Summary
Hands-on senior technology leader able to fulfill multiple roles for any organization as System Architect, Solutions Architect, Technical Program Manager, and Visionary / Thought Leader for Engineering team. Enjoys solving business challenges with the right technical solution
Experience
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co
Executive Director, Head of Engineering, Data Governance Fabric
January 2020 – Present
Key Accomplishments
- Managed annual $12mm program to build out an automated data governance fabric solution. Data Governance Fabric provides continuous insights by identifying and connecting meta data from disparate sources to discover unique, business-relevant relationships. Its capability includes lineage, root cause analysis, actionable insights, and data governance.
- Guided a small nimble team of 3 engineers from early innovation and proof-of-value to a mature funded program with 4 scrum teams within a year
- Invented a system and method for harvesting observations to automate discovery – US Patent pending, filed on January, 2022
Technologies
Java, Python, Neo4J, Groovy, Jenkins Pipeline, ReactJS, Spring Boot, AWS EKS, Tableau, IntelliJ, ANTLR
Executive Director, Head of Engineering, Sales Enablement
April 2017 – December 2019
Key Accomplishments
- Delivered within 3-year $10mm transformational project to provide a mobile first experience to JP Morgan Asset Management Client Advisors. Built on J.P. Morgan Spectrum platform, enabled client advisors to accomplish their job by providing necessary mobile capabilities.
- Invented US Patent 10,681,048 to overcome technical limitations on android platform to provide consistent mobile experience for workforce
- Lead Design Authority for all of J.P. Morgan Asset Management Sales Technology. Responsible for overall engineering solution for all Sales platforms – CRM, mobile apps, workstations, and business intelligence tools
- Promoted to Executive Director on January 2018
Technologies
Java, Typescript, Angular, bootstrap, Cloud Foundry, Spring Boot, microservices, Jersey, Jackson, Salesforce, Eclipse, XCode, Maven, webpack, Chromium, Salesforce
Vice President, Solutions Architect, Digital Marketing
July 2015 – March 2017
Key Accomplishments
- Architected and built the Single Pane of Glass solution for Sales and Marketing technology. This enabled the development team to build front-end solutions that seamlessly integrate into a multi-channel (browser, hybrid mobile, and hybrid desktop) platform.
- Lead Design Authority for Asset Management Marketing technology team. Responsible for the overall solution for the digital marketing platform – personalization, CMS, mobile.
Technologies
Objective-C, Chromium, Java, C#.NET, WPF, TypeScript, Angular, bootstrap, Cloud Foundry, Spring Boot, Oracle, MariaDB, Eclipse, XCode, Maven
Goldman Sachs
Vice President, Mobile / Enterprise Architect, Digital Marketing
November 2013 – June 2015
Key Accomplishments
- Architected the full-stack end-to-end mobile platform for the Asset Management Advisory Sales business. The mobile application is the primary tool for the financial advisory sales business users who are on the road majority of their time in various territories across the United States. This solution integrated with existing CRM and supports syncing to enable all data under disconnected mode.
- Worked closely with Firm’s Enterprise team that built out the infrastructure for the proprietary Mobile Device Management solution. Provided feedbacks and improvements on the existing solution.
- Collaborated with Technology Risk team to balance the technology risk and business benefits of features needed to enhance user experience
Technologies
Objective-C, Core Data, Magical Records, Java, microservices, ZooKeeper, Jersey, Jackson, Spring, Grizzly, SalesLogix CRM, SQL Server, Eclipse, XCode, Appium, JBehave, Selenium WebDriver, Quartz Scheduler, Gradle, Groovy
Member, Technology Excellence Committee
January 2013 – June 2015
Key Accomplishments
- Created and standardized the testing maturity measure and evangelized them across Goldman Sachs Asset Management division
- Published several frameworks to help accelerate and standardize engineering practice to reduce developer friction
Technologies
Java, SharePoint, Apache ZooKeeper, Apache HTTP Component, Grizzly, Selenium WebDriver, Quartz Scheduler
Vice President, Engineering Lead, Digital Marketing
November 2012 – October 2013
Key Accomplishments
- Engineered a solution for the first in-page authentication mechanism for the firm. Prior to this, all users were re-directed to the centralized authentication system. This solution leverages AJAX with CORS to overcome constraints placed by Technology Risk team to ensure no credentials are passed-through non-centralized authentication services.
- Collaborated with Adobe experts and internal Technology Risk liaison to design the overall Enterprise architecture for the Goldman Sachs Asset Management digital content platform meeting all risk guidelines without impacting business requirements.
- Built out the infrastructure needed to support the Adobe CQ5 (now AEM) based digital platform for the firm
Technologies
Java, Adobe CQ5, Tomcat, Apache HTTPD, mod_jk, mod_proxy, Adobe dispatcher, stunnel, Javascript, CORS, Apache Mina, Eclipse, Selenium WebDriver, Jetty, Quartz Scheduler, Gradle
Vice President, Manager, Sales Technology
January 2010 – November 2012
Accomplishments
- Managed global technology team that supported the Sales, Client Service, and Management Reporting team within the GSAM Distribution business. Supported over a thousand global business users across multiple platforms.
- Uplifted both Institutional and Third Party legacy CRM systems to migrated risk related to older versions of vendor product
- Gained a strong understanding of Broker-Dealer Mutual Funds Advisory sales business and associated technology data flows.
- Implemented mobile CRM applications on blackberry
Technologies
ASP.NET, C#, IIS, SQL Server, Sybase, TSQL, BlackBerry SDK, SalesLogix, Qlikview, ETL, Visual Studio, Hudson, Selenium
Vice President, Engineering Lead, Client Service Technology
January 2007 – December 2009
Key Accomplishments
- Designed a custom workflow system from ground-up to meet challenging business requirements of Institutional Client Service team. System required ability to go back to any completed task with intelligence to rollback only relevant tasks based on new business decision.
- Implemented a custom workflow solution. With very little changes to the initial architecture, platform that had only supported 15 users with 3 workflows was successfully scaled to over 300+ global users and 30 different workflows
- Promoted to Vice President on December 2008
Technologies
ASP.NET, C#, IIS, SQL Server, Sybase, SharePoint, VSTO, SOAP, VBScript, Visual Studio, CruiseControl.NET, NAnt
Associate, Senior Software Engineer, Client Service Technology
March 2006 – December 2006
Key Accomplishments
- Worked with both business and up-stream data provider to architect data validation system to help improve monthly report delivery timeline
- Improved overall data quality and reduced timeline delivery of report from mid-month within first 5 business days through the automated validation requiring business to check on data exceptions
Technologies
Java, Sybase, IBM Cognos, Eclipse, CruiseControl, Ant
Sapient
Now Publicis Sapient
Senior Associate, Level 2
January 2000 – February 2006
Key Accomplishments
- Mitigated successfully a major risk associated with client’s decision to change platform from .NET to Java two weeks prior to the start of development with minimal impact to architecture, scope, and timeline
- Architected a dynamic node distribution data store solution to meet client’s requirements. Provided the ability for federal government client to setup a remote node at any point in time that would connect and synchronize data across all nodes in close to real-time
- Volunteered to assist the United States Marine Corps in Iraq for 3 months in a war zone to deploy a Logistics System and provide on-site support
- Developed material and trained Navy Construction Battalion on the Navy Logistics Systems prior to their deployment to Afghanistan and Iraq
- Managed successfully a mix team of technology developers and creative designers to deliver complex n-tier web application
Clients/ Industry / Roles / Location
- Federal Bureau of Investigation / Public Sector / Architect / Washington, DC
- United States Marine Corps / Public Sector / System Support / Fallujah, IR
- Office of Naval Research / Public Sector / Engineering Lead /Washington, DC
- Harrah’s, Inc / Gaming and Entertainment / Engineering Lead / Memphis, TN
- Blue Cross Blue Shield / Insurance / Senior Engineer / Chicago, IL
- Prudential Insurance / Insurance / Senior Engineer & Co-Lead / Holmdel, NJ
- Opodo.com / Travel / Engineer / London, UK
- Goldman Sachs / Financial Service / New York, NY
- GovWorks.com / Start-up / New York, NY
Princeton Internet Group
Software Engineer
September 1997 – December 1999
Key Accomplishments
- Designed and Implemented Java based CMS for various clients
- Built a java applet for an online design sports team apparel client. Received JARS awards.
- Backfilled as System Administrator
Mercer County Community College
Adjunct Instructor
September 1998 – May 1999
Key Accomplishments
- Designed the course outline for Web Developer and Web Administrator Certification courses. These 2 courses along with Web Designer Certification were part of the Mercer County Community College Web Master Certification offering
- Taught and certified upon completion students who successfully accomplish the requirements summarized by the course outline