Performing evaluations and advising investors on various opportunities in the hi-tech sector of the marketplace, including technical feasibility, studies, current technical operations, and exposure to risk. The due diligence, tech risk/exposures evaluation, and mitigation are for investors and potential M&As. Transitioning viable software engineering ideas into actual game plans and road maps for solution delivery with a concentration on security/networking and engineering solutions.

Provided executive-level leadership regarding automation development, quality assurance (QA), software development engineering in test (SDET), and release functions. Ensured the attainment of key corporate initiatives, end-to-end (e2e) business process improvements, restructuring customer satisfaction models, and defining organizational quality guidelines. Initiated Oracle’s move and implementation of JIRA and Confluence, supporting 20K developers.• Engineering Leadership: Strategically advise development organizations regarding industry best practices and effective engineering models.• Global Team Leadership: Directed the daily activities of 100+ global development, quality, release, and automation engineers skilled in developing cloud services, mobile application frameworks, and proprietary web and mobile platforms.• Cloud Delivery Design (OCI): Orchestrated the design of continuous delivery (CD) models for mobile, on-premises, and cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform (PaaS) targets by increasing automation 62%, resulting in 52% execution time reduction, reduced defect to patch time by 75%.• Automation Innovation: Pioneered a mobile initiative through an effective merger and acquisition (M&A) and redesign of testing, frameworks, and 1k device mobile lab and toolset supporting 8K+ engineers, resulting in Oracle-wide deployment of all corporate automation toolsets

Established and executed the QA, testing, release, service delivery, and integration activities of the entire software product offering for an industry leader in high-speed data and voice traffic (VoIP) at the IP, transport, and application layer. Directly supervised a quality improvement initiatives team tasked with implementing policies and procedures that ensured the consistent delivery of a high-quality product. Outlined a quality certification process for all offerings and guided tools and engineering support team in overhauling engineering processes and toolsets.• Information Security Auditing: Audited all software and systems to pinpoint and correct security violations and identified improvement opportunities while mitigating all common vulnerability and exposures (CVE) and national vulnerability database (NVD) related issues.• Compliance Management: Governed all certifications, including ISO 9001-2008, CMM, SOX, STIG, ITIL, and Common Criteria, which entailed migrating to an Agile engineering model. • Automation Transformation: Transitioned 30+ on-shore and off-shore resource models into an automated one, which increased the probability of teams meeting deadlines. • Innovation Management: Instrumental in inventing a complete media and data traffic capture solution that travels high-speed networks in real-time and stores complete packet data and incident data in a central repository of network information with full playback capability.

Vital role in the success of a consulting firm delivering change management services and direction to realign software organizations by placing senior and key personnel inside organizations to refocus efforts while enhancing legacy schedules and commitments to sustain progress. Client portfolio included: Morgan Stanley, Aleri, Inc., AT&T Bell Labs, HP, IBM, Nynex, BBN, Unisys, Jaycor Networks.Senior Manager, HW/SW Engineering | CAMBRIDGE PARALLEL, INC. | Irvine, California• Commanded an engineering team tasked with producing software for embedded and product-specific engineering solutions in high-performance massively parallel computing. • Designed HPC hardware and software solutions for a portfolio of government and industry customers, which included an MRI image analysis system and a Ballistic projectile tracking system.Director of Engineering, HW/SW Engineering | EMC/EPOCH | Hopkinton, Massachusetts• Supervised the implementation of a newly acquired backup solution.• Drafted three proposals to expand the EMC solution offering based on Epoch technology, positioning software engineering as the profit center of the business plan.Development Manager, SW Engineer | DEC/OSF | Cambridge, Massachusetts• Architected a trusted security network concerning the DoDIIS Network Security Information eXchange (DNSIX). • Principal point of contact for the IEEE Trusted System Interoperability Group (TSIG), establishing working teams across 35 member companies. • Supported secured Ultrix by designing software to implement the Revised Internet Protocol Security Option (RIPSO). Software Engineer, Network/Security | AT&T BELL LABS | Freehold, New Jersey• Network and Security Engineer for UNIX V – Versions 2 - 4