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Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Direct technology strategy, product innovation, and data management portfolio for Precisely. Drive new product development with AI, cloud, data integration, data quality, and spatial analytics/location intelligence. Drove acquisition integration, resulting in rebranded company with 2X staff and revenue. Lead distributed teams across US, India, and EMEA. Clients include 99 Fortune 100 companies, in 100+ countries.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS* Developed portfolio AI strategy and informed go-to-market messaging and positioning with AI.* Spearheaded and launched Precisely Innovation Labs, leading incubation and enterprise customer validation of AI and next-gen technologies in the products.* Drive structured approach to AI that protects company assets, reputation, and grows market opportunity, as part of AI Council; coordinate all AI initiatives across product, R&D, cloud, and support teams, including tools, tech, and ROI. * Initiated and drove technology partnership with AWS to become data integration partner.* Build trusted executive-level relationships with thought leaders, partners, and customers; establish joint partnerships with technology, cloud, platform vendors. * Defined future state for global Shared Services; transformed team structure, practices, tools, and processes to align with future state.* Collaborated with CPO, COO to develop strategy to expand product portfolio to Cloud.* Built business case, secured funding from CEO and CFO, and initiated Data Integrity Suite Hybrid Cloud/SaaS offering (incl data integration, data quality and governance, data enrichment, and location intelligence); added 100+ new engineers, formed hiring team in India, selected vendors. * Lead Precisely Architecture Council Governance and Technical Recognition Programs. Member of ESG Commission, driving product strategy.

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

M&A ACHIEVEMENTS* Created acquisition platform to onboard and integrate talent, platforms, and tools to streamline M&A acquisitions, facilitating integrations with portfolio management and shared services.* Drove strategy for organic and inorganic investments, identifying and assessing M&A opportunities.* Led aggressive integration of $300M acquisition, resulting in new organization (Precisely) with 2X staff and revenue; completed integration in 9 months.TALENT LEADERSHIP* Executed site strategy to increase talent retention in India, resulting in 1st Great Place to Work India award (2021). * Initiated 3yr global talent expansion strategy to minimize risk with distribution across US, India, and Poland.* Directed expanded technology organization of 500 highly distributed teams and expanded India team 4X while integrating new talent into Precisely organization.* Trained and installed agile practice throughout new staff; increased talent engagement and retained high-performance talent.* Restructured organization from geographic teams to product teams and integrated into Precisely Product Team structure.* Directed and facilitated the transition of development teams to newly hired SVP Engineering to maintain product development.* Co-founder, co-chair for Precisely Women in Technology Program to drive diversity.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Drexel LeBow Center for Applied AI and Business Analytics Advisory Council: The Center’s advisory council comprises practitioners from various industries who offer insight and strategic direction for curricula, activities and engagement related to Drexel LeBow’s applied AI and business analytics offerings.Advisory council members provide input on industry trends that may influence or impact courses and programming, help assess curricula to ensure alignment with prospective employer needs, and provide advice on new strategies to expand programs and offerings.

Hoboken, Nj, Us

Member of the Board of Advisors at Stevens Institute of Technology School of Engineering and Science.

San Mateo, California, Us

Venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley and Tokyo investing in B2B Startups.https://www.dnx.vc/usfund/network

Boston, Ma, Us

Pearl River, New York, Us

Led Syncsort’s global technology strategy, product innovation, and direction for a $300+M product portfolio. Directed worldwide technology organization of 300+ people in a highly distributed team, driving new innovation and ongoing product development. Clients include 94 Fortune 100 companies, in 100+ countries.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS* Drive new product development for data integration, data quality, and IBM infrastructure modernization.* Launched and directed SyncsortInvent, an innovation program to create products addressing next wave business challenges with data. * Partnered with CPO to create portfolio management and governance, including growth and investment segments to manage investments across multiple lines of products. * Created and led Centers of Excellence for DevOps, Test Automation, and User Experience within Syncsort, to establish scalable organization structure and standardize tools and best practices.* Led global distributed teams across US, EMEA, and India; established 32% of R&D team in India.M&A ACHIEVEMENTS* Created acquisition platform to onboard and integrate talent, platforms, and tools to streamline M&A acquisitions, facilitating integrations with portfolio management and shared services.* Led integration of 12 acquisitions within 24 months, launching new growth product offerings for Security, Log Data Integration with ServiceNow, Data Quality for Big Data, and real-time data replication to Cloud. * Drove strategy for organic and inorganic investments, identifying and assessing M&A opportunities.

Pearl River, New York, Us

Led Global Big Data business unit driving $45+M in revenue and achieving 20+% compound annual growth with new innovation of big data products. Directed 80+ staff (R&D, Sales & Marketing, Business Development, Product Management, Customer Support, and Services teams). Managed P&L. Clients include 90 Fortune 100 companies, in 100+ countries. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS* Drove Syncsort innovation and expansion into new markets with selection, recommendation, and integration of the market leader in Data Quality (+$50M new revenue). * Directed innovation strategy for Syncsort’s Big Data products for Hadoop, Cloud, and pioneered Syncsort’s contributions to open source projects.* Led Syncsort to join Linux Foundation.* Initiated and built Technology and Business partnerships with high-value/high-credibility partners to ensure market penetration (included partnerships with Cloudera, Hortonworks, Dell, and Cognizant).* Led strategy for organic and inorganic investments, identifying and assessing M&A opportunities, leading due diligence.

Pearl River, New York, Us

Pioneered new products and established reputable brand in big data space; created product roadmaps and planned releases. Led execution by establishing contribution to open source community, forming joint partnerships with vendors, and developing and executing big data strategy. Led software product development on distributed platforms, Hadoop, Linux, UNIX, and Windows. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS* Launched 1st cloud solution on AWS; containerized data integration products as early adopter of Docker hub. * Developed product strategy for Hadoop, Big Data, and Cloud offerings. * Led new product development for data warehouse modernization and workload migration to Hadoop.* Initiated Apache open source contributions and became part of open source community.* Proactively established respected partnerships with open source community and vendors in big data, Hadoop, and Cloud industries; quickly rose to rank #7 in open source contributions.* Collaborated closely with partner organizations to develop joint product roadmaps. * Supported new OEM partnership with Fujitsu Japan.* Contributed to the M&A strategy, identifying acquisition targets and leading due diligence.

Pearl River, New York, Us

Developed technology strategy and vision for organization in partnership with executive leadership team. Established high-performing engineering R&D team of 50+. Launched globally established offshore teams. Reported directly to CEO. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS* Drove execution of all aspects of technology vision and strategy and commercial software product development.* Pioneered company entry into Big Data space.* Introduced new products leveraging innovative and emerging technologies, such as Hadoop, Cloud, and virtualization.* Led overall architecture and development of high performance, highly scalable Data Integration products and new offerings for the mainframe modernization.* Established Quality Management, KPIs and standardized SDLC across cross-functional teams.* Transformed development teams to agile and lean software engineering practices, including Scrum, Kanban, and continuous integration.* Adopted Innovation Games to enhance team productivity.

Led delivery of new high-performance enterprise data integration (ETL) product, including beta program and release delivery. Directly managed team of 18 including 4 direct reports. Matrix managed development team of 30.KEY ACHIEVEMENTs* Initiated adoption of agile processes and continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) methods for software development; transitioned all development teams from waterfall to iterative processes.* Prioritized product roadmap based on customer needs; managed execution of roadmap deliverables.* Established best practices, metrics, programming, and testing standards to ensure robust and reliable products with high customer satisfaction.* Enabled scalability by implementing best-in-class standardized processes and procedures across engineering.

Hoboken, Nj, Us

Part-time faculty both on/off campus for graduate level courses Programming with Java, C++, C++ for Financial Engineering, and Computer Architecture, for corporate executive teams in companies such as ITT, Lucent, and Prudential.

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Doctor Of Philosophy, Computer Science

Master Of Science, Industrial Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Engineering