Resume of Vice President of Engineering

Title
Vice President of Engineering

Primary Skills
Strong in product development, strategic project planning and project implementation with budgets of $75+ million.

Location
US-CA-San Jose

Posted
Apr-04-07

PROFILE:

* Visionary business leader with 20 years of experience building and revitalizing business operations. Proven team building and relationship management skills utilized in enhancing the performance of as many as 150 individuals and 35 direct reports.
* Strong in product development, strategic project planning and tactical project implementation with budgets in excess of $75 million. Skilled in research and development, product design, business model development, technical architecture requirements, production management, and customer support.
* Proficient in creating and delivering IT initiatives and business processes on a global basis, experienced in the design, construction, deployment and maintenance of high volume applications and consumer PC-based software applications in zero-downtime tolerant environments.
* A successful key player in startup technology organizations; skilled in funding through a variety of financing activities including venture capital and private investors.
* Demonstrated communication skills with the unique ability to leverage an understanding and appreciation of global business environments.

EXPERIENCE:

NETFORENSICS, INC., Edison, NJ / Reston,VA 2005 - Present
Global software provider of security information systems specifically targeting financial services, pharmaceutical, government and commercial industries.

Vice President of Engineering
Lead and communicate the restructuring of the engineering department, as well as the strategic vision, product roadmap and project goals across the organization with the executive team. Establish an additional engineering team to design and build the enterprise application, while reducing off shore resources and minimizing project interruptions. Implement all process and procedures throughout the entire organization spanning across sales technical resources, technical support, customer advocacy and sales. Establish the communication vehicles and goals between sales and engineering leadership to tighten the integration and transparency between engineering projects and sales revenue forecasts.

* Created an enterprise level application which generated $10 million in revenue over a 9 month period by working closely with the CIO/CTO of Citigroup, Bank of America and Department of Energy to integrate custom technologies.
* Increased revenue 20% over a 12 month period by implementation of third party tools and technology integration partnerships with Business Objects, Cisco and Hewlett Packard's Open View, Service Desk and Identity Management solution.
* Developed the roadmap for the next generation security product (Application Monitoring, Database Monitoring and Change/Configuration management) which has a market potential of 4 billion dollars by tying the security operations centers with the network operations centers.
* Saved $1.5 million over a 8 month period by improving product architecture and streamlining development.


FUSION TECHNOLOGIES, INC., San Francisco, CA 2004 - 2005
A business and IT consultancy providing custom design and development for fortune 500 companies with more than 100 domestic and off-shore professionals.

Senior Director-Consultant
Guided all consulting activities at four key accounts: Wells Fargo, Wachovia, Dun and Bradstreet and Market Max. Orchestrated all phases of Project Management and Software Development for key clients while working in close collaboration with project managers, developers, technical architects and business customers.
Directed activities in: risk assessment, design and redesign reviews, applications rollout definition and implementation, release management installation and configuration (development, test, staging, production), logical and physical data modeling, application, network and database security architecture (design and implementation, SOX Compliance), disaster recovery planning and delivery.
* Key player in securing and maintaining contracts while participating in the contract negotiations and the development of SOW's in response to client RFP's.
* Directed the efforts of more than 80 IT professionals including 15 Architects and Project Managers in projects valued at up to $15 million.
* Created a one shore model with project leaders and managers located at clients and development accomplished off shore in London, Amsterdam, India and Russia.

HONEYWELL, INC.,Scottsdale, AZ 2003 - 2004

Chief Architect - Consultant
Charged with rescuing and implementing an executive level internet-enabled, reporting system that was challenged by severe budget expansion and delivery delays at more than 150 locations. Coordinated technology strategies and tactics focused on realigning the IT organization and transforming it into a scalable, agile operation.
Directed activities in: J2EE framework selection and implementation, software development process establishment, rational development tool set implementation, modeling process documentation, design methodology definition, new build process implementation, software quality improvement and quality metrics.

* Assembled and guided a team of two project managers, three architects and thirty four developers and test engineers in successful back-end, middle tier and front-end development while delivering cost savings of more than $15m.
* Saved the project $3 million by eliminating tools, technology and training that had been out dated.


BLACKBOARD, INC., Phoenix, AZ 2002 - 2003
A global provider of educational software applications utilized in higher education by both educators and students.

Vice President of Development - Consultant
Guided the development of software architecture while directing the activities of a software application department comprised of nineteen developers, three DBA's, a project manager and a technical writer.
Successfully raised funding money through Microsoft after personally presenting the merits of modifying a legacy AT&T calling card format to Bill Gates.
Directed activities in: integrating card readers, biometrics and user input, researching and applying appropriate new .NET technologies, providing .NET training to the software engineering department and others, delivering Agile Software Development methodologies,
* Spearheaded successful development of the company's new educational (debit card) transaction system.
* Architected the next generation financial transaction system for higher educational institutions.
* Generated average system sales of $1.5 million while doubling annual revenues from $35 million to more than $60 million in only one year.

BUSINESS-TO-INVESTOR INC., Dallas, TX 2000 - 2002
A self funded technology startup providing financial communications systems delivering timely and vital corporate financial information through 28 modules to investors throughout the world on a subscription basis. The company presently supports more than 14,000 clients and employs more than 25 employees while generating annual revenues in excess of $75m.

Chief Information Officer / Chief Architect
Engineered and patented systems providing technological innovation by delivering rapid and timely financial business intelligence to a diversified clientele while complying with organizational business objectives. Recruited management professionals and programming specialists to fulfill all project implementation, development and production requirements while developing a cost effective, technologically advanced organization across multiple locations. Directed the management and operation of all technology initiatives and computer infrastructure requirements. Analyzed functional systems requirements and evaluated the business potential of all business groups.

* Successfully developed, delivered and implemented Investment Services' Financial Communication Systems for this start-up company on time and under budget with a resultant savings of more than $2 million.
* Produced company-wide head count savings of 10% through technology productivity enhancements and hosting companies.
* Key player in year-to-year revenue increases of more than 700%.


MPOWER COMMUNICATIONS, INC. Las Vegas, NV 1995 - 2000
A start up telecommunications company providing voice over IP and dedicated data transmission in 33 states.

Vice President of Application Development
Charged with developing the company's application development department from ground up and transforming a legacy SCO-Unix system to a multi platform system with automation and third-party gateways and interfaces.
Worked in close collaboration with channel marketers and VAR's. Provided pre and post sales technical support while effectively communicating the highly technical concepts in practical business language to the product's end users. Directed activities in: web site architecture development, data processing procedures, QA, development and documentation standards, local area networking technology, system compatibility and connectivity, and annual automation planning.
* Successfully grew the department to 65 personnel comprised of 38 Application Developers, 8 Quality Assurance / Test Engineers, 7 Subject Matter Experts, 5 Database Administrators and 7 Technical Writers.
* Established standards and relationship with ILEC's and CLEC's throughout the US via the distribution of data.
* Initiated one of the industry's first VOIP offerings in six different states.
* Instrumental in securing more than $1 billion in critical company funding resulting in company growth from a presences of five states to thirty three states and a employee growth from three hundred to over four thousand.

JGB CONSULTING, Point Pleasant, NJ 1991 - 1995
A company designing and providing automated test equipment utilized by professionals in the Automotive, Aerospace, Mechanical, Electronic, Medical and Biomedical industries.

Director of Engineering
Directed the activities of 12 Engineers in the design and development of automated custom test equipment. Incorporated standards that met government, ISO and military specifications. Designed simulators for a range of customers to validate manufacturing costs and tool setups.

* Instituted new processes and procedures along with new SDLC which reflected in individual project cost savings.
* Company grew from 3 to 12 engineers by accommodating more projects due to the streamline of process and design methodologies.
* Worked closely with Hewlett Packard and National Instruments to provide new test findings and designs to help improve the test community for future products and instrumentations.


TECHNICAL SYNOPSIS:

Core Competencies: Leading Edge Software Engineering and Development, Software Architecture, Data Warehousing, Integrity and Recovery, Internet Based Systems
Platforms: Solaris, HP-UX, Microsoft Windows, Linux (Red Hat, Sun Linux)
Languages: Assembly, C, C++, Visual C, C#, Basic, VB.Net, ASP, Java, JSP
Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL SQL, MySQL

EDUCATION:
PhD, Electronic Engineering, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
BS, Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

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