Mastercard - Platform Architect Network SolutionsCloud and transformation strategyMastercard - Platform ArchitectCloudPass: Consulting CTO, SecurityTechpargroup: Core banking systems transformation to new core, MDM platform, Event Driven integrationBroadridge Financial: Security Architecture for on promise restructureFinance: Security review, ITIL mapping and remediationMedia: Cloud transformation strategyFederal Defense: Data Lake with secure enclave compute

Design edge payment service delivery products and solutions, systems internals and other shared services.. Contract Completed

Principal Architect - Payment processes

Architect: Poly-Cloud fabric for Federal/Defense Cloud

Financial Sector - Cloud migration strategy and factory model, Cloud Native, Serverless streaming data ingestion Data Reservoir with using reactive methodologies. Edge and disconnected state compute. Secure cloud environments strategy and architecture. Business development.

OCLC - Cloud Security standards, “Lift and Shift” security standards and approach API and container defense strategies for new development as platform evolved to API service approach.Zooetis: Define cloud security standards, cloud transformation standards, best practices and other. Zoetis is the world's largest producer of genetic analysis, medicine and vaccinations for pets and livestock

Morgan Stanley - Encryption, Cloud Security Standards and Cloud Onboarding standards. Developed a portable, cloud and on premise agnostic enterprise encryption solution for Block, volume, object, directory and file with support with RBAC access control and geo-fencing for regulatory compliance. Zero touch deploy of legacy applications.

Strike (focus) executive Team targeting Financial Sector competitive opportunities and the specific needs of this industry. Working with client team and large bank to successfully develop strategies and solutions including secure private cloud, storage and transit, grid computing and integration for hybrid deployment.

Worked with IBM Financial Services Clients (banking, finance, and Insurance) to create roadmaps and projects that help them transform to with hybrid cloud solutions that enabled them to better serve their clients better.IBM and other Cloud technologies and services with focus on analytics to help improve service while driving cost of client's business. Providing methods for moving IT staff away from lower level IT tasks with robotics letting them focus on creating agile applications and infrastructure and DevOps solutions.Create a journey map with IBM clients that converts their IT to platform and software-as-a-service and as-a-service (Paas & SaaS) that compliments and conforms to agile application development and the ability to rapidly roll out new features and functions to clients and employees.

Providing Clarity as a ServiceCloud Technology & strategy Advisor to guide clients with cloud transformations and catalyst for the advancement of cloud activities. Guide clients to create and implement cloud computing strategies that drive business value. Leverage IBM's extensive cloud experience and portfolio to propel a cloud journey with the best of breed practices, design patterns and products. Acting as a business-tech executive practitioner specializing in Cloud as a key solution to support industries, business strategies for: expansion, innovation and efficiencies. Responsible for consolidating current IBM cloud offering, restructuring the organization and growing the IBM Cloud business. On top of company strategic missions, daily tasks also include advisory role of key enterprise client cloud strategy. Engaging with C-Level business and technical leadership in a worldwide capacity to assist and direct the development and execution of an enterprise Cloud road map. Assisting in the development of technical strategy for Cloud at IBM in consultation with product management, product marketing and corp strategy.Developed 18 month migration roadmap for global logistics company to migrate key processes, applications into a high availability cloud model and evolve their organization into a more agile model.

Defined cloud security standards, overall cloud data standards and strategy. Big Data analytics architecture and cloud infrastructure for global migration from on premise infrastructure to Amazon/AWS. Defined unified data management process across platforms & systems. Established an overall strategy for the company while maintaining flexibility on specific solutions

Management consulting services for ECommerce, rich media, advertising, warehouse management, large scale extreme volume internet platforms, cloud based systems, CRM, ERP and due diligence road maps. Resperfecta also provides management consulting services with particular focus on pre and post acquisition technology reviews, technical road maps and development for highly scalable systems. Resperfecta is currently retained as an advisor by several rapidly growing online companies.* Time Inc - Define global cloud data security standards and big data data analytics architecture* CTO - VProud.tv* Consulting CTO / Early stage high volume social media video platform. Branded, white label & mobile * Consulting COO/CIO for mobile platform - company sold as IP* RedDrummer: COO / CIOTaking several years of development and bringing it all together as a potent global corporate offering.* Riverbow: Online streaming media using social media tools* MarketAmerica/SSSD:Consulting COO for Social Media & Video project. Review platform, technology and business model* Reservoir Films:Develop business plans, collaborative film production platform* Qello:Developed streaming video & media CMS and delivery platform* MediaAddiction:Metadata management designs, financial development, business plans, presentations and architecture. Technical roadmap, Performance optimization, project map* BeyondTheRack:Developed high volume Ecommerce platform, establish ERP, warehouse and management processes* Reliant Security: Enterprise security audit and risk mitigation* Deep-Field:Security profiles, strategic technical reviews and road maps, pre-acquisition due diligence reviews* Hedge Funds (NDA):Pre-acquisition due diligence reviews* SportsGist - Developed technical road map for sports oriented social networking platform* PPTShareDesigned and developed EAI Service hub to integration multiple document management systems

Consulting with several companies on business and product strategy, technical architecture for robust scalability and pre and post acquisition due diligence reviews. Advisory services on ERP, cloud architecture, acquisition consolidation, data mining and other areas.

Special Projects

Conversation and video platform targeting women

Brought in to help Brazil based company with conversation and collaborative application scale to efficient enterprise volume levels. Established corporate processes, designed flexible, scalable and high performance platform architecture capable of supporting hundreds of clients - some with as many as 600-700 Million users. Architecture enabled cost per user to go down as volume goes up. Designed as SaaS model making maximum use of EC2 / Cloud technology, tools and unique high speed reflective data modeling design patterns for maximum speed and resource efficiency. A key design goal - The architecture while cloud based could also be installed in physical data centers.

Developed very high volume video streaming platform along with mobile applications for handset and tablets for Qello to deliver video content to mobile devices, IPTV, MRSS and web users. Platform is in production both under the Qello brand and under white label. Android Honeycomb app just rated one of the top ten coolest Android Honeycomb app of the year.Developed web based video editing and chaptering toolsContinued Development of media management platform for Qello.

Asked to step in as interim CIO. Developed hybrid cloud (EC2 & Akamai) based E-Commerce platform that scales to large volume traffic that spikes to 8-15M unique users within a one hour period. Developed multi-tiered secure layers for cloud computing. Brought in development, operations and QA staff. Implemented process controls as company grew from 35 to 180 over one year. Opened additional offices, implemented end-to-end ERP platform (NetSuite) to manage all financials, warehouse, merchandising and event planning. Developed loosely couple integration that allows the web front end to support large volumes of traffic independent of the ERP backend. Developed Data Warehouse analytics, merchant targeting and user retargeting programs.

Developed startup business plan for Aquanexus on behalf of Dubilier & CO as an analytics platform to deliver content, insight and analytics focusing on water related industries and investors.. AquaNexus uses a unique reporting platform that allows its users to extract insight across literally thousands of tables and data sources. In addition, Aquanexus delivers aggregated news and a highly focused web and content index.Designed of low cost, analytics platform able to deliver highly interactive content from thousands of fragmented data sources. Evaluated new opportunities in water related markets for content, data and analytics. Evaluated existing services and market needs using 6 months of field research. Developed a model that would deliver critical content using low/medium/high budget and product profiles that could be executed based on different funding levels. Wrote investor PPM, investor presentations, financial models and corporate structures.

Brought in by investors to restructure company and its five business units after more than $100M invested. Established rigorous P&L, financial controls and detailed working capital models. With 110 million dollars invested, expenses were out of control with a 4 million dollar monthly burn. Consolidated acquisitions and reduced monthly burn to 500K across all divisions even as the company grew to 200 employees including 75 in the technology group. Updated business model for each division. Established competitive, less expensive health plans and put a 401K into place. Created shared management and internal support services with seasoned business and technical managers. Established technical foundations and built service shared platform for all five divisions to further reduce overhead. Rebuilt data centers with a direct savings of 300K a month. Developed full documentation and presentation materials for planned London AIM IPO. Updated materials to file NASDAQ S1 E-Commerce division was made up of three acquired companies operating multiple online brands with collective revenues of more than $160m putting them in the top 15 of online electronics retailers. Consolidated these acquired companies - inventory, warehouse, buying, marketing, and sales functions. Implemented new ERP/CRM and E-Commerce management platforms and rebuilt web sites with better SE and a new look and feel to support updated business model. Increased margins. Changes made the E-Commerce group an attractive acquisition target and it was successfully sold.The company had been unable to execute its business plan for China due to cost and complexity. Within 8 months, put into operation a new model specific to the Chinese market. It supported multiple revenue streams and functioned as a framework into which additional functions and services could be added consistent with the new corporate theme being developed

Accoona is an Internet company engaged in three primary business lines - online-based lead generation, online search in the United States, Europe and China, and eCommerce consumer electronics retailing. Its services enable users to find the products, services and information they want, obtain competitive pricing and make informed buying decisions. We use our expertise in technology, marketing and management to support our business lines and create synergies and efficiencies across business lines. Accoona is organized primarily into the following sectors:* lead generation via our online-based Exchange Place business* Search including both our Web, news and business information search engine * Buyer'sEdge, our shopping comparison search engine* eCommerce consumer retailing - operating several sites putting us in the top 20 online etailers

Brought in as a consultant to review enterprise plans and architecture after years of repeated delays and prepare an analysis of all aspects of Information Technology - legacy, design, staffing and risk. Based on the analysis, recommended substantial changes to their next generation architecture, strategy and all aspects of the software architecture, organization and infrastructure. Asked by board to put these changes into effect. Long term goal was to sell this privately held company. Company was successfully sold less than 2 years later.Long-term architecture suffered from impractical & fragile monolithic design. Projects with repeated missed deadlines. Overall design was decomposed into smaller deliverables. Development, operations & release schedules accelerated reducing timelines, costs and risk.Existing storage infrastructure was not put to best use. Even new systems were at risk. Best practice techniques were put in with tiered storage, reference snapshots (EMC Timefinder-Snap), consistent splits, consistency groups and synchronous replication between primary & DR.Company was running on a single aging legacy Unisys mainframe. A "Plan B" project was successfully launched & delivered using commercial tools to port the current business applications - all functionality and UI intact - to a modern scalable grid platform using the existing HP/UX Oracle RAC DB cluster as a foundation and for the first time giving full dual site contingency capabilities. Critical legacy business continuity and knowledge was maintained without training. The legacy application port had the added benefit of making new application development easier and faster by leveraging a common database platform. This in turn reduced the complexity of long term projects from a technical and user perspective. Both legacy & newer systems had no contingency capability and this project was also used as a vehicle to implement full contingency for many other critical business applications.

Contextual advertising company - delivered high volume traffic to online and client side ad inventory. At its peak one of the top ten sites in the English speaking world according to Alexa and volume averaged around 1 million connections per minute with peaks of four times that.Brought in to replace original CTO after a $20-million capital infusion. The company was using geographically distributed consultants and prototype applications running in silos at several small data centers with out of control operations costs, no documentation and almost every function and dependency hard-coded and brittle. Redesigned client and server applications, reduced operational costs. Designed and developed behavioral and contextual Ad-Serving platform which was subsequently sold as a separate product.

Consulting as CTO, CIO, COO or business advisor to a variety of companies in the technical, media and ecommerce space. Develop "due diligence reports" for investors which includes forward looking road maps that can be followed in short and long term views

Chief technical Officer for Media buying and selling hub founded and sponsored by the "big three" media buying companies. Mediaport mapped out all of the buy/sell data points as well as the buying and selling process and the costs and friction at each point. Many of the initiatives sponsored by Mediaport are still in flight, but the 9/11 tragedy slowed down advertising and the sponsors pulled out.

Startup Internet services company growing from 6 employees to over 100. Developed technical strategy, architecture and operations using best practice art for scalable, resilient, redundant infrastructure and application technologies that allowed all nodes including calls centers to work independently, and withstand periodic loss of connectivity using a distributed database model. Three geographically dispersed call centers each had over 100 operators. The underlying architecture allowed the company to easily revise its business model several times with only a few weeks of work.2 & 3-tier applications for distributed database environment, and applications all launched only 6 months after standing start.Web based applications on WebLogic/J2EE and Call Center applications in C++, which combined CTI on a thick client server model.Installed the PBX systems, telephony switches, redundant voice and data T1's for enterprise at 3 call centers, co-lo data center and the main office.Developed unique bidirectional synchronization process between Gold standard Hub DB and spoke call center DB. WAP and voice portal context transfer infrastructure to for ASP phase of business. Developed lightweight applet to synchronize wireless devices with call centersDeveloped patent-pending architecture for transfer of user context from WAP/Voice & Web sites to live agents.Added ASP model for sales force automation (SFA) on a variety of CRM systems and legacy applications with template apps and EAI tools using the existing physical infrastructure.

Joined DoubleClick in its early days as a startup Internet marketing and advertising company. Responsible for all engineering front and backend processes at high-volume Internet site. Designed and developed server processes designed and optimized for volume and performance to deliver over 5 billion impression / transactions a day. Redesigned backend processes to handle increased throughput with greater integrity and scaling. Designed products and applications for database driven ad targeting. The system became the gold standard for ad serving platforms.Developed backend processes and systems known as DART. All systems were arranged in a Grid-like platform that scaled for capacity and durability.Designed and developed "Boomerang * a data driven ad-targeting platform targeting based on demographics, real-time and latent behavior and intent velocity. Redesigned backend processes for better throughput past 5.x billion events per day and transactional integrity. These processes continuously aggregate data for behavioral targeting and ad delivery. These systems scaled to sustain substantially higher volume as needed.Designed high throughput (12K TPS) caching database appliance with sub 2ms latency for user behavioral, impression and context tracking information. Appliance/Application storage efficient scaled horizontally and geographically. Redesigned statistically driven ad targeting program to deliver ads using performance metrics and psycho-graphic routines.Developed enterprise management applications and automation tools including automation suites to coordinate and automate end-to-end processes in a fault tolerant process.Added ETL systems for next-generation back-end processing.These developed systems were the core processes and applications which were subsequently purchased by Google

Responsible for Core enterprise technologies standards and solutionsManaged development tasks to help convert over 160 internal applications and new tools for 14,000 workstations to common operating system and application platform As an example, one application required a VDD interface to simulate the Win3.11 common DPMI context.Converted 48 Notes applications into Outlook based Exchange groupware applicationsDeveloped enterprise management tools. Researched next step technologies

Joined company as Project Leader to build OS/2 product, 7/1987Responsible for planning and developing FOCUS across multiple platforms. FOCUS is an enterprise level natural language (4GL) non-relational database. Developed new product features spawned as EDA division. Managed staff of more than 80 for all design, engineering and technical operations. Products have a massive code base of more than 8000 new and legacy source files in C, C++, Fortran, Mainframe and PC Assembler.Developed cross platform compilers, assemblers, p-code parsers and code generators, dynamic and static link and overlay loaders, object parsers, and meta-code translation tools. Developed sub 2K stateless graphics engine.Developed core internal capabilities including:Low level caching routines, cross memory stub loaders, dynamic and static link loaders, overlay loaders and debuggers.Added product feature to allow clients to extend product with their own library code

Developed dBBS BBS platform. dBBS had its own scripting language and was used by several companies as an early email platform.Managed staff of 6 programmers and technicians. Developed local area network management tools, and utilities for local and wide area networks. As a learning exercise, developed multi-user BBS program put into commercial use by more than 1500 sites (still in use 2008). Managed direct & retail sales $16 million.TECHNOLOGIES & ENVIRONMENTSCloud based solutions, EC2, RightScale, virtualization solutions, LAMP, HADOOP, J2EE, BEA, JSP, Java, C++, C, JavaScript, VBScript, PHP, Perl, Assembler, SQL (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL etc), Fortran, Focus, MFC, Win32, ASP, MQ, MSMQ, WAP, sockets, threading, performance & scalability coding, Solaris, OSX, BSD, Linux, XP, Vista, Active Directory, NT(3.51, 4.0, 5.0, 2000 etc), OS/2, Veritas, EMC, Hitachi, SAN, Replication, WebMethods, XML, Cisco, VPN, Exchange, Apache, Samba, and many more.