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20+ years of experience in software management and development with proven ability to manage challenging projects to success. Hands-on coder with business development, product management and software engineering expertise. As start-up veteran, exposure to critical aspects of technology development; business development, management and strategy formulation, operations, and team building. Deep technology background with expertise across software engineering. Developer - Hands on and leader• Cloud-based infrastructure development using Java/AWS • Front-end and embedded development with Java and Javascript• Mobile development with Android and iOS • Experience with C/C++, PHP, SQL, Matlab, etc. Accomplished Researcher• Awarded Small Business Innovative Research contract from NASA for Integrated Variable Fidelity Conceptual Design. Implementation done with Matlab and Python as Principal Investigator.(http://cadnexus.com/index.php/nasa-sbir-phase-1.html)Project Management• Program manager for funded engineering efforts successfully delivering product • Manager and technical contributor to Army SBIR thatinvestigated Automated Geometry Healing and De-featuring of models for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis.• Management and development of off-shore QA and development teams.• Understanding of Open Source and freemium business models • Understanding of the software development tools space• Familiar with mechanics of building community and awareness around product• Ability to marshal resources across business and technical lines to bring product to marketSpecialtiesStart-up scale-up, software development, business development, research/implementation (signal/image processing, multi-disciplinary optimization, statistical analysis), software engineering, predictive analytics, machine learning.

Listed skills include Software Development, Software Engineering, Enterprise Software, Machine Learning, and 37 others.