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Washington, Dc, Us

Westport, Connecticut, Us

Establish formal PDLC and SDLC.Reduced AWS Billing by 50% with 2x performance improvements.Built out MVP for AI Recommendation engine.

Jajit develops its own products in addition to providing consulting services. Specializing in cloud computing and mobile app development.

Built using Flutter (Dart), React (Javascript/Typescript), Cloud Functions (Javascript) and Firebase Firestore.Truvalyou was a social media style platform with 1,000+ monthly active users that allowed users to learn more about companies, their behaviors and how they relate to the users personal values and beliefs.

Managed Software Development contractors, Technical Operations and Customer Support teams. Reduced Microsoft Azure spend by 25% while improving stability and observability.

Singapore, Sg

Personal project development and exploring opportunities while traveling the world.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Transformed a team of 60+ engineers including software, firmware, quality assurance, systems/network and technical program management into multiple self-sustaining teams for improved throughput, ownership and scalability in a quickly growing organization. Managed a budget of over $16M/year• Decision maker on whether to build products in-house or use out-sourced development partners• Consulted with cloud native experts to develop a medium to long term plan for disaster recoveryand business continuity of commercial systems utilizing cloud based services• Sponsored formalization of information security program to support increase in customer and partner concerns over protection of data• Re-trained new team of engineers and managers in Agile Scrum• Hired key positions to provide extended leadership to the engineering organization• Collaboration with Product Management on roadmap creation• Primary technology point of contact for sales organization

Seattle, Wa, Us

Provide leadership to a 40+ engineering team responsible for all product development, quality assurance, information technology and security.• Received approval and implemented plan from senior executive team to move engineering department to downtown location; new location improved company visibility, greatly expanded area of talent acquisition and enhanced working environment for engineering staff• Sponsored implementation of ITIL based processes and procedures to enhance IT service reliability and sustainability• Developed a plan for off-site backup and service recovery utilizing colocation site in Virginia, US• Implemented SaaS based log analytics system utilized by IT, software and customer support• Presented at Cassandra Summit 2013 about Zonars use of NoSQL technology

Seattle, Wa, Us

Directing a small research focused team that is dedicated to proving out new technologies and product ideas outside of product management control. Managing system administration team projects and ensuring system performance and availability maintained.* Working on and managing fast past projects including predictive bus arrivals, route fingerprinting, mobile applications (iPhone and Android), posted speed limit comparisons.* Establishing datacenter in Canada to address Canadian customer concerns over US Patriot Act.* Designing next generation of Zonar GIS storage and summarization systems using NoSQL and distributed data processing.* Implemented Puppet configuration management system to replace existing Cfengine setup to manage over 200 Linux systems.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Directed team of 30 consisting of developers, QA and system administrators. Responsible for ensuring internal and external teams work efficiently. * Responsible for 2MM+ annual department budget and 1MM annual infrastructure budget.* Adopted Agile methodology for department with associated department reorganization.* Created dedicated team for research and architecture projects.* Responsible for working with product management team to ensure products are attainable and deadlines can be met.* Improved development process through use of continuous integration.* Responsible for recruiting, interviewing and hiring replacement as Director of Software in order to move to Research focused team.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Managed IT operations to work on system scaling of both production and corporate environments. Oversee all IT operations for corporate and production environments. Act as senior systems and network administrator for large-scale projects. * Managed team of Linux and Windows system administrators.* Evaluated and chose new server hardware vendor with 20% savings.* Managed integration project with a Fortune 500 customers’ JD Edwards backend system.* Evaluated NoSQL non-relational data stores including Cassandra, Hadoop HBase and MongoDB.* Manage project to begin using XEN virtualized servers and Rackspace Cloud Hosting.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Worked on organizing and establishing a formal product management process. Met with major stakeholders, sales, R&D and customers to define new products and their features. Published release notes and announcements for major software upgrades.* Created Market Requirements Document (MRD) template for all new projects and major features.* Responsible for creating and publishing release notes for major software upgrades and communicated changes to internal departments and customers.* Managed and tracked all feature requests submitted by employees and customers.* First project to receive full product management process at company involving a real-time alerting suite involving both hardware and software.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Oversee software development projects of both in house and out sourced developers. Manage team of database engineers, web programmers, client side application developers and systems developers. Manage infrastructure team to ensure deadlines are met and on-line services maintain 5 9's availability.* Managed team of 15 developers and system administrators.* Projects Managed: User Interface overhaul, Adobe FLEX based applications, database partitioning, improved system deployments and custom route management application built for a Fortune 100 company.* Evaluated and chose project and bug management software for that fit department needs (Fogbugz).* Evaluated and chose datacenter expansion, managed move to new datacenter facility.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Oversee all IT operations for corporate and production environments. Create infrastructure release schedules and work with system administrators to guarantee schedules are met and ensure help desk team is ready to support changes. Act as senior systems administrator for large-scale projects and system wide modifications.* Managed mixed team of in house and contracted system administrators.* Deployed NetApp SAN using iSCSI. Reduced required database servers from 30 down to 10.* Automated server installs and configuration management using PXE Boot, Kickstart and Cfengine,* Ensured four nines (99.99%) uptime for both corporate and production environments.* Managed migration of corporate environment to a common Microsoft stack* Production Environment: 100 Linux servers, NetApp SAN (FAS 3070), F5 BigIP LTM Load Balancers, Cisco 1800 Series Routers, HP ProCurve switches

Seattle, Wa, Us

Oversee software development projects of both in house and out sourced developers. Manage team of database engineers, web programmers, client side application developers and systems developers. Work with managed information technology infrastructure and IT consulting teams to ensure deadlines are met and on-line services maintain 5 9's availability.* Manage team of eight in house staff; 6 developers and 2 system administrators.* Project management of out-sourced web development team consisting of 5 developers.* Project management of out-sourced IT infrastructure team consisting of 3 systems engineers.* Projects Managed: Web-based mapping application for viewing GPS data, general web application feature requests, several custom web application pluggable-modules, improvements to web based API, database improvements, server deployments and maintenance, * Responsible for purchase of and migration to NetApp SAN (FAS3070, iSCSI, FC and SATA disks).

Seattle, Wa, Us

Duties: Responsible for administering, deploying, maintaining and securing managed services and dedicated servers. Included general administration of corporate network, datacenter management, HA Linux clusters, company personnel technical support. 24x7 on-call.* Responsible for data center migration on production and corporate environments with zero downtime.* Brought up second datacenter installation and collaborating fiber cross connect between facilities.* Configuration and administration of F5 Big IP v9 Load Balancers* Configured and administered corporate LAMP, qmail/vpopmail, tinydns, and BIND servers. Maintained Clam AV antivirus and Spam Assassin spam filter* Administration of over 50 Linux server HA-clusters in a production environment consisting of Red Hat 9 and Fedora Core variants. Servers were dedicated to running Apache with PHP or PostgreSQL services.* Managed in-house and outsourced development for web application

Seattle, Wa, Us

Helped with general circuit testing and troubleshooting. Created custom cables and test experiments. Worked with oscilliscope, multimeter, LCR meter.Projects included assembling (including soldering and cable making) of equipment and electrostatic testing using ESD gun.