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Estero, Fl, Us

Estero, Fl, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Leading a highly productive and growing, multidisciplinary team of data analysts, data scientists, machine learning engineers and software engineers.Responsible for the building and enhancing the data platform that underpins all Altana products. Started with a highly-manual, fragile set of disconnected processes and evolved that into an automated, resilient production system while enhancing and extending functionality to meet customer’s needs.Mentoring and growing team members into leaders.Representative of the product engineering groups to the operational cross-functional management group.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Senior technical lead supporting the Data Infrastructure Security team that provides data access security to Meta’s entire data warehouse.Proposed, evangelized, and successfully aligned multiple groups within the Data Infrastructure organization for the need of a single, comprehensive interface combining multiple, disjointed privacy and security access services.Designing and leading a cross-functional team to implement the unified privacy and security interface which will evolve into a complete identity access management system for Meta’s data warehouse.

Boston, Ma, Us

Technical lead for the company’s migration from a hybrid cloud to an all-cloud infrastructure. At the project’s inception, identified schedule risks and drove efforts to increase the priority of migration efforts across the company.Provided technical guidance to groups across the engineering organization outlining best practices to successfully migrate various design patterns to GCP. Coordinated and led weekly office hours over Zoom to raise and resolve technical issues. Identified and drove adoption of third-party solutions when GCP-native technologies did not meet system performance criteria. Led a group of Principal Engineers defining the domain-oriented design patterns for Wayfair to follow on its path from monolith to microservices.

Boston, Ma, Us

Led efforts to provide self-service, secure and scalable data as a service environment spanning both public and private cloud infrastructures, including authentication, authorization and auditing of distributed data platforms within a complex hybrid environment. Led Wayfair’s transition from a legacy, self-managed infrastructure to cloud native services such as Spanner, CloudSQL, BigTable, and PubSub.

Boston, Ma, Us

Hired into Wayfair to build a new team to provide technical and architectural leadership during the transition from a monolithic application stack to a distributed, service oriented architecture based on the Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes.Lead to effort to provide consistent and self-documenting APIsDeveloped and evangelized the implementation and use of service to service authentication and rate limiting as a means to control costs and provide predictable, high-quality service to our customers.

Minnetonka, Minnesota, Us

Newscycle Solutions is now Naviga. Newscycle Solutions, a Vista Equity Partners portfolio company, purchased Acquire Media at the end of 2017. As VP, Enterprise Software, I was responsible for the migration of the NewsEdge.com infrastructure to the cloud as well as moving the underlying technology forward employing ElasticSearch and Kubernetes. Additionally, I was responsible for the NewsEdge.com product suite -- destination website, REST APIs, and customer integrations of the underlying technology

Acquire Media is a leading supplier of real time news aggregation and syndication services. Acquired by Newscycle Solutions in December, 2017.• Architect of scalable, redundant text and video news collection, classification, indexing and distribution server system based on Apache, Tomcat, Lucene, and MySQL. • Led the migration of the company from ad hoc development process to Agile utilizing JIRA software. Implemented custom workflows to match release structure. • Specify sprints, track story progress, and plan, document and conduct QA and production releases.• Primary technical point of contact with all significant revenue customers for both pre- and post-sales integration work. • Utilizing virtualization on existing hardware, implemented a three-stage development and testing environment.• Directly leading, managing, and mentoring the teams implementing the web and mobile clients, server, and back-office systems. • Leading the migration of physical data center resources into the cloud.

Woburn, Ma, Us

Pre-IPO startup delivering interactive broadband and mobile video. Acquired by Digitalsmiths. Now part of TiVo.* Transitioned the development organization from an exclusive cable VOD focus to a flexible group capable of delivering solutions across broadband and mobile in response to shifting market dynamics.* Within 6 months, hired and trained the engineering team, growing the group from 4 to 15, to allow the delivery of multiple, simultaneous projects.* Led the design, development, testing and deployment of 3 major releases in 1 year which enabled the acquisition of 6 customers. * Direct the intellectual property strategy for the entire organization including the filing of 4 new provisional applications, the defense of several applications, and the prosecution of several infringement actions.

* Coordinated the development schedules of 17 diverse projects to increase project efficiencies.* Gathered and analyzed business requirements of various projects into a cohesive high-level batch processing schedule.* Within a 3 month timeframe designed, developed, tested and deployed the Control-M batch scheduling system to meet the business and engineering needs of the organization.* Developed a process to improve accuracy and efficiency of communications between development engineering and operations for batch processing requirements.

New York, Ny, Us

$600M consumer electronics company providing interactive TV and program guides. Acquired by Rovi. Now part of TiVo.* Reorganized the development team to enable faster feature development and greater customer focus. * Integrated customer support, advertising operations, and broadcast operations with the development team to provide a centralized organization with increased focus on our customers.* Major contributor to the company's 5-year planning and yearly budgeting process as well as being responsible for all volume shipment and revenue forecasts for the company. * Created and socialized a new software development life-cycle which improved efficiencies and decreased our customers' time-to-market.

New York, Ny, Us

* Managed the transition from an embedded systems company to an embedded software company in response to the evolution from low-capability analog televisions and VCRs to HDTVs and digital recorders.* Negotiated license agreements to grow the customer base from 4 to over 20 in 2 years, by conducting on-site, pre-contract presentations and conversations with major CE companies in the US, Europe, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.* Recruited, hired and trained personnel in support of project growth from 3 to 35 active projects.* Developed requirements and led the creation of an automated software release system to efficiently support all projects. * Rewrote all technical documentation including integration and compliance standards to improve customer relations and project efficiencies. * Built a project management team to track all internal and external projects.

• Reported directly to the CEO and COO, identified, investigated, and summarized emerging technologies that may be competitive or complimentary to Gemstar's strategic technical directions. Recommended both strategic and tactical actions. • Responsible for performing technical due diligence on acquisition targets.

* Managed a group of 6 hardware engineers chartered with providing low-cost, high-functionality embedded system designs enabling maximum market penetration for GUIDE Plus+. * Provided technical leadership, budgeting, and scheduling to set early direction for the company’s entry into digital television environment. * Architect for proprietary ASIC: a mixed-signal 500,000 gate design incorporating several IP cores and in-house designs which was incorporated into ten million TVs.* Under extreme schedule pressure provided a single point of contact for customers to resolve hardware design and integration issues.

Responsible for all Macintosh code implementing the NetRights @ttribute™ system. Developed an application and a Netscape plugin to render FlashPix™ digital images using a vendor-supplied library and to display user-defined meta-data stored in a Microsoft OLE structured storage file; all code is in C++ using Metrowerks Codewarrior v11 and Powerplant application development framework. Primary contributor to development of software component architecture; specified C interface to public components as well as the architecture and interfaces for private components.

Developed Macintosh device driver for a PCI-based IEEE1394-1996 (Firewire) link layer card and two CFM-based shared libraries to implement upper layer protocols of the 1394 standard as well as a specified client interface. Wrote a specification for a hardware- and OS-independent link layer interface for IEEE1394. Firewire is a high speed desktop interconnect designed for audio and video delivery as well as asynchronous data transmission.

Maintained and extended an in-house MS-DOS multimedia authoring system written in MSVC++ and incorporating several third-party products. Oversaw final delivery of IML's first commercial program to large publishing house; responsible for project scheduling, program releases, and most customer contacts. Primarily responsible for ARPA/NSF grant of $1.5 million to IML.

Cupertino, California, Us

Using Verilog and Synopsys, designed and implemented the 2nd & 3rd Firewire link layer ICs as well as the Quadra 700 card for those ICs. Was a document editor and Working Group Secretary for the IEEE1212-1992 Control and Status Registers (CSR) Architecture for Microcomputer Buses standard that defines transactions and registers needed for multi-vendor compatibility and operation in IEEE896 Futurebus+, IEEE1596 Scalable Coherent Interface, and IEEE1394. Authored the preliminary versions of what became the ANSI X3T9 Serial Bus Protocol working draft.Designed & implemented 1st Firewire prototype NuBus card using FPGAs and a primary contributor to the IEEE1394 standardization effort. Lead Engineer on the Apple Data Modem 2400. Responsibilities: product definition and specification, vendor selection and tracking, product industrial design approval, design modifications for Federal agencies compliance testing, test environment design and development, and end-user documentation.

A.B.D., Computer Engineering

B. A., Engineering Sciences