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Bringing the supply chain/logistics industry to life in a $12 trillion space.Unparalleled service, trusted partner from order to fulfillment in a growing eCommerce & Retail space.Part of the Executive team responsible for Strategic Vision & P&L. Responsible for growing and leading Product, Architecture, Engineering, Data Science and Automation and teams.Next Generation Platform: API-first, cloud native, serverless, ML accelerating product delivery leveraging data expertise and AI.Thought Leadership and Public Representation - Spearhead thought leadership initiatives, representing us at industry conferences, panel discussions, and events.Individually and with the team, craft insightful opinion pieces on technology trends and advancements, positioning us as a progressive voice in the industry.Drive the industry conversation with in-depth technical knowledge and strategic insights.Sales, Pre-Sales, and Market Development - Partner closely with our Business Unit leaders to ensure we achieve rapid business growth with existing and new clients. Design, scale up and embed the Product team across business units.Engineering Operations - Guide expansion of our engineering organization of talented individuals, balancing rapid growth with a sustained focus on quality.Lead and develop teams of strong leaders and selected specialists.People Leadership - Foster an environment that encourages curiosity, innovation, and personal growth, motivating our teams to scale new performance heights.Discover and nurture potential leaders, fostering individuals capable of inspiring successful client teams and driving a high-performance culture.

Executive - member of the team reporting to the CEO and the board; responsible for financial & operational goals of the organization.Strategic - Thought Leadership both externally and internally to drive market penetration and inform product roadmaps. Develop industry partnerships and drive thought leadership.Roadmap - define products/features, platform migrations, big data initiatives, new data driven products.Data Science - build and grow the data science & data engineering group: data pipelines, machine learning, analytics & visualization of datasets in the billion rows with millisecond performance.Governance - Maintain and evolve organizational policies and processes such as Data Governance, Privacy, Security, Compliance.Platform - developed a 360 degree insights platform that unifies product data, salesforce data, product behavioral data and external data sources to accelerate new product experimentation and validation.Sales - Conduct customer ideation sessions with some of the largest school districts in the US. Marketing - Enable marketing analytics for lead generation with a quick iteration framework.Product Development - Lightspeed Analytics 2020 ROI of 278%. Tech & Learnings Awards.Acquisition Team - Perform due diligence on acquisition targets for inorganic growth.

Executive - member of the team responsible for the financial health of the organization.Strategic - Develop and execute a strategic vision that drives growth in revenue, margins, market share and market reach utilizing innovative and creative approaches to increase customer demand, customer loyalty and competitive advantage. Core growth: 2017of 7%, 2018 of 19%.Roadmap - defining products/features, big data initiatives, new data driven products.Data Science - build and grow the data science group and capabilities: data flow pipelines, machine learning, analytics and reporting.Governance - develop and maintain policies such as Data Usage & Governance, Privacy, Security, Compliance.Sales - Conducted multiple whiteboard sessions leading to large contracts within some of the largest cities for transit (NYC, SF, Montreal etc)Marketing - Lead in communicating the company’s technology strategy to cities, partners and vendors.Product Development - Lead Software Development, QA, Architecture, DevOps, Data Engineering across hardware, firmware, software, platform, data science, AI, architecture within a $1.3 trillion smart city sector.Technology Migration - Sustaining .Net platforms while migrating legacy technology to modern technology stacks such as AWS IoT, Microservices, Containers, Machine Learning for predictive traffic signaling, API modeling, Time-Series analytics etcInnovation - Created an Innovation Management System that drove pipeline of both incremental & radical breakthroughs from 22 in 2017 to 35 in 2018. Effort led to a 2017 EMS World Innovation winner for an EMS (Public Safety) Analytics product.

• Own End to End all IQI Data Platform products- mobile, platform, architecture, product.• Lead the creation and execution of data driven products on the IQI platform that enable new business models and revenue streams that are scalable and extensible.• Set targets and drive the roadmap for the Big Data Product team to ensure alignment with overall innovation goals• Products include SDN, SON, IoT, Video Optimization, Network Optimization, Customer Care.• Functionally covers Collection, Indexing, Aggregation, Search Driven Insights, Analytics, Machine Learning.• Resource planning and talent management to deliver on targets.• Build an innovation management system that drove volume and quality of breakthrough ideas..

• Applying the vast resources and expertise of AT&T to the opportunities associated with Big Data and Advanced Analytics using data in orders of magnitude greater than most Fortune 500 companies and touching every sector of the economy.• Ecosystem consists of over 85 Big Data tools including Hadoop, Spark, Solr, Storm, Kafka, H2O etc• Conduct ideation exercises with internal & external clients to identify features and use cases.• Develop Product into a repeatable, scaleable framework.• Determine ROI for key use cases.• Partner with Data Science & Engineering to build Product Teams.• Exercise sufficient technical proficiency to scope and deliver Products in 3 month cadences.• Passionate, dependable and execution-oriented.Delivered:• Customer Care Product.• Cyber Threat Analytics Product.• Regulatory Product.• Smart Cities Product - Transportation.Currently building out a Data Innovation Ecosystem.

Collaboratively building a video library of human life experience that reshapes how we as both producers and viewers conceive of cultures, nations and people outside of our own communities.

• We believe connectivity should be the 4th utility.• Built a telecom engineering company that designed and installed solutions to strengthen carrier signals in buildings such as hotels, apartment & commercial buildings.• Built a SaaS analytics platform incorporating a client facing mobile app addressing the wireless connectivity space.• Deep domain knowledge of wireless across the RF spectrum including LTE, wifi, bluetooth, zigbee etcResponsible for managing a team of software engineers, marketing, sales, communications, operations and technology professionals.• We scaled up using LEAN to execute our Growth Play Book including: product roadmap, operations planning, resource planning.• Technical proficiency with a variety of cloud platforms and software development stacks; Amazon AWS, Heroku, LAMP, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Angular.js, mySQL, noSQL.• Serve as a member of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) within the SF Chamber of Commerce.• Serve as Co-Chair Infrastructure SIG & Mobile & Wireless SIG for the Wireless Communication Alliance (www.wca.org).• Guest speaker at several technology related events.

• Product management• Product roadmap.• Funding strategies.• Cultivate and develop relationships with potential clients.Blu-Linx is a startup that provides turn-key Mobile Data Offload + carrier value-added services (SMS, MMS, etc.) to carrier 3G/4G networks.

• Designed a 220MHz system, timing mechanism and RF network for PTC.• Design a wireless system for Grand Central Station underground tunnels that included Precision• Timing Protocol (PTP) for precise synchronization of messaging between on-board train computer and control center.• Designed a series of Cisco Mesh Networks to route onboard diagnostics back to a NOC for maintenance resource scheduling.• Program Management Portfolio included: - $200 million Positive Train Control (PTC) System for Metro-North NY (MTA) and SEPTA Philadelphia including the underground tunnels systems in Grand Central Station to control train speeds. - $5 million sub-contract for software development. - $2 million sub-contract for construction services. - $10 million wireless mesh train diagnostic system for Pennsylvania Transit System (SEPTA). - $ 50 million RFP Proposal for a remote meter reading system for the island of Puerto Rico.• Full responsibility for Engineering Design, Profit & Loss, Contract Management, Sub-contracting, QA and Staffing.• Contracted, negotiated and established partnerships with suppliers and vendors that led to a reduction of operating cost of 5%.• Increasing corporate annual earnings by 10% in 2010 through a combination of project controls and reduction of OpEx.• Created internal staff development plans, supplemental training and evaluation criteria to ensure that staff efforts were aligned with organizational goals.

• Led the design and consolidation of the first 4G WIMAX network in the country.• Led the design of the first 3G CDMA network for Lucent in Michigan.• Member of product team at Nexius that developed a GIS software solution that imported network statistic and outages and ran analysis of Key Performance Indicators. Software was sold to Sprint and T-Mobile on a per license basis.• Clients included T-Mobile, Sprint Nextel, MetroPCS, Cricket Communications, Ericsson, Lucent, Motorola and Nortel.• Technologies included Wi-Fi, 2G (GSM, CDMA), 3G (UMTS, CDMA-EVDO), 4G (WIMAX, LTE)

• Led a team to first place nationally in network performance. Effort consisted of software tools to capture and automate responses to network performance issues, training of engineers and setting up cross-functional teams to resolve issues more efficiently. Team was recognized nationally.• Led a team that was able to retain a large Gov't Account based on network improvement initiatives.• End-to-end management of deployment teams including engineering and operations.• Led several cross-functional working groups consisting of Operations, Marketing, Sales and Customer Service.• Performed job evaluations and recommend supplemental training for subordinate staff.• Clients included Nextel, Sprint, Sprint Nextel, Cricket Communications, Ericsson, Lucent, Motorola and Nortel.

• Architect of the Y2K Contingency Plan for a national wireless carrier.• Technical Architect, member of the Inter-connection Working Group tasked with identifying call flows through the network and creating a pricing model for interconnection with another national carrier.• Engineered RF System and led the deployment of a national 3G cellular network.• Engineered and supported the integration of a Wireless Pre-paid Platform into a Nortel Switch.• Designed and supported the integration of all Value Added Services (VAS) including SMS System, a Voicemail and a new Billing System.• Recognized as a Nortel and Ericsson Switch expert.• Recognized for UNIX proficiency and Windows System Administration of VAS servers.