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Austin, Tx, Us

Collaborate closely with partners to provide technical and business DD for VC investments in AI.

San Francisco Bay Area

I started Software Advisors International as a boutique consulting company focused on high end product, software engineering and customer experience consulting projects. A sample of what I worked on during that at startups, mid sized companies (e.g. McAfee) and large companies (e.g. Dell EMC): 2020 – Present, Stealth Ed-Tech Startup• Incubating a stealth mode Ed-Tech startup to provide a platform for gig economy teachers to more easily teach online while optimizing for the learning experience.2019 – 2020, Escher Group• Performed holistic market research and competitive analysis on consumer security portfolio to deliver product strategy changes, enhancing adoption in low-end and high-even consumers. • Consulted and partnered with technology companies to optimize software procedures and highlight quality and software security challenges.2018 – 2019, McAfee | 2017 – 2018, McAfee• Administered various duties as Consulting Director, collaborating with VPs at McAfee to maximize customer adoption and market success through analyzing and modeling large datasets to quantify product gaps.• Delivered guidance and recommendations regarding product strategy and design to customer portfolio. • Succeeded in increasing output and field quality for technology companies, including a reduction in field failures and security vulnerability.2018, Dell EMC• As Principal Consultant, provided critical Software quality improvement advice for Dell EMC Data Protection portfolio. 2017-2018 iDirect• Functioned as Consultant and Agile Coach for software companies, liaised with C-level teams at i-Direct to assess the impact of field quality of software portfolio• Initiated and adopted agile best practices that mapped SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) utilized by the company to accelerate end-user quality.

United States

Senior Director Research role: Advising senior and C-level leaders on adoption of generative AI in SDLC,. Core areas of expertise include: generative AI adoption in software engineering, secure development lifecycle, data analytics, software testing and product strategy to enhance customer adoption, platform engineering.

San Francisco Bay Area

In this role as Adjunct Faculty, I mentored Advanced Practical Software Engineering and Agile practices as well as Cloud Computing courses for graduate and undergraduate students. • Applied 10 years of industry experience to teach practical software engineering to next-generation practitioners. Ensured quality and security are built into software applications.

Foster City, California, United States

While working here, I served as Secure Engineering Development Lead for Sterling Commerce.• Led use of security practices for enterprise applications, aiding the Development Team in generating secure software and address security during the requirement and design phases. • Played a significant role in cutting development costs in the process.

Foster City, California, United States

Here, I supervised, guided, and mentored Product Strategy Team for Analytics portfolio until 2015. Additionally, I ran competitive analysis across the market to distinguish IBM from leaders such as Adobe, and suggested amendments for strategy, improving IBM's market presence.• Conducted outside-in market analysis and customer research in identifying IBM’s presence, strengths, and weaknesses in delivering email marketing and marketing automation solutions.

Greater Boston

In this tenure, I spearheaded customer experience and quality engineering for marketing analytics portfolio, including Unica and Coremetrics. • Initiated practices to optimize customer experience, leading to maximized customer quality, tested the efficacy, and fueled the transformation of test optimization techniques into actual practice. • Steered and coordinated Data Scientist duties to min large data sets, used to comprehend customer use of SaaS offerings and utilize output to improve future releases.

I was a continuous engineering lead for Lotuslive at IBM. During this time, I collaborated across Development / Support teams to introduce a continuous engineering strategy for IBM's first SaaS offering that allowed quick resolution to field failures. Additional responsibilities included collaborating closely with test / development team to iteratively close on test/system gaps

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

Presented cutting-edge test methodologies to improve system agility and function testing within collaborative applications▪ Researched the best way in which to introduce a Lotus products’ test optimization strategy that improved end-user quality; called on findings to apply new methods across three major products▪ Also researched release engineering best practices to lessen to-market times; followed up by introducing a quality assurance method via in-house defect analysis applied across Lotus products

Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

Adjunct faculty: Lectured "Practical Software Engineering" to senior practitioners, where they learnt to introduce key quality practices at each stage of software development lifecycle. The lectures covered agile software development, and key quality engineering practices on a live software project

Role: Expert ResearcherUnderstanding Tekelec's software process model to apply PORT (a test prioritization approach) and measuring benefits from PORT in overall rate of failure detection and quality.Consulted with I-Cubed to understand security requirements and modify PORT to accommodate the software requirements. Consulted with Nortel to implement a requirements traceability tool.

Ph.D in computer science, NC State University, 2006MS in Computer Science, NC State UniversityPost Grad in Computer Science, Clemson University, Presidents' ListMasters in Business Administration [Finance], Indiana University of PennsylvaniaPennsylvania State University, State College, PA, EconomicsResearch areas: Software process, Software quality and reliability, use case analysis, Requirements analysis, Failure analysis, Software metrics, Software estimation, Release management

Research consultant during 2001 and 2002 summers: Research in Agile methodologies, introducing an agile process model which meets ABB's software process needs.Research in CMMIResearch in Software metrics, GQM, CBSD

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computer Science

Mba, Finance And Economics

Computer Science

President's List

Economics And Finance

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computer Science