Dallas, Texas, United States
Technology Executive and Innovator with 30+ years of experience leading enterprise-scale digital transformation, product engineering, and IT strategy across global organizations. As Co-Founder and CTO/CIO of Lightning Strike Inc., I’ve built multiple Zero-to-One products, guided patent-pending innovations, and aligned technology strategy with business growth. I specialize in modernizing legacy systems, building scalable cloud architectures, and driving cross-functional transformation that fuels growth and efficiency. Known for servant leadership, I’ve led high-performing teams of 100+ across engineering, data, and product, cultivating a culture of innovation, accountability, and execution excellence. My goal: to architect and operationalize technology that enables sustainable business scale, whether in high-growth startups or established enterprises ready to evolve. Core strengths: Digital Transformation | Cloud & SaaS Strategy | Scalable Systems Design | Product Engineering | Data-Driven Decision Making | Cybersecurity | Financial Technology | Servant Leadership
Redefining the Authentication Landscape. Remotely work with the off-shore development team with whom I have architected and designed a SaaS based product for a revolutionary authentication (First Inventor of patent) Zero-to-One product with zero possibility of passwords being compromised from our servers. Also, implemented appropriate measures to eliminate any chances of abuse via AITM/MITM attacks. Worked on the API, mobile, web-front, browser extension and windows desktop interfaces for the product from inception (POC) to demo to all the way through till the complete product. With our off-shore team, designed, built and launched the mobile product (from Zero to One) including API and UI (mobile and web) in a containerized (Docker) environment on Azure. Technology used include C, C#.Net Core, Xamarin and ORM (MACH architecture) with internal and 3rd Party integrations, coupled with rich features to bring about an extremely configurable system, for enhanced security and scalability. Appropriate security for external and internal facing API has been implemented to reduce the impact of DDOS, rooted device tracing, certificate pinning etc. Working towards being CCPA and GDPR compliant from ground up. Facilitating LSI to become the upcoming Identity & Access Management (IAM) Provider in the industry with highly improved patented technologies. Also work with anchor clients, design partners, angel investors, seed and pre-series investors and VCs to present the application features, strategic and tactical roadmaps, and the vision of the system.
Alongside my role as the Technology Oversight of an Enterprise Initiative for global resource management, I led the Java, Spring Boot and ORM based (MACH architecture) delivery teams in the role of a Technology Manager of Application Development for the Financial Centers, ATM, Contact Center, Rewards and Payments Technology teams. I was responsible for the delivery, leadership, app governance, mentoring, training, growth and management for the capabilities and success of the technical associates in my team of scrum masters, technical leads, feature leads and software developers to work closely with the CIO teams to decipher and deliver the needs of the business. My focus was, had always been and shall continue to be to guide and mentor my team towards leadership that I may focus on strategic initiatives. Beyond my technical and leadership responsibilities, I led the Operational Excellence in my organization, led the hiring initiatives for current and new technology centers, was part of the Employee Engagement committee, strongly encouraged D&I, and coached/mentored other associates across teams. Also participated and won innovation challenges multiple times across LOBs!
As the Software Development Manager, I was responsible for leadership and management of a high performing team of software engineers, architects and team leads, on a multi-stack (Java, .Net, PHP) OmniChannel Global E-Commerce Platform, with E-Commerce, OMS, Mobile Point of Commerce & Data Analytics products with: • hands-on problem solving for critical performance and support issues • adherence of documented policies of CI/CD and Change Management • recommending and implementing practices towards making it a standard for improving productivity and streamlining processes • training, mentoring and guidance for entry-level software engineers • observing, recommending and driving initiatives to increase productivity while reducing/containing cost • mentoring and guiding upcoming leaders in the team towards their leadership capacities • HR responsibilities (interview / recruit / terminate, time-off approvals, appraisals, provide feedback, resolve conflicts etc)
As the Founder of the company, and Director of Product & Application Development of the SaaS Portal, I was responsible for the direction, governance, leadership and management on a hybrid stack (.Net on the frontend and Java as the middleware) with: • product vision, roadmap and market feasibility of features • budgeting and financial planning including approvals for expenses and purchases • maintaining, managing and delivering enhancements to meet the deadlines • resource management of off-shore product platform development and consulting teams • end-to-end product platform development of SVC Portal, an upcoming and unique global CRM cloud platform for service providers (targeted ads, contact management, scheduling, reminders, invoicing, payments, real-time custom forms, timezone independent, locale independent, label independent etc) • review high level architecture, webservices, microservices, integration points, application, UI/UX, database design • review and approve data elements for WS-APIs to be shared with 3rd-party providers • set, enforce and improve coding standards • mentor and guide upcoming leaders in the teams • solve problems related to computation, application logic and process flows • HR responsibilities (interview / recruit / terminate, timesheets, time-off approvals, appraisals, provide feedback, resolve conflicts etc)