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• Director of Software Development, 

  Nov, 2020 - Present

  Head of engineering for FIS' alternate payments platform

  • Lead the engineering team responsible for FIS' non-card alternate payments platform in planning for and delivering product releases

  • Provide overall mentorship to a team of about 150 developers located in Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca in Romania, Cambridge, UK and Pune and Bangalore in India

  • Drive decision-making processes to consensus and ensure that steps are taken to actual implementation of product roadmap

  • Lead Agile Development teams and processes to deliver high quality software

  • Participate in strategic planning and design sessions with Product Management, Engineering Management, Architects, and Operations

  • Be a change agent for improving processes both local to the team and more broadly across the organization

• Senior Software Engineering Manager, 

  Jan, 2016 - Nov, 20204 years 10 months

  Lead the migration of monolithic applications to the cloud

  • Manage a team of 12 engineers, including QA engineers, through the entire software development lifecycle, using agile practices

  • Design and lead the first AWS project in the department, migrating a monolithic application to the cloud

• Software Engineering Manager, 

  Jan, 2012 - Dec, 20153 years 11 months

  • Manage a team of 8 engineers, including QA engineers, through the entire software development lifecycle, using agile practices

  • Interact with Visa, MasterCard, Discover and other card networks to manage projects and specifications

  • Led the team to successful implementation of business enhancements mandated by the card networks, on their scheduled date, and within cost

  • Manage merchant communications and project implementations with the customer relationship department

• Principal Software Engineer, 

  Jun, 2010 - Dec, 20111 year 6 months

  • Designed and implemented credit card services to enable merchants to reduce costs on credit card transactions. Technologies used include Hibernate, JBoss, Tomcat, IBM DB2.

• Staff Software Engineer, 

  Dec, 2004 - Jul, 20105 years 7 months

  • Designed and implemented the Report Writer, which allows reports to be defined easily by a business user and generates SQL and formats the output into Excel or PDF. The Report Writer was the main selling point of Vestmark. Technologies used include Hibernate, JBoss, Tomcat, SQL Server.

  • Designed and implemented software to enable the financial industry to manage large volumes of multi-sleeve separately managed accounts.

• Staff Software Engineer, 

  Jul, 1998 - Dec, 20046 years 5 months

  Technical Lead, Content Analysis Services

  • Technical Lead of Content Analysis Services, the analysis and reporting tool for providing business intelligence about Vignette's content management system. Technologies used included Windows and Unix, Oracle, SQL Server 2000, IBM DB2, J2EE, WebLogic.

  • Coordinated integration with other product development teams across geographical locations, including the US and India.

  • Designed data-mining for a content management system using OLAP technology. Led a team of up to 5 engineers. Worked with product architects to do detailed design of components.

• Founder, 

  Dec, 2001 - Present

  • Created a popular open-source project for discovery of database metadata.

• Software Engineer, 

  Dec, 1998 - Dec, 20002 years

  • Developed the front-end for an OLAP enabled business intelligence application. Technologies used Oracle, SQL Server, Oracle Express, Visual Basic.

  • Started Vignette's offshore engineering effort. Worked abroad to train the offshore team for an extended period of time. Facilitated Vignette's shift to a predominantly offshore model of development.

  • Recommended new techniques and processes in software development. These processes for bug tracking and code review were standardized and adopted across product groups.

  • Worked closely with professional services, customer support and QA to trace and identify difficult bugs, and to resolve customer issues. Instrumental in saving customer accounts.

• Senior Manager, 

  Jul, 1994 - Oct, 19973 years 3 months

  • Created the computer-based training (CBT) that enabled Lloyds Steel to codify their standard operating procedures, and get ISO 9000 certified.

  • Architected the Tata Group Web site, with streaming multimedia, chat rooms, and virtual reality. This was the very first time that the $9 billion company established a web presence.

  • Trained as an internal auditor for ISO 9000. Developed ISO 9000 processes for the company, and enabling it to achieve certification.

  • Managed groups of 30 managers, engineers, and artists. Responsible for customer schedules.

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