VPE & CTO

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Position
VPE & CTO
Location Confidential
No
Location
No preference
Willing to Relocate
Yes
Industry
Computers-Software&Consulting
Function
R&D-General-Management-of-Development
Compensation
$200,000 to $400,000

Resume Summary
Technical expertise with business and customer focus. Extensive international experience managing global R&D teams, including outsourced and off-shore development. 15+ years providing technical leadership and solutions in internet, telecommunications, software, workforce management, financial and healthcare services companies, and standards organizations.

Resume Body      VPE & CTO

MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP & BUSINESS EXPERTISE
* Setting the corporate technology, product and business directions at strategic and tactical level
* Technical/program/project management, cross-functional management, global/distributed teams (US, India, Europe)
* Building and leading high performance teams; coaching & mentoring.
* Strategic alliances and partnerships, external vendors relationships, including offshore
* Financial planning and budget management
* Excellent written and oral communication, invited speaker and presenter
* Managing full software product lifecycle, delivering solutions on time and on budget

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
* XML, UML, Java (J2EE, J2ME), C++, Lisp, Python, MatLab, DBMS, OOA&D, user interface architecture and design, search, security, Unix/Linux, Windows, Mac.
* Human Language Technologies (HLT): Speech Recognition, Natural Language Understanding (NLU/NLP), Statistical Language Modeling (SLP).
* Semantic technologies, AI techniques, expert systems, model-based technology, Semantic Web, Web Services, text mining,
* "Big data", data mining, data analytics
* Modular and service-oriented architectures (SOA), enterprise application integration (EAI)
* Business process and data modeling
* Researching, developing and communicating technology standards and strategy
* Developing competitive products from concept to commercialization, including customers' needs assessment, requirements definition, product specification, architecture and design
* Middleware, frameworks, platforms, N-tier architectures, Internet solutions
* Software development methodologies, processes and tools


EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION STARTUP
Provider of comprehensive, customizable content and delivery platform, with hundreds of thousands of users worldwide.
VP of R&D 2013-
Leading R&D efforts encompassing knowledge representation, data modeling and analytics, data driven recommendation and remediation capabilities, aimed at delivering adaptive, personalized learning experience.
* Established a high-level, unified conceptual model integrating the data and content architecture
* Conceptualized solutions for compositional simulation platform, allowing end-users to create and customize simulations in a declarative way, without procedural programming.

BIG DATA & PERSONALIZATION AS A SERVICE COMPANY
A leading provider of personalized customer experience solutions for multi-channel retailers. SaaS/PaaS company.
VP Engineering 2012-2013
Leading product development, R&D and Hosted Ops teams in creating and delivering big data and personalization platform.
* Successfully delivered 2 major releases in first 9 months.
* Strengthened the team and re-established architecture practice
* Overhauled dev/release/deployment processes to adopt lean and agile methodology.
* Drove adoption of virtualization across all dev/deployment stages.

SOFTWARE PLATFORM & MOBILE HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS STARTUP
CTO 2009-2012
Managed product development from customer requirements to architecture to deployment, utilizing lean startup agile methodology. Led creation of a technology platform for creating flexible, adaptive interactive applications giving the venture competitive advantage in delivering adaptive solutions comparable to "customized" application at a lower cost.
* Created a cloud-based mobile billing solution for physicians on-the-go. Designed, developed and deployed, leveraging AWS, a solution supporting multi-channel access, including mobile clients.
* Architected a cloud-based SaaS solution to address gaps in workflow support for independent doctors and small/medium practices.
* Designed and developed multiple mobile applications (iOS and WebOS)

SOFTWARE & SERVICES COMPANY
Chief Architect 2007 - 2009
Responsible for technology strategy, influencing biz strategy and maintaining alignment of technology and business strategy to deliver business outcome enabled by architecture strategy and design. Led, coached and mentored architects and broader developer community.
* Strengthened the architecture team while re-establishing the architecture practice throughout the organization. Extended architectural reach to cover all critical offerings and ensure all business requirements are met.
* Led technology refresh and launch of a new services platform for next generation SaaS (Software as a Service) offerings with improved performance, scalability and flexibility.
* Contributed to development of new SaaS ecosystem; provided thought leadership in compositional approach for creating new offerings.
* Redefined proprietary platform strategy to align with business priorities. Provided critical guidance in establishing criteria and process for decision making that resulted in successful adoption of a new strategy.

HEALTHCARE SERVICES PROVIDER
CTO 2003-2007
Managing and leading R&D, driving technology strategy and process improvements in a leading provider services to healthcare industry. Developing partnerships and managing global collaboration with premier research groups. Research initiatives include speech recognition, natural language understanding, data mining, machine learning and semantic technologies.
* Managing and leading a globally distributed 50+ software development team (US & India) in embracing new technologies and development methodologies.
* Reorganized, mentored and strengthen the software team with improved capabilities to effectively handle multiple parallel projects, deliver better user experience and coordinate R&D and deployment activities.
* Led the overhaul of the global systems architecture for improved performance, scalability and reliability, yielding over 300% gains in throughput capacity and performance, with additional upside potential.
* Conceived and put in place process and technology improvements yielding 15-30% in demonstrated operational efficiency gains, with further potential anticipated.
* Introduced user-centered design for external customer-facing components, including customer focus groups and conducted task analysis to improve overall customer satisfaction by delivering better user experience and new product features.

SOFTWARE PLATFORM STARTUP
CTO 2001-2003
Led the creation of middleware and development framework for high-value interactive applications in a software platform & tools startup.
* Designed and implemented infrastructure and tools for cross-platform development and adaptive application deployment, with advanced support for UI design and service-oriented architectures (SOA).
* Defined technology strategy and established hardware and software deployment infrastructure for a CRM solution, including the payment subsystem, security, UI and back-end integration.
* Conducted competitive analysis in Web application platforms and infrastructure, X-Internet and development tools.

INTERNET AND ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE STARTUP AND ASP PROVIDER
CTO 2000 - 2001
Drove technology and product strategy for an ASP/enterprise software startup providing workforce management solutions. Advised on build/buy/partner strategic decisions and merger & acquisitions activities Managed cross-functional teams for special assignments, including partner/vendor evaluations and technical due diligence.
* Hands-on leader of the architecture team covering all technical aspects of creating and managing data-driven Web applications on J2EE platform, including architecture standards and strategy, security, scalability, data management, data center infrastructure and processes.
* Led reviews, developing and maintaining architectural standards, strategy and development guidelines.
* Owned business process and data architecture model. Developed domain model in record time.
* Defined modular architecture expected to reduce development and integration efforts by over 50%.
* Drove establishing a new software product definition and development process. Engaged customer partners and led requirements gathering, analysis and scoping efforts for new strategic applications.

SOFTWARE TOOLS AND SERVICES COMPANY
Chief Technologist 1997-2000
Hands-on technology evangelist in a leading enterprise software tool company. Led new product research & development. Increased responsibilities from a single product line to cross-product integration involving globally distributed teams (East/West Coast and Europe). Advised executive management and marketing on strategic technical, product and partnership issues.
* Managed development team and the whole life cycle of the flagship UML product, delivered and shipped on budget and in record time.
* Improved usability and increased customer satisfaction with the major overhaul of the user interface architecture and design of the whole product line - that included project and technical management of internal and external resources (10+ people team), as well as hands-on design and implementation.
* Led cross-product integration initiative on applying modeling technology to real-time and safety-critical systems to improve support for software analysis and certification
* Helped regain profitability and improve revenue by interacting directly with global customers, including leading automotive and aerospace companies
* Represented the company in strategic industry forums and standards bodies, contributing to the several language and process modeling efforts.

TELECOMMUNICATION COMPANY RESEARCH LAB
Member Technical Staff 1992-97
Championed model-based technology and applied it to user interface design, data browsing environments, intelligent tutoring systems, agent architectures, electronic commerce and Web/Internet applications. Consultant for IT and clients from other parts of this Fortune 500 diversified telecommunication company, helping them meet internal needs and develop new products.
* Designed the system architecture and implemented the key components of a Web-based intelligent tutoring system (patent granted). Developed a custom application server for delivering interactive applications and a framework supporting rich Web clients.
* Developed ETL solutions by applying modeling techniques to data analysis & transformation.
* Designed n-tier architecture for mass-market multimedia information services. Worked with marketing on customer requirements and conducting user focus groups evaluations.


EDUCATION
Ph.D. Computer Science; Minors: Artificial Intelligence and Human Factors.
M.Sc.; B.Sc Computer Science.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, AFFILIATIONS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Technology Advisory Board (ASP startup). 2004 - 2007
Board of Directors, XML Standards Consortium 2001 - 2003
Affiliations: ACL, ACM, SIGCHI, SIGART, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Signal Processing Society
Professional: Organizing/Program/Conference Executive Committees; reviewer
Four patents.

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