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Created Garden Insight, a startup to research and implement smart home automation for gardening and emerging IoT tech. The company’s mission is to bring intelligent, intuitive and affordable solutions to market. Developed a metal to mobile cloud architecture for secure industrial and consumer sensor platforms. The "Smart Garden” - Internet of Things (IoT) product that integrates simple sensor arrays with the mobile consumer and provides business integrations for real-time environmental monitoring, data analytics, and planning for smart argriculture and precision farming.

New York, Ny, Us

Leading a large global software development practice consisting of talented and engaged software engineers who support agile scrum teams spanning three major product lines. We deliver the software that powers our web portals, analytic tools, workflows, entitlements and electronic controls behind the business, mobile and cloud-enabled products that enable our business to process and deliver Ratings in well over 100 countries.

New York , Ny, Us

Responsible for oversight of corporate technology business functions including corporate IT business alignment, IT planning, IT governance, strategy, technology road maps, financial budgets & forecast, Scorecards, vendor & contract management, software compliance & audit, research and employee training.Prior assuming this role I provided management consulting services and architecture oversight to the CIO.- Organizational Design- Technology Strategy- Architectural system assessments for reliability, performance & maintainability- IT Governance- Program management- Call center technology department leadershipGuardian Life, the fourth largest mutual life insurance company in America, is a multi-line carrier with 150+ years of experience providing diversified financial solutions including life insurance, disability income insurance, retirement services, employee benefits, and investments.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Helped grow, from startup to acquisition, a 750-person nationwide consulting firm specializing in industry-specific strategy, process and technology consulting across multiple industries. Responsible for practice leadership, enterprise architecture, security architecture, enterprise identity access & privacy management, application development and management consulting across multiple industries, documentation standards and guidelines for development including design, testing, and business workflow & process definition. Directed product development for velOSSity, an integration reference platform and commercial adapter development factory. Representative experience • Strategy development and program management – conducted an enterprise architecture and engineering diagnostic of core business applications & process; defined and managed the resulting program for stability and business alignment • Call center operations Management – assumed the delivery and oversight of a troubled contact center telephony organization • Solution architect – implemented numerous enterprise, departmental and application architectures • Application Development – led development of a complex ordering and risk management platform for a major pharmaceutical enabling delivery of a block buster cancer treatment

Established and directed practice for large-scale Internet development and architecture in 1994. Responsible for industry-first marriage of traditional three tier software architecture pattern with newly emerging Internet technologies to deliver highly scalable zero deployment solutions.Representative experience Consumer Web - architected and developed CouponsOnline, a 3 million user consumer web portal • Telecommunications - architected enterprise EIS/data warehouse at a major Telecommunications Carrier • Insurance – architected and developed a third party agent web portal providing secure access to 10,000+ external agents, brokers and solicitors at a large Insurance Carrier. Provided management consulting to CIO in technology strategy, business alignment, organization design, dashboard metrics and technology finance. • Financial – Led and architected the implementation of a Cloud based B2B electronic trading portal supporting 70,000 users for a major Financial Institution • Media – developed a secure single sign on platform for external web access for Large Media company