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Qualifications Summary

Software technology executive with broad experience in leading large organizations that define, develop and

deploy enterprise grade web applications. Diverse experience background including Human Capital

Management, eLearning, Entertainment & Gaming, International Trade and Compliance, E-commerce, and

Healthcare Software companies. Expertise in building highly secure, fault-tolerant, enterprise grade Software as a

Service (SaaS) applications for mobile and web clients. Expertise in developing and leading cross-functional teams

with diverse backgrounds, consensus building, problem solving, negotiating, and executing within budget

controls.

Areas of expertise include:

• Distilling Business Strategy and Vision into an Actionable Product Roadmap

• User Focused Product Design, Development, and Rollout Execution

• Optimal Product, Engineering, and IT Org Structure Design for Company’s Growth Trajectory

• Distributed and Oversees Team Development, Growth and Retention

• Hands-on Technical Roots for Building Enterprise Grade, Highly Scalable SaaS Products

• M&A Experience – Several Successful Company Acquisitions and Divestures

Professional Experience

HR Cloud/NEOGOV, El Segundo, CA August, 2012 – Present

VP, Research & Development

The company provides HCM solutions to private and public sectors through a pure SaaS model. In year 2013, 18M+ users used its

services, a user base that has been growing at 30% year over year. My role has been to provide leadership and support to Engineering,

Product, QA, IT/Ops and Integration Services.

• Brought product focus back to the core business, realigned teams to product investment strategy, rolled out

a quarterly roadmap, and executed.

• Brought in scrum based development methodology, increased product throughput by over 90%, and

delivered on bi-weekly releases with quality.

• Grew the development team from 45 to 90 with two new satellite offices in Belarus and Croatia. Larger

selection pool from other countries allowed for a much higher quality of talent acquisition.

• Mentored individual contributors from within into leaders, and delegated broader responsibilities and

autonomy to them.

• Supported large client acquisitions with pragmatic product investments, leading to 35% revenue growth.

• Leveraged modern technologies such as Mongo DB, Solr, SQL Server 2012, and advanced JS frameworks

for improved user experience.

• Rebuilt IT/Ops, established a moderate budget to meet current SLA’s and to support a three-year growth

trajectory. Moved seasonal traffic to AWS to reduce cost.

• Upgraded the InfoSec policy to ensure customer data security, and executed on a compliance plan.

• Eliminated frequent and unplanned outages by relentless focus on fixing the root cause.

HumanConcepts/Saba, Sausalito, CA Jan, 2008 – July, 2012

VP, Product Development

HumanConcepts’ product suite helps organizations analyze and align their workforce to meet their business’s evolving objectives.

Started as the head of engineering, and through a series of increases in responsibilities, managed all product portfolios and led the

development team.

Created the product vision and three-year roadmap with a focus on user adoption, value proposition, and

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market differentiation.

Consolidated three separate products and code lines into a single SaaS based solution with multiple mobile

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apps through a common public API framework.

Executed on the roadmap through an agile, scrum based weekly release cycle, and globalized the product.

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Built an award winning, best in class application suite from the ground up. Link to a few videos

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http://www.humanconcepts.com/resource/resource-media.htm.

Rebuilt engineering, QA, product management, user experience, and performance engineering teams with

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clear roles and responsibilities. Calibrated the in-house/off-shore development distribution and rebuilt the

off-shore team.

Introduced development disciplines and tools for timely software releases including storyboarding,

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architecture and design reviews, unit test coverage and automation.

Rebuilt the IT organization, negotiated contracts with a managed services provider and datacenter facility,

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and oversaw the rollout of the new SaaS platform.

Built a product advisory board for product feedback, and filed for a patent for the underlying technology.

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Blackboard Inc, Washington, DC Jan, 2005 – Aug, 2007

Director, Engineering

Blackboard, with a market cap of over $1B, is the leader of e-Education enterprise software applications and services. As the head of

engineering, led a distributed team of 100+ professionals including engineers, architects and project managers, and managed a budget of

$8M.

Renovated the engineering team, introduced proper development processes and engineering disciplines, and

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thereby reduced QA costs by 50% within the first year.

In the acquisition of a major Blackboard (Bb) competitor, WebCT, led the technology merge of the two

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distinct product platforms. This created a large cross-selling opportunity while reducing development and

maintenance costs. A product line offering of “best of the breed” from previous two rivals was critical to

customer retention and the company stock price gains of over 30%.

Delivered Outcomes Systems, one hundred and fifty man-year project, on-time and under budget. The new

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product line increased average sales contract ten-fold and further widened Bb’s competitive advantage. See

http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Learn/Products/Blackboard-Learn/Assessment-Accreditation-

Analytics/Outcomes-Assessment.aspx.

Led the architecture counsel and established a five year technical roadmap. The roadmap met its goals of

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aligning infrastructure growth with the product requirements, paying off 90% of the technical debt without

incurring data migration costs for existing customers.

Merged the two disparate (Bb and WebCT) engineering teams’ culture, processes and infrastructure to build

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a single cohesive team with clearly defined roles and responsibilities, career paths, and a mission statement.

The combined team was 40% more productive and had an attrition rate of less than 5%.

Open Harbor, San Carlos, CA Jan, 2001 – Dec, 2004

Senior Engineering Manager

A leading provider of International Trade Logistics solutions. As one of the early employees in the company, wore many hats during my

4-year tenure.

Hired and led a core development team to re-architect a web services-based system with focus on scalability

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improvements and per transaction cost reduction, and increased the system’s throughput capacity from

100k to 20M transactions a day.

Designed and implemented the first database platform for Open Harbor, and led the database team through

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four major and twelve minor upgrades over four years in a 24x7 uptime production environment.

Created a business intelligence platform that included establishing business goals, setting short- and long-

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term development strategy, selecting the right software vendors and tools, and design and development

execution.

Led a system internationalization (i18n) project that included gathering business requirements, projecting

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development cost and time estimates, cost containment and feature creep prevention, design and

implementation, and ensuring a solid quality assurance strategy for all layers of the system.

Built the first successful offshore development team for Open Harbor. Established a co-development

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process and delivered against solid quality standards.

Built an engineering hiring team, established and executed on a hiring process, and grew the team by 30

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engineers in two quarters.

Etak (a unit of Sony), Menlo Park, CA Nov, 1998 – Dec, 2000

Database Architect, Research & Development

Developed a data model and implemented a prototype for the largest single digital map in the world. The

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newly created database contained an editable, spatially accurate, topologically connected roadway, other

landlines and waterways map for the entire United States.

Wrote the data loaders, geo-coding and reverse geo-coding applications, spatial queries, and map editing

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tools.

Designed and implemented stress tests to ensure the system’s robustness to serve as the next mapping

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platform for Etak, Inc.

VersaForm Systems Corporation, Campbell, CA Feb, 1993 – Nov, 1998

Lead Software Engineer (1996 – 1998)

VersaForm provides Integrated Electronic Health Records Software and Practice Management Software from solos to clinics.

Replaced a single transaction object model with an asynchronous multiple transaction object model in a

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large electronic health records (EHR) application. The new model used varying transaction isolation-level

controls, and increased concurrency and performance.

Wrote the installation and upgrade programs for shrink-wrapped EHR application (a multi-tier, ODBC

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compliant, client-server application) to run on all Microsoft platforms.

Designed and implemented www.versaform.com and an on-line EHR demonstration program.

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Wrote a generalized feature lockout mechanism to cripple various levels of the application and the

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accompanying web-based key generator program.

Software Engineer (1993 – 1995)

Wrote a template maker and note generator for HER. The note generator was written as an alternative to

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speech recognition, and was competitive to IBM’s Simply Speaking and Kurtzwiel’s Dragon Dictate in

usability, speed and accuracy.

Implemented a multilayered security model tailored after Windows NT for EHR application.

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Developed an electronic data interchange (EDI) program for medical claims submission, eligibility checking

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and electronic funds transfer for the health care industry. All work done in accordance to ANSI 837/835

and Medicare’s National Standard Format.

Contributed to the logical database design and development for EHR application.

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Education and Visa Status

B.S. Electrical Engineering, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

U.S. Citizen

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