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Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
Skills
Education
- MI
- MS
- BU
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Work Experience
2024
Chief Digital and Business Officer
2024
As the Digital Transformation Leader, I am excited to lead Atomicwork’s journey to bring modern service management through its conversational AI platform to our customers and prospects. CIO Thought Leadership US GTM Partnerships Customer Success Business Development Sales
2022
Co-Founder, Investor, Startups & CIO / CISO Advisor
2022
Thought leader and practitioner who works with startups, founders, and VCs in B2B, Cyber Security, IT-Infrastructure, Enterprise SaaS, Cloud, Data Centers, DevOps, DevSecOps, Data Management, DataOps, AI / ML. I engage with 350+ CxOs, Enterprise executives, and Leaders from Startups to Fortune 1000 companies to dig deep into the problems and trends being addressed in their ecosystems. I help raise funds, build better products, scale growth, great teams, and fantastic culture. Some of the recent startups in my portfolio. rapidfort.com; balkan.id; privado.ai; observo.ai; storytell.ai; Private-ai.com; motherduck.com; getsift.ai; getmiles.com; cloudeagle.ai; invigrid.com;linen.cloud;
2023 - 2024
Chief Business & Growth Officer
2023 - 2024
Business and Growth Operations, Security & Compliance Products, AI/ML, Strategy, GTM & Customer Success B2B SaaS, OEM, and Strategic Partnerships Addressing customers needs of Data Engineering, Integrations, AI/ML, Salesforce, CLM, ERP, M&A Technology Integrations, and Digital Transformation
2017 - 2022
CIO & CISO
2021 - 2022
- Contributed to revenue growth by 2x to $500M+ with global acquisitions and expansion. - Consolidated and grew the team by 2X to more than 100+ IT, Security, Data Engineering, Data Products, MLOps. - Strengthen product and business security by partnering with the leadership and their teams. - Led 24/7 IT service for 1500+ remote home offices worldwide. - Led large-scale projects in hybrid clouds(AWS, GCP, Azure) involving redesigning the organization for M&A integrations. - Established EPMO to consolidate global project and portfolio organization and budgets. - Established COE for cyber security and enterprise business technology to support products, global ERP deployments, and ever-growing finance, sales, and marketing teams. - Established a Center for Enterprise Architecture to define enterprise strategy and architecture in collaboration with product, engineering, and IT teams to deliver a world-class suite of applications. - Democratized data through global data engineering teams, data products and business analytics. - Developed strong security, privacy controls, and enterprise security policies globally. - Led compliance and ITGRC teams with 100% on-time execution of 10K, SOX, CCPA, GDPR, and SOC2 global programs.
VP, SVP, Data Engineering
2017 - 2022
- Delivered revenue-impacting data products that propelled company growth by 2X. - Established a vision and leadership structure globally and scaled the team to 50+. - I directed a highly accomplished data engineering team. - Extensive experience in digital engineering promotions, personalization, loyalty programs, DSP, DMP, and advertising; - Led multiple migration projects from Hadoop, Netezza, and Snowflake to bigQuery. - Data integrations using Airflow, Python, and DataOps on GCP, Azure, and AWS. - Managed multiple M&A portfolio company data and services integrations. - Led data security, privacy (CCPA, GDPR), compliance engineering - Extensive collaboration with legal, engineering, product, operations, and senior leadership - I led the optimization and operationalization of ML models for scale across multiple clouds. - Sponsored and Developed MDM service collaboratively with the Data Science team to connect products, categories, and brands with sales and shoppers. - Collaborated with customers, business leaders, and product organization to prioritize features, products, and tech rollouts. - Led integrations with Liveramp, other identity providers, and advertising partner ecosystems and services; - Led DSP, DMP, retailer, and agency data partnership program contract negotiations and integrations; - Led Retail, CPG, and consumer technology partnerships and integrations;
2011 - 2017
Sr. Director, Enterprise Data, Analytics & Game DevOps
2011 - 2017
- Managed a global team of 60+ employees across China, Singapore, India, Europe, Canada, and the U.S. - Led DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, game development, and QA functions for social and mobile games. - Created scalable infrastructure to lead multiple migrations to and from the cloud; - Collaborate with game developers, designers, and data science teams globally. - Developed enterprise data strategy and transformed data culture to make data #2 priority after Player. - Led development teams to build data-driven games, infrastructure, analytics, security, privacy, and data services - Managed and migrated big data warehouses in Vertica, Redshift, Teradata, Cassandra, Google Big Query, MySQL, Spark, and Hadoop with various BI tools and OEM players.
2008 - 2011
Director, Infrastructure, Data and Analytics
2008 - 2011
- ShareThis is a social media data aggregator and provider of sharing widgets, products, and services to large publishers and advertisers through content and ad-tech platforms. ShareThis was one of the largest single cloud deployments on AWS between 2010-2011, with multiple data platforms and services to support publishers and advertisers. - Contributed to revenue growth from $0 to $40M. - Bootstrapped Data Engineering and Business Intelligence teams. - Developed state-of-the-art AWS infrastructure and data products at the cloud scale with strong DevOps and Agile methodologies. - Strong collaborator, and worked across product, engineering, and data science teams, during which ShareThis became a data powerhouse. - Engineered cloud-scale products and supported real-time bidding(RTB) for advertising with ~20ms response times. - Created ad-ops platform, reporting, insights for ad campaigns, and ML models for audience segments. - Developed highly scalable Hadoop, Hive, Aster Data, MySQL, CouchDB, Memcached, Cassandra, and MongoDB-based server infrastructures
2001 - 2008
Sr. Systems Engineer & E-Commerce Program Manager
2001 - 2008
- Qurate Retail is a retail, catalog, and E-commerce company focused on premium apparel and home furnishings brands. - Grew from $200M to $500M from 2001 to 2007. - Led efficiency in processes, cost optimization through consolidated technology, services and people. - Provided leadership across IT and R&D departments, establishing priorities and driving global transformational IT programs - Overhauled entire enterprise systems Infrastructure & application architecture that was built on legacy technologies. - Consolidated enterprise databases - from multi-vendor database solutions (Oracle, Sybase). - Led infrastructure, engineering and operations, network, telecom, data center, messaging, ITIL, and PMO. - Managed frontgate.com; ballarddesigns.com; garthill.com; travelsmith.com; grandiroad.com; territoryahead.com e-commerce technology operations and projects to support brand growth, revenue, and customer experience.
2000 - 2001
Data Management Consultant
2000 - 2001
As a Data Management Consultant architected databases, applications and Data Warehouses. Led projects and worked both in private and public sector industries.
1996 - 1999
Senior Consultant - Various Banking and Telecom Projects
1996 - 1999
I worked on SWIFT, Export Import Banking Software, EURO, and Telecomg companies like Nokia to develop and deploy GSM network infrastructure across Europe.