San Francisco, California, United States
At vidIQ, my focus is on pioneering software development initiatives that drive innovation and scalable growth within the creators' domain. With a rich background in team building, my tenure as VP and CTO has been marked by the successful optimization and execution of a robust vidIQ platform. My role at enrich as an Executive Member involves enriching conversations among peers, facilitating knowledge exchange to foster continuous improvement in our collective practices.
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• Earned a series of promotions following highly successful tenures to lead the engineering firm consisting of four teams with 65 FT and contractors demonstrating strong intrapreneurial acumen. • Designed and managed the development of Cantaloupe’s intelligent enterprise platform with analytics driving fulfillment optimizations, cashless payment, inventory management, and industry integrated solutions • Scaled SaaS development team 5x engineers with development offices in the US, Ukraine, Russia, and India
Continued as the head of the SaaS software development platform for enterprise analytics and logistics in the unattended retail marketplace • Active member of the Executive Review Board on product and technology topics and engineering discussions • Spearheaded engineering team during 5 years of 27% year-over-year growth leading to company acquisition maintaining focus on modern SaaS/PaaS platforms, and payment processing systems
Acquired by USA Technologies in 2018 for $65M Enterprise SaaS platform for a new age of telemetry-connected unattended payment services and retail IoT Communications. Comprehensive data collection and analytics platform for managing payments, orders, fulfilments, scheduling, and warehousing • Led implementation of a resilient scrum process that facilitated accurate development estimates, reliable product commitments, and consistent team technical advancements boosting operational efficiency by 50% • Orchestrated and implemented CI/CD infrastructure with 90% of test automation coverage • Fostered synergetic environment for trusted collaboration between product and development teams • Consistently executed 160+ development sprints meeting 97% of sprint quality criteria • Co-managed NetOps team and PCI/SOX compliance audits • Optimized workforce utilization to maintain the industry lowest voluntary attrition rate of less than 10%
A mobile social networking service helping to create and collaborate on plans with friends and social events • Played a central role in engineering content acquisition and management technology. Produced high quality socially rich POI content of 1.5M+ US locations leading to exponential annual revenue growth of $5M • Designed and implemented from the ground up a comprehensive platform with sophisticated manual and automated workflows for analysis, cleansing, and processing of a massive influx of raw data • Assembled and led a team of 19 full-time developers, contractors, and QA in a strictly agile environment. Handled complexity of managing on/offshore team with offices in Saigon and San Francisco • Understood the intricacies of the business, streamlined operational processes, and swiftly resolved arising issues • Recognized by executives for timely communication, effective team management, and programmatic excellence
Acquired by Sony in 2008 for $260M, Gracenote Inc. provides music, video, and sports metadata and automatic content recognition technologies to entertainment services and companies, worldwide • Managed local and offshore teams of 16 developers and scaled the team by hiring and business partnerships • Oversaw development of 25+ UI-rich editorial and data processing applications for video, music, lyrics, etc. • Collaborated with major label companies on large-scale content ingestion and data acquisition projects • Expertly modelled and administered annual and strategic 3 years budgets for application development • Actively participated in M&A due diligence process to facilitate decision-making and business sustainability • Developed web-based and high-performance desktop applications and delivered creative quality solutions • Built outstanding rapport and cross-functional connections with the Product team and across the company • Architected data synchronization framework utilized by the majority of Gracenote Content Applications • Managed and provided professional development mentorship to direct reports, peers, and software engineers • Provided critical technical expertise and input to IT strategy and planning on impacts of business strategies • Commended for designing content persistence models, process workflow, and data transformations • Initiated CMMi review of Gracenote products. Presented ISO certifications opportunities to management