Very experienced CTO technology leader and start-up innovator who has lead technology product road maps and infrastructure in start-ups and late stage companies. As a CTO, I have lead start-up companies developing innovative technologies which were acquired by larger vendors.

My latest focus has been Corporate Security Audits, IPS, IDS and Secure AWS Cloud infrastructure migration.

I am a market savvy technology visionary who built commercial grade SaaS based application and cloud infrastructure using the latest leading edge Open Source technology.

I am hands on and high level able to see the big picture and map business requirements efficiently to technical requirement evaluating build vs buy and technology outsourcing.

I am a mentor and team builder I have been promoting team collaboration and agile management tools to achieve effectiveness and resourcefulness delivering products on time and within budget.

I have built and managed from ground up Software Engineering teams, IT Infrastructure, Professional Service and QA teams.

In addition, I have Pre-Sales Solution architecture and hands on technical consulting experience. I have managed professional services department delivering customized solution to private and public sectors. I am proficient in network infrastructure, SDLC and start-up innovation team building as well as managing engineering and DevOps departments in a hosted data center and cloud SaaS environments. I am hands on with latest Open Source development frame works. I operate both at the hands on coding level and high level business requirements and architecture. I have experience with network infrastructure and with delivering Disaster Recovery Business Continuity solutions. I have registered software patents on - Systems and methods for executing application programs from a memory devise linked to a server, which subsequently evolved into Cloud Computing.

 

Skills:

 

Technical:Open Source technologies PHP, mySQL, LAMP, Ruby On Rails(ROR) CRM,wireframing,Axure. Interconnectivity, Cloud management AWS, EC2,

                                            HIPAA, PCI, ISO, ITIL, Linux, mySQL,NoSQL, Mongodb, Redis, node.js,backbone.js , PostgreSQL, Java, Jason, Ajax, PHP, C, C++, Unix sh, SQL databases, SQL Server, Oracle, SOA, PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, Software and  hardware installation plus upgrades, Virtualization, hypervisor, VMware, SunBox, Wireless AP, bridging, repeating, dd-wrt, MS exchange administration, VOIP, application virtualization concepts Citrix, Mobile app phone gap and jQuery mobile.

Management:Team building, leadership, delegation, supervision, organization, assessment and analysis, maintain quality and standard, resource management – time, human and material, recruitment and training, vision, strategy and execution.

Communication: Verbal and written English, documentation, reports, negotiation, public speaking, presentation, interpersonal skills.

Personal: Hardworking, attention to detail, punctual, creative, entrepreneur, self-motivated, friendly and approachable.

 

Career History:

 

RoleCTO                                    April 2012 - To Date

iNebular  Inc, Waltham, MA

Responsibilities:

 

Projects:

 

A.                    Large Corporate network migration of an educational content provider to AWS, Azure Cloud. Focus on Corporate Security Architecture & Vulnerability Monitoring & Analytics

·               Managing Corporate Security Network Infrastructure team for Network health monitoring, Security policies, Anti Malware, IDS/IPS

·               Security Analytics with Qualys, Splunk, Trend Micro, Multifactor authentication

·               Corporate Governance Management, Risk Analysis, Problem Escalation Definition

·               Corporate Security Technology Innovation initiatives

·               Extensive hands on knowledge of AWS cloud services offerings and technologies. AWS focus on EC2 instance management, security groups, RDS, IAM policies definition.

·               Security Audits, compliance, CISO operations management

 

B.                     Development of an Open Source SaaS based retail marketing campaign merchandising cloud system

o      Defining product road map and technology architecture of multiple customer cloud based SaaS offerings in retail merchandising sector.

o      Managed pre-sales engineering team and solution architects to define SOW and product delivery scope. Worked with outsourced consulting firms such as Capgemini to define business process flows and data sources as a part of integrating mobile merchandising campaign data to a retail planogramming cloud system.  Customer of merchandising cloud was a large telecom and mobile carrier.

o      Analyzed business requirements and defined product deliverables and SOW as a part of delivering an asset management system. Worked onsite on code customization and deployment.

o      Managing solution implementation of local and remote engineering teams from requirements analysis and wire framing to development implementation.

o      Defining product vision and technology evolution based on business needs alignment and technology evaluation of build vs buy.

o      Identifying product requirements gaps and planning of engineering resources to mitigate risks.

o      Defining Data Integration Architecture of major mobile provider user and service data attributes to a cloud based merchandising custom solution on aws/rails environment.

o      Developing a marketing attribution analytics system to measure performance and increase customer engagement of a marketing campaign product.

 

C.                     Development of an Open Source SaaS based CRM/LMS Lead conversion rate improvement  and email campaign management system for Automotive industry

 

o     Build customer CRM engagement features and CTAs to increase customer conversion rate.

o     Build knowledge management system to increase customer service and provide customer training.

o     Specific focus on NoSQL technologies using DataStax Cassandra distributed clustering system on Linux Centos. Developed Ruby based data importing application based on Ruby Cassadra access driver. Utilized NoSQL ruby embedded CQL for advanced database querying.

o     Coded back end database integration code with NoSQL Cassandra, also coded Java backend integration with JDBC and mySQL. In additions worked with PostgreSQL database schema architecture and ROR integration code.

o     Experience with Java JMX MBeans management frame work and Java JVM tuning principles.

o     Knowledge of Docker Container based technologies Apache Mesos and AWS ECS

o     Deployed HADOOP HIVE on Ubuntu and developed HIVE Queries

o     Deployed Cloudera Hadoop Impala

o     Knowledge of Microsoft Azure Cloud architecture

o     Experience with Magento Ecommerce on a LAMP stack with mySQL

o     Lead the development of an Automotive Lead Management system on Ruby on Rails.

o     Guide an engineering team consisting of project management, development and QA team.

o     Drive the requirements analysis, wire framing and product development process.  Lead Management System contains innovative features such as AI rule definition and inferencing. Other features include email campaigning with car industry specific templates; utilize Axure system for wire framing and PostgreSQL for database backend. Developed PHP reporting module for back office operations.

o     Accomplish project management including business intelligence reporting, customer profiling for data mining, financial budgeting and project scheduling.

o     Assess mobile commerce consumer behavior and build customer loyalty programs into the mcommerce platform.

 

D.                    Technology Evaluation & Open Source Innovation Initiative

 

o     Analyze mobile industry business and technology trends.

o     Analyze M2M and IOT market initiatives and produced business analysis document as a part of the architecture of a network management framework for IOT devices.

o     Utilized Apache Kafka Message brokering system for real time big data processing.

o     Knowledge of Axway API Gateway.

o     Developed and deployed a Docker Container microservice based on Ubuntu image using nodejs and express microservice tool. Microservice was developed as a part of a CRM inventory search component.

o     Managed Docket Container deployment on a cluster via Kubernetes container management and cluster orchestration system.

o     Installed Hortonworks Hadoop Sandbox and Apache Spark.

o     Issued SparkSQL queries via ODBC and JDBC

o     Knowledge of IOT concepts as it relates to BigData and apache Nifi. Created process data flow using apache Nifi.

o     Knowledge of continuous integration using Jenkins.

o     Knowledge of Microsoft ETL tools and BI stack using toolset (SSRS, SSIS, SSAS)

Key Achievements:

·   The Automotive Lead Management System is scheduled to be delivered on time.

·   Evaluated mobile app technologies such as phone gap and jQuery mobile.

·   Defined development environment and tools for the mobile app development.

·   Expanded knowledge of Windows Azure cloud platform and cloud deployment; Python scripting and Django; NoSQL databases; BigData MongoDB.

·   Expertise in managing a mobile app development and design teams, for a cross platform compatible product.

RoleChief Architect       2011-April 2012                                          RelayDental Inc. Waltham, MA             

Responsibilities:

·   Lead a start-up venture in the development of a social media collaboration and workflow automation tool for dental practice management.

·   Implemented an EHR HealthCare SaaS based application HIPAA and PCI compliant. Healthcare application automated medical referral business workflow handling securely patient data and patient charts implementing encryption of data at rest and in motion. PCI compliance was achieved by developing API based communication to PayPal payment clearing processor. AWS Cloud migration process of  EHR application complied to the ISO and ITIL security standards.

·   Security policies were defined on AWS using  security groups, IAM and CloudHSM for encryption key management.

·   Engineer system components and process interactions in a LAMP PHP environment.

·   Deploy Linux based cloud and mySql db administration. Develop database admin component based on PHP runner.

·   Cloud management on Amazon AWS EC2 of a Linux virtual machine with secure tunneling over ssh. Knowledge of AWS Route53, ELB, IAM, CloudHSM, RDS, S3, CloudFront, Cloudformation

·   Establish product requirement for gathering and implementation management of a router/edge device based home network monitoring, filtering and identity protection system.

·   Develop product installation procedures for router firm ware upgrades based on open wrt firm ware standard. Design firmware enhancements to accommodate data packet capturing and transfer to a cloud based analysis system.

Key Achievements:

·   Designed wire frame mockups. Designed demo mockup screens and worked on concept validation of a functional system prototype.

·   Specifically coded and implemented a PayPal authorization component using NVP interface in a NetBeans development environment. Effectively managed the engineering development and offshore outsourcing.

·   Extensive database work performed on mysql defining database schemas. Also worked on the development of a GUI based database application using PHP runner.

·   Enhanced knowledge of AWS instance management and basic S3 replication and Cloudfront.

RoleTechnology Director2006- 2011

Identity Truth Inc. Waltham, MA

Responsibilities:

·   Provide technology guidance, product requirements and team built-up.

·   Manage IT department for efficient output and maximize ROI by improving IT process flows and streamlining software delivery to the users.

·   Define IT infrastructure for a start-up company focusing in the areas of identity theft and prevention.

·   Procure hardware software infrastructure and liaise with external vendors and consultants.

·   Research and evaluate new technologies to improve internal processes and increase productivity.

·   Deploy Windows upgrades and setup wired wireless network infrastructure dd wrt firmware.

·   Identify product requirements and report on analysis functionality to support product enhancements and data processing. 

·   Support networking infrastructure and report on automation.

Key Achievements:

·   Successfully supported the placement of the initial hardware and software infrastructure.

·   Effectively coordinated with vendors and graphics designers for infrastructure acquisition and company branding and image. This was achieved by establishing strategic vendor partnerships and enhancing company’s reach to other market segments.

·   Improved network security through assessment; appropriate firewall protection; effective firewall policies; and performance of network intrusion detection.

·   Developed centralized asset management inventory using cloud computing, SaaS and samanage.

·   Adopted Amazon web services cloud computing EC2 and S3 involving IT maintenance operations i.e. backups.

·   Created disaster recovery and business continuity virtualization environment for Windows and Linux virtual hosts, using VMware and SunBox.

·   Utilized Microsoft .Net 3.5 and C# development framework.

RoleChief Technology Officer 1999-2006                                          Telegea Inc. Waltham, MA

Responsibilities:

·   As a cofounder, lead company technology operations by defining technology platform, company vision, and vendor selection. 

·   Design overall technology vision, commercial software product development for Telegea Inc., servicing the telecommunication service providers sector.

·   Lead all aspects of architecture and product development as well as manage the IT and professional service department.

·   Spearhead delivery of first release of product on a scalable platform to support high transaction ecommerce volumes with many concurrent users. Product building blocks included SQL server database, site server and later J2EE compliant, Entity Enterprise java Bean application code.

Key Achievements:

Management:

·   As an executive I provided strategic direction and company positioning in the market place.

·   Participated in company board meetings, decision making and hiring process.

·   Successfully carried out viability assessment for the company’s merger and acquisition processes.

Innovation:

·   Conceived the original concept of the company’s leading product. 

·   Defined requirements and automated the deployment of next generation convergent carrier services in the triple play market place.

·   Maintained backups to ensure business continuity using ArcServer and implemented a redundant network feed.

·   Created a hosting environment, at a secure datacentre, as a part of a disaster recovery plan.

·   Transitioned the Company’s product from an ecommerce product to a VOIP solution.

Technical:

·   Lead client product integration and deployment efforts of the company’s product with the service providers back office systems.

·   Contributed in TeleGea's product cycle from conceptual design and implementation to deployment. Provided product requirements analysis and enhanced feature functionality.

·   Managed risk management and business continuity issues by setting up a redundant email exchange system on a Dell cluster environment. Established a VPN client server environment with a checkpoint firewall. Build a Fastpath load balancer hosting environment. Installed SSL web certificates. Managed network environment DNS, WINS and TCP/IP configurations.

Previous Roles:

Chief Technology OfficerEPiCON Inc. Waltham, MA1994-1999

ConsultantNEC Systems, Boxford, MA1990-1994

GTE Government Systems, Westborough, MA

GTE Government Systems, Montgomery, AL

International Business Machines, Austin, TX

Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard MA

Professional Qualifications:

 

BSCS (Computer Science) Boston University, Boston, MA     

Master of Science in Information Systems (M.S.I.S.)   Liberty University of Virginia         

Patent Inventor 6065043 US and European Patent Office