Dan Schonfeld Email & Phone Number

Herndon, Virginia

Product Development / Engineering lead responsible for building and operating services that power AWS EC2. My devops teams own critical platform services within EC2 Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), AWS’ Software Defined Network (SDN). Responsible for new product development of innovative services, driving AWS massive scale, and ensuring a seamless end to end.

Reston, VA

• Selected by executive team to form and lead new business to deliver microservice based SaaS solutions solving security challenges for the Internet of Things (IoT). Reporting directly to COO and CEO, oversaw initial.
• Evaluated market conditions and identified areas of strategic growth for company in adjacent markets.
• Delivered 1.0 release of new product (MVP) in nine months through global agile development.
• Signed five pilot customers in US and Europe to make rapid investment decisions about company’s IoT strategy.

Reston, VA

• Responsible for all engineering and product development for Verisign's Naming and Directory Services businesses, enabling more than 2 billion people to access the Internet reliably every day. Led product development.
• Launched value-added services to grow annual revenue 300% to over $1.2B while managing to industry’s strictest SLAs.
• Launched company’s big data and analytics initiative, optimizing operations and establishing new company revenue streams.
• Led strategic process improvements, including transformation to DevOps and Agile, open source policies and procedures, automated unit testing, peer reviews, change control board, project charter, and formalized risk.
• Instituted architectural roadmap and transformed platforms to RESTful services to align technical teams and reduce churn.
• Implemented balanced scorecard KPIs to increase customer engagement while focusing staff on business objectives.

Sterling, VA

Responsible for all Engineering activities within VeriSign's Naming Services Group. Directly supporting the registries behind the.com/.net top level domains, as well as.cc,.tv,.bz,.jobs registries. Other platforms include the.name registry, a value added service on top of regional country code registries, greatdomains.com, and two consumer focused retail.

Sterling, VA

• Led enterprise program managers, project managers, and business analysts in support of company’s naming services and directory services business units. Directly supporting the General Manager, implemented methodology.
• Implemented new product introduction process to enforce gated decision-making and incremental investment in new product ideas during market tests and pilots.
• Partnered with product management to improve relations between product and engineering by increasing transparency across groups.
• Collaborated with all project stakeholders and developed enterprise-wide methodology for building and releasing SaaS products, using industry best practices, including Agile and DevOps.

Rockville, MD

As co-founder, held several senior technical and management positions including Director of Professional Services, Director of Product Development, Senior Director of Release Management, and Product Manager for Digital Asset Management software provider. Managed customer implementation teams, product development, and product management for enterprise.

Rockville, MD

Led end-to-end delivery of consulting engagements, ranging from software development to methodology audits to technology strategy definition. Managed teams of up to 30 consultants, developers, and QA engineers in five locations on $4,000,000 project to move The Hartford’s paper-intensive and error-prone surety bond business to the Web. Served as project.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Oversaw all technology operations in new business unit delivering health, dental, and vision products to middle-market customers. Integrated several COTS products for policy and claims management with corporate financial, decision support, and other operational systems. Enhanced systems to support growing needs of burgeoning business, adding technical.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Initiated rollout of UNIX technology to support first open systems development at company. Served as vendor liaison, solution architect, and system administrator for first several projects on UNIX hardware. Conducted knowledge transfer to enable business units to become self-sufficient. Performed analysis and developed strategy for company’s implementation.

Livingston, NJ

Built hobby into commercial company building and selling computer Bulletin Board Software (BBS) on Apple II and IBM PC platforms. Performed all software development and testing, marketing, sales, and support. Sold over 175 BBS systems to individuals and corporations, generating over $15,000 in sales from home-based business to fund my college expenses.