As VP of Science and Technology, I have a crucial role in aligning technology with business goals. Responsibilities include strategic planning, project management, integration of software applications, data management, and staying informed about industry trends. Additionally, as VP I oversee IT budget management and ensure efficient resource utilization.

Manager acting as Principal Architect, Senior Software Engineer, and Data Scientist in the Greater Phoenix Area. I have extensive experience helping clients solve problems and develop scalable solutions relating to enterprise cloud architecture (Azure and AWS)and big data science (Hadoop, scikit-learn). MANAGEMENT: I manage an offshore native azure cloud agile team (10 people in Mumbai) remotely on Microsoft Teams.ARCHITECTURE: Primarily Azure API enterprise cloud architect, patterns and systems optimization. Extensive documentation, software process specifications, and diagrams (Visio/Lucidchart). OpenAPI + SwaggerHub + Azure API Management (APIM). Cryptography and SOX/PII compliance. CLOUD: Develop API and persistent storage for mobile/web apps customer in US, CA, and PR. 7B/yr Fortune 500 client. Millions of transactions per day. C# .NET 6.0, async optimizations, ESB, and Cosmos DB with throughput and CAP considerations. High-speed Redis searching of periodic App Logic-triggered FTP imports from data providers. Azure Functions and Microservices. Realtime point of sale systems servicing 1500 stores nationwide. OAuth2, Traffic Manager, WAF, Application Gateway configuration and routing, Slots Deployment, PowerShell swap, canary deployments, and AD security. Create NuGet package to manage secrets and certificates for Azure Key Vault. DEVELOPMENT: GitHub CI/CD collaboration, Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, MS Teams, and Slack. Write JMeter test plans for performance tests and optimization via various profilers. WinDbg diagnostics. App Insights/Splunk. Teach and advise. Strong coverage unit testing and mocks. C#, Blazor WebAssembly (WASM), Python, Angular 8, REST.DATA: Wrote custom C# scripts for a SSIS ETL project in a large Phoenix-based Bank. Azure SQL Server Lift and Shift, PowerBI.

Developed Azure Batch (via Alpine Linux Docker containers) processing of terabyte NCBI Genbank genomics database. Wrote custom proprietary supervised machine learning and AI for microbiome classification and pathogen identification. Predictive analytics. Taxonomic Classification. C++ 17, C#, GCC, and Rust programming. Bare metal embedded systems. Python Pandas/Jupyter notebooks and R/ggplot for scientific papers and reproducible research, mathematical modeling, statistics, and charts. Wrote many Cython C-entensions to speed up slow sections in Python.

Hired to expedite a “go live” enterprise web portal scheduled for early November 2017. The project is a large-scale .NET enterprise application used by many franchises across the nation to track brokers and agents for listing and selling properties. There are perhaps a few million properties and 50,000 agents migrated into the system. Technologies used are SQL Server 2016, Elastic Search, web sockets, GitLab, Puppet, nodejs, grunt, npm, yarn, for continuous integration, build pipelines and source control, MatterMost for team communication, Jira for agile management, KanBoard for user issue tracking, Google Drive for document sharing, Visual Studio 2017 for development, C#, .NET 4.51, Entity Framework 6.0, Knockout, SPA, JSON, Web API, REST, and React.

Enterprise architecture and development of various web systems that met State laws and compliance. CDC surveillance, hospital, outbreak, and epidemiology integration and collaboration systems. C#, MS SQL, Python/Pandas/MatPlotLib.

On recommendation from the Phoenix Python Meetup Group, I was selected by George Chen of the Law Offices of Brian Cave to act as an independent expert witness for a one-week federal copyright infringement case. The technology consisted of a Google App Engine (GAE) Content Delivery Systems (CDN) site written in Python.

Architecture of high-speed parallel processing of tax returns. Security compliance.