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San Francisco, Ca, Us

▪ ​ Established and managed all the product development engineering functions for this rapidly growing school; led Admissions, Learning, Outcomes, Repayments (Finance), Student Relationship Management, and Ethical Interview Guidance Team. ▪ ​ Consistently exceeded lofty corporate goals – by delivering engaging products and tools for students around the world. ▪ ​ Spearheaded enterprise-wide product/technology initiatives (OKRs), collaborating with C-level executives to advance projects that strengthen partnerships, maximize revenue, accelerate onshore and offshore operations, ensure legal/regulatory compliance, and improve external engagements. ▪ ​ Led platform and site reliability engineering team, negotiating contracts with external providers saving the company more than 25% of the total fees.

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

Led J&J’s BabyCenter website and clinical trials, which reached 50+ million parents monthly. Built core team that more effectively supported the web and mobile platforms and exceeded KPIs. Led and provided mentorship to engineering managers, team leads, software engineers, and web architects. Reported to Chief Technology Officer (CTO). ​▪ ​ Quickly evolved the engineering ecosystem, steering team to radically improve cloud and on-premises infrastructure, deployments, system performance, information security, and network reliability. ​▪ ​ Boosted organic traffic 30% and reduced server response time in milliseconds from 450ms to <200ms. Spearheaded search engine optimization (SEO) initiative and enabled users around the world to gain easy access to great content, even in countries with limited Internet. ​▪ ​ Increased system uptime to 99.99%, reducing system downtime from nearly 9 hours to <5 minutes per year. Implemented new engineering standards and practices while leading system upgrade, consolidation, and modernization. ​▪ ​ Improved productivity by realigning teams to business needs. Served on senior leadership team; collaborated with product, marketing, and sales teams to enhance culture, processes, and tools. Instrumental in transitioning BabyCenter to Everyday Health Group. ​▪ ​ Built and Scaled Remote and Onsite teams (Monetization (Ad revenue), Reach & acquisition (SEO), Engagement (User Experience) & Platform (Shared Core Services) team.

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

​▪ ​ Managed teams responsible for driving Revenue and SEO using highly available heterogenous platforms. ​▪ ​ Led the Platform team responsible to modernize the engineering ecosystem, improve the cloud and in-house infrastructure, its performance, security and reliability. ​▪ ​ Defined quarterly business goals and enable all the teams to reach their quarterly KPI and Goals. ​▪ ​ Strategize on engineering organizational structure with an eye on team productivity, ownership and self managing teams. ​▪ ​ Managed high performing Engineering Managers, Architects and Team Leaders. ​▪ ​ Implemented and improved engineering standards and practices including CI/CD, agile development process, automated code analysis and improvement, system upgrades, system consolidation, scalability, availability and security.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Directed teams of software engineers in the B2B department to think strategically and design game-changing website features. Developed and implemented highly scalable distributed enterprise cloud systems. Proactively sought ways to improve product, sales, marketing, human resource, client service, and management systems while fulfilling the needs of employers/users in 14 countries. ​▪ ​ Increased team velocity from 49 to 65 and empowered staff to manage multiple releases per week by improving coding system and introducing new agile scrum methods. ​▪ ​ Grew the team. Optimized work streams while recruiting, hiring, training, motivating, and mentoringemployees. Partnered with global teams and CTO to balance onshore and offshore staffing levels.. ​▪ ​ Built popular employer products for enhanced desktop and mobile experiences. Significantly improved existing technology stack, operational processes, product delivery, and system performance/resilience. Surpassed all monthly, quarterly, and annual growth goals:Led large-scale strategic product initiatives, exceeding in paid, and free, employer registrations, Self Service Job-slots, traffic growth and user engagement.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Optimized reliability and scalability of web architecture, emerging/high-traffic products, and 3 product portfolios generating $250+ million in annual revenue. Developed functions for website serving 11 million online car shoppers each month. Quickly progressed through leadership roles after being recruited as a technical architect. Leveraged excellent communication skills, leadership experience, and delegation talents to meet tight deadlines, collaborate with team members, motivate internal stakeholders, and mentor employees. Served as a trusted internal engineering/architecture consultant. ​▪ ​ Positioned Cars.com to win #1 Third-Party Automotive Website by J.D. Power and Associates in 2013, and won internal achievement award for maximizing dealership satisfaction. ​▪ ​ Improved performance 300%+ while lowering operational costs by 15%. Created 3-year information technology roadmap to modernize underlying platforms, remove bottlenecks, automate processes, and bolster security. ​▪ ​ Increased annual revenue by $50 million after enhancing customer experience (CX) with a secure, single-sign-on framework and optimization strategy to create a top-performing, fault-tolerant website. ​▪ ​ Boosted productivity 25% and shrank time-to-market for new features from 3 months to 2 weeks. Streamlined Agile development methodologies. Established new processes for vendor selection, discovery, and product definition/delivery. ​▪ ​ Cut system maintenance costs 35% and saved $3 million in licensing fees after replacing costly, challenging, and unsupported legacy systems with high-performance technology. ​▪ ​ Raised employee satisfaction scores 25% and maintained perfect track record of 100% staff retention. Built technically progressive organization able to attract top-tier talent by motivating employees with exciting engagement/learning opportunities. ​▪ ​ Created a game-changing mobile app and added many collaborative features to the website, improving CX for car buyers.

Master Of Science, Computer Information Systems

Bachelors Of Technology, Computer Science And Engineering