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Pleasanton, California, United States

• Owned the short term road map which incrementally delivered a fully fledged platform from scratch, via weekly sprints and bi-monthly milestones, in 3/4 of a year• Lead breaking down highly complex features for easy team consumption in a code base started with a single binary, and ended up as a fully micro services based architecture on top of Kubernetes and Istio, with a dynamic data routing system that was easily configurable to automate hooking together the data plane components and getting data to the analytics models, thus delivering business value to the customer• Managed cross team communications, and gathered requirements, amongst stakeholders including: Executive band, Product management, Architecture, Customer success/support, Sales/Marketing, and the data science team • Acted as agile coach and evangelist for the company’s employees

San Francisco Bay Area

• Led three scrum teams to create and deliver the first version of a new product: Lumada Edge Intelligence • Managed the technical relationship for the products lighthouse customer who is a top Fortune 500 company• Leveraged agile process to plan product releases: t-shirt sized to capacity, break-down into consumable user stories, planned into sprints, and executed to delivery• Collaborated with multiple cross functional teams in different countries to deliver machine learning as a service on an aggressive schedule with immediate customer adaption• Directed all release activities including performance testing results, end-user documentation, release notes, customer communication, OSS scans, penetration test, IP Clearance and patent filings

San Ramon

• Collaborated regularly with product management, UX, service owners and QA to strategically define and execute deliverables to address customer pain points• Helped define team’s agile direction. Fail fast, iterate, and, most importantly, find what works for the team. Promote constant improvement• Proven ability to resolve complex problems by quickly diagnosing and identifying issues and determining the proper resolutions• Utilized technical background to foster a trusting relationship with development team defined by open communication between peers that allowed for increased understanding and respect that drove execution and success• Supervised customer relationships to ensure high satisfaction by clearly setting expectations, providing high availability for questions and technical assistance, and reliable delivery of milestones and documentation• Utilized a clear, transparent communication style that is straightforward and honest

Redwood City, Ca

• Collaborated regularly with the CEO and CMO to define strategic direction for the company• Enhanced the company’s patent portfolio by inventing and writing five patents, which were granted, on topics such as cryptography and authentication• Defined technical requirements and document plans for the lifecycle of the company’s flagship product including the scheduling of deliverables, budgets and timelines• Headed a team of 3 engineers to launch the first version of the product on-time and within budget • Owned and coordinated the process to certify a Java cryptographic module for FIPS 140-2

San Jose, Ca

• Managed a cross-functional team of 3 engineers, 1 UX, and 2 QA Engineers in designing and creating a new product: Data Protection for Application Servers. The solution required multiple technologies including Java, SOAP, XML, C/C++, and autonomic computing. A patent was granted for the work on the autonomic computing component entitled “Method and System for Ensuring Consistency of a Group.”• Analyzed expensive configuration wizard creation and created a novel solution to drive business success by dramatically decreasing the time to create one. A patent disclosure was submitted for this work entitled “System and Method for Creating Generic, Reusable, and Dynamic Application Program Configuration Wizards.”• Communicated regularly with many diverse teams including product management, engineers, documentation, design, test, and customer support to provide status, disseminate information, and solve problems

Allentown, Pa

• Created, updated, modified, and expanded software to process real-time transactions as a consultant located on site at Lucent Technologies• Optimized essential business process from a running time of hours to several minutes