Responsible for Technology Strategy and Execution at Sonny's

Responsible for Global Engineering at WindRiver. Leading the transformation to an Intelligent Systems Platform business in an AI first world. Developing technology strategy, building a growing high performance global engineering teams

Responsible for strategy, planning and execution for delivering market leading software and software platforms that enable industrial automation around the world. - Rapidly Expanded teams from 50 to 400 over a period of 18 months, using a combination of rapid upskilling, investment re-focus and new global software campuses - Raised engineering standards and improved time to market while driving adoption of new technologies and evolving existing products and solutions. - Established a scalable architecture that would satisfy existing On-Prem customers, and also new deployment and subscription models in the cloud (private, hybrid and public)- Established quantitative approach to drive key cross- functional process improvement initiatives across engineering, product management and commercial teams.

Senior Director—Software Engineering (2015–Present)Director—Software Engineering (2014)Recruited by Vice President / GM to Drive full cycle industrial IoT commercial product engineering and management for Emerging Verticals manufacturing and energy value chain including Power Generation, Renewable Energy, and Oil & Gas. Created technology eco-system around software products focused on managing entire manufacturing lifecycle, measuring and controlling downtime, and leveraging analytics (machine learning) to transform outcomes from descriptive to predictive and prescriptive.• Drove software, applications, and cloud strategies to elevate operational effectiveness and efficiency.• Established developer-focused culture of engagement with intense focus on automated test, DevOps (CI/CD), TDD, Secure Dev and code reusability.• Spearheaded rapid prototyping of new additions to aPaaS - Predix (IIOT Platform) to promote reusability across systems and cloud providers, ranging from Amazon AWS, Azure, and Google to Private Cloud.• Led organizational re-design and transformation program encompassing 350 engineers; consolidated eight locations to three, capturing cost savings while maintaining output.• Built IoT products for O&G market, expanding to entire international energy sector including power plants; managed global teams in US, Italy, Bangalore, India, China, and Europe. • Served as GM for new vertical called IOEE (Internet of Elevators and Escalators), in partnership with Schindler Group.

Led development of Enterprise Software Solutions, web portal and technology framework for managing mission-critical systems, and in-house sub-systems comprised of 2K+ properties across 11 global centers. Managed teams up to 120+ across the US. Led organization change, transformation and controls to align with centralized systems and management strategy.• Consolidated 1K+ systems into single unified infrastructure. Defined enterprise architecture and high availability design; drove web portal and software infrastructure strategy, working across the organization to influence teams.• On-boarded agency to Amazon Cloud (AWS)—one of the first government agencies to do so. • Designed and led multimedia/live video streaming, image and video management software systems. Provided scalable ecosystem to support up to 1B hits including public viewing of Mars Rover and Deep Impact projects.• Built Tier III data centers, implemented content delivery networks, and integrated with ISPs for multi-homing

Joined start-up technology company as #7 employee and played key role in driving growth to 600 employees. Identified opportunities, submitted proposals, negotiated engagements and led full-cycle project management including building and leading teams, creating roadmaps, and managing product/service deliveries. Project and roles included:• eBay—Technical Architect, Content Management (2002–2003)• Estee Lauder—E-Commerce Architect and Delivery (2000–2002)• Hewlett Packard—Sr. Engineer (2000)• Verizon Communications—Sr. Engineer BEA Systems (1999–2000)