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Greater Seattle Area

• Led and managed five SaaS application teams delivering applications to global enterprise customers.
• Conducted due diligence on multiple successful acquisitions, assessing technology portfolio for risk and growth potential.
• Piloted a ML and Generative AI initiatives to rapidly process regulatory documents.
• Built SRE practice covering 24 products, serving 30,000 businesses.
• Instituted “shift left” approach with product teams to meet or exceed 56 security controls.
• Realized half a million in annual savings across AWS and Azure after implementing a cloud governance model.

Greater Seattle Area

• Greenfield development of cloud-based SaaS solutions for Fortune 500 enterprises contributed to 41% year over year revenue growth.
• Expanded development consulting team to generate $2.4M in annual revenue.
• Developed an integration-as-a-service platform on Azure, seamlessly integrating critical business systems for large enterprises.
• Established and scaled multiple agile development teams across the US, Europe, and South America to build and support our SaaS products.
• Oversaw SRE/Cloud engineering functions, ensuring delivery of SLOs.

Greater Seattle Area

• Developed Cloud consulting practice and achieved AWS Select partner tier.
• Established robust service controls to achieve the company's first SOC2 Type 1 attestation, followed by ongoing successful Type 2 audits.
• Spearheaded the company-wide adoption of DevOps and Infrastructure as Code, driving significant improvements in efficiency.
• Launched multiple offerings including industry specific managed services.
• Led Zero Trust transformation, including 2FA, and micro-segmentation.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Spearheaded a successful multi-company Microsoft Dynamics AX consolidation that standardized business processes across divisions.
• Utilized Amazon Web Services to rapidly deploy a scalable E-Commerce platform, resulting in significant organic sales growth.
• Implemented an RF Warehouse Management System, enabling warehouse consolidations and an expected annual return of $3M.
• Resolved systemic EDI system issues, clearing over $2M in past-due invoices.
• Successfully completed technology integration with a freight management vendor, resulting in annual savings of 1.5M.

Beverly Hills, CA

www.thewatchbox.com is a video on demand distribution platform leveraging cutting edge cloud technologies to serve the independent film community. Launched a fully featured online video streaming website in three months with minimal investmentLeveraged Amazon Web Services, (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, SES, IAM, ELB, RDS) and Zencoder to eliminate the need for.

• Achieved a 4 million dollar increase in EBITDA.
• Service improvements in sales and operations resulted in a 17% boost in year to year gross sales.
• Resolved a $1.5M inventory gap caused by software issues in the WIP manufacturing module and process deficiencies.
• Successfully migrated the manufacturing division off Symix MRP to Sage ERP.
• Built real-time business intelligence dashboard to track key performance indicators across all business units and enabled rapid operational decision making.
• Renegotiated all vendor engagements cutting telecom costs by over 50%.

Torrance, California, United States

• $1M IT expense reduction through training and business process improvement.
• Planned and executed information systems roll out for a new factory in Mexico.
• Directed full project life cycle to upgrade Oracle E-Business suite.
• Completed migration off QAD and onto Oracle Discrete Manufacturing.
• Migrated Oracle EBS from HP9000 to HP Blades, saving over $200k in hardware support costs annually, and reduced technology licensing costs by 50%.
• Reduced annual telecom expenses $120k.