Lead the Engineering and IT organizations in different structures and successfully achieved high agility, exceptional output, laser-focus on business impact and reduced costs. Through Technical Leadership, we have been delivering on our promise of Speed and Ease in the Lending space for Power Sports, OPE, RV, and more recently Marine and Autos, and achieving $1B+ in annual originations while placing Octane in the top 3 lenders in Power Sports. Thanks to our advanced ML/AI investments in Tech, and integrations with the credit bureaus and other related financial and background services, we are able to approve loan applications in seconds, while maintaining very low loss rates.

Democratized science-backed wellness and wellbeing through technology. Developed the business across an online offering and physical wellness retreat packages in two separate world-class resorts, managed by Four Seasons, through technology offerings across multiple public clouds, integration with wearables and other IoT devices focused on health and wellness.

Board Adviser on Technology/IT, SOA Architecture, Cloud Transformation, Lean Management of Technology organizations, SaaS, Microsoft Azure, HA/DR, DevOps, CI/CD, Security, Compliance, Technical Support, Process Improvement, Consulting, Offshore, etc.

Lead the Technology organization through a Cloud and Mobile first transformation that increased revenue, supported scaling to multiple international markets, and improved customer experience and NPS.

• Defined the vision and success metrics for the Sage Shared Services organization. Staffed the org, defined and improved processes, delivered and maintained highly available B2B SaaS solutions.• Moved org from 18 months cadence to two weeks • Defined roles and responsibilities for Dev, Test, PM, PMO, Business Analysts, Dev Ops and Scrum Masters along with redundant architecture to achieve: o 250% improvement in burn down speed of the backlog o Moved availability from 80% approximate to 99.9% accurately measured with monitors of less than 1minute intervals o Disaster Recovery plans with practically zero RPO and RTO < 2 hours o Self-reliant org with built-in redundancies and with minimal need for escalations o 24/7 tier-2 support from the engineering team, beyond the tier-1 support provided by DevOps. • Defined a runbook for every monitor/alert implemented with clear and specific instructions that over time can be pulled back into the service to make it self-healing. • Architected each shared feature as a cloud service on Microsoft Azure PaaS, aligned the UX with the individual products, and provided RESTful APIs for each shared feature. • Transformed existing talent from on-premise waterfall mindset to Cloud Services, Agile, and Continuous Improvement culture. • Negotiated vendor contracts, managed budgets, regularly worked with remote teams across the globe (16 countries), managed RIFs and growths, including investments in different campuses. • Ran a distributed organization across multiple locations in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland and India. • Lead the Product definition for the shared Cloud Enablement area, with heavy focus on customer experience, deep understanding of the customer’s scenarios and use cases, and defining the appropriate Minimum Viable Product.

• Developed and lead cross-disciplinary (Dev, Test and PM) engineering teams of various sizes • Delivered major releases of key Microsoft offerings like Windows Server, Essential Business Server, Forefront Identity Manager, Forefront BHOLD suite, Windows Azure (PaaS), Windows Azure Active Directory and its Identity and Access Management services (SaaS) as part of Windows Azure Management Service. • Lead the acquisition of the BHOLD team and technology • Integrated technology into Forefront Identity Manager • Transformed team from on-prem engineers to Cloud experts • Moved cadence from 18 month to 1 week, for Production, customer-facing releases. • Lead a re-org that assigned a new role to the organization: Define, create and deliver key security, alerting and reporting features in AAD. Went from zero to 2 million users in less than 2 years. • Architected the high-level solutions for all projects • Drove the Machine Learning effort with architects and data scientists to deliver security, analytical and reporting features to Azure Active Directory. • Researched market needs, defined MVP and prototyped in the cloud using the A/B Testing approach for rapid validation and deployment. • Architected and delivered end-to-end update system for Windows Azure with zero downtime across 50+ components and 500K+ servers across the globe. • Defined success metrics, measured ROI, adoption and usage patterns and integrated them into the Agile Continuous Improvement engineering process. • Negotiated and signed vendor contracts. Lead the staffing efforts for multiple organizations, including ones I didn’t lead, across all functions (Dev, Test, PM and DevOps). • In my early days at Microsoft, I lead engineering teams and delivered on projects like Outlook, Outlook Web Access, Word, Word International, Shared Office Components, etc.

• Lead the server-side team in architecting the security and communication areas between the mobile devices and their paired servers, and in solving the associated technical and security challenges. • Delivered the end-to-end solution allowing mobile devices to offload their compute needs to a server across the Internet. • Co-architected the server-side applications along with the online data transfer, offline data caching on the mobile device, and security protocols.