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Alpharetta, Ga, Us

Konsuld™ provides AI-enriched clinical collaboration to enhance patient care.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

TechCXO provides on demand financial, technical, and operational management bandwidth to companies from the start-up through mid-market range.I have been through the Startup Wars and can help you through your Strategic Growth Experiences.

Boston, Ma, Us

Technical Co-founder of a payments network for real-time / high-risk payments sector• 3rd Party ACH Submitter integration• Wrote Web and Mobile Consumer payment app• Designed and implemented Google Compute Platform backend• Integrated and redesigned a USB hardware dongle for Universal Integration with Point of Sale• Developed Bank relationships for ODFI role for ACH submission• Implemented AML / KYC risk program & SOC-2 Security Policies

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Acting as an Innovation Mentor leading forward-looking R&D projects for the Rev Center at Georgia Tech • Computer Vision to detect Food Safety objects in kitchen zones and report via AWS IoT• Machine Learning classification to parse Social Media Reviews for food safety concerns• Realtime Computer Vision to inventory Supply Chain Deliveries and Usage in restaurants• Natural Language Understanding of Drive Thru orders for efficient order taking on iPad app• Secure IoT deployment for embedded devices using AWS Greengrass• Augmented Reality Wearable for Kitchen Production Order processing using Android and IoT• Developed Training Curriculum for new Software Hires for cloud Software Engineering• Frequent Demos and Presentations to stakeholders

Salem, Connecticut, Us

Positioned the operation to achieve initiatives by directing teams (totaling 15 in Europe and the US) in Software Development, Operations, Security, IT infrastructure, IT Partner Management, and Image Asset Acquisition activities. Function as a key member of the executive team, driving requirements and bridging communication from within departments to outside stakeholders. Managed agile proof of concept, initial pilot, and integration with channel partners. Achieved results by negotiating costs and executing business plans with complete financial/P&L responsibility over $1M budget. Developed a competitive technology that combines consumer behavior principles, innovative merchandising techniques, and valuable analytics to help hotels with guest personalization. Participated in Presentations, Demos, pre-sales and post-sales customer support.► Shifted the focus to innovation by incorporating new microservices, a new Angular front end for mobile-first experience, VR/AR capabilities with 360 Images, and Virtual Tour and Google Maps technology► Strengthened technology strategies by defining requirements for real time analytics, addressing the need for consumer behavior and ability to model recommendations for upgrades.► Leveraged an understanding of trends and organizational strengthens to work with international teams on strategy and re-use of already built applications and components.► Improved operations by developing tracking tools, evaluating data, and outlining roadmaps for success in driving the vision, strategic goals, objectives, and release action plans within resources and timelines.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Navigated the complexities of launching innovative systems and platforms by communicating and documenting the vision and scope of Software Development, Operations, Quality Assurance, Customer Success Management, Security, IT infrastructure, Patent Portfolio development, and Strategic Product Roadmap. Led a team of 10 employees consisting of Engineering Managers, Mobile Architects, Developers, Dev Ops, QA, and Customer Success in executing multiple projects by quickly resolving operational issues of employees, logistics, service, and response to critical development issues. Managed the $1M Budget with full P&L responsibility.► Expanded business with success in supporting key accounts through Executive Sponsor program, raising venture capital of $5M, and managing technical partnership development. Responded to RFP and RFI for key accounts supporting pre-sales efforts and funding.► Built a Machine Learning capability and a solid team that “did more with less” by ensuring employees were agile, cross-trained, and flexible for a stable workflow environment.► Mitigated risk exposure by authoring and implementing a corporate Security Policies and contracted for a penetration testing and remediation.► Operated and scaled up a global SaaS infrastructure with multiple public and private cloud sites including a robust AWS implementation to handle 600k web hits per month in over 40 languages on five continents.► 100% uptime for Production SaaS environment in 2016 after implementation of new HA cloud architecture.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Stewarded whole corporation with over 25 Employees and Contractors including the it department with eight Employees in delivering cryptographic security for Web applications used to authenticate users, digitally sign documents, protect online content, prevent the sharing of seat licenses and eliminate the need to maintain multiple passwords. Responsible for Strategic Growth of the company and raised two rounds of outside capital totaling $1M. Maintained full P&L responsibility for the company with $250k in annual revenue.► Developed the initial Intellectual Property leading to the filing of a broad patent for PKI key distribution.► Recruited and managed the founding team including sales, operations, and development.► Established Channel Sales partners (White label OEM and VAR) including international distribution in Asia and South America.► Led Sales organization including Demos, Presentations, RFP & RFI responses.

Architected Enterprise Security application software, resulting in a successful acquisition by nCircle.Developed the initial Security Policies for the policy scanning engine including PCI, NIST, Sarbanes-Oxley, FISMA standardsDrove integration of scanning engine with technology partners including IBM Tivoli, CheckPoint and CiscoDrove policy scanning capabilities for various firewalls, Unix flavors, databases and web serversImplemented key features for the Cambia CM product including the following scanning modules: AIX, HPUX, CheckPoint Firewall, PIX Firewall, Apache Web Server and IIS Web Server(C#/.NET). Drove the Tivoli integration effort between IBM and Cambia including writing the integration module (Java), managing the testing and providing requirements to the IBM team. Drove all CIS certification efforts for Cambia, achieved certification for PIX, Apache, SQL Server and Oracle. Sought out membership in CheckPoint’s OPSEC development program, managed development of the CheckPoint project including documentation and QA, (internal and CheckPoint Labs) and obtained CheckPoint OPSEC certification for the CM product. C, C++, C#/.NET (1.1 and 2.0), Mono/Linux, Java. Enterprise Security, Standards Compliance.

Emeryville, California, Us

Drove product development of three new WiFi security sensor models through design, implementation and off shore manufacture Ran an OEM partnership which led to an eventual acquisition of the company by MotorolaEmbedded Software Engineer implementing 802.11(a/b/g) WiFi security applications. Key driver in bringing up new sensor platforms for internal use and partner platforms. Directing the rollout of all next generation sensors and partner platforms including the interface with QA/Test and Offshore Manufacturing. Products use Embedded Linux and eCos on a number of platforms including PPC and MIPS processors. Products are key elements in DoD, Government, Retail, Big Business security applications.

Hanover, Maryland, Us

Lead Engineer on Fiber optic telecom gear. Wrote board-level firmware for advanced communications lasersDesigned software infrastructure, board support packages, and device drivers for DWDM as well as carrier-grade optical switching gear

Sold company to a private equity operatorFounded a remote IT infrastructure monitoring company that grew 400% a year each of the first four years with $1.5M in revenue in the fourth yearResponsible for strategic corporate direction including financial activities of the corporation, raising venture capital and managing banking relationshipsProduct Management responsibilities for a team of software engineers developing a high-availability multi-platform product to support a 24/7 administration teamResponsible for direct report team of software engineers developing a multi-platform product including Windows, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris (C++, Java).

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Lead Firmware Engineer developing one of the first cable modems: the dataXcelerator.Implemented the TCP/IP stack from scratch and designed most of the infrastructure of the cable modem.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Dallas, Tx, Us

Board Support and protocol engineer for TCP/IP package on the VSAT platform

Master'S Of Engineering, Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Engineering