Co-Founder, CTO and Chief Product Officer at Certemy

As a Co-Founder, CTO and a CPO responsible for all aspects of designing, developing and implementing Product and Technology initiatives within the organization. Responsible for directing, planning and managing company's Technology and Product departments. Responsible for Product Strategy, Market and Competitive Research, Product Roadmap. Lead Product Ideation, Prototyping, Analytics and Market & Customer Testing. Responsible for Product and Technology OKRs. Lead Cloud and API First System and Platform Architecture.Designed and Implement Product Ideation, Development and Rollout Process (Alpha, Closed Beta and Open Beta process). Responsible for establishing and implementing data and reporting strategy for the company.Technologies involved: Nodejs, Angularjs, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS RDS, AWS Lambda, Jenkins, Redis, AWS ECS, Python, React
    
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Certemy is the first instantly configurable SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) platform for managing professional certification, licensing and compliance.

Our customers include boards, associations, and employers. We help our customers improve efficiency, create transparency, reduce administrative and IT costs, grow revenues, and develop professional competencies.

Compared to custom solutions, Certemy is less expensive, faster to implement and change, easier to learn and use, and more secure and reliable.
Product Tour Video:
https://certemy.com/solutions/platform-overview#product-tour

Customer Case Study:
https://certemy.com/customers#case-study

Customer Testimonial Video:
https://certemy.com/customers

Certemy

As a Co-Founder, CTO and a CPO responsible for all aspects of designing, developing and implementing Product and Technology initiatives within the organization. Responsible for directing, planning and managing company's Technology and Product departments, from inception to over 50 Engineers, Designers and Product Managers. As a member of the executive team responsible for defining, planning and executing Product Roadmap, Performance Targets and Organizational KPIs. Responsible for driving organizational and the architectural technology foundation for Mobile and Web SaaS platforms offered by the company. Responsible for establishing and directing Marketing and Public Relations efforts of the company. Responsible for User Research, Acquisition Funnel, Persona Definition, Paid and Organic Customer Acquisition. Responsible for Product Ideation, Elaboration, Construction and Product Deployment (Alpha, Closed Beta and Open Beta process). Responsible for defining company culture consisting of Guiding & Operating Principles as well employee evaluation targets. Responsible for establishing and implementing data strategy for the company.Technologies involved: Spring, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, REST APIs, Spring Cloud, React, AWS, SQS, SES, Elastic Search, Redis, Dynamo DB, RDS MySQL, ECS, Power BI, Treasure Data, Python, Nodejs, Kotlin, IoT, Microservices, Snowplow, Fivetran, Kafka, BLE, Kontakt.io, IoT, MQTT, AWS IoT Core
    
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      Raken, Inc.
  

Post PushPoint acquisition was responsible for integration of Pushpoint AdTech Marketing and Offer Management Platform into Tablet and Web-Based Point of Sale (POS). Spearheaded Technology Management and Technical Architecture of a Small Business Product Suite consisting of SaaS eCommerce Platform, Payment Management Platform and Marketing/Offer Management Platform for a SMB Capital One Customers. Managed 150 Web and Mobile Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers, Project and Product Managers in multiple US and Offshore locations. Led Continuous Integration/Continuous delivery and Microservice-centric platform re-architecture efforts. Spearheaded implementation of A/B, Split Testing and Multivariate testing program implementation. Let AWS Cloud migration.Technologies involved: AWS, SQS, SMS, SES, SNS, Kafka, Spring Boot, Spring, REST APIs, Spring Cloud, Python, Java, Flask, Swift, Objective-C, Ribbon, Eureka, Hystrix, Zuul, Chef, CI/CD, Dynamo DB, RDS MySQL, S3, Hadoop, EMR
    
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Capital One Financial Corporation, incorporated in July 21, 1994, is a diversified banking company focused primarily on consumer and commercial lending and deposit origination. Its principal business segments are Local Banking and National Lending. Local Banking includes consumer, small business and commercial deposits, and lending conducted within its branch network. The National Lending segment consists of three sub-segments: the U.S. Card sub-segment, which consists of domestic consumer credit and debit card activities; the Auto Finance sub-segment, which includes automobile and other motor vehicle financing activities, and the Global Financial Services sub-segment consisting of international lending activities, small business lending, installment loans, home loans, healthcare financing and other diversified activities. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer F/M/Disability/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

Capital One

As a CTO and a CPO responsible for all aspects of designing, developing and implementing Product initiatives within the organization; Responsible for directing, planning and managing company's Technology and Product departments. As a member of the senior management team responsible for planning corporate growth and strategic roadmap execution. Responsible for driving organizational and the architectural technology foundation for Mobile and Web SaaS platforms offered by the company. Responsible for supportability, extendibility, scalability and uninterrupted service delivery of the high transaction Mobile Promotion Management Platform to a number of high profile Financial InstitutionsTechnologies involved: J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, JBoss/Tomcat, Angular, MangoDB, RabbitMQ, MySQL, EC2, S3, CloudFront, REST WebServices, Swagger, Recurely, Objective-C, ioS7, BLE, Estimote, Gimbal, IoT, MQTT, AWS IoT CorePushPoint was acquired by Capital One Bank in October 2014.
    
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      PushPoint
  

As a Co-Founder and  CTO responsible for all aspects of developing and implementing Information Technology initiatives within the organization; Responsible for planning, establishing, implementing and managing all efforts related to Product Development and Infrastructure Management. As a member of the founding and executive team responsible for planning and implementing organizational KPIs, product roadmap and organizational process. Technologies involved: Magento 1, Magento 2, PHP, Laravel, AWS, S3, RDS MySQL, Redis, Tableau
    
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      Bungalow Clothing
  

As as CIO/CPO responsible for leading the Cinsay Platform Product Management, the Cinsay Platform Product Development and the Cinsay IT Systems and Operations; Responsible for Platform Product Management function amalgamating market and business requirements from business stakeholders into product specifications as well as maintaining the strategic platform product roadmap, broken down into regular releases; Responsible for the Platform Product Development function including related software engineering, and quality assurance functions focused on achieving a leadership position in SaaS eCommerce market; Responsible for the IT Systems and Operations, deploying and operating Cinsay data centers and computer systems to deliver and support mission critical business applications.Technologies involved: J2EE, Spring, JSF, Hibernate, JBoss/Tomcat, Axis(WebServices), Magento, Zend, Flex JMS, JMX, TDD, AOP, Load Runner, Maven, Continues Integration, Wodpress, PHP, .NET
    
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About us

  Cinsay has created a next generation eCommerce, viewer interactive, video-based platform for any size businesses. Cinsay's SaaS based technology enables anyone to sell products, display printable coupons, capture donations, and generate leads all inside the patented Smart Store. Customers are offered a complete turnkey business via merchant account services as well as an exclusive on-demand solution featuring dozens of personal, brandable products like t-shirts, caps, mugs and iPhone covers. Customers benefit from Cinsay's in-depth reporting tools and real-time statistical data. Cinsay's embeddable platform is compatible with web and mobile HTML5 devices and is highly scalable.

Cinsay

As a Founder and CEO was responsible for all efforts related to Budget planning, Strategic Direction setting, Organizational Process establishment, Organizational KPI setting, Performance Targets and Product Roadmap management. Lead efforts in Executive Team hiring, organizational culture establishment and management. Was directly responsible for establishment and management of the Product Roadmap
    
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About us

  ConferenceByWire brings an unprecedented range of solutions and services related to Conference, Symposium, Colloquium and Convention attendance. Unlike other conference facilitators ConferenceByWire allows its users to attend Professional Conference, Symposium, Colloquium and Convention without a need to be physically present. ConferenceByWire service offerings are centered on convenience, information availability and flexibility. Instead of forcing users into a particular conference model we provide very granular service offings that serve diverging demands of individual users. ConferenceByWire offers solutions that are both targeting to increase conference attendance and reducing cost of conference attendance.

ConferenceByWire, Inc.

As a CTO responsible for all aspects of developing and implementing Information Technology initiatives within the organization; Responsible for directing, planning and managing the company's Information Systems policies. As a member of the senior executive team responsible for planning corporate growth in general and digital account growth in particular. As a CDO responsible for formulation, development and execution of digital marketing strategy across search, email, display, social and affiliate marketing channels, including organizational implementation of various digital marketing tools. Responsible for leading a digital team and digital account management. Responsible for establishing and meeting Key Performance Indicators consistent with digital account growth.  •	Established Search Marketing, Email Marketing, Social Marketing and Display Marketing strategies•	Established and implemented digital account growth strategy•	Implemented Marketing Campaign Management Tool for cross-channel digital and offline campaign management•	Designed and Implemented pixel based universal campaign tracking •	Implemented Bid Management Tool for automated search management•	Implemented Demand Side Platform for automated display management•	Implemented Email Service Provider integration for automated email management•	Implemented Social Management Toll for automated social network management•	Established project assessment and prioritization process•	Established project management process based on Agile Unified Process•	Established IT OPS ITIL process•	Implemented Sarbanes-Oxley compliance •	Implemented HIPAA compliance•	Implemented PCI compliance
    
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      Integrated Media Solutions LLC
  

As a VP of Engineering responsible for all Development, Quality Assurance, Configuration Management, Database Management, Data Warehouse, Project and Management efforts in the company. Responsible for software architecture and overall technical and product vision. Responsible for managing six teams of 50 members. Responsible for determining hardware and software technological base of the software solutions. Responsible for leading product launch across Development, Operations and Quality Assurance and Project Management departments. Direct report to CEO of the companyBusiness and ProcessTechnologies involved: J2EE, Spring, JSF, Hibernate, JBoss/Tomcat, Axis(WebServices), JMS, JMX, Drools (Rule Engine), Oracle 9i, JBossCache, Maven, TDD, AOP, Load Runner, Maven, Continues Integration, Velocity, JXPath, PHP, Propel
    
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      Vantage Media
  

As a Sr. Director responsible for all development, quality assurance, configuration management and project management efforts across several B2C and B2B applications. Responsible for site architecture and overall technical vision. Responsible for managing several Engineering teams of 18 members. Responsible for determining hardware and software technological base and leading development from conception through product launch across Development, Operations and Quality Assurance departments. Direct report to the SVP and the General Manager of the companysoftware and hardware level, of entire LowerMyBills web site)   Technologies involved: J2EE, Spring, JSF, Hibernate, JBoss/Tomcat, Axis(WebServices), JMS, JMX, Drools (Rule Engine), Oracle 9i, JBossCache, Maven, TDD, AOP, Load Runner, Maven, Continues Integration, Velocity, JXPath
    
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Harvard Extension School

Ph.D. in Organization and Management, Information Technology Management SpecializationDissertation: THE IMPACT OF EXPERIMENTATION ON PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT IN COMPANIES INVOLVED IN INTERACTIVE MARKETING


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University of Liverpool

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Co-Founder, CTO and Chief Product Officer at Certemy

Certemy

Co-Founder, CTO and Chief Product Officer

Raken, Inc.

Co-Founder, CTO and Chief Product Officer

Capital One

Head of Engineering (Post PushPoint Aquisition)

PushPoint

Co-Founder, CTO and Chief Product Officer (Acquired by Capital One)

Bungalow Clothing

Co-Founder and CTO

Cinsay

CIO and Chief Product Officer (Post ConferenceByWire Merger)

ConferenceByWire, Inc.

Founder and CEO (Merged with Cinsay)

Integrated Media Solutions LLC

CTO

Vantage Media

VP of Engineering

LowerMyBills.com

Sr. Director of Architecture and QA (Aquired by Experian)

Harvard Extension School

Computer Software Engineering

Master of Arts - MA

Capella University

School of Business and Technology

Ph.D.

University of Liverpool

Information Technology

MSc Information Technology

University of California San Diego

Computer Science

BACS