Experience

ProStar

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Aug 2023 - Present

  Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area



Allure Security

• United States
• Computer and Network Security
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product and Technology Advisor

  • Apr 2021 - Present

  Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area Leveraged deep technical expertise and industry knowledge to help guide the development and implementation of cutting-edge solutions aimed at detecting and mitigating phishing attacks and brand impersonation. Actively contributed to the creation of an industry-first offensive threat research roadmap that leverages large language models and generative AI capable of providing critical insights into emerging trends, threat vectors, and best practices ensuring that Allure Security's… Show more Leveraged deep technical expertise and industry knowledge to help guide the development and implementation of cutting-edge solutions aimed at detecting and mitigating phishing attacks and brand impersonation. Actively contributed to the creation of an industry-first offensive threat research roadmap that leverages large language models and generative AI capable of providing critical insights into emerging trends, threat vectors, and best practices ensuring that Allure Security's offerings remained at the forefront of the cybersecurity landscape. Engaged with key stakeholders to streamline the account and domain takedown processes by augmenting them with automation reducing completion times by several hours. Worked alongside existing engineering organizations to optimize data workflows and improve database workloads reducing key processing times by 40%. Show less



Qualio

• United States
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Vice President Of Engineering

  • Mar 2021 - Jun 2023

  Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area Recruited to define organizational processes for quality, efficiency, and productivity improvement. Tasked with integrating product roadmap and vision for growth into engineering processes. Managed team of 60, including Head of Engineering, Head of Architecture, and Head of DevOps. Responsible for $10M OpEx + CapEx. Developed a hiring structure to expand the team from 15 to 60 in 18 months and achieved 2% regrettable attrition during a time of flux in the technology… Show more Recruited to define organizational processes for quality, efficiency, and productivity improvement. Tasked with integrating product roadmap and vision for growth into engineering processes. Managed team of 60, including Head of Engineering, Head of Architecture, and Head of DevOps. Responsible for $10M OpEx + CapEx. Developed a hiring structure to expand the team from 15 to 60 in 18 months and achieved 2% regrettable attrition during a time of flux in the technology industry. Accelerated modernization of Qualio’s existing Python/Angular based monolithic platform to one that leveraged both containerized and AWS Lambda microservices, improved data layer including ElasticSearch and AWS DynamoDB, and a migration to a ReactJS based UX. Restructured teams and revamped software development and release processes reducing product cycle time to six weeks. Worked with Marketing, Operations, and Services teams on integrated GTM and product release cadence. Achieved material increase in NPS score across products by instituting improved product feedback process. Created SRE team to focus on AWS based infrastructure, improving database and app performance by 20% and allowed Qualio to be the only organization in the industry to offer SLA for security and availability. Built Security & Compliance functions that obtained ISO 9001, 9002, SOC1, and SOC 2 certifications and maintained platform uptime of five nines throughout tenure in role. Show less



Akamai Technologies

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Vice President Of Software Engineering

  • Feb 2014 - Mar 2021

  Fort Lauderdale, FL Tapped after Prolexic acquisition by Akamai to integrate technology systems and technology leadership infrastructure. Guide 100+ including 6 managers, directors and senior architects responsible for cloud-based security products for web, API, mobile and network applications with ~$250M in revenue. Created and launched product to expand traffic capacity following increasing larger cyberattacks. Scaled services to meet demand and achieved 170% of forecasted sales. Performed M&A… Show more Tapped after Prolexic acquisition by Akamai to integrate technology systems and technology leadership infrastructure. Guide 100+ including 6 managers, directors and senior architects responsible for cloud-based security products for web, API, mobile and network applications with ~$250M in revenue. Created and launched product to expand traffic capacity following increasing larger cyberattacks. Scaled services to meet demand and achieved 170% of forecasted sales. Performed M&A due diligence on 5 occasions and led successful integrations 2 times. Cultivated human-managed services operations center in collaboration with product and operations teams to expand end-to-end high-touch offering to customers, integrating existing product capabilities with new custom reporting (Splunk, Kibana) and services workflow tools (SalesForce). Retooled tech products to unify with Akamai standards and business strategy, maintaining 95% customer satisfaction. Earned high YoY team retention of 98% of employees over 6 years. Increased profits, enhanced engagement with existing clients and attracted new customers by cultivating long-term business relationships with AWS, Azure and Google. Modernized Prolexic platform to diverse public cloud-enabled architecture by leveraging advanced container-based application development (Docker and Kubernetes), API frameworks (Spring, ExpressJS, GraphQL), and DevOps tools (Terraform, Ansible, BabbleJS, Jenkins). Updated tech stack to conduct real-time data analysis and initiate alerts by evaluating, selecting, and installing big data applications (Spark, Hadoop, TensorFlow), decreasing false-positive rates by 75% and improving time to alert by 50%. Show less



State of the Internet

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Vice President, Software Engineering

  • Aug 2011 - Feb 2014

  Hollywood, FL Responsible for software development processes, design, execution and budget for all custom software that enabled revenue growth from $20 million to $75 million in three years. Applications and services included external facing customer tools, core business services, and internal systems used for customer management, business operations, and process automation. Drove technical diligence activities related to series B and C funding rounds as well as the acquisition of Prolexic by Akamai.… Show more Responsible for software development processes, design, execution and budget for all custom software that enabled revenue growth from $20 million to $75 million in three years. Applications and services included external facing customer tools, core business services, and internal systems used for customer management, business operations, and process automation. Drove technical diligence activities related to series B and C funding rounds as well as the acquisition of Prolexic by Akamai. Created QA and Release Engineering functions while significantly expanding the multi-site engineering organization. Implemented agile software development practices and developed the company's first feature tracking and effort estimation processes. Show less



Kaplan University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Executive Director of Software Engineering

  • Jan 2010 - Aug 2011

  Responsible for software development solutions and architecture that supported exponential growth of Kaplan Inc’s Kaplan Higher Education division from $300M to $2B in revenue. Solutions are tasked with serving hundreds of thousands of students in a multitude of different degree programs both online and on-ground across the globe. Managed multi-site development teams located in Florida, Illinois, Mexico, and India that was responsible for innovation, integration, intranet, marketing, and… Show more Responsible for software development solutions and architecture that supported exponential growth of Kaplan Inc’s Kaplan Higher Education division from $300M to $2B in revenue. Solutions are tasked with serving hundreds of thousands of students in a multitude of different degree programs both online and on-ground across the globe. Managed multi-site development teams located in Florida, Illinois, Mexico, and India that was responsible for innovation, integration, intranet, marketing, and collaboration platforms. The team was instrumental in the creation of an enterprise architecture that is responsible for the architectural principles, technology guidance, and governance of enterprise development throughout the organization. Additionally, developed strategies and process to aid in the migration from waterfall to a scrum inspired software development methodology and agile application lifecycle management. Show less



Kaplan Higher Education

• United States
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Director Of Application Architecture

  • Feb 2004 - Jan 2009

  Oversaw a team of software architects responsible for enterprise applications for student and internal facing application platforms. Duties included several efforts to modernize the enterprise development team by implementing more mature development standards, code generation, VB.Net to C# migration, use of continuous integration, WCF, and automate testing. Spearheaded the internal effort to create guidance for architects and developers on the use of service oriented architecture.



Career Education Corporation

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • 2001 - 2004

  Worked on a team of software engineers within the online division responsible for academic operations and learning platforms. Helped develop and integrate applications for curriculum development and delivery, automated course scheduling, and student experience.