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New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Head the software engineering department for outcome-based video marketing organization (Video Ad Tech DSP). Orchestrate the delivery of all projects across 7 teams, 35 engineers, and 3 geographical locations, liaising daily with CTO, CEO, COO, VP Product Management, and other department VPs and managers to achieve business objectives and quarterly goals. Leverage analytic skill set to break down and devise engineering processes, expediting project delivery.- Direct and participate in the design and architecture of operational and strategic projects for Amazon Web Services (AWS) based DSP-like platform supporting over 550K QPS (peak) Real-time bidder (RTB), big data pipeline for over 3 Tb daily data and operational UI platform, in an Agile Scrum based continuous delivery development environment.- Locate and hire top technical talent through various methods, including revitalizing the hiring process and introducing an engineering blog to attract potential candidates. Expand the engineering department from 15 to 35 engineers, contract and on-board off-shore development team. Directly oversee 28 employees across 4 teams.- Design/implement streamlined processes across platforms, identifying, tracking, and resolving dependencies and increasing communication between engineering and product management. Resolve inefficiencies, clarify business priorities, and meet short-term, long-term objectives and time-to-market requirements.- Transform project management methods, spearhead quarterly planning process, instill Agile Scrum methodology and built Engineering Project Management Office. Enhance visibility and communication by introducing bi-weekly engineering meetings with CEO/COO, and Product Management.- Retain engineering talent in the challenging NYC market by increasing employee satisfaction and building engineering culture. Institute monthly MVP recognition, quarterly engineering outings, team building exercises, and annual offshore developers onsite training.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Oversaw software engineering and data services departments for a leading provider of database, security and compliance solutions. Designed technology solutions for data protection, risk management and threat intelligence. Collaborated with Product Management and other engineering teams through project life-cycle. Developed product backlog, identified and solved complex issues. Resolved dependencies, mitigated risks, and aligned resources to assure on-time release of products.- Led 25 world-class engineers in multiple local and off-shore teams. Assessed project requirements, milestones, and deliverables to coordinate the development and successful release of multiple components.- Directed the release of the company’s award-winning DbProtect Enterprise Suite and AppDetective Pro products. Executed major overhaul of DbProtect Enterprise Suite including UI & SOA implementation significantly reducing feature development time. Introduced Data Warehouse architecture and supporting Data Services to revamp analytical features.- Extensively enhanced QA Automation reducing QA cycle by 25% and increasing release quality.- Restructured organization to allow monthly release of Analytics Content in separate cycle winning accolades from field and reducing pressure on development organization.

New York, Ny, Us

Managed all aspects of main components of DbProtect Enterprise Suite: DbProtect Web Console (3/2008 – 10/2009), DbProtect Analytics (10/2009 – 9/2011) and backend Database. Supervising 14 Engineers in multiple teams in charge of Architecture, Design, Development, Testing, Release and Maintenance, including UI (GWT, JSP, Swing), Backend Engine (Java/J2EE), Installation ,Manual and Automated Testing & Build Automation.Key Achievements:- Transitioned the development team to Agile development methodologies (Scrum) which led to more frequent releases of the product and more product manager flexibility.- Introduced and Implemented New UI technology (GWT) enabling integration of legacy products, single signon, improved user experience and allowed migration to a unified UI for the product.- Revamped Analytics and Reporting product by moving to a Web Services architecture which allowed increased integration and decoupling from console product.- Managed, Architected, Developed and Acheived certification for an integration Agent with a partner vendor for which I was awarded the AppSecInc President’s Award for 2008.

Houston, Texas, Us

Manage a Level-3 technical support team at 3 R&D locations and 2 geographical locations (Israel & India).Manage international customer situations vis-à-vis upper management, Level 2, R&D, product managers, and more.Responsible for professional support management of approx. 150 programmers.Responsible for and manage the division’s Patches and Service Packs.

Houston, Texas, Us

Managed a lateral division-wide group that includes the Install, Documentation, Configuration Management, PSR, and DBA teams. Managed and led a group of 30 people and 5 managers at 5 R&D locations (including India and the U.S.). Exclusively responsible for the professional guidance of the aforementioned teams at the division level. Managed an independent Cost Center that included: budget, procurement, employee recruitment/dismissal and salary.Responsible for these teams’ scheduling for the division’s R&D projects.Developed and improved work procedures in software development.

Houston, Texas, Us

Managed the R&D team consisting of 10 programmers and 1 manager. The product was developed in C and works in a UNIX environment with Oracle and Sybase databases.Managed the transfer of the product development to India.

Houston, Texas, Us

Managed the R&D team of 4 programmers developing in C, Assembly and Java.Responsible for the development, planning, design and maintenance of Security products in MF, Tandem and Windows environments.

Houston, Texas, Us

Responsible for the development and maintenance of products managing Security for RACF, CA-ACF2, CA-Top Secret (TSS), DB2 in MF environment and Safeguard in Non-Stop Tandem environment.

IBM Business Partner for MQSeries in Israel.Responsible for consultation, installation and problem & infrastructure solutions for numerous medium and large scale customers at various stages of development and implementation on various platforms.Instructed MQSeries courses at IBM.

Planning, preparation and checks for OS version and Language Environment migration.Responsible for the division’s CA-Top Secret (TSS) and Control M\D products.

Managed an MQSeries implementation project in the unit, including managing the contractors.Managed a team that provided complete support for all aspects of a number of MQSeries installations, including installation, implementation, malfunctions, maintenance, backup/restorations and Y2K migration.Provided support to MVS and UNIX users, and more.

Maintained all aspects of a large number of CICS & CICSPlex systems, including installation, version enhancement, backup / restoration, malfunctions, infrastructure software development and more.Provided support to hundreds of users and dozens of programmers.

Mba, Information Systems & Finance

B.A., Psychology & Criminology

Technician Certification, Automated Data Processing Computer Program

Programming Course