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OLE Engineer @ Watermark software From 1993 to 1995 (2 years) Director of Custom Engineering @ Symmons Industries Created the first of its kind on demand custom manufacturing offering for the hotel industry. From May 2008 to May 2011 (3 years 1 month) Boston, MANortheast Engineering Manager @ Symmons Industries Launched a solutions business in the NYC...

OLE Engineer @ Watermark software From 1993 to 1995 (2 years) Director of Custom Engineering @ Symmons Industries Created the first of its kind on demand custom manufacturing offering for the hotel industry. From May 2008 to May 2011 (3 years 1 month) Boston, MANortheast Engineering Manager @ Symmons Industries Launched a solutions business in the NYC market, growing it to $3MM in the first year. Engineered the first of its kind on demand custom faucet and shower fixture business. From 2006 to 2008 (2 years) Greater New York City AreaSolutions Architect @ Emptoris Software/IBM Formulated the technical architecture and data solutions for top 10 pharmaceutical and financial service firms. Cloud based software which focused on Supply Chain sourcing, contract management and BI spend data discovery. From 2004 to 2006 (2 years) Greater Boston AreaProduct Manager @ Frictionless Commerce/SAP Early stage startup company created out of MIT's Media Lab and 50K competition. Joined as the 9th employee and delivered a multi attribute decision support solution for Lycos, FirstUSA and the US Army. From 1998 to 2004 (6 years) Cambridge, MAPrincipal Software Engineer @ DEC/Compaq Developed/deployed the first cable modem (hybrid/fibre/Coax) implementation in North America. Software architect partnered with Microsoft on their joint ISP solutions. From 1997 to 1998 (1 year) Nashua, NHSolution Engineer @ Onewave Prescribed software solutions to integrate and web enable BAAN, PeopleSoft and SAP. From 1995 to 1997 (2 years) Watertown, MASVP of Engineering : Higher Education @ Cengage Promoted in February of 2017 and reporting to the CTO was responsible for the entire technology stack for Cengage Learnings Higher Education business• Successfully scaled the student facing platforms over the last 3 years to hit a record number 1.4 million students in the fall of 2019• My organization was over 200 engineers located between Boston, Raleigh, Michigan and the Ukraine• Reduced the annual AWS hosting costs 10% year over year while increasing client volumes• Successfully acquired and integrated the WebAssign platform into Cengage engineering ecosystem From February 2017 to November 2019 (2 years 10 months) Greater Boston AreaVP of Software Development @ Opera Solutions Leadership role managing over 100 software developers in US, India and China to build scalable predictive analytic software for Fortune 500 clients.• Responsible for building and managing a global team of 105 software engineers • Manage 7 development teams (10 core products) in the US, India and China supporting $60 million in revenue• Developed the shared services model for software engineering, increased profit margin and reduced delivery time• Lead the development of a custom big data performance management system for 30,000 financial advisors at Morgan Stanley• Architecture focus on J2E stack, Hadoop and Machine Learning• Developed the Solution Architect methodology to support the technical needs of the Opera sales team• Created SDLC software development methodology which has reduced the iterations of software builds• Developed change management process to reduce scope creep and project costs• Responsible for all software governance and security management• Change agent for Agile process from the gated Waterfall methodology resulting in more efficient development• Architected an ETL solution based on Data Rush which resulted in a reduced in processing time from 9 days to 14 hours and a reduction in operational cost by 62% From May 2011 to January 2013 (1 year 9 months) Cambridge, MASenior Vice President Of Engineering @ Flywire Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesVP of Engineering @ Cengage As a VP of Engineering at Cengage Learning I was responsible to build and scale the new customer facing platforms for the Higher Education vertical.• Lead 78 engineers, while reducing the reliance on third party contractors resulting in a 20% cost reduction• Built the PMO office to enable better delivery transparency in a matrix engineering organization• Rolled out a bases matrix delivery model based on Agile principles which resulted in a 95% on time deliveries in the first 6 months.• I incorporated modern SDLC methodologies/patterns including DevOps, Microservices, containers and full stack team structures From July 2016 to February 2017 (8 months) Boston, MAVP of Technology @ Zipcar As the head of technology for Zipcar I was responsible for the strategy and delivery of both the hardware and software globally. Owned by the Avis Budget group, Zipcar was the R&D division that helped drive the strategy of "connected car" for its parent company.• I lead the strategy and execution of DevOps as part of the continuous delivery. Resulting is faster features, less defects and faster resolution to production issues.• Created the mobile and data first strategy for Zipcar car sharing. This was an unlock to the business to drive down waste in fleet management and parking costs• Global technology responsibility for the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany and Turkey with localized product offerings• Grew the hardware and software organization for 120, rolled out a "full stack" team model resulting in the faster delivery while breaking the legacy monolith tech stack mentality• Member of U Michigans "M City" focusing on urban mobility and autonomous cars • Architected a local country acquiring solution to reduce credit card transactions fees From September 2014 to July 2016 (1 year 11 months) BostonSVP Engineering and Professional Services @ ROAM™ Mobile hardware commerce payment platform for tablet and smartphone that was later acquired Ingenico Group • Initially built a team of 45 engineers to build a new payment platform and credit card gateway. Grew the engineering the engineering to 60 by December of 2013• Built the Roam Professional Services team including Pre-sales, PMO, engagement engineering and delivery team/methodology.• Reporting directly to CEO• Instituted Agile best practices which allowed for faster client delivery of custom features • Legacy platform was .NET/MVC cloud based, pivoted the technology stack to a J2EE platform on Linux, JBoss, Hibernate and MySQL• Restructured core and sustaining engineering model across all groups yielding a 40% increase in efficiency• I built out the program management office (PMO) to allow for better client transparency and a more predictable delivery model From January 2013 to June 2014 (1 year 6 months) Boston