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San Mateo, California, US

San Diego, California, US

• Architected and led the development of Teradata’s as-a-service platform in AWS, providing Teradata’s industry-leading data analytics technology in the cloud serving Fortune 500 enterprise customers.
• Architected and designed approach for delivering legacy on-prem Teradata components as a service in AWS, moving from lift-and-shift to cloud-native technologies
• Worked closely with pre-sales technical and account teams to architect and present novel solutions to customer challenges using Teradata’s products combined with their AWS and on-prem infrastructure.
• Collaborated with AWS technical staff to evaluate and adopt several new AWS technologies for Teradata’s cloud offering
• Led security design (including threat modeling) supporting FedRAMP, PCI, HIPPA, ISO27001, and other security standards.
• Developed innovative network architecture isolating internal network from customer network while still allowing VPN, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, and similar circuit-based network mechanisms.

San Diego, California, US

• Recruited and lead software engineering teams and a 24x7 operations team in developing and delivering a new customer-facing and backend solution for our Fortune 500 customers to make Teradata's big data and analytics.
• Recruited 30 member technical team (both dev managers and engineers) over a two-year period to establish cloud development capability.
• Operationalized an India-based 24x7 support team, including development of on-call mechanism and support processes and procedures.
• Implemented SCRUM-based development processes to enable schedule and task tracking and best engineering practices.
• Delivered product to first Fortune 500 customer after 8 months, followed by two more Fortune 500 customers over the next four months.
• Led code and design/architecture reviews to ensure product quality and engineering best practices.

Mountain View, California, US

Led a team of engineers developing cloud-based tools and services to support building and releasing consumer software products during a time of significant organizational change.Drove a high-visibility project to centralize continuous integration and delivery of products.Led a distributed team of DevOps software engineers (both in San Diego and India).

Mountain View, California, US

Led a variety of initiatives for the DevOps group to improve performance and throughput of the build of consumer software products.Architected and lead a team developing a workflow system with a very challenging schedule, integrating with multiple complex legacy systems. System delivered on time and with very high quality and customer satisfaction by using.

Mountain View, California, US

Led a team of operations personnel though a challenging period of change, from slow, error prone, undocumented, largely manual efforts to partially-automated, documented, and higher-quality processes. This was a challenging role for me, requiring leading a team of mostly non-technical staff in improving operations processes, and in managing team-skills.

San Diego, California, US

Recruited and lead a team of configuration management engineers, quality engineers, and software engineers to manage and improve the quality of our business unit’s software products.

San Jose, California, US

• Recruited and lead a team of software engineers to develop the initial version of Symantec Anti-Virus for Linux. Responsible for strategic planning, project scheduling, system design and development, recruiting, and.
• Developed a roadmap and strategy for development of future versions of the product (including integration with the rest of the company’s product line) on Linux and other Unix variants.
• Lead the transition from a waterfall development process to an iterative development process (SCRUM), resulting in an early delivery and dramatically improved quality (based on a sharp reduction in defects).
• Mentored junior team members in software development best practices, design, and scheduling.
• Managed budget for software development group.
• Represented company at customer visits and conference calls regarding our product.

Boston, MA, US

• Led a team of consultants in development of software systems for a newly-acquired GE company. Responsible for project management, scheduling, system design, and interfacing with both internal and external customers.
• Lead integration and maintenance of legacy ERP system into existing GE systems, covering inventory management, production schedules, field service orders, and financial systems.
• Architected and lead implementation of a field service reporting system to track parts, labor, and equipment usage leading to improved billing and reporting processes that saved the company $1,800,000 in 2003 and.

Culver City, CA, US

• Led a software engineering organization developing web-enabled sites for a variety of business units and provided expert information security advisement for a new subsidiary of Sony Pictures (a startup-environment).
• Participated in development and security evaluation (e.g., DRM, reverse-proxy, GeoFiltering, symmetric encryption, watermarking, etc.) of a service providing video-on-demand movies.
• Provided security analysis and assessment of DRM technologies, GeoFiltering, PKI, X.509 Certificates, etc.
• Recruited team of 15+ software engineers to perform development and support for a variety of B2C and promotional websites in a J2EE environment.
• Co-authored two patents in the area of information security and digital content distribution.
• Assisted marketing research and business development in feasibility planning and evaluation of new products and technologies.

El Segundo, CA, US

Managed a team of 12+ software engineers and database engineers in the development of e-commerce and server software (under Windows NT and SQLServer) through both pre-launch and post-launch phases of it’s service. Responsibilities included managing development of server software (utilizing a FIPS 140-1 hardware device) and performing code reviews and.

Vancouver, BC, CA

Responsible for a group of engineers developing systems software to assist in the development of motion picture special effects. Participated in digital asset management project developing secure access to studio digital assets, including developing enabling technologies for digital cinema. Advised on technical and security issues including network and.

Lead a team of engineers developing FileNet’s next-generation document management product. Received the 1996 Engineering Excellence Award for the Server Software Group (this award is determined primarily by consensus of peers). Development was targeted to multiple platforms, including NT, AIX, Solaris, and HPUX, using C++.

Designed and implemented large-scale secure software components of a flight simulator for a military bomber project including design, development, and testing of multi-function graphical avionics displays and real-time simulation of avionics and navigational systems. Obtained a secret clearance for this work, including "Special Access Required" privileges.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business

B.S., Computer Science