Vice President, Technology Strategy & Architecture. Cloud Platform Engineering.

• Jan 2018 - Present

- Provide advanced technology expertise and visionary leadership in strategizing company’s technology roadmap focusing on two primary revenue streams: product development and consultative services. - Built from ground up and lead a 75-member global team working in U.S., Romania, and India responsible for the delivery of high-impact projects for architecture, product development, QA, and cloud platform engineering. - Lead customer engagement in consultative and brainstorming sessions with customers’ senior technocrats, targeting Fortune 500 companies in health, retail, and financial sectors. KEY PROJECTS / NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS: - Spearheaded recruitment efforts and formation of a 200-member team in Romania, serving as liaison with CEO and CTO to establish Tecra Romania as a functional operating branch. - Directed the design/development of Customer Communications Management (CCM), a cloud-first, cloud-agnostic, configurable, scalable platform designed to support peak demand with high performance, reliability, and security. The monolithic application was re-built on AWS with distributed architecture using microservices, container orchestration, and serverless architecture. - CCM, a flagship product that drives $3M in annual revenue, unifies customer communications with low TCO, handling over 10+ million hits/day and over 20+ million transactions with 99.99% availability. CCM supports multi-tenant SaaS and dedicated (any cloud, hybrid-cloud, and on-premise) deployment models. - Foster a culture of trust, inclusion, and innovation that attracts and retains high-performing IT teams, resulting in less than 1% staff turnover (from 10%+). - Environment: Java, Node.js, Angular.js, React, gulp.js, Maven, Flowable, Spark, Docker, Jenkins, CircleCI, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, GitHub, Blockchain (Sovrin Hyperledger Indy & Fabric), Xamarin, Agile (Scrum), DevOps. Show less

Director, Frameworks & Automation. Core Platform & Infrastructure

• Feb 2017 - Oct 2017

- Oversaw software development, quality assurance, infrastructure management frameworks, and open-source frameworks across various business units, continuously improving support process and team cohesion. - Directed core web, API and mid-tier technology stack and operationalized cloud-based polyglot frameworks and microservices-based services platform for 4000+ developers who enabled 50+ billion hits/days through 2500+ applications across the PayPal platform. - Led 45-member software engineering group based in San Jose, CA, Austin, TX, and India, working closely with stakeholders, product owners, Scrum Masters, technical/QA leads, and engineers to self-organize and stay true to core Scrum principles. KEY PROJECTS / NOTABLE CCOMPLISHMENTS: - Reduced application integration services delivery time by 50% with enhanced enterprise integration design, DevOps, QA frameworks, test automation, and robust CI/CD processes. - Key contributor for the “FFMPEG” open-source project and led the team that maintained open-source Kraken.js, Nemo.js, squbs, and SeLion. - Environment: Java, C/C++, Scala, Maven, Node.js, AngularJS, React, Docker, Jenkins, Oracle, MySql, MongoDB, Cassandra, JMeter, Selenium, Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Elasticsearch, Hybrid Cloud (on-prem & GCP), GitHub, Kraken.js, Nemo.js, squbs, SeLion, Agile (Scrum), DevOps, Jira, CA Agile Show less

Chief Technology Officer

• Jun 2015 - Feb 2017

- Led 110-member technology team based in U.S., Canada, Romania, and India encompassing professional services, product development, and QA testing for leading-edge Cloud and Enterprise Integration services. - Actively supported consultative practice in pre-sales, deal-closure, customer onboarding, and training activities, interfacing with top-tier thought leaders in Fortune 100/500 companies. Projects focused on driving digital transformation to enhance customer engagement via streamlined integration services and cloud-first strategies. KEY PROJECTS / NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS: - Integral role in joint development program for the design and build-out of CloudGen Cloud Control Center (C4) that provided the ideal platform to provision, configure, secure, monitor, and manage cloud workloads across hosted, public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. This flagship product drove $3M in annual revenue. - Spearheaded the design and development of the CloudGen Automated Test Engine (CATE) that promotes TDD and CI, generating $1.2M in annual revenue. - Environment: Java, Node.js, AngularJS, React, Bootstrap, AWS, REST, microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, MongoDB, JSON, GitHub, Elasticsearch, MySQL, WSO2, webMethods, MulesSft, JBoss, Apache. Show less

Senior Director, DIGITAL SOLUTIONS ARCHITECTURE & DELIVERY

• Aug 2004 - May 2015

- Provided innovative leadership to Enterprise Integration Services and Digital Delivery projects, directing the build-out from ground up of middleware platform and framework services that supported 99.9% uptime. - Introduced leading-edge aspects to Identity and Access Management Practices that have become commonplace within the industry, setting the benchmarks for company’s encrypted security practices globally and improving application and device security by 90%. - Began as Lead Architect, advancing to senior level in less than three years with consistent promotions following. KEY PROJECTS / NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS: - Reduced application integration services delivery time by 50% with enhanced enterprise integration design based on microservices and container architecture. - Led the IT methodology group to implement Agile (Open Unified Process), New Methodology (Martin Fowler), and generated buy-in to implement “Agile methodology under the Scrum framework” in IT and Media Technology groups. - First-ever recipients of the John Hendricks Innovation Award for development of Mobile CoE consisting of a suite of mobile apps for B2E and B2C customers, generating $2M in annual revenue and savings. - Won the Software AG Innovation Award for the development of a highly effective B2B digital contract management system that implemented robust workflow in managing contracts worth $800M/YR and drove business value by reducing manual labor by 3200 hours annually. - Led the architecture and execution of migrating 100 TB of on-premise video and non-video across U.S., Singapore, and Europe regions to Amazon S3 under budget and ahead of schedule. - Promoted “inspect and adapt and self-organizing” team culture, resulting in less than 2% turnover (from 15 %+). - Environment: Java, C#, Azure (AMS), AWS AMS, microservices, Docker, Dojo, Node.js, AngularJS, Maven, JSON, GitHub, Perl, REST, Endeca, Solr+Lucene, Oracle, SQL server, MySQL, webMethods, CA SiteMinder, JBoss, Apache, IIS. Show less

Lead Architect - Systems Development

• Nov 2002 - Aug 2004