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New York, US

New York, US

US

• Direct a team of eight developers and quality assurance personnel in the design and development of AgileXPLORER, a search and analytics application for engineering environments targeting Oracle Agile PLM customers
• Implemented Agile development processes, including stand-ups and backlog reviews, bringing structure to processes previously managed on an ad hoc basis, and established development processes relating to code standards.
• Established technical hiring processes to facilitate expansion of teams based in Austin and Poland, including use of code assignments for evaluation and interview processes
• Oversaw the transition of development operations from on-premise VMware to AWS Cloud and implemented continuous integration and automated testing quality processes
• Hardened the existing product with enterprise security and serviceability features to include application monitoring, role-based access control, and SAML-based security features

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Designed and developed next-generation IBM master data management products using Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service, with responsibility for transitioning from an on-premise legacy product to an on-demand cloud.
• Served as subject matter expert and primary troubleshooter on complex technical issues affecting key strategic customers, assisting diverse clients such as a national pharmacy chain with the design of an active.
• Worked within the R&D core product development team to direct feature prioritization and definition across teams located in North American, the United Kingdom, China, and India

• Completed an 18-month international assignment to assist IBM with the roll-out of acquired Initiate technology, with responsibility for providing master data management subject matter expertise for more than 10.
• Participated in definition, implementation, and reviews of large-scale projects across the Asia-Pacific region, including oversight of the data matching design and implementation for a joint border management system.
• Led product sales presentations and served as a technical resource for sales teams during the request for proposal process and in technical evaluations of IBM’s master data management software
• Trained IBM worldwide services personnel and customer technical staff on master data management best practices and a full suite of product features

• Maintained technical responsibility for the Initiate master data management platform, a high-scale operational platform with statistically-based probabilistic matching and data modeling capabilities and hundreds of.
• Managed more than 15 domestic and outsourced engineers in developing a platform composed on an RDBMS-backed service of heterogeneous components implemented in C, C++, Java,.NET, and SOAP APIs
• Established a range of development processes, including coding standards, source control, and code reviews, driving the creation of automated unit and smoke testing, and uniform automated builds across platform.
• Served as a key point of contact between engineering and other departments by providing technical consulting to sales teams, assisting in the resolution of “code red” support escalations, and collaborating with product.
• Designed, led, and implemented numerous platform enhancements, including the Unicode enablement of legacy 100,000-line matching engine, server extension API for field extension capabilities, and enterprise-grade.

• Managed the design and implementation of a start-up company’s web services-based SaaS document review solution targeting corporate legal departments, working closely with senior management to define and implement use.
• Evaluated third-party software libraries and selected components to define the application’s technology infrastructure stack, and managed development response to time critical issues in a SaaS environment

US

• Directed J2E V/7 web content management application suite, with architectural responsibility for more than 25 engineers and additional offshore resources
• Collaborated with services, publications, and QA to provide stakeholders with necessary technical product knowledge, and balanced requirements from product management teams and customers to deliver iterative feature.