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Founder, Chief Architect, & Senior Principal at 7Sigma, specializing in AI-driven application development, blockchain, and digital transformation for legal tech, creator economy, business consulting, and financial services clients.Offering comprehensive CTO & CPO services, guiding product development, scoping & planning, platform architecture, and driving Web3 and AI initiatives. Typescript, React, Python, Google Cloud & Google Workspace, LLM integration, and Cloud Architectures.Notable Engagements:• Digital transformation for a leading professional services firm, automating operations and client facing services through cloud based APIs and apps.• Fractional CTO for a legal tech startup. Developed LLM applications and legal compliance assessment software.• Provided fractional CTO and blockchain strategy services for a 20-year-old financial lead generation company. Drafted a blockchain protocol for end-to-end leads lifecycle management.• Directed product strategy and cultivated developer ecosystems as Senior Director of Product for Rally, a creator economy startup backed by a16z.

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Waterloo, On, Ca

Led the end-to-end GTM for OpenText's Application-to-Application (A2A) Integration Portfolio, including overseeing roadmaps, working closely with architecture and engineering, cross-department negotiations, ensuring compatibility and compliance, developing pricing structures with deal desk, budgeting, sales training, customer engagement, and alignment with marketing. Coordinated with teams cross-functionally across North and South America, Europe, India, and Japan. Separately developed a product roadmap and specifications to support self-configuring data & message exchange solutions on OpenText platforms, and co-presented keynote addresses at OpenText World conferences in Asia and the Americas.

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

Made a leap from Architecture to Technical Product Management to address an organizational need for adept technical product management, translating business initiatives into more build-ready engineering specifications, and bridging the gap between the business and engineering stakeholders. Product-led initiatives spanning data center redundancy, security, performance & reliability, customer onboarding, and automation. Ensured alignment with the technological vision while collaborating cross-functionally with teams across the US, India, and Europe.

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

Worked with VP’s & Directors across Product Management, Operations, Professional Services, Engineering, and Marketing to build a unified platform strategy, scoping, technical roadmap, and architecture. Translated strategic directives into engineering requirements, leading platform-wide initiatives covering data center redundancy, security, capacity, performance, reliability, compliance, and automation. Managed architects directly and development managers indirectly across teams in the Americas, Europe, and India, ensuring alignment with technological vision. Leveraged tools such as MapR/Hadoop, Oracle, Trident, DCOS PAAS, Docker, Kubernetes, and a polyglot microservices architecture (Python, Node, Vert.x, Java). Collaborated cross-functionally with teams in the US, India, and Europe, including cloud and sec ops, data management, B2B integration, systems integration, and marketing.

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

Consolidated cloud B2B integration platforms into a global unified platform. Established microservice seed project used as a foundation for implementing more than 90% of platform microservices. Wrote specifications for key business protocol implementations like AS/2 and hub-and-spoke File Transfer, collaborated cross-functionally with various departments and stakeholders, and developed key management system with with KEK rolling and DEK management. Led and mentored engineering teams. Tooling included NodeJS, Vert.x, Java, AngularJS, NetFlix OSS, Spring, Python, Gradle, Git, Tomcat, Oracle, CentOS.

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

Designed and constructed substantial system components while enhancing the scalability of the WebSpan B2B Realtime Business Integration Cloud. Developed a multi-tenant key-brokering system and oversaw file transfer services. Implemented Apache security measures, including a web application firewall, SSL, and URL rewriting. Successfully revamped the legacy platform to meet scalability and compliance requirements. Employed Java, JBoss, JMX, Oracle, Python, Hibernate, Spring, Apache, Ant, Windows, Red Hat Linux, and IBM WebSphere/MQ. Hubspan was acquired by Liaison Technologies.

Bozeman, Us

Reston, Usa, Us

Los Angeles, California, Us

Developed a Kiosk Point-of-Sale solution catering to quick-service restaurants, theaters, and theme parks. Designed and coded the core logic engine, which controlled UX and menu flows, and the integration of cash recycling, receipt printing, card handling, and kitchen order systems. Successfully re-architected a VB/C++ proof-of-concept into a Java-based MVC application with a 3D front-end. Utilized Java, VB, C++, XML, and various other tools to create essential system components. Managed engineering and menu integration teams.

Gahanna, Ohio, Us

Developed pioneering SaaS-based Point-of-Sale cashiering solutions and back office support systems for Universities and large theme parks. Supported systems utilizing physical cash registers, barcode scanners, receipt printers, cash handling, and inventory integration. Stack: Java J2EE, WebSphere, JSP, Ant, Microsoft Visual Studio, SQL Server, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, and Crystal Reports.

Financial planning, licensed insurance & financial product sales.

Constructed and managed various components for a PC-based skateboarding video game “Kickflip”, inspired by Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. Responsibilities included in-game modules, options screens, and precision tuning of physics constants. Designed and implemented a chunked download algorithm, creating a custom fork of the ARJ compression algorithm with game download retry functionality, optimizing the download process for the large PC game over <=14.4k dial-up connections. Utilized C++, MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes), Win32 API, and VB6 (Visual Basic 6) for the project's development.

B.A., Economics And Computer Science

Compilers, Programming Language Design, Software Engineering