Director of Technology at Verizon
Atlanta Metropolitan Area
Verizon Connect
Director of Technology
Verizon Communications
Senior Engineering Manager
July 2011 to October 2015
Verizon Communications
Distinguished Member Technical Staff
November 2005 to June 2011
Verizon Communications
Software Systems Architect Development Program
January 2004 to November 2005
Redbox Instant by Verizon
Director Of Technology
July 2011 to December 2013
Business Services Division, University of Florida
Software Engineer
January 2002 to December 2003
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Director of Technology @ Verizon Connect Serving millions of vehicles on a global connected car SaaS platform. Senior Engineering Manager @ Verizon Communications Accountable for product development, technology operations and strategic leadership including solution design, software processes, software architecture, dev-ops, application integration and vendor management of FiOS mobility, CE and FiOS Quantum TV platform webservices.Spearheaded a scalable and extensive video back end platform that serves ~6MM customers and 10 MM devices.Defined and implemented continuous integration across 3 data centers that improved software quality and deployment process by reducing overall cost.Recruited and built 30+ engineering team responsible for end-to-end product development and integration of Mobility, STB and IPTV programs.Identified, defined and managed vendor software delivery and timelines. From July 2011 to October 2015 (4 years 4 months) Distinguished Member Technical Staff @ Verizon Communications (Several positions and roles - Lead MTS, Principal MTS leading to Distinguished MTS)Defined and led engineering for FiOS Cisco STB and Connected Home (Home monitoring) platforms. Managed $8MM budget, built a team of 30+ engineers across geographic locations. Analyzed and drove product roadmap for converged products and services such as voice mail, address book, calendar and email for wire line and wireless retail customers.Architect and Subject Matter Expert responsible for the design and development of voice and VOIP service features of the Verizon Hub and FiOS Voice (Retail VOIP) Offering.Team lead responsible for the design, development and delivery of VOIP provisioning platform capable of provisioning Analog Telephony Adapters and IP Phones (Linksys, Zyxel and Polycom).Successfully managed the deployment and operations of Voice over IP Service platform (Enterprise VOIP) for Verizon Center in Basking Ridge. From November 2005 to June 2011 (5 years 8 months) Software Systems Architect Development Program @ Verizon Communications Joined Software Architect Development Program at Verizon, a rotational program restricted to top Graduate Computer Science programs and designed to groom top worldwide talent into Verizon’s future senior leadership.Product development for Hosted IP communications (Enterprise VOIP), sold as Integrated Communications Platform. (Rotation 2).Architecture/Design/Development for National Long Distance Platform. (Rotation 1). From January 2004 to November 2005 (1 year 11 months) Director Of Technology @ Redbox Instant by Verizon Built a world class software test engineering organization that was repeatedly credited with excellent quality, on time delivery of business critical, high volume, high performance video software solution.Defined, owned and managed test process, test environments, test execution and test efficiency and effectiveness for Redbox Instant.Built a geographically diverse team of 60 + staff across Chennai, Chicago, San Diego, Dallas and Minsk.Negotiated contract with multiple vendors and managed a budget of 15MM dollars for the program over 2 years.Automated testing process across platform, 14 different clients (web, mobile, CE devices) that cut down testing time by half.Adopted continuous delivery and integration process and introduced dev. ops releases process to the program. From July 2011 to December 2013 (2 years 6 months) Software Engineer @ Business Services Division, University of Florida Software Development for Business Services Division and system admin. From January 2002 to December 2003 (2 years)
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