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Over 15 years of proven track record in R&D and IT. Executing as VP, Director of System Architecture, and Chief Architect while building teams and designing systems to scale with rapid PE backed growth. ● Consistent on-time delivery and management of the highest profile projects across R&D. - Innovative product enhancements. - Cloud migrations. - Technical enhancements for scale. - Quality improvements. - Monolith decomposition to microservices. ● Enterprise Architecture and Infrastructure - Design and execution of technical roadmap to scale system to handle over 30m hits per day. - Design and management of on-premise and cloud infrastructure. - Design and execution of 3 year technical roadmap to modernize system to speed delivery and maintain expected growth. ● Contract Negotiations, Software Procurement, and Vendor Relations - Frequent relations and negotiations with larger vendors including AWS, CDW, and Oracle to obtain multi millions in savings while procuring necessary licensing. - Budget management and negotiations for software licensing. ● Optimization, Risk Management, and Continuous Improvement - Millions saved across a variety of R&D cost centers while improving stability and scale of our platforms. - Consistent decision making to align strategic goals with a direction forward that delivers high value while reducing risk. ● Global Team Building, Leadership, and Growth - Leading teams across all time zones in the US as well as India, Uzbekistan, and Georgia. - Scaled teams from less than 10 employees to over 180 while maintaining consistent high revenue and profitability for PE targets. - Continued fostering of personal development within teams to build sustainable pipeline of successful employees. ● M&A - Buy side M&A experience in multiple diligence processes resulting in partnerships and acquisitions. - Sell side M&A experience in PE sales resulting in successful exit meeting our targets. ● Security - Successfully Designed and implemented the first cloud application in company .history with no security escapes while forming and hardening security standards in the cloud. - Onboarded on the first outsourcing contractor to successfully complete a major project while defining the security boundaries to successfully partner.Conceptualized, designed, and built a AAA service to manage inter-service communications, user basic auth, and user and vendor SSO and API auth while maintaining millions in savings vs outsourcing options like Okta and Auth0.

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