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San Francisco Bay Area, Ca, Us

San Francisco Bay Area, Ca, Us

Currently lead the technology of Fictiv Platform and Infrastructure; inclusive of API strategy, Cloud Infrastructure strategy, Integration strategy and Data Analytics strategy, in order to align technologically all products and services with business goals.Migrated in-house hosted and Heroku infrastructure into AWS cloud. Created initial processing pipelines and frameworks for analyzing and storing customer uploaded files; to provide near real-time manufacturing design feedback, using open source technologies and AWS technologies.Created all analytics systems to measure metrics for delivery against business goals. Continue to evolve these to more mature states using Snowflake and Fivetran.Lead the creation of multi-national regional "stacks" to replicate Fictiv's business models in China and other countries.Sythesize the various business systems used for ordering, fulfillment, sales, marketing and platform to create the domain representing the end design of platform to achieve business goals. Evolve this domain over time as the company evolves it's business goals. Use this model to inform and drive product and engineering design.Align all product specification and technical design from multiple product and engineering teams for consistency with domain, security, scalability, maintainability and long term stability.Create an Architectural counsel, governing the design and alignment individual sub-systems with long and short term business goals. Establish the processes and guidelines for Architectural acceptance of engineering designs.Work closely with Sales/Revenue/Marketing Operations to ensure user journey and conversion goals are met. Drive closer platform integration with these areas.Work closely with Product and Engineering, to drive formation of processes that lead to a productive product development team.Produce documentation of Fictiv's systems for fund raising rounds. Participate in technical presentations to investors.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Led hiring and performance management for multiple teams.Led an on-shore engineering team of 12 engineers and an off-shore team of 12 people, to develop product configuration management consoles for Mashery's customers.Coordinated development efforts across multiple development teams Platform API Development, Traffic Manager, Database Management and Web Applications, to ensure stable, timely production delivery with minimal defects.Worked closely with the Product development organization to contribute technical input against product requirements. Planned out delivery and execution timelines to meet business goals.Implemented cross discipline strategies in DevOps, Quality Engineering and Performance Engineering to ensure meeting SLA requirements for product. Including developing a Continuous Improvement and Continous Deployment flow.Mashery.com was acquired in 2013 by Intel. Worked with Intel engineers to determine feasibility of making API gateway management appliances.Mashery.com/Intel was acquired in 2015 by TIBCO. Worked with TIBCO engineers to build Traffic Manager (API Management) components into TIBCO Business Works product.

New York, New York, Us

Led at team of five engineers developing Salon's content management system, billing system and advertising systems. Leveraged a combination of open source technologies including Perl, PHP, JavaScript, PostgreSQL and MySQL.Led Infrastructure Operations, and migrated all in-house hosted infrastructure to AWS cloud.Led PCI certification efforts, and changes to infrastructure needed for compliance.Installed, configured and managed the Real Media Open Adstream server.Led the build of the first Android mobile app for Salon content. Led the abstraction of the main content management system into architectural API and presentation layers.Led the migration from homegrown content management system into WordPress. Led the development of multiple WordPress plugins.

Led the development crawlers for collecting and cataloging of XML content on large scale indexing systems using Perl and MySQL. Developed algorithmic ways to balance and re-index data from daily crawls of 11+ million websites. Dealt with multi-character set and multi-language issues in parsing of content.

Led day-to-day operations for small advertising business of 6 people. Inlcuding screening, hiring and on-boarding of Software Engineers and consultants.Installed, configured and managed Real-Media Ad Server advertising system.Product managed the requirements, direction and engineering for all advertising products run on the Real-Media Ad Server.

Privately owned business, specializing in specification, configuration, deployment and training of CAD/CAM/CAE IT systems.Created the curriculum and training for Unigraphics (NX) CAD/CAM/CAE software.Conducted on-site training for clients Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing teams. Clients included: General Motors, Ford, Delphi Automotive, AO Smith, Boeing, General Dynamics, RockwellCreated technical specifications and deployments for client CAD/CAM/CAE systems.

Dorval, Québec, Oo

Learjet Corporation, a division of Bombardier, that produces small jet engine aircraft and commercial regional jets.Created the curriculum and training for modernizing the companies Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing team processes to use Computer Assisted Design and Manufacturing systems.Trained departmental teams in the use of CAD and CAM systems to do mechanical design and CNC programming for production work.Created the technical specifications and deployments for the company's CAD/CAM systems.Achieved advanced certifications from EDS for Unigraphics Training in CAD/CAM/CAE modules, certifications for Linux/Unix administration and networking

San Diego, Ca, Us

Computer Aided Design work for Casting and CNC turbine parts.

Family owned business, that specialized in working with companies and independent engineers to design parts for consumer, medical, defense, automotive and aerospace products. Computer Aided Design work for Injection Molded, CNC Machined and Sheet Metal parts.CNC programming of 3-axis tool paths for Milling Machines.Network configuration, application configuration and software management on AIX, HPUX, Linux systems.