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Menlo Park, CA, US

Boston, MA, US

Leading the transformation of Wayfair eCommerce platform from a PHP-based monolith to Java micro-services driving reusable composite components leveraging next.js, GraphQL, and GCP native services (pub/sub, Spanner, etc.). The goal is to unlock bespoke needs for our brands and countries, as well as personalization through dynamic content (product.

San Jose, CA, US

Leading the team responsible for the shutterfly.com and Snapfish.com shopping experience ($1B+ business) including all eCommerce and media/upload architecture: Product discovery (Browse, search), catalog management, purchase (cart, checkout, tax/payment), Merchandising (promotions, upsell, cross-sell), order management, site management (analytics.

San Jose, CA, US

Leading the Engineering team building our fantastic Photos Platform. Front-end stack: React, Redux, custom JS, Ruby on Rails. Back-end Stack: PHP running on AWS Additionally, leading the teams ensuring the performance and reliability of Shutterfly.com: Performance Engineering, SREs, Quality Engineering.

San Jose, CA, US

Lead a team of engineers dedicated to the quality, performance and scalability of our web and mobile applications as well as the productivity platform for our engineering organization.

San Francisco, CA, US

I'm advising VCs and investment firms on industries they consider investing in: Monitoring, APM, CI/CD, RUM, Test Automation, Load and Performance Testing, Offshore engineering. This work is outside of my responsibilities at Shutterfly

New York, NY, US

• Lead the Global Quality Engineering organization responsible for all aspects of quality (Hardware, Supply Chain and Software) for all products within the VeriFone Portfolio i.e. Hardware terminals, Operating Systems.
• Lead software test automation initiatives across all VeriFone Regional Development Centers to reduce time to market, increase test coverage, provide continuous feedback to engineers and raise confidence into every.
• Drive quality initiatives (processes and test best-practices) for each of VeriFone’ solution. Established shift-left practices to reduce waste in downstream rework and the cost of bad quality.
• Position reports to VeriFone’s CTO.

Santa Clara, CA, US

• Product Ownership
• Established and executed a vision for going to market and advancing mobile test automation and performance product lines.
• Collected, analyzed and prioritized market requirements for current and future products.
• Lead the generation of annual and quarterly product roadmaps.
• Worked with prospects and customers to ensure a strong outside participation in productplanning, while creating a reference base of customers for channels, partners, analysts and investors. Growing revenue and market.
• Grew revenue and customer base across all verticals. Direct and channel sales.

Santa Clara, CA, US

• Developed SOASTA partner ecosystem and growing sales for SOASTA products and services
• Developed new strategic-channel partnerships
• Intelligence gathering on customers, competitors
• kicked-off the European Marketing strategy
• Generated leads for enterprise accounts in target market: Consumer website, media and entertainment, financial services, telecommunication, retail
• Followed-up sales activities on large Enterprise European account

Costa Mesa, CA, US

• Developed and lead a world-class organization of 200+ Software Engineers in Test across our global development centers: Monaco, Nottingham, Bristol, Southport, Washington, Sofia and Kuala Lumpur.
• Established the overall Software Testing and QA strategy for software products within the Experian Decision Analytics portfolio. Products include: Strategy Manager Generation 3, Transact SM, Probe SM, Portfolio.
• Organization was responsible for all testing of our base products as well as for acceptance testing for our major customer’ solution: Barclays, Bank Of America, HSBC, Sberbank, Standard Chartered Bank etc.
• Established a dedicated development team responsible to design and develop tests tools and automation framework (Perl, PHP, C#, Selenium etc.).
• Established a dedicated Information Development team responsible to write technical user guide for Experian Decision Analytics products.
• Opened two new Software Testing structure in Sofia and Kuala Lumpur in support of the company’s rapid growth.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Lead a highly successful QA organization of 20 QA engineers located in multiple locations (San Jose, Lenexa, Japan, China) assuming complete responsibility for the quality and reliability of our products. Products.
• Implemented process improvement opportunities aimed at reducing the costs of quality.
• Introduced QA metrics (KPIs) to enable the organization to manage and achieve its qualitygoals
• Introduced new testing methodologies, optimizing test cases, automation, and leveraging"smart testing" principles.
• Ensured product quality at the time of release within committed schedules.
• Identified recruited, developed and retained top engineers. Focus on employee growth,coaching, mentoring and feedback.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• In charge of the project management for the overall release of IBM DB2 Replication V8.1, DB2 II Replication Edition 8.2, DB2 II Replication Edition 9.1, Websphere Commerce 5.4 and Payment Manager 3.1.
• Identified requirements, key stages, task lists and milestones for development items. Produced estimations based upon interaction with key development personnel (technical and management), Product Management and.
• Monitored project progress including tracking and controlling progress, auditing and reviewing pier work, continuously assessing risks.
• Established completion and acceptance criteria for development and test.
• Conducted the management of deliverables through the four stages of the life-cyle: initial (including requirement/launch), growth (Beta + Delivery), mature (FixPack and Service), decline(Including end of service).
• Identified full requirements, risks, expectations and constraints for all new developments workthrough a Design Review Board and Action Team process.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

* In charge of the design and implementation consecutive versions of WebSphere Commerce Suite and WebSphere Payment for z/OS and Linux/390 (WCS 3.1.2, WCS 4.1, WCS 5.1)

Palo Alto, CA, US

• In charge of the design and the development of an API to interface a Gemplus SmartCard and a Java Applet.
• Designed a banking application to demonstrate the API capabilities. The prototype was presented at the Interfinance show in 1998.

Bachelor Degree, Computer Science

Masters, Database Architecture