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California, United States

Houston, Texas, Us

Shaping the future of Private Cloud.

Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, Us

Headed global R&D and SaaS operations for an industry-leading integration automation platform. Part of the executive leadership team that led the company’s $4B exit from Dell, orchestrating a complex carve-out by implementing aggressive PE value-creation strategies that doubled revenue, near-tripled customers, increased market share, and helped secure a decade of consecutive Gartner iPaaS MQ leadership.• Revitalized R&D relationships, shaping a platform strategy to transform siloed multi-product roadmaps, fostering cohesion and productivity in collaboration with Product Management. Launched 30+ innovative capabilities in 2 years with over 10 team patents, including Boomi GPT (GenAI) and Event Streams.• Acquired Unifi software in late 2019, integrating it as the platform's data fabric tier with a Data Catalog and Preparation offering.• Improved agile execution to deliver on demanding roadmap commitments, balancing innovation, features and UX improvements, while prudently prioritizing critical security and technical debt. • Prioritized people leadership amid a period of major change post acquisition, fostering a 3x talent growth and establishing a major offshore presence in India (Bengaluru, Hyderabad and remote) via strategic partnerships. • Sponsored cloud FinOps initiatives that saved millions, and significantly reduced R&D OpEx while improving productivity KPIs.

Palo Alto, California, Us

Headed global R&D and technology strategy for six market-leading products with over 700 customers, managing over 200 team members and a $35M budget. Accountable for delivery of a strategic platform and expansion into adjacent integration markets to sustain Gartner MQ leadership. Post Broadcom acquisition, led the organizational planning and transition to the Enterprise Software Division.• Transformed and mentored siloed teams on hybrid cloud-native and agile processes, advocating a UX-first approach that unlocked features stalled for more than 3 years, resulting in an 85% surge in SaaS Developer Portal customer adoption and Net Promoter Score (NPS) elevated from +3 to +30.• Presented a platform growth strategy expanding into adjacent integration markets, with decisive M&A proposal to E-team after executing deep due diligence on over 10 companies.• Appointed to a six-person CEO task force dedicated to enhancing SaaS DevOps practices across the organization.

Palo Alto, California, Us

Brought on by BU GM to turnaround a fledgling SaaS initiative and build an integration strategy to expand into adjacent markets to address shifts in customer buying patterns. Headed global R&D and technology strategy for six market-leading products, including interim product leadership for a year, overseeing 200+ team members.• Enhanced customer experience with substantial total cost of ownership, reliability, and quality improvements, boosting performance by 75% and reducing error rates from 12% to < 0.5%.• Spearheaded microservices, DevOps, analytics, and AI/ML innovation, securing 2 prestigious API World 2018 awards. • Accelerated time-to-market by cutting deployment times from days to minutes, increasing release cadence by 80% to monthly, and saving five weeks per release.

Palo Alto, California, Us

Directed technical strategy for alignment of acquired Testing (ITKO) and Release Automation (Nolio) products, focusing on open-source friendly developer tools approach to protect revenues against rapid commoditization in the DevOps space. Open-sourced a microservices test tool (TestDoubles), and co-founded an opinionated CI/CD orchestration internal startup (Qubeship.io), forged AWS partnership for Code Pipeline plugins, and ideated on DevOps innovation via UX ethnographic research.

Austin, Texas, Us

Architected strategic cloud transition of legacy applications and new products for a $500M+ business unit, fostering collaboration across cross-functional teams with regular operational updates to EVP & President. Engaged closely with the outbound and inbound product management teams to support internal applications stakeholders, strategic partners and pre-sales/sales teams on our cloud strategy.• Designed and delivered a market-leading cloud integration platform (iPaaS) from inception, pioneering DevOps for PaaS provisioning, with a hands-on role in innovative (some patented) features, including intelligent mapping/integration flow recommendation engine based on semantic-web inference engine principles, pre-built auto-connectivity with tenant's associated SaaS subscriptions, hybrid cloud connectivity, messaging patterns, and an integration/mapping marketplace.• Appointed to lead central cloud DevOps, formed scalable toolchain-based topologies for provisioning, security, and observability, accelerating time-to-market by over 50% by saving ~6 months per service.• Drove key cross-organization initiative to standardize Fusion SaaS cloud-data architecture, successfully resolving 15 critical cross-product gaps that had improved customer satisfaction.• Hosted highly sought after advanced “SOA Black Belt” trainings, and authored product docs to train Ops teams to troubleshoot over 50 intricate customer issues, saving ~$2M in future R&D support costs.

Austin, Texas, Us

Drove solution engineering for new, common object and SOA-based enterprise integration platform startup for Oracle’s 30+ acquisitions. Built a select "A-team" of senior architects and QA.• Spearheaded quality initiatives across 250 developers, establishing agile SOA governance process and audit tools to simplify a complex regime with interoperability issues. Reduced QA time by 15%, improving service reuse and productivity, launching 16 packaged solutions in just 9 months, a first.• Tripled customers references and oversaw 4x growth in revenue and customer accounts in two years, by leading solution engineering enablement for 30 flagship accounts and 13 global SI partners. Created a customer advocate program, engaging with teams for detailed architecture, design and go-live reviews.• Delivered a floundering partner-owned SAP project on-time by assuming ownership and directing all development, leading to team recognition and five deals in the first year. Set the benchmark on GTM activities with system integrators.

Austin, Texas, Us

Led product management team to design platform requirements for Oracle’s ambitious next-gen Fusion Applications, including developer experience, SOA programming model, cross-pillar integration and web services tooling.Established standards for software development lifecycle process for 2000+ developers in four months as part of an EVP-commissioned Fusion SWAT team. Chaired cross-product working group driving 46 critical activities.

Austin, Texas, Us

Led a top-notch global R&D team for platform technologies (Oracle Workflow, XML Gateway, Business Event System) used by 10K+ E-Business Suite customers. • Directed global R&D team for Oracle Workflow platform, simplifying customer experience and pioneering the use of event-driven web services and self-healing capabilities in the E-Business Suite used by over 10,000 ERP customers, with zero upgrade impact. Engineered innovative event-driven Java XML messaging engine used by four internal CRM teams. Architected an innovative self-healing circuit-breaker pattern to gracefully handle disconnected endpoints. Achieved zero performance bugs in Global IT production rollout by proactive tuning/benchmarking.• Evolved an agile process to an efficient CI/CD/DevOps culture, increasing release velocity by 30%.• Prior to the re-organization of Oracle's CRM and ERP divisions, led a team managing two Oracle telecom products. Launched new regulatory mobile number portability product from the ground-up for European carriers, dominating the Swedish market within two years and establishing Oracle’s telco credibility. Delivered seven releases, gained 32 customers, surpassing $10M+ in revenue. Implemented innovative ways of handling scheduled B2B message timers using advanced queue-driven eventing strategy. Subsequently, steered a product strategic shift towards a horizontal CRM offering, further amplifying market reach.• Earlier in 1998, was invited to Oracle HQ to leverage my Kellogg experience to develop a new CRM marketing campaign management application enabling global companies to plan, execute and analyze promotions. Gathered requirements, produced functional/technical specs, mentored team, and successfully delivered on a tight schedule using code generation and publish/subscribe event-driven architecture. This eventually went on to become Oracle Marketing Cloud.

Austin, Texas, Us

Kellogg, Battle Creek, MI: Developed customer master data management system.

Hemel Hempstead, England, Gb

Contributed to strategic multi-year projects, delivering complex enterprise-grade solutions to major clients.• Kellogg, Battle Creek, MI, USA: Built award-winning trade promotion management system.• South Texas Nuclear Project, Bay City, TX, USA: Migrated nuclear plant surveillance and budgeting system to Oracle.• British Telecom, London, U.K.: Built product master data management and marketing data warehouse, helping improve operational data quality and providing marketplace insight into financial performance.• Mumbai, India: Led a team to develop an automated stock trading order processing module interfacing with the stock exchange.