Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Vivek Prabhu

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Chief Technology Officer/Vice President Engineering

Strong Executive Technology Leadership & experience in startups & Fortune 100 companies. Turn-around experience, P&L responsibilities, track record of establishing, growing teams. Expertise with geographically dispersed teams covering different core competencies Cross product technology experience in Product Development, Engineering, Quality, Support.

Technology –Telecom Networking ● Cloud/SaaS/PaaS ● AWS/Salesforce ● Analytics/BI/Big Data ● IoT ● Data Pipelining (Design, Architecture, Implementation and Orchestration) ● Wireless ● Encryption/Security ● Web Apps/UX ● IPTV/CATV Video ● DVB and SATV ● LTE & 3G/4G, WiMAX ● IPS/IDS

Engineering -- ● Requirements Analysis ● Design & Architecture ● Deployment Scenarios ● Customer Scenarios

Analytics – Content analysis, Consumer Preferences, Usage patterns, Privacy, Pattern analysis, User Profiles, Privacy enforcement, Content personalization etc.

Devices and Systems -- Mobile Tablet PCs ● Consumer Devices ● Embedded Systems ● Telecom & Networking

Operations Management -- P & L ● Budget & ROI ● Multi-site teams ● NPI introduction

Quality Management – TQM (Total Quality Mgmt.) ● CA (Customer Audit) ● QM (Quality Metrics)

Project Management Methodologies -- CMMI-3 and 5 ● Agile & Waterfall RUP ● ISO 9000, TL-9000 ● JIRA/RALLY

- Select Career Highlights -

Project Management -- Track record of delivering on-time cutting-edge products with revenue earned $15M+.

Revenue Generation -- Improved product reliability gaining customer loyalty and adding $2M+ in sales.

International Experience-- Led international, cross-functional teams of 100+ Engineers, Managers and Architects.

Role Model Leadership -- Won 3 MVP Awards in Cisco and Motorola for the valuable contribution to customer retention and increased business and quality, in addition to ISO 9000, ITU-T certifications/compliance.

- Key Projects –

TekTegrity – vCIO – Customer Advocacy & Technology Integration 4/2018 – Present

Managed engineering departments on technology choices and decisions. Presented technology options, business imperatives and costs vs returns analysis.

Help customers to formulate strategic goals, plan R&D budgets, analyze and rework engineering/business process.

Facilitate technology changes and migrations to new paradigms – On-premise to Cloud migrations, reducing inventories and recurring costs.

Design, Architect and deploy network infrastructure - keep the lights on - provide more-forward looking services.

Work with customers to plan a technology roadmap, identify opportunities and integrate new technologies.

For Engineering obtain wider decision-making authority and technology deployment responsibilities.

Take a broader view to align Product/Solution requirements with Business Requirements.

Ellie Mae - Senior Director Engineering Operations, Release Management & Audit & Compliance 2015 to 2017

Leadership -- Leading the Engineering Programs, Release Management, Change/Builds and Audit & Compliance Teams in 3 groups to team strength of 6.

Technology – Architected and Deployed the CI-CD Paradigm for the Dev, QA and INT environments for deployment to the Private Cloud and the Public Cloud (AWS).

Leadership of the CI-CD On-boarding process, GitHub and Jenkins Code and Build process, Deployment of the Pipeline, and On-boarding of services.

Built the Business Services Platform, the Micro-services architecture and the OSB (Oracle Service Bus) AWS Deployment paradigm.

Headed the migration of the Engineering teams from .NET platform to the new NoSQL, Java and Linux platforms.

oEstablished Platform stability, reliability and quality criteria to benchmark the platform used as the vehicle to deliver products in different verticals.

oSecurity, Deployability, and protection of customer information is ensured in the software and product.

oArchitected the Applications and Business Logic to ensure all integration with Business Services, UX and UI application, Docs engine and the Database is in sync and updated correctly.

oWorked with Legal, Audit and Compliance Teams to ensure compliance for SOC-Type1/2 and SOX Audits for Changes.

oEstablished Governance around Branching and Release strategy, Release Metrics, Release Health, Acceptance Criteria.

oMeasured the performance of the Cloud-based platform, handling multiple encryption/decryption requests, records and transactions processing, fail-over of platforms, redundancy for data center servers and devices etc.

Arris Comm - Active Video – Senior Director Solutions Engineering 2013 to 2015

Leadership -- Led the Engineering Solutions Teams in 3 groups to team strength of 20.

Geographically dispersed teams in San Jose (Solutions Engineering), Hilversum (Netherlands – Platform Development & QA), Los Angeles (Applications Suite), India (3rd-party Client Development & QA) and Ukraine (Interactive TV Program Development & Test).

Technology – Expertise in Solutions Integration, UX Platforms (HTML-5), and Embedded Client (Cisco, Motorola, PACE etc.) along with Network Infrastructure (Head-End operations) Cloud TV Services running off of AWS etc.

oSuccessfully led the releases for CloudTV H5 Web Service Platform Solution – running on AWS, integrated with the VOD Storage, Content Distribution network, CPE devices and CableTV infrastructure for TV Networks.

Hands-on leadership of the engineering efforts, and identification of issues, metrics and release criteria.

oQuantified Performance bottlenecks, Load-Balance Average, Scalability and Reliability of the Cloud SaaS platform and Content Storage CDN platforms, to support large number of concurrent sessions.

oIntegrated 3rd-party software such as Zodiac Interactive, Analytics Software (Omniture), Arris/Passport/Rovi, Cisco/PowerTV and Amex/Brightline (Financial Apps), SeaChange/Traxis etc. to integrate the Client software with Applications Suite and VOD Back-End Services.

oIntegrated with YouTube, NetFlix, Hulu, VoiceBox, Aria, Flextronics their Applications Suite, DRM Encryption, Transcoding mechanisms, Content Analysis, and Certification process in the Lab.

Verizon OnCue - Intel Media – Senior Director Engineering 2012 to 2013

International Leadership -- Led the Engineering Teams in 4 groups to team strength of 30 geographically dispersed in Santa Clara CA, Hillsboro OR, Phoenix AZ, Shanghai China, Seattle WA and Ukraine.

Hands-on leadership of the engineering process, guided the evaluation and selection of the tools, automation environment and provided technical expertise via brown bag presentations to the project teams.

Technology -- Provided technical expertise in System Integration, Web Services (Amazon Web Services), CDN Storage (NetApp), UX Platforms (HTML-5), and Embedded Devices (Encoders/Decoders) along with Network Infrastructure (Head-End operations), and Data center etc.

Designed the End-to-End solution, worked with Architecture to validate the design and customer scenario, devised algorithms for analytics of User preferences, User Interaction with content, User Experience tracking, performance of the infrastructure, Identification of bottlenecks in the infrastructure etc.

oWeb-Service Performance measurement using Cloud performance test tools (SOASTA) etc., to measure peak streaming load, transactions load, network congestion load etc.

Nagra - OpenTV - Director – Solutions & Engineering Technology Development 2010 to 2012

Operational Leadership -- Designed, implemented and deployed customized solutions for Digital TV network operators and enterprises.

Technology --Developed middleware for DVRs, Digital TV, Applications and Encrypt Card Systems.

Cross functional Collaboration -- Initiated and led Alpha, Beta and 3rd-party vendor interactions resolving issues of scalability, load, performance, and high-availability.

oCharacterization of the Network performance under load, packet normal latency, round-trip latency, QAM scalability, Caching speed, Buffering etc.

oLed the implementation of CMMI-3 and Central Quality initiative for the Solutions Engineering organization.

oLed the efforts for successful integration of middleware, with CAS systems and Applications with User Experience for Asia-Pac, EMEA, Oceania and Americas.

oDesigned, tested, implemented and deployed customized solutions for Digital TV network operators and enterprises.

Konvergent Media Systems Vice President – Engineering and Operations 2007 to 2010

Leadership -- Stealth mode startup in the Consumer Mobile Internet and Mobile Delivery Apps space.

oBuilt, developed and managed the technical teams working on the prototype & solution.

Technology -- Developed mobile palmtops, tablets and mobile handset communicators.

oContent residing in AWS Cloud, is available for access in different devices.

oDevelopment of the Services Delivery Platform, to render business and consumer-centric services to customers.

oDeveloped technology base for integrating apps, content delivery, analysis and enhanced user experience.

oDirected the development of the WiMAX Video/Audio transmission prototype using the Intel Rosedale chip.

Product -- Developed relationships with OEM and ODM manufacturers to establish product profiles, hardware configurations price competitiveness, and market entry points.

oLed architecture and design team evaluating product options, features sets and applications.

oWorked with the marketing team to develop roadmaps, milestones, and go-to-market strategies.

Motorola Connected Home Director Engineering & Technology 2003 to 2007

Built and managed all functions of the Engineering, Dev/QA, and Architecture Teams for over 250+ engineers, architects and managers in 7 different countries, 8 different time zones.

Developed use cases, new design and product architecture, in preparation for an introduction to new markets, both service provider as well as retail and MSOs

Implemented the protocols, device drivers, middleware, compliance, applications, and server-side deliverables for a Digital Cable TV Set Top Box, with Head-end support and Applications

Led the certification of the first WiMAX/LTE Base Stations and CPEs in the 802.16 protocols certification efforts.

Led the migration of the legacy TDMA devices to next-generation OFDM technologies.

Rendition Networks (tech startup) - Senior Manager (Engineering) 2001 to 2003

Led the development of the Network Management Platform (both drivers and applications) for routers, switches, data center devices and configurations of Cisco Routers/Switches and Juniper network devices.

Designed the environment, the framework, identified the right set of tools to be used, established standards for the quality of the product and release.

Managed the release process of releasing code to test and to customers.

Cisco Systems - Manager Software Engineering 1997 to 2001

Led the team that released the next-generation OS of Cisco Routers (IOS-XR) and the new hardware CRS1.

Performed the integration/tools development in the IOS Technologies division, Service Provider Line of Business and the next-generation OS platform (both hardware and software OS).

New platforms introduced in the Service Providers is the next generation Carrier Routing system CRS1.

Led the team in the market release of 3 VoIP award-winning products AP-VS3, AP-VS4 and AP-VS5.

Education & Professional Development

Master of Science, Computer Science - California State University, Chico

B.S. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering - MIT Manipal, India

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