Additional titles included MegaTraveller products and the Marvel’s Punisher for the IBM PC. On final product, XMEN II, responsible for design, engineering and leadership for the entire team (art, music and junior developers). All products can still be found on the Internet today.