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Stamford, Connecticut, United States

Purchase, New York, United States

Lead a group of engineers in optimizing the SDLC flow within Teladoc to scale up the velocity of releases within the Telemed group of products safely and efficiently. Specific achievements include:- Increased deployments of monolithic services by over 1.5x over the period of 6 months through technology automation and optimization- Setup a Shared Services guild that serves as a Center of Excellence for technology optimizations across Teladoc

Purchase, New York, United States

Selected by Executive Team to be technology liaison to the Clinical Operations group. Delivered several critical product and technology deliverables, both as an IC and through a matrixed team. Specific projects include:- Played the role of technical product owner and program manager for the launch of provider scheduling for all mental health providers at Teladoc. - Lead a group of data scientists, product executives, and clinical experts in analyzing clinical consult flow and defining the metrics behind non-completed mental health visits at Teladoc.

White Plains, New York

Avighana provides technology, development, and project / product management consultancy services to startups and companies looking to grow in a cost-effective and efficient manner. Clients include: Extremely Heavy Industries - Larchmont, NY (FinTech Development Company)● Developed React-based applications for major NYC-based hedge funds.● Worked on multiple, simultaneous projects with competing resource requirements and priorities.Adapt Courseware - Rochester, NY (E-Learning startup)● Provided hands-on leadership of 20 developers and project managers, and oversaw all aspects of product design, development, production, and support.● Implemented SCRUM-based agile project management methodologies, reducing turnaround time for issues and features by over 50%.● Introduced git-flow based lean development and deployment processes in a continuous integration environment, using principles of quick iterations, small batch sizes, and quick feedback loops.● Developed a strategic product roadmap and implementation timeline based on discussions with C-level executives● Decreased system complexity and improved scalability and reliability by leading the Architectural Council and championing an SOA-based architecture.India Mike - White Plains, NY (Social network based travel website)● Launched startup aimed at capturing an identified niche in the India travel market, and directed the company on all aspects of product strategy and technology selection. ● Quadrupled revenue in less than five years by cultivating numerous strategic partnerships with travel vendors, hotel owners, and travel agents. ● Increased website traffic by a factor of seven, resulting in over 14 million visitors and 33 million page views per year. ● Implemented technology solutions based on ES6, Angular technologies on the client side, Java/Solr on the middle tier, and Redis/MySQL in an AWS environment.

Stamford, Ct

SponsorUnited is a data analytics company specializing in providing cutting-edge sponsorship and advertising metrics and information.● Setup a new technology team from scratch, by recruiting and establishing relationships with offshore development and systems providers. ● Created and implemented an online web-based mobile platform, used by a network of several hundred on-the-ground scouts, to collect and store sponsorship information. ● Developed a SaaS based web application to deliver cutting-edge prospecting and analytics data to a client list consisting of top-tier NFL, NBA, and MLB teams.

New York, Ny

eCommission Solutions (ECS) is a customer focused, data-driven travel technology company, empowering travel intermediaries and suppliers to improve business through data consolidation, transformation, and analytics. ECS has been acquired by Onyx CenterSource.● Built a high-performing 40+ person technology, data analytics, and operations team from scratch, by successfully recruiting and integrating onshore and offshore technology talent, BPOs, data centers and solutions providers. ● Created and implemented a Big Data technology strategy, making ECS the top data analytics company in the travel management space. ● Led a successful 3-month migration from a relational database architecture to a leading-edge platform based on the Apache Hadoop (HBase, YARN, HDFS, SOLR) ecosystem.● Launched ECSIQ, a predictive and prescriptive analytics platform allowing a higher level of service to ECS' clients.● Deployed web-based software platforms that objectively demonstrated a decrease of over 500% in data turn-around time for a client portfolio that included American Express and Carlson Wagonlit. ● Implemented internal technology policies and procedures based on industry best practices that earned ECS SOC II Type 1 compliance in record time. ● Coded reconciliation and data analytics algorithms in Java and Pig based on Map Reduce architecture.

Greenwich, Connecticut

Tudor Investment Corporation is an industry leading hedge fund with $10 billion in assets under management, providing investment services to accredited investors through a portfolio consisting of multiple strategies and asset classes.● Recruited to setup and manage offshore technology team to offset development load from Connecticut-based IT group, and oversaw delivery of multiple new product and project initiatives within company from concept to completion.● Received commendations for implementing trading platforms to support end-to-end trade execution for recently launched Long/Short Equity group. Worked closely with executive committee and acted as the single point of contact for all phases of the project.● Increased product development throughput by introducing and implementing previously non-existent Project Management Office initiatives.● Aligned development resources closely with company priorities to achieve strategic executive vision.● Created custom project methodologies tailored to company culture, and implemented new processes/metrics to improve project success ratio and increase stakeholder satisfaction.● Mitigated market risk and overall exposure by leading high-profile implementation of best practices across the company, paving the way for SEC registration.

Norwalk, Connecticut

Priceline.com is an Internet-based travel company specializing in sales of airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, and vacation packages. ● Recruited for full-time IT directorship and charged with new product development for Hotels, Rental Cars, Marketing, and Vacation Packages products, following strong performance as a contracted technology project manager● Supervised 35-member IT team in the on-time, on-budget, and on-spec technical delivery of Priceline Vacations, succeeding in architecting an online business division with an uptime of over 99.99%.● Troubleshot business / technical issues with product website and infrastructure that enabled site to generate revenues from day one and consistently outperform sales forecasts every quarter since its inception.● Demonstrated strengths in cross-functional personnel management, with achievements in elevating job satisfaction, improving career development, and uniting goals/efforts of developers and project managers across four departments (Rentals, Hotels, Vacations, Marketing).● Oversaw the technical implementation of a major B2B development initiative company-wide. Collected and evaluated business requirements from key stakeholders and managed all phases of IT design/development process. ● Supervised 10-member IT team based in Noida, India, in the on-time technical delivery of www.mytravelguide.com, one of the fastest growing research and review websites in the travel space, and the first successful project within Priceline.com to be completely out-sourced to an off-shore team.

Bedford Associates was a subsidiary of British Airways, providing transaction processing services and technology consulting services to companies across a diverse set of industries. ● Directed peak team of nine developers in all phases of technical projects from concept to completion for several Fortune 500 companies, including Standard and Poor's, PR Newswire, Bayer Pharmaceutics● Oversaw resource allocation and management for multiple projects, including team building and training, business analysis and requirements definition, project and account management, and coding/design/testing/rollout.● Earned excellent track record of timely project completions, meeting or outperforming business and technical specifications and budgetary mandates. ● Project managed high-profile implementation of subscriber-based, financial information website (www.advisorinsight.com) for Standard and Poor’s (S&P) NYC headquarters. Sourced, reviewed, and selected platforms/vendors, a process that involved close collaboration with multiple S&P CTOs in comparing technologies, company direction, and knowledge transfer issues. ● Built top-tier team of developers, scoped website requirements, handled workflow assignments/ prioritizing/monitoring, and project-managed system requirements coding and application design (using Netscape Application Server, server-side Java coding, HTML, and JavaScript). ● Held multi-tiered responsibilities as project manager, lead architect, and lead developer for Lotus Notes-based, custom-built Sales Force Automation systems (developed in VB, Visual C++, and PowerBuilder).● Cultivated trusting relationships with clients/vendors and captured subsequent follow-on work, winning contract extensions covering system enhancements and application versioning.