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Technology Leader, San Francisco Bay Area

Senior technology manager with broad and proven track record across diverse sectors, including Fortune 100 firms, government, startups, and consulting.  Energetic and innovative leader, skilled team builder, strategic thinker, adept negotiator - combines business acumen and technical expertise to drive solution delivery across a broad range of organizational constraints and risk profiles.  Mechanical engineering PhD, computational physics emphasis.

 

- IT systems design  and operation

- Software architecture

- SDLC (Agile, RUP)

- Managing high-performing technical  teams

- Engineering/IT program management  


- Technology portfolio management

- IT Governance and Standards (ITIL)

- Technology strategy

- Vendor management

- Performance and HA engineering

 

 

Infrastructure design and implementation

·         Built and ran the network for an industry-leading SaaS video platform provider. 

o   Scaled platform through 1000x traffic growth

o   Achieved 100% availability for two years

 

Software delivery

·         Championed the adoption of Agile practices for a lean, aggressive startup

o   Served as Scrum Master

o   Created and maintained a 30-day release cycle

o   Enhanced development transparency across all departments

 

Service delivery

·         Led the buildout, launch, management and growth of shared application and database

         hosting platforms for a Fortune 100 financial services firm.

o   Achieved > $2M annual hard savings via server decommission and

     rationalization

 

Enterprise Architecture

·         Developed technology portfolio management tools and processes to support the

         creation and maintenance of  taxonomies of technology assets for a Fortune 100

         financial services firm

Entrepreneurship

·         Founded a software company to integrate speech recognition technologies with

         enterprise applications.

o   Created the technology vision, core product architecture, strategy, and

     business plan

o   Hired a world-class engineering team

o   Raised seed and Series A  venture financing

o   Developed key early partnerships

o   Executed successful merger

 

Compliance

·         Led the SDLC component of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance activities for a Fortune

         100 financial services firm.

 

R&D

·         Designed and implemented large-scale scientific computing solutions for  USDOE

         Grand Challenge problems


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