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Los Angeles, CA, US

San Clemente, CA, US

Bluumly is an innovative AI-powered digital content marketing automation platform tailored specifically for small and micro-businesses across various verticals. As Founder & CEO, I lead our mission to empower entrepreneurs and small business owners with sophisticated, yet user-friendly digital marketing tools.Our platform leverages cutting-edge AI.

San Francisco, CA, US

At Innovyze, I led the product and technology organization globally consisting of Product Management, Software Engineering, Data Science, Operations, and IT. Innovyze is a leading global provider of business analytics software solutions designed to meet the technological needs of water/wastewater utilities, government agencies, engineering organizations.

Irvine, CA, US

Lead product and technology organization for Spireon spanning connected vehicle IoT hardware, software, and services consisting of Product Management, Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Data Science, Operations, and IT.At Spireon, we connect vehicles to the cloud to provide visibility and insights which help businesses run smarter, and people.

Seattle, WA, US

• Led software engineering team spanning Impinj IoT software and services. Oversee building of software engineering function and software and services delivery capability. Member of executive staff, responsible for.
• Founded software engineering function for Impinj, including development of budget, hiring, processes, tools, and software development and hosting infrastructure.
• Developed technical vision and roadmap for ItemSense, delivering intelligence about trillions of everyday items.
• Delivered MVP, including REST API and underlying services that are the gateway to the Impinj Item Intelligence platform. Impinj is the leading provider of RAIN RFID solutions that provide Item Intelligence in the.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Lead technology teams managing engineering, service delivery, and business insights spanning Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, map-reduce, and O365 big-data BI tools. Oversee building of cloud computing and storage.
• Directed research and development of Microsoft’s first NOSQL column-family store, used to power key features in Bing including Search History, and Personalized Search.
• Developed product vision and roadmap for Bing’s exabyte-scale map-reduce cloud computing platform and implemented Agile development practices resulting in successful execution of product roadmap including support for.
• Championed collaborative efforts between Bing and Internet Explorer, creating a recommendation engine for recommending websites. Hold US patent for underlying technology building a social graph that clusters users by.
• Defined efforts to architect the future-state cloud billing technology platforms across all Microsoft commercial online services.
• Led Bing’s efforts to build a state-of-the-art search index generation platform spanning six engineering teams with over 60 professionals.

Seattle, WA, US

• Led teams responsible for software development, systems operations, business operations, and quality assurance for Amazon Global Payment Systems.
• Built first-ever global systems operations team tasked with 24x7 outage response for AWS payment services, resulting in lift of service reliability to 99.99%.
• Championed development and adoption of quality assurance best practices, processes, tools, and metrics, successfully completing this effort in support of new $2 Billion credit card and AWS product lines.Built team.
• Developed vision, roadmap, and built technology organization successfully enabling 12% year-over-year growth in revenue.
• Managed multi-team, cross-division effort to define and implement a major new global feature set for Amazon.com, retail and marketplace platforms, enabling combined revenue streams of $100 million.

San Jose, CA, US

• Created engineering team responsible for delivery of platform components of PayPal website and Merchant APIs, live support, developer technical support, and process engineering.
• Created a technical team responsible for PayPal Web Services engineering, operations, and developer support. Enabled new stream of revenue, over $700 million.
• Built cross-functional development organization, and rebuilt PayPal software infrastructure to meet future product requirements, scalability, and availability needs.
• Developed processes, metrics, and built first-ever live-site support team tasted with 24x7 outage response for entire organization, successfully resulting in improvement of system reliability to 99.99%.

New York, NY, US

• Managed five managers and 42 software engineers, responsible for application and platform component development of AOL Voice Services.
• Integrated acquisitions of eVoice and quack.com personnel and technology, building a messaging platform integrating AOL Instant Messenger and AOL Mail with eVoice’s online voicemail service and quack.com’s IVR.
• Recognized for leadership in engineering excellence at a company-wide all-hands event, championing the development and implementation of service quality and availability metrics enabling AOL to exceed 99.99%.
• Coordinated development across diverse functional teams, external partners, and geographic regions.
• Led effort to build end-to-end myaol.com portal from ground up, including data ingestion, application business logic, and user experience for customized user content including news feeds, movie listings, stock quotes.

Worldwide, OO

• Consulted on infrastructure transformation, integration of security technologies, design and implementation of information protection programs and security monitoring services, and information security risk assessment.
• Directed teams in assessment of vulnerabilities and implementation of secure e-business solutions, and performed security assessment for fortune 500 companies including a top-5 securities brokerage, a fortune 50.
• Supported information security and e-business architecture, strategy development, and program implementation for a major real estate brokerage, a well-known investment management firm, and major entertainment media.

Cambridge, MA, US

• Directed supervision, health, welfare, discipline, and education of 150 college students across MIT, Harvard, Tufts University, and Boston University.
• Appointed by the Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management to develop academic curriculum in leadership and management, resulting in a new undergraduate leadership academic minor track.
• Created a new graduation requirements for the Naval Science Institute in Newport, RI, while acting as Academics Department Head.
• Recognized by Secretary of Navy for superior performance of duties while assigned to Naval Science department.

Washington, DC, US

• Naval Flight Officer flying the F-14 Tomcat aircraft.
• Directed the training of squadron aircrew in the tactical employment of aircraft electronic systems in preparation for a 6-month Persian Gulf deployment.
• Responsible for direct supervision, training, health, welfare, and discipline of 94 people working in 16 different military occupation specialties, and the maintenance of 14 F-14A aircraft.
• 24-hour responsibility for 2 shifts in 5 aircraft systems areas including communications, ejection seats and aircrew survival equipment, power generation, fuel, electrical systems, and flight controls.
• Recognized by the Commanding Officer of Naval Air Station Miramar for the superior performance of duties.

Master Of Science (Ms), Computer Systems Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Aerospace Engineering And Mechanics