VP Engineering

JOHN F. KEAVENEY

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VICE PRESIDENT ENGINEERING

Product and revenue focused innovative engineering executive with expertise in scalable real-time delivery systems, big data and SaaS. Hands-on technical leader who builds and retains high performing teams, creating a great culture and a great place to work. Driven to develop industry leading solutions for business problems. CORE COMPETENCIES

Strategic Planning / Expansion Strategies Collaborative Leadership Agile / Scrum Master Real-time Analytics on Petabytes of Data BI Thought Leader Cloud Computing Personnel Management & Development Capacity Planning / Forecasting Risk Management PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

NEUSTAR, INC., San Diego, CA 2011 – Present

Real-time, cloud-based information services/analytics provider enabling clients to promote & protect business. Vice President, Engineering and Data Compilation

Manage product engineering, development, realization and data compilation for Marketing Services division, with a $14 million budget. Lead teams (90+ personnel and 25 offshore contractors) in delivery of analytics, risk, fraud, verification, identity and other data assets via a variety of interfaces, including real-time services in a five 9s environment. Member of the HR Culture Committee to support employee engagement and morale.

• Drive timely realization and deployment of products and services for real-time targeting applications and development of web-based analytics for Internet, Telecom, Financial, Media/Advertising and Retail.

• Integral role in consistent double-digit year over year revenue growth; total company $1.1B in 2017.

• Customer focused engineering leader who collaborates with sales and cultivates relations with clients to learn and develop new products. Work in lock step with product management to determine concept feasibility, permissibility, design and resource allocation for complex, high-value engagements with key customers.

• Manage design, planning and engineering for core real-time products for analytics, Identification and Verification, Element1 analytics SaaS platform, and related online display marketing and analytic products.

• Transformed systems from legacy architectures to new scalable technologies and big data and analytics. Create innovative ways to leverage application exhaust from real-time systems to develop new products using analytics and big data technologies working with data science teams.

• Spearhead innovative solutions to meet customers’ business needs. Selected projects include:

- Addressed financial services client’s specification to use verification services on premise. Implemented design changes to update and maintain software on client’s on premise servers; $10.5 million contract.

- Top 10 U.S. banks send monthly CRM data files (1 Billion records) to comply with Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Orchestrated switch from transaction model (batch processing) to proactive notifications; host data and monitor for changes against client data for improved results.

• Architectured delivery systems for horizontally and elastically scalable architecture with 12 dedicated resources (18 month development cycle) to achieve 100x throughout for improved performance to meet service level requirements in contracts; go live Spring 2019.

• Focus on continuous process improvement and professional development of engineering teams. Trained and migrated Engineering teams to Agile tools and methodologies to modernize development methodology and included Product Management department to improve teamwork for best practices.

• Hire, train, onboard staff and deliver performance reviews; including formal Q3 new employee training.

• Champion and technical lead for business continuity (two sites) and disaster recovery planning.

• Accountable for due diligence and integration of acquisitions (Agregate Knowledge and MarketShare).

• Prepared presentations for the Golden Gate Capital acquisition moving from public to private, 2017.

• Managed the acquisition of TARGUSinfo, moving from privately owned to publicly owned; effectively managed the exit (retirement) of entire senior leadership on the engineering team post acquisition, 2011. TARGUS INFORMATION CORP, San Diego, CA 1998 – 2011 Vice President, Application Development

Led talented team of 12 that architected, built and deployed a scalable, fault tolerant platform to deliver information in real-time. Created a disruptive caller ID system that supported 98% of MSO operators and leveraged this data asset to provide unique verification and identifications solutions.

• Drove revenue growth from $4 million to $160 million during tenure; facilitated sale to Neustar in 2011.

• Managed platform and product development team content, scheduling, prioritizing, mentoring, resolving conflicts, and setting the pace for engineering, ensuring releases were complete and delivered in a timely manner yielding five nines uptime and sub 250 millisecond response times.

• Managed, designed and engineered delivery systems for product portfolio, including co-inventor of WebConcierge patent (#8160614) and inventor of spatially index grammars patent (#8060367).

• Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) to consult with key accounts and close large dollar contracts. ORACLE CORPORATION, Redwood Shores, CA 1996 – 1998 Senior Member Of Technical Staff, Spatial Cartridge, Server Technologies

• Delivered the architecture and development of second-level geometric filters for the Oracle Universal Server Spatial Data Option/Spatial Cartridge, which became a competitive option for GIS database services.

• Technical liaison for the building of demonstrations and product integration with third party applications and Oracle applications including collaboration with ESRI, MapInfo, QMS, Plexstar, Object F X and others. CYPRESS GEO-RESOURCES, INC., San Diego, CA 1995 – 1998 Cofounder

• Developed an early SaaS geographic Internet Information delivery system utilizing Microsoft development tools and Internet platforms. Developed tools for legacy GIS system data integration, on-line geo-coding and robust scalable object-oriented production system (www.sitereports.com); acquired by TARGUSinfo. EQUIFAX NATIONAL DECISION SYSTEMS (now CLARITAS), San Diego. CA 1986 – 1996 Senior Technical Specialist / Engineer

• Built and leveraged databases to deliver new and disruptive solutions to the marketing and demographics industry including GIS data processing, translating strategic intent to specific deliverables.

• Integral role in development of data components and mapping algorithms for flagship product, Infomark. EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO, La Jolla, CA - Bachelor of Arts, Applied Mathematics-Scientific Programming LITHESPEED - Agile Engineering Workshop / Certified SCRUM Master SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY, San Diego, CA – Customer Driven Excellence PATENTS

Spatially Indexed Grammar and Methods of Use, United States 8060367, Issued November 15, 2011 Automated Concierge Systems and Method, United States 8160614, Issued April 17, 2012 Technology skills: SQL, C. C#, C++, Java, . NET, Microsoft SQL Server, GIA, Oracle, XML, SaaS, Spatial Databases

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