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New York, Ny, Us

VP, Engineering — data engineering, data platform, and IT teamsResponsibilities:* Design systems and processes for transforming 50 Terabyte-scale healthcare datasets into the proprietary model that enables scientists to perform studies on safety and effectiveness. Process over 600 datasets per year. * Partner with sales and science leaders to improve sales and support processes.* Collaborate with Warburg Pincus to improve valuation by reducing cloud costs..* Served as interim SVP in 2023, helping a new CTO begin in the role.Results:* Reduced cloud costs by 50% in 2023 and again in 2024.* Eliminated chronic defects occurring 20 times monthly, and accelerated delivery of those datasets by 1-2 weeks as a result.* Reduced engineering hours per ingestion by 80% for a new product, launched in 2023. Presented the success story at the Databricks Data + AI Summit.* Improved IT operations, reducing ticket backlog from 10 days to 0 days.

New York, Ny, Us

Recruited to lead engineering for the Marketing Attribution product, using machine learning to measure and optimize campaigns. Following the Placed acquisition, I moved into Infrastructure to lead the Data Platform, which provided the infrastructure and orchestration for realtime, streaming, and analytical data workloads. I was promoted in under a year to lead all of Infrastructure. Ultimately I was promoted to serve as Chief of Staff to the new CTO to accelerate Foursquare’s transformation into a geospatial platform.Responsibilities:* Extended CTO’s reach and personally managed the cross-functional organization operations including 160 engineers, data scientists, and product managers.* Led a cross-functional organization of 40 people, comprising platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, Security, IT, and PMO.* Built the Program Management function to 10 technical program managers, covering product development and client integrations.* Drove post-merger integration of infrastructure and IT, following the Placed, Factual, and Unfolded mergers. Rationalized cloud and hybrid infrastructure. * MC the monthly Demo Day, celebrating engineers and what they have shipped.Results:* Led global deployment of next-generation API. Introduced infrastructure as code to accelerate regional deployments from months to 1 week.* Reduced Cloud Hosting spend by 25% ($5M) per year.* Migrated inefficiently self-hosted systems to managed services, freeing 2 FTE engineering resources for new development.* Expanded IT services while reducing spend by 20%.* Increased the machine learning capabilities of the Attribution product* Improved profitability by 85% for key Marketing Attribution accounts.* Led migration of 10 Petabyte data platform to AWS from data center.* Improved the speed and predictability of engineering, through process improvement and orchestration with technical program managers.

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Supervised development for enterprise Multi-Touch Attribution application to improve ROI on >$100M Marketing spend. Managed Hadoop cluster with continuous improvement, expanding services while containing operations within $2M budget. Successfully led rewrite and Cloud replatforming of 30 TB application to accelerate data flows and improve usability for analysts and downstream applications, while reducing cost 50%.Drove Cloud strategy and DevOps transformation to accelerate new capability development and reduce cost across 4 departments with 100 engineers. Developed high-performing teams through cultural change, empowerment, training, and recruiting.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Drove strategic change for IBM's Market Intelligence digital channel, increasing usage over 10% to 140,000 IBMers. Set Cognitive roadmap to accelerate publishing, improve search, and enable expertise location. Fostered innovation and project acceleration across 400 analysts through Scaling For Impact strategy Grew team skills in business analytics and product management.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Led development for marketing analytic solutions generating over $50M revenue, accelerating API deployment 30x. Projects included: - Cross-Sell API: real-time recommendations replacing a consulting process which required 3 weeks per product line.- Event Success Predictor API: forecasting whether a Marketing activity will achieve ROI benchmarks, influencing multi-million dollar marketing plans.Pioneered usage of Big Data and Advanced Analytic technologies, such as APIs, PureData/Netezza, and SPSS Modeler. Translate and liaison between executives, platform technology, data, marketing, and sales leadership

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Advised IBM executives on strategy formulation and drove implementation. Projects included: - Developed co-opetition strategy to increase license sales in contested market space.- Planned labor offshoring and built business case to drive $25MM annual savings.- Formulated and executed change management strategy for 15,000 person reorganization.- Quantified business case for reducing subcontractor usage.- Recommended process changes to reduce costs in global technology development.- Reduced training costs $3.6MM (90%) for a strategic alliance.- Planned business analytics roadmap for IBM's IT function.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

See Managing Consultant, Strategy and Change Internal Practice

Sunnyvale, California, Us

Set product roadmap and development priorities, through successful IPO. Managed customer expectations, preserving $1MM in revenue from at-risk clients. Partnered across the company to drive product success: sales, marketing, consulting, support. Received the CEO’s 2004 “Core Values Award” for teamwork, dedication and energy.

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Developed web applications for online communities, content syndication, and chatAutomated software deployment process

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