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Summary
C-Level Technology Executive for Enterprise & Startup | Global IT Solutions | New Business Growth | Technology, Sales & Marketing, Finance
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Data Strategy Specialist
McKinsey & Company
New York, NY
11.2021 - Current
Began with Caserta Concepts, which was acquired by McKinsey & Company in 2022
Served multiple clients in investment, consumer and commercial banking, and life sciences sectors focused on data assessments, operating models, and data platform builds
Worked on practice development for Data Transformation practice, co-authoring new slide decks to promote Data Assessment and Data Build offerings. Also was Product Owner for Cloud Data offering that bridged McKinsey's Data Transformation and Cloud by McKinsey practices
CEO
Aktiver LLC
Chicago, IL
10.2020 - 11.2021
Aktiver MLOps platform generates upwards of 95% cost savings on infrastructure and accelerates concept-to-production cycle for machine learning as much as 100x
Led company startup, including acquisition and management of development team, strategic partner management, and all sales activities
Director- Cisco Automation Solution
Cisco Systems, Inc.
San Jose, CA
06.2018 - 07.2020
Recruited by Cisco leadership after CTP was acquired by HPE
Rapidly promoted to Product Management Practice Lead for Cloud & Automation portfolio
Ran Automation Delivery for largest global account
Ultimately led strategy for Cisco's overall global Automation Solution sales and delivery efforts
Led teams of 4 to 200 staff
VP, Principal Architect & Group Lead
Cloud Technology Partners (An HPE Company)
Boston, MA
08.2016 - 06.2018
Key member of CTP's senior leadership team. CTP was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2017
Managed team of 50 staff building internal portfolio of software to support service delivery, including what is now AWS Landing Zone Solution Implementation (Infrastructure as Code)
Co-managed one of CTP's practices as well as worked directly with larger clients
Served as cloud-architecture Thought Leader; wrote for “The Doppler”; topics: AI/Data Analytics
Co-Founder & CTO
InsightXM, Inc.
Westport, CT
02.2014 - 01.2016
Served as CTO of this data analytics startup; managed data science team; used Tableau as publishing engine for interactive visualizations
Enterprise customers included: Dell, IBM, SXSW
Created events data model to drive data-driven decisions via industry-wide analytics for experiential marketing. Created novel approach, “Data Science Assembly Line”
Raised $400K in seed capital. Accepted into IBM Global Entrepreneur Program & Watson Ecosystem to develop novel segmentation engine
CTO
etouches, Inc.
Norwalk, CT
04.2012 - 02.2014
CTO of this global event management SaaS platform
Assisted in closing Series B venture backing by Greycroft Partners, Connecticut Innovations, Cava Capital, and Level Equity
Led growth from $3M to $9M. Instrumental in customer base increase from 300 to 750 worldwide; provided strategic product portfolio offering
Built product management, development and operations from ground up. Grew team from 6 to 30 and established scalable development team structure and agile processes. Drove re-architecture of platform and migration to AWS
Cloud Services Consultant
Mural Consulting
Tucson, AZ
10.2009 - 03.2012
Collaborated with Mural Consulting and Microsoft to deliver ISV Cloud Accelerator 2-day Workshops for ~24 Microsoft ISV Partners
Instrumental in bringing early Azure Cloud-Services offerings to market via these workshops. Fostered ISV and Microsoft Account team connection to develop strategic and tactical plans
CTO
RecoveryPlanner.com, Inc.
Shelton, CT
05.2006 - 10.2009
As CO, managed all product development/support, product strategy, sales, and marketing support
Increased revenue from $1M to $5M in 3 years after building development, product management, and customer support from scratch. Expanded client base by 150%+ after completing rewrite of existing product in 8 months
Education
Certificate, The Data Scientist's Toolbox - Data Science
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
02.2015
BS, Business Administration & Graduate Program: International Finance - Accounting And Finance
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
05.1984
Skills
Software Development
Agile Methodologies
Cloud Technologies (including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform)
AI / ML / DL / Data Science
IT Security
SaaS
Product Management
Sales & Marketing
Enterprise Consulting Services
Growth Strategy
Thought Leadership
Operations Optimization
Financial Services / Capital Markets Trading / Investment Banking
Entrepreneurship
Venture Capital
Work Availability
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Timeline
Data Strategy Specialist - McKinsey & Company
11.2021 - Current
CEO - Aktiver LLC
10.2020 - 11.2021
Director- Cisco Automation Solution - Cisco Systems, Inc.
06.2018 - 07.2020
VP, Principal Architect & Group Lead - Cloud Technology Partners (An HPE Company)
08.2016 - 06.2018
Co-Founder & CTO - InsightXM, Inc.
02.2014 - 01.2016
CTO - etouches, Inc.
04.2012 - 02.2014
Cloud Services Consultant - Mural Consulting
10.2009 - 03.2012
CTO - RecoveryPlanner.com, Inc.
05.2006 - 10.2009
Johns Hopkins University - Certificate, The Data Scientist's Toolbox, Data Science
University of Colorado - BS, Business Administration & Graduate Program: International Finance, Accounting And Finance
<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform