Selected topics: python; data quality and life cycle; data visualization & analytics; SQL relational databases; NoSQL (MongoDB); data modeling; machine learning; classification; clustering; mapping, data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) pipelines; big data; neural networks; AWS SageMaker; data driven communication; statistical analysis; debugging. Learn more at https://bootcamp.sas.upenn.edu/data/.

• Hired to introduce data science into R&D, remove barriers hindering client adoption, and accelerate revenue by creating a frictionless way for the 162K users to consume NTT’s expense management and optimization SaaS platform -- of Communications Lifecycle Management (CLM) -- via a new identity service (implemented in C#, .net core, pure JavaScript).• Targeted with shrinking onboarding from months to days, the new identity service cuts CLM’s onboarding expense and fast-tracks client ROI – to be deployed in Azure cloud via Docker, microservice orchestration, CI/CD and ML log analytics).• Reversed the slide in client satisfaction by reorganizing CLM’s bug fix team and simplifying communications netting a 40% boost in available developer hours without adding headcount and clearing the bug queue within three months.• Boosted data categorization accuracy by building machine learning into a key data ingestion pipeline that matches incoming data against one million patterns; expected to eliminate daily manual category corrections by human analysts.• Established a new technical reference architecture with concrete examples for CLM to follow in modernizing its platform and cut by two-thirds the size and cost of CLM’s cloud infrastructure, saving a projected $400K yearly.

• Retained to reimagine the data ingestion parsers at NTT CLM and build high-speed, high-capacity parsers that shrank ingestion times from 12+ hours to 45 minutes for the largest intakes (circa. 165M lines of telecom usage and charge data).• Recruited onto the board of an Infrastructure-of-Things (IoT) startup that developed a first-of-its-kind energy controller that allowed utilities to dynamically reduce load during demand spikes and delay the need to build new power plants.• Joined the technical advisory panel of eTeki, a technical-interviewer-as-a-service firm that provides vetted engineers to screen and interview candidates for technology positions reducing the risk of skills mismatch during hiring.

• Recruited by new Chief Product Officer to revive Dimension Data’s flagging $120M (annual revenue) managed cloud service, a $500M investment housed in 16 data centers world-wide, and build a global product management organization.• Reclaimed spot in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for top 15 managed cloud service providers by pivoting to fill product gaps with new a cloud portal and business continuity services leading to major wins at Deloitte and FedEx.• Overcame objections to convince Dell/EMC to reconfigure its assembly line and manufacture a new private “cloud-in-a-box” that garnered multimillion-dollar sales in South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Europe, and Singapore.• Grew addressable market by launching with Dell/EMC a unique private cloud finance option that shortened the sales cycle by clearing the way for customers to purchase private cloud infrastructure without large upfront capital outlays. • Expanded global reach of the cloud organization by attracting and mentoring a global team of senior product managers and solutions architects while engaging with client executives and cross-functional NTT colleagues.

• Promoted to advance post-merger integration into Dimension Data by heading development of Enterprise Mobility as a Service, the world’s first mobile device management service with frictionless onboarding and integrated expense control, netting over $200K annually in pure profit.• Modernized CLM’s platform architecture with new client onramps and revenues for CLM’s existing core services, leading to the launch of Enterprise Mobility as a Service and providing the foundation for CLM’s first major upgrade in 6 years.• Enabled client growth by creating a localization and caching methodology that delivers near-subsecond response times regardless of user location resulting in new major business with Woolworth (Australia) and Intel (Israel).• Grew the sales pipeline by implementing a self-service benchmarking dashboard that allowed prospects to measure their cost optimization performance against their peers and determine which CLM products and services to purchase.

• Hired by the Chief Technology Officer to lead push into mobile device management resulting in the acquisition of a rival firm, the doubling of revenues and 2012 sale to NTT/Dimension Data for 4X annual revenue.• Modernized legacy monolithic SaaS platform into a cloud-based restful microservices API platform, contributing to sales growth in the United States and expansion into Canada, Oceana, Africa, and Europe. • Delivered higher client satisfaction and new customization revenues by shrinking feature delivery from months to hours via Agile/SCRUM, DevOps, test-driven development (TDD), and Clean Code practices leading to a dramatic drop in defects.• Created a culture of continuous improvement and upskilling while leading a geographically dispersed engineering team that experienced near-zero attrition.

Built $40 million public sector services portfolio and 50-member cross-functional team to conceive, plan, implement, deploy and support information systems focused on judicial operations for the United States government. • Awarded $14 million project to architect a criminal justice information system by driving agreement among technical, financial and legal stakeholders during the conceptual architecture and technical feasibility phases.• Sole developer of a data extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) platform used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in its annual analysis of food consumption patterns throughout the United States. (Still in use.) Quoted in The Washington Post and Federal Computer Week.

Cofounded TheGlobalist.com, an online world affairs and economics daily, in continuous operation since January 3, 2000. Returned firm to profitability via restructuring and recapitalization. Contributed story ideas and worked with CEOs and top economists worldwide on op-eds published under their names in, e.g., The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Les Echos and The Wall Street Journal. For example: “The Real American Savings Rate,” Op-Ed, The New York Times, May 4, 1999.