At Publicis Sapient, I globally look after the Experience Engineering team - representing every aspect of experience-focused Engineering - Web, mobile and physical/digital (IoT, wearable, kiosk), as well as the hiring and growth strategies, staffing/resourcing, training plans and usage of tools, devOps and best practices. Overall head count has recently surpassed 2000+ individuals globally.Direct oversight / engineering leadership across many major accounts within Publicis Sapient tenure (Mayo Clinic, Marks and Spencer, Sprint, Lloyds Banking Group)Extensive experience with pre-sales and consulting business development across market verticals, including Retail/CPG, Financial, Insurance, TelCo, Automotive.Defined sales support team structures, pricing and staffing models.Working with clients on budget-to-scope balance and new ways of working that would generate more meaningful product development at better costs.Evolved and further connected the most vibrant and active technology community within Sapient. Our discussion and collaboration tools saw incredible increases in activity under my leadership.- 300% increase in internal user base- 100% increase in active users- 20% increase in YoY content creationEstablished and evangelized creation of Sapient Code Commons – (an internal code sharing effort modeled after pure open source best practices) and culture of learning through pilot programs that included conferences, external training, online interactive course-ware and in-house knowledge sharing – in the form of webinars, lunch and learns and brown bagsCo-Founded structured innovation lab for the purpose of testing new techniques, gain exposure to bleeding edge technology and generate case studies to showcase Sapient’s commitment to risk taking, pioneering and innovation.

As the lead of Experience Technology, I defined and molded a single Experience Technology (XT) team from disparate development groups to a unified, scalable team with shared vision. Consolidated career frameworks for all individuals, to have a consistent and clear path for their growth. Overall responsible for 1000+ Experience Technologists globally, as well as the related hiring, learning and staffing.

In my 6 years at Razorfish, I led and provided technical direction for many complex and innovative tracks at Razorfish’s largest clients, including Mercedes Benz USA, Unilever, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Billboard.com, Women’s Wear Daily and many others. I have also strongly advocated a thoroughly cross-channel strategy and helped enable teams and clients to build and deploy multi-platform software implementations, personal and connected computing experiences as well as help deliver new forms of human computer interaction. As the SME for mobile development, I built and evolved Razorfish’s mobile development teams onshore and offshore. Creative teams value my deep technology expertise and design background to mold and realize the team vision and challenge everyone to raise the bar.