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San Jose, California, Us

Santa Ana, Ca, Us

Managed a multinational development organization, building and evolving Identiv's physical security suite of products ranging from large-scale access control services for large enterprises and federal agencies, managing and operating diverse, large populations of IoT devices, enterprise appliances, to small scale edge/IoT devices running embedded Linux and RTOS "edge" devices, and supporting hardware platforms.▲ Team management, hiring, budget management, staff leadership mentoring, full-stack architecture, business and technical strategy, development process implementation, agile, TDD, CI, technical directionKey Accomplishments:✔ Led the technical acquisition of Cisco's physical access business and drove technical bootstrapping, built its engineering organization, set technical direction, and established and implemented development around for the new organization and products associated with that business unit and market, post-acquisition.▲ M&A, business strategy, technical strategy, team forming, technical forensics, Java, Spring, Hibernate, messaging, async IO, enterprise appliance✔ Architected and drove the engineering execution to deliver a best-in-class government compliant physical access product suite delivering PKI at the door in a secure and highly performant solution.▲ FICAM, PIV, PKI, embedded platform security, microservices, cryptography, scalability, agile, yocto, RTOS, AWS, cloud, C/C++/C#/Java, messaging✔ Drove hardware and software teams designing delivering a market leading IoT-capable small form-factor, physical access controller with extensibility to adapt to many other non-traditional applications.▲ Embedded Linux, hardware design, industrial design, market analysis, prototyping, mass production, yocto, C/C++, C#, Java

Austin, Tx, Us

Led a team of architects across HIDs organization and technical team leads across HID. Established the architectural best practices, application of technologies, implementation of security and interface within and between systems. Evolved the infrastructure and products that make up HID’s product and service offerings. Delivered an order of magnitude improvement in the stability, scalability, and security of the device issuance and management infrastructure underpinning HID’s reader, card, card encoder, and printer manufacturing and HID’s mobile credential and soft token provisioning infrastructure. Contributed to corporate business strategy and led technical architectural strategy for HID. Extended technical leadership across seven engineering and several self-contained vertical sector organizations spanning four countries. ▲ Team management, architecture leadership, business and technical strategy, SOA, Java, C#, WCF, ESB, SOAP/WS, cryptography, iOS, Android, U2FKey Accomplishments✔ Technical leadership of a collection of strategic backbone services for HID Global supporting their customer/public facing mobile credential and cloud credential services✔ Responsible for the architecture and development of a high security mobile credential delivery to iOS and Android platforms✔ Patent holder/inventor

Led a team of client, server, data, solution, and security architects overseeing the architectural integrity of a range of client and server security and identity assurance products. Products cover remote credential issuance and management, citizen ID management, strong authentication and role-based access control servers and appliances, business process management, batch management systems, authentication clients, mobile soft tokens (iOS, Android). Contributed to corporate strategy and delivered technical strategies, architecture roadmaps, and provided technical leadership to ActivIdentity engineering organizations through the company.▲ Team management, architecture leadership, technical strategy, SOA, Java, EJB, Servlet, Spring, WebLogic, J9, SOAP/WS, JSP, JavaScript, PKI, cryptography, C, C++, SQLKey Accomplishments✔ Leadership of an international team of architects leading development teams across the US and Europe✔ Delivered cloud deployed, end-to-end enrollment, biometric proofing, in-house federal bridge certified PKI, and PIV-I card issuance service.✔ Oversaw the bid response, architecture, implementation, and deployment of a large-scale citizen ID service for issuing and managing smart, drivers licenses for citizen's of Queensland, Australia. ✔ Patent holder/inventor

End-to-end (applets, client middleware, bulk and remote face-to-face issuance infrastructure) PIV solution deployed at top-tier federal agencies and US department of defense institutions and bases, PKI/OTP/PIN/data issuance and post-issuance infrastructure for smart cards.Served as product, product suite, and solution architect, technical team lead. Responsible for the architecture, design, and delivery of identity and access management products and played a key role in the refactoring and improvement of other core ActivIdentity infrastructure. Provided cross-product big picture architecture and design with while applying a solid understanding of the business context.Advised on company technical direction, product roadmaps, and global architecture initiatives. Additionally, in the lead software engineer capacity, refined business requirements, architected, designed, engineered and managed the delivery of key ActivIdentity products. Managed all aspects of product/project management from planning, stakeholder coordination (requirements, marketing, QA, tech pubs, engineering) and lead engineering teams and development efforts, reviewing developer contributions and mentoring team members.▲ SOA, Java, Servlet, Spring, JSP, JavaScript, PKI, cryptography, SOAP/WS, C, C++, SQLKey Accomplishments✔ Led the architecture and development of a large scale card management system✔ Delivered a world class key management service✔ Delivered a high scale batch management product✔ Project name US Defense Force Common Access Card (CAC) issuance infrastructure

San Francisco, Ca, Us