Senior Technical Software Leader
CurrentJune 2002 – Present Architect/Leader responsible for IBM Notes (email solution) driving technical architecture and directing the development and customer deployments leading large development team and development managers across US, China, India, Ireland, UK, Hong Kong and Japan.Held roles with progressively broader responsibilities comprising development, testing, deployment and support of IBM's largest individual product offering (by revenue) used by tens of thousands of customers and tens of millions of end users.• Lead the engineering and test effort to enable IBM Notes in the cloud with IBM LotusLive (SmartCloud) serving 2 million users.• Drove end-to-end delivery of IBM Notes/Domino 9 Social Edition from initial concept proposal to on-time delivery. Version 9 delivered a completely revised UI theme, first-of-its-kind integration with social collaboration tools via OpenSocial integration, numerous productivity features, and a full suite of updated plugins for IBM Sametime and IBM Connections for a 700 million dollar business..• Championed, piloted, and adopted the use of Eclipse-based Java technology as the basis for Notes 8. • Defined, designed and implemented Watson based cognitive scenarios for collaboration (email, calendaring, real-time chats and social) using NLP, machine learning and various classification engines.• Made over 30+ presentations as a respected technical leader for conferences and customer engagements• Retained and helped gain customers and was instrumental in helping generate millions in revenue for the businessReceived major IBM awards in recognition for reaching various milestones including:Outstanding Customer Relationship Award for retaining a major customer with millions of dollars of business by providing technical solutions for the problems and issues raised by customerMultiple Outstanding Innovation/Technical Awards for delivering various innovations and IBM patents in the IBM collaboration product
