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San Diego, CA, US

San Diego, CA, US

Seattle, WA, US

CTO responsible for building and scaling Vouched's real-time AI driven visual ID verification capabilities.

Seattle, US

• Led 125+ person Technology organization supporting HasOffers and Tune Marketing Console (TMC), growing from a team of 35.
• Grew business from $35M to $80M+ revenue, 150 to 400+ employees and 10 offices globally.
• Drove efficiencies and architectural improvements to achieve profitability, saving over $20M/year in AWS hosting costs.
• Led technical diligence on multiple acquisitions and successful divestitures of lines of business (TMC to Branch in 2019, and HasOffers to Constellation Systems in May 2020).
• Together with General Manager of TUNE drove integration, strategy and continued development of HasOffers post-Constellation Systems acquisition.
• Acted as trusted advisor and Cloud SAAS Expert within Constellation Systems Portfolio companies.

Seattle, WA, US

• Directed engineering & devops teams dedicated to building solutions enabling corporate travel managers to reduce Airfare and Hotel spend by over $10M.
• Led development of RoomIQ™ -- a Hotel price assurance solution targeted to corporate travel managers.
• Restructured and doubled the technology team from 12 to 25 within 8 months to improve talent levels and throughput.
• Focused technology strategy, implemented architectural improvements and automation while influencing revenue driving feature development to help achieve 125%+ year-over-year revenue growth.
• Led transition from hosted datacenter to AWS cloud to reduce costs by 50%/year and provide easier scale and management options.
• Led transition to DevOps model of development, including test automation and CI/CD deployment.

Bellevue, WA, US

• Directed global engineering & technical operations team of 100+ dedicated to solving the Data Management and Audience Targeting problem space for leading online Publishers and Advertisers in 14 countries.
• Tripled the size of the technology organization through M&A and aggressive hiring in local market. Development teams in Bellevue, Boston, Hamburg Germany and India.
• Responsible for technical strategy and execution, including transition to SaaS platform model to support global Enterprise-class customers.
• Performed technical due diligence of several M&A opportunities, resulting in two successful acquisitions -- wunderloop and Consorte Media.
• Led development of a Real Time Bidding and Targeting advertising system. Supporting transactional volumes of over 10B impression requests per day with average response times of 60ms, distributed across 9 data centers.
• Led transition of datacenter-centric systems for Edge data ingestion to AWS Cloud to improve scalability and latency.

• Led development of Wetpaint Injected technology platform and integration strategy to allow embedding of Wetpaint content on a publisher site while maintaining SEO, including two pending patents.
• Led all technology functions including engineering, QA and technical operations.
• Doubled technology team to 30 through hiring in local market, referral program.
• Provided technical due diligence in raising $25M “C” round of financing based on Wetpaint Injected.
• Led an Agile development process change to increase throughput and efficiency of engineering efforts.
• Planned and completed data center build-out and transition from RackSpace to Colo facility to reduce costs, improve reliability and uptime. Achieved 99.98% uptime for 12 months post transition.

Responsible for rich Media Platforms and Media Player Frameworks for the Walt Disney Internet Group.Led development of systems for acquiring, encoding, manipulating and delivering video and audio for online brands of The Walt Disney Company. Developed systems to support easier development and acquisition of Advertising creative for video. Developed.

Burbank, CA, US

US

Led team on fulfilling security contracts, including design, penetration testing, audits, infrastructure reviews and implementations. Developed Codetalker “Greenbox”, a deployed and managed firewall solution for small to mid-sized corporations. System was capable of centrally flagging intrusions and determining new methods of attacks and floods by mining.

Led development for the National Graduate Register (NGR) - an innovative national initiative to provide a graduate student resume matching system to employers over the Internet.