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San Jose, California, Us

• Responsible for technical roadmap including asset consolidation to enable the next generation SaaS platform centered around the Guide-Rails platform. Developed technical strategy and plans for launch within 12 months of acquisition.• Collaboration and partnership with multiple product management teams to develop converged platform strategy, creating meaningful on-ramps to cross leverage multiple product lines including CloudBees Platform, and CDRO product lines.• Responsible for building and scaling a global, remote-first development team, operating 24x6.• Developed SDLC framework and processes to modernize delivery and instill engineering rigor, achieving key certifications - SOC2 T2 at launch and ISO27001. • Active engagement and processes for secure application development, endpoint security, compliance and red-team proactive security posture testing.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Cofounder of Calculi, with a mission to develop Software Delivery Platforms to provide abstractions and advanced automation to enable developer productivity and reduce cognitive load, allowing them to focus on developing key applications and value for the business. Multi cloud and hypervisor support delivered via abstractions and powerful automation. Calculi was acquired by CloudBees August 2022.• Responsible for product vision, product strategy, roadmap and end to end technical delivery of the Guide-Rails platform, including funding and technical due diligence for acquisition. Calculi was acquired by CloudBees in August 22.• Participated in initial funding raise and technical due diligence for market entry and exit via acquisition.• Developed product strategy and roadmap to deliver MVP within six months to rapidly test product market fit.• Ground-up development of engineering practice. Including hiring, technology strategy and processes, with full traceability and compliance to SOC2 and ISO27001.• Created technical support and SRE functions to meet business growth.• Supported sales technical discussions and deep customer technical due diligence activities. Customers included highly regulated industries operating globally in manufacturing, healthcare and finance.• Responsible for architecture and security of multi-cloud, globally distributed platform with SLA's aligned to a demanding customer base.

Neuilly Sur Seine, Ile De France, Fr

Executive consultant leading digital transformation. Focused on evolving the traditional enterprise to achieve speed, agility, consistency, and acceleration of value added services, enabling market disruption. Developed vision, business case, and strategy for digital transformation including cloud adoption, and software architectures in collaboration with executive team. Evangelized platform strategy and vision to enable new technologies, evolve software delivery techniques, and position organization for continued growth .

San Francisco, California, Us

Provided leadership in vision, strategy and execution of software development practice and delivery platform. Directly interfacing with SVP’s, CTO, CIO across Gap Inc. business. Role created to build a best in class team of visionary architects and development teams working horizontally across a large Agile Development Organization of 700+ Developers.Created vision, business case, and plan for architectural/Infrastructure transformation, targeting lower feature time to market and leveraging hybrid cloud effectively. Raised developer efficiency significantly higher orders of magnitude of 2>10XOptimized development process, and runtime platforms for responsible speed and value creation, resulted in rapid organization adoption by teams, well beyond planned rates. Engineering productivity increases of 2-10X were obtained across the development team. * Improved customer satisfaction, in providing self service capabilities to developers, with best practice, compliance, security and auditing, built-in by default. * Fulfilled Program Level Product Owner/Sponsor role to ensure goals and value were aligned with delivery targets. Overall scope focused precisely towards vision including business case validation for multi track program.* Evangelized significant changes to architectural practices across a wide architecture community, to introduce methodologies, patterns and frameworks - designing for cloud, 12 factor app principles, and use of frameworks such as Spring Boot, Spring Actuator, and Spring Cloud that provides reusable useful patterns, while balancing developer autonomy to provide speed. Developed strong, forward thinking software engineering teams, whose DNA consisted of best of breed Agile Development Practices, Scalable Service Architectures, and Software Delivery Techniques.

New York, Ny, Us

Senior Leader within the Global Stores Technology Team responsible for software development, hardware and networking for all retail locations across the globe for all five of the Gap Inc. brands.Championed a highly visible business initiative to re-platform Point of Sale (POS) from a proprietary IBM operating system to Linux. Delivered significant cost savings and flexibility to the business, saving millions of dollars in licensing.Leveraged Lean & Six Sigma techniques to analyze the release process, and identify opportunities.Exponential improvement in the release cadence from bi-annual to bi-weekly release.Led a cross functional team of Developers, Infrastructure Engineers, QA, and Support Personnel who were co-located and focused on feature delivery & management of the entire stack – essentially the philosophy known today as “DevOps”.Educated and instilled the adoption and value of Agile software development best practices, team empowerment, and a relentless focus on delivered business value.Coached and mentored the team to align on a “test first” approach to development, and hardware integration including TDD, BDD, etc.Built Continuous Integration & Delivery pipeline in Jenkins, capable of continuous deployment to 3400 stores.Developed the capability for POS and in-store systems to be configured in remote locations with or without network connectivity – over time, the support team came to think about POS systems as immutable resources, and rebuild rather than troubleshoot.Developed sophisticated configuration management system, with over 34,000 managed nodes within Chef.

Los Angeles, Us

Managed IT Infrastructure Development and Operations for the Enterprise, and 9,000+ retail locations. Assumed increased responsibilities with leadership of in-house and outsourced staff spanning the following functions: Project Management, Network Operations, DevOps, System Administration, Business Intelligence, Application Developers, and DBA’s.Provided technical and strategic direction to teams, instilling a sharp focus on operational excellence, automation, client satisfaction, root cause analysis, and business intelligence. Developed technology roadmap to accelerate IT responsiveness, increase efficiency, and drive ongoing platform improvements in the enterprise.<​script type="text/javascript" src="https://platform.linkedin.com/badges/js/profile.js" async defer><​/script>

Dayton, Ohio, Us

Provided leadership for technical operations and support functions in the US and Mexico. Produced strong and sustainable results while maximizing financial performance. Performed in a senior customer-facing role with technical account management responsibilities for the world’s largest retailer. Led network transformation strategy and planning, working directly with the CEO following acquisitions in Mexico. Worked with engineering, quality assurance (QA), sales, product development, and business development teams to maximize sales growth, issue resolution, and productivity.

Dayton, Ohio, Us

Diverse role focused on managing and development of technical operations and support functions. Provided dynamic leadership for network operations, media distribution, 2nd/3rd level support. Promoted customer centricity and spearheaded several initiatives that optimize organizational capacity, team capabilities, and customer satisfaction. Supported the global expansion of PRN into South American and European Markets.

Dayton, Ohio, Us

Selected to lay foundation of operational infrastructure to fuel explosive growth of PRN’s Media Platforms while ensuring a high degree of autonomy and cost containment. Built, developed and led customer focused teams delivering Network Operations and Media Distribution functions to 4,000 retail sites.

Foster City, California, Us

Dynamic position within a start up company environment. Led all aspects of IT management, SaaS delivery, and product support serving over 100 Medical Centers and statewide clinical registries for cardiology and cardiac surgery.

Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Lean Six Sigma

Lean Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Lean Six Sigma

Six Sigma Green Belt, Six Sigma Green Belt: It Specialization

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Mechanical Engineering & Industrial Management

Nc, Engineering

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