Raise is the leading digital prepaid and retail payments platform where consumers can save money and earn rewards on every purchase. With over 450 national brands partnerships, Raise offers an opportunity for retailers to redefine their customer acquisition and retention strategy through direct-to-consumer relationships that empower consumers to maximize their spending. Since 2013, we’ve saved millions of consumers over $150 million and have received $147 million in funding from investors including Accel, PayPal, Bessemer Venture Partners and New Enterprise Associates.. Developed and Architect Raise Pay ( Loyalty Program) and Gifting for Gift Cards in 30 days. Set the strategic roadmap for Raise Inc. Managed a team of 50 Engineers, Product , Data Science, Data Engineer , Product, and UX.

Designed, Architect Facebook Agreement system with Facebook infrastructure Directed the day-to-day operational activities of the Software Engineering, DevOps encompassing a cross-functional staff . Hired, trained, and ensured efficient operations of key personnel.

Provide strategic leadership in application development, porting, and quality assurance for an apartment-listing site ensuring alignment with the overall organizational objectives. Drive initiatives to optimize opportunities through the leverage of open-source, big data technology. Liaise with investors to generate operating funds. Build key marketing strategies utilizing SEO and SCM. Negotiate prime advertising rates and online distribution deals. ♦ Utilized Hadoop and Mahout to design the first real estate life style search engine as well as the first big data platform. ♦ Built Facebook recommendation engine to auto-detect factors critical to user searches.♦ Selected to participate in the NetApps Incubator Program and developed infrastructure integrating NetApps and Equinox as a hybrid cloud. ♦ Established competitive pricing structures to reduce competition, minimize costs, expand portfolio, and build the business resulting in a 50% increase in y-o-y revenue. . ♦ Positioned product as a best seller in the market by strategically cultivating relationships to leverage pricing and distribution opportunities.

Served as the architect for the development of SAS ecommerce, loyalty web framework development, QA, production release, and Infrastructure. Provided strategic direction to a team of globally disbursed Software Developers, QA, and DBA professionals. ♦ Spearheaded the development of a bondrewards product/shopping recommendation engine for education members utilizing Pearson’s Correlation algorithm on Apache Mahout Engine with Hadoop as cluster as part of Hive deployment.♦ Applied Spring and Lucene Solr to implement a new ecommerce and search architecture. ♦ Developed and implemented BondRewards mobile application for iPhone and android.

Oversaw the full-cycle delivery of the software platform for NetZero, Juno, FTD, MyPoints and Classmates.com. Led a cross-functional team of both domestic and international personnel. Directed the activities of two data centers, a worldwide B2B trading system for floral orders, the financial and CRM systems. Recruited and trained senior-level leaders and engineers. ♦ Successfully, built a product development program for the ground up establishing four divisions encompassing Web Engineering, Client Software, User Experience Design, and Quality Assurance. ♦ Drove the reduction of data center costs by 25%, fraud by 70%, and downtime from 240 to 20 minutes per month. ♦ Guided an engineering team in the construction of J2EE compliant AppServer / WebServer capable of processing 45M+ transactions in a 30 days without restart resulting in increased capacity and ability for 500% in growth. ♦ Strategically planned capacity and redundancy to maintain a 99.999% high availability and high scalability performance for an enterprise server-cluster architecture.

Served as the liaison between various international development teams located in Singapore, Japan, U.S. and the U.K. representing the Xerox organization generating $17M+ in international sales. ♦ Championed the development of a Java middleware interface which enabled remote management of the eXdoc server documents from a Web browser and drove Xerox Escape Sequence (XES) server improvements♦ Created modules for a C++ CORBA-based distributed printing engine and constructed various libraries and resources to allow development activities by 150 engineers spanning global operations.