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Empathetic and decisive software engineering leader with the critical thinking, technical skills, and collaborative approach to accomplish organizational goals. Excellent employee development, customer service and analytics skills coupled with more than 15 years of experience. Passionate about motivating teams to create impactful elegant solutions. Highly effective and comfortable giving engaging presentations to clients to drive new business, expand accounts and establish brand profile. Excellent team builder and leader of initiatives that result in improved revenues. Leader with development and technical experience in coaching the next generation of engineers to success.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience

Work History

Vice President, Software Engineering

Jpmorgan Chase & Co.
Mckinney
05.2015 - Current

Management and Leadership

  • Create software products that have highest business impact to customers and continually improve company’s competitive position.
  • Reporting to CEO, oversaw all aspects of Development, System, QA, UI/UX and Support of organization.
  • Discovered opportunity and built highly effective offshore teams in Argentina and Ghana.
  • Implemented weekly one-on-ones and quarterly reviews to discuss and access progress made towards short-term and long-term goal. Designed to identify and mitigate any impediments.
  • Established cross-functional bi-weekly meeting to share ideas amongst teams and identify collaboration areas of opportunities.
  • Serving as CISO to organization, implemented penetration and code analyzing third-party security software to identify software and system vulnerabilities.

Product Development

  • Responsible for design, development, and architecture of all major software solutions, including establishment of software development best practices.
  • Provide management, technical direction, strategic roadmap and guidance for all product development.
  • Ensure implementation/continuous improvement of formal processes to support product development activities.
  • Directly responsible for designing and prototyping software innovation which led to formation of Akkadian Labs and its flagship products.
  • Strong working knowledge of supporting technologies and key vendors in key areas such as agile development, test automation, CI/CD, IT and software security and cloud
  • Design and deliver high availability, high speed, redundant, scalable and data architecture to support product roadmap and goals.

Talent Acquisition, Development, & Management

  • Grow software engineering team from 5 to over 50 cross functional distributed team.
  • Team consisted of 7 management, 20 developers, 3 DevOps, 10 QA, 2 UI/UX, 1 Architect, 5 Support, 2 DBAs, 2 Solutions Engineers and 2 interns
  • Build highly functional engineering teams by providing consistent performance development guidance around coaching, counseling, corrective actions, development plans, and succession planning.
  • Mentor and coach Directors to improve overall department performance.
  • Partner with People Operations to recruit top tier technology talent.

Director of Software Professional Services

Central Valley Community Bancorp
Exeter
01.2010 - 09.2013

Responsibilities included staff management, vendor management, standards and procedures, strategy monitoring and reporting and infrastructure software. Transformed role and organization to create enterprise software service offerings.

  • Built and managed organizations core IT infrastructure consisting of 3 data centers located in New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey.
  • Developed monitoring and alerting tools, for internal use and for proactive client monitoring.
  • Developed CRM and sale cycle system for sales team, providing seamless integration into billing, document management, automated sales calls, scheduling, and email. Improving sales close rates from 30% to 45% and invoicing consistence and accuracy.
  • Work with clients from ideation to production and continued support over solutions lifecycle.
  • Demonstrate prototype and sprint end releases to stakeholders and clients during development lifecycle.
  • Worked with clients to develop custom applications for provisioning which was productized as Fidelus Provisioning Manage Express.
  • Identifying ongoing continuous improvement projects that should be undertaken and resourced and make appropriate recommendations.

IT Manager

Private Industry Council Of NY
City
01.1999 - 08.2006

Served as technology evangelist to usher organization into leveraging technology to streamline processes, operations, tracking/reporting, and services delivery to customers.

  • Built highly available secure infrastructure to run all critical business operations including identity management, network, email, websites, intranet services, storage, printing, and distributed applications.
  • Introduce server virtualization thereby reducing server footprint by 80 percent while increasing capacity by 200% along with 99.9% system uptime.
  • Developed proprietary software to dynamically track all reportable data to automate state and federal regulatory mandated reporting requirements. Eliminating tedious annual 3-month long data collection and report process which consumed third of human capacity of organization down to single click.
  • Created and managed technology adaption and training program to hasten solutions adaptability and buy-in.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

Boston University
Boston, MA

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering And Business Administration

University At Buffalo
Buffalo, NY

Skills

  • Technical Leadership
  • Software Development
  • Enterprise Software
  • Strategic Partnerships
  • Product Management
  • Distributed Software
  • Agile Methodologies
  • API/System Design
  • DevOps
  • User Experience
  • Quality Assurance
  • Performance and Scalability Optimization
  • Recruiting and Hiring
  • Java / Go / Python / PHP / JavaScript

Accomplishments

  • Concept and developed 3 enterprise products with gross sales of over 30 million
  • Developed mission critical software solutions for clients in financial, legal, government, and healthcare industries which are still operational after 10 years in production
  • Designed and implemented cloud based platform to simplify product development lifecycle demands between Developers & QA, Sales, Finance, Support, Marketing, Partners and Customers. Enabling product releases, updates, licensing, subscription management, analytics and support on a single platform.
  • Traveled to and opened offices in Córdoba, Argentina and Accra, Ghana which provided additional skilled resources to enable the company to successfully meet product, financial and support goals.
  • Proposed and implemented internship program in 2015 to mentor high school students with software interest with the goal of preparing them to join the team upon graduating from college. The first intern in the program joined the team as a software engineer March 1, 2021 upon gradating form college.

Timeline

Vice President, Software Engineering

Jpmorgan Chase & Co.
05.2015 - Current

Director of Software Professional Services

Central Valley Community Bancorp
01.2010 - 09.2013

IT Manager

Private Industry Council Of NY
01.1999 - 08.2006

Master of Science - Computer Science

Boston University

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering And Business Administration

University At Buffalo