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Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Advising on Innovation as a Service and scaling AI-driven solutions, aligning with emerging technologies and transforming concepts into impactful innovations.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Managed a global team of 2000+ across USA, Europe and Asia. Reported directly to the CTO, aligning engineering initiatives with corporate goals. Directed day-to-day software engineering activities spanning various product lines, including Highly Scalable Sabre Core Systems like Shopping, Booking, Ticketing, Check-In, Payments, Customer Profiles, Ancillaries, New Offer/Order Platform and Data & Analytics – these systems are designed for High Availability, Low Latency and High-Volume transactions. Championed technical road mapping, solutions architecture, and large-scale airline migration efforts. Led a diverse portfolio of product platforms representing 90%+ of Sabre’s overall $3B revenue. Realized technology transformation success, with 100%+ of mid-range, AWS compute and 55% of Mainframe workloads moved to GCP, meeting all Board commitments while exceeding financial and cost savings targets. Some notable highlights include: Achieved $100M+ data processing (DP) costs by migrating to Google Cloud while enhancing capabilities and enabling sunset of 18 data centers. Achieved by augmenting teams from multiple global vendors/Google, operating model rigor and cross-functional collaboration. Moved 55% of Mainframe workloads into cloud target architecture, resulting in reduction of DP costs by $72M. Restacked legacy heterogenous Data & Analytics ecosystem to Google technologies while enhancing data quality, data security and data processing speed, resulting in reduction of TCO by $7M. Delivered Digital Transformation initiatives like Intelligent Retailing platform products using Microservices, AI/ML, Mono Repo using start-up entity model, enabling new revenue streams that generated $10M+ during first year. Championed GenAI use case to infuse context sensitive information to reduce Mean Time to Repair for system incidents.

Led engineering teams in developing eCommerce solutions for online travel and decision support solutions for airlines, contributing to product innovation and market expansion. Built Enterprise scale Hotels and heterogenous products Platforms generating more than 50% of Travelocity revenues. Performed Technology due diligence in assessing / acquiring an M&A of an ecommerce company for Travelocity. Launched a packaging engine and a single use card payment capability (a first in the online travel industry), enabling new revenue streams for Travelocity. Developed and implemented decision support products for 20+ airline customers, using Pro*C, C++, Java, and Oracle.

Software Engineer at a Consulting Company delivering products for a Telecommunications company and Full Stack Engineer for a Hand Held Device Start Up Company - contributing to early career in software development and system design.

Masters, Chemical Engineering

Masters, Chemistry, Be Chemical Engineering

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