Experience

Beyond Limits

• United States
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Engineering Manager

  • Jun 2021 - Present

  Blending cognitive AI with software engineering. • Provided technical guidance and due diligence for Beyond Limits' acquisition of Altec Products, Inc. • Leading a diverse group of software engineers and data scientists on architecting, designing and building scalable, secure and efficient AI cloud products. • Delivered on time and on budget SaaS applications targeting the upstream oil and gas industry. Earned customer's trust through onsite or remote interactions and transparent… Show more Blending cognitive AI with software engineering. • Provided technical guidance and due diligence for Beyond Limits' acquisition of Altec Products, Inc. • Leading a diverse group of software engineers and data scientists on architecting, designing and building scalable, secure and efficient AI cloud products. • Delivered on time and on budget SaaS applications targeting the upstream oil and gas industry. Earned customer's trust through onsite or remote interactions and transparent communication. • Worked closely with a group of world class data scientists to provide one of a kind solutions for the energy industry. Successfully partnered with devops, product, project and sales groups to strengthen the collaboration across departments and regions (US, EMEA, APAC). • Instrumental in introducing and adopting industry best practices for software development and quality control. Hiring manager for the software engineering team. Keen advocate of a customer-first mindset. Show less



Bluebeam, Inc.

• United States
• Software Development
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Engineering Manager

  • Jun 2018 - May 2021

  • Released software by-weekly (iOS, Android, Web, cloud services), taking the product from being new to market to having a healthy customer base (https://www.bluebeam.com/solutions/drawings). • Closely partnered with Product and Project Management, Design and Engineering groups to deliver new products on time and on budget, for the AEC industry; gained buy-in on technical decisions and ensured that appropriate software engineering practices were employed to deliver high quality… Show more • Released software by-weekly (iOS, Android, Web, cloud services), taking the product from being new to market to having a healthy customer base (https://www.bluebeam.com/solutions/drawings). • Closely partnered with Product and Project Management, Design and Engineering groups to deliver new products on time and on budget, for the AEC industry; gained buy-in on technical decisions and ensured that appropriate software engineering practices were employed to deliver high quality results. • Hands-on experience with component development for Machine Learning. • Developed and implemented hiring plans to align with business goals and priorities. Instrumental in helping my direct reports grow their careers by partnering with them to find appropriate opportunities for growth and providing active coaching. • Acted as agent of change and continuous development, being instrumental in successfully implementing Agile methodologies within the engineering department during an accelerated corporate growth. • Hands-on experience being a Product Owner.

• Lead Software Engineer

  • Nov 2013 - Jun 2018

  • Built and led result driven teams, focused on developing scalable, fault tolerant microservices, on top of AWS and Azure infrastructures. • Instrumental in building from the ground up a new product offering for the construction industry - Drawings. Worked closely with the Product, Design, Sales and Engineering management teams from the ideation phase all the way to shipping and bringing the product to market. • Architected a highly scalable, fault tolerant, compute-intensive, and… Show more • Built and led result driven teams, focused on developing scalable, fault tolerant microservices, on top of AWS and Azure infrastructures. • Instrumental in building from the ground up a new product offering for the construction industry - Drawings. Worked closely with the Product, Design, Sales and Engineering management teams from the ideation phase all the way to shipping and bringing the product to market. • Architected a highly scalable, fault tolerant, compute-intensive, and cost-efficient workflow system, using microservices paradigm. • Introduced machine learning algorithms in one of our production services, coached team members on text classification concepts. • Spun up highly efficient teams that built best in class back-end services. • Worked closely with an offshore team, for an extended period of time. • Received Bluebeam's award for Outstanding Customer Service.

• Sr. Software Engineer

  • Nov 2009 - Nov 2013

  Part of a very effective team of developers that worked in a fast paced environment to ship Revu's versions 8.0 to 11.5. Revu is the company's flagship product, an end-to-end PDF based workflow and collaboration solution, designed for and globally adopted by the Architecture Engineering and Construction Industry. Worked directly with the executive team (CTO, CEO) to define our products' features, and was consistently in touch with customers’ feedback. Some of my contributions: •… Show more Part of a very effective team of developers that worked in a fast paced environment to ship Revu's versions 8.0 to 11.5. Revu is the company's flagship product, an end-to-end PDF based workflow and collaboration solution, designed for and globally adopted by the Architecture Engineering and Construction Industry. Worked directly with the executive team (CTO, CEO) to define our products' features, and was consistently in touch with customers’ feedback. Some of my contributions: • Architected and implemented the webapi, business and datalayer, database schema and the web portal for Studio 1.0 • Visual Search 2.0, a graphical content search engine for PDF documents (patent 9846707). • Revu PDF form creation and Revu OCR. • Revit and Navisworks plugins for 3D PDF creation (a first of their kind, worldwide, when released). • Engine for converting IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) files to 3D PDF files. • PDF viewer plug-in for Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox. • Helped Bluebeam translate Revu 8.5 to German.



Next Steps Software

• Software developer

  • Jan 2009 - Jan 2017

  Built and maintained the art portal * www.artworksvenue.com *, a global community of artists and art enthusiasts.



Caltech

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant

  • Jun 2009 - Jul 2009

  Implemented a task/researcher tracker database using Filemaker.



Springtime GmbH

• Software developer

  • May 2006 - Dec 2008

  • Development of a virtual paper electronic invoice processing system (Invoicetrack), a global Accounts Payable automation service used by organizations such as Raiffeisen Bank, Metro, SCA, Pitney Bows, in 60 countries (https://www.go-springtime.com/en/invoicetrack). • Responsible for the analysis, design, and implementation of server-side services for automated document classification and data extraction, by applying machine learning and imaging techniques. • Designed and implemented… Show more • Development of a virtual paper electronic invoice processing system (Invoicetrack), a global Accounts Payable automation service used by organizations such as Raiffeisen Bank, Metro, SCA, Pitney Bows, in 60 countries (https://www.go-springtime.com/en/invoicetrack). • Responsible for the analysis, design, and implementation of server-side services for automated document classification and data extraction, by applying machine learning and imaging techniques. • Designed and implemented an AJAX webapp consisting of several modules such as system configuration, data and event visualization, item tracking, using ASP.net, D/HTML, JSON, XML. Show less



IRIS (Canon Group)

• Belgium
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Software developer

  • Jun 2001 - May 2006

  • Core developer for Docutec's flagship product, Xtract for Documents (https://irisdatacapture.com/software/irisxtract). I designed and built highly efficient proprietary technology for document classification and automated data extraction, using various machine learning and image processing techniques that helped make Docutec a profitable and respected brand in Europe. • Responsible for the development, delivery, onsite customer coaching, and maintenance of several automated document… Show more • Core developer for Docutec's flagship product, Xtract for Documents (https://irisdatacapture.com/software/irisxtract). I designed and built highly efficient proprietary technology for document classification and automated data extraction, using various machine learning and image processing techniques that helped make Docutec a profitable and respected brand in Europe. • Responsible for the development, delivery, onsite customer coaching, and maintenance of several automated document classification and recognition solutions for large organizations such as UBS Bank Luxembourg, SNS-Reaal Groep Holland, Siemens-Patent division, GE plastics Holland. Show less



gentriqs AG

• Software developer/Branch Manager

  • Aug 1997 - Jun 2001

  • Designed and implemented a state-of-the-art image processing and form classification SDK, part of CLEQS product suite, one of the best commercial OCR engines at that time. • Built the Gentriqs’ Romanian branch from the ground up, and led an engineering team focused on developing image processing and document classification software solutions, used worldwide by organizations such as Top Image Systems (Kofax), Pegasus Imaging (Accusoft), Equifax, FedEx.