SUMMARY

Over **+ years of executive, operations, and technology experience with a proven track record of building, developing, and leading best-in-class software development, support, and services organizations. Specialize in building combined in-house and off-shore teams and creating full life cycle enterprise scalable SaaS and PaaS solutions.

SKILLS

Public and Private Cloud Computing Big Data, AI, Machine Learning

Cloud Scalability and Security Integration platforms

Mission Critical Enterprise Solutions IT Strategy and Vision

Executive Operation and Management SaaS, PaaS, Mobile Solutions

EXPERIENCE

VP Cloud Operations, Certona, Inc. July 2016– May 2019

Managing Certona’s technology operations budget

Built and re-structured technology organization and teams

Managing Certona’s infrastructure (400+ Servers)

Leading and managing Certona's hosting facility migration to the cloud

Optimized and reorganized process to assure uninterrupted availability of Certona’s services (99.99%)

Led and managed Certona Technology Organization for the best performance during Black Friday and Cyber Monday weeks (40K transactions per second)

Leading cloud re-architecture projects (dockers, kubernetes)

Spearheading and managing AI/Machine Learning projects for DevOps team

Managing Big Data re-architecture projects (SQL, Hadoop migration for modeling jobs)

Automating cloud DR solution

Establishing and implementing best practice Development Life Cycle Process and Production Change Management procedures

Responsible for overseeing the identification, exploration, and analysis of new opportunities

Serving as key dealmaker for new technology initiatives and partnerships.

VP Technology and Corporate Services, OneRoofEnergy, Inc. May 2015 – May 2016

Re-building technology organization, while supporting company’s business and revenue objectives

Establishing and implementing best practice Development Life Cycle Process and Production Management procedures

Spearheading and leading conversion of stovepipe applications and business processes to the comprehensive enterprise cloud-based ERP, CRM, BPM platform

ENVIANCE, INC. 2001 – April 2015

Driving the company’s technical and business strategy for the past 14 years

Operating in different executive roles and responsibilities

Successfully delivered world’s leading software platform for environmental compliance and data management, GHG & carbon management, environmental BI

VP Operations/CTO 2012 - April 2015

Operated as the leader of technology and services with the emphases on improving profitability of implementations and deployments

P&L ownership with primary goals of growing company net income, net income margin, and gross revenues

Provided strategic directions to optimize performance improving company’s KPIs

Led Enviance strategic, operational planning and budgets to achieve the company’s goals

Over-achieved annual revenue and budgetary objectives by 30%

Increased customer satisfaction and additional revenues, up sale opportunities, along with exceeding revenue goals and service team’s performance targets

CTO 2001-2012

Created and executed winning business technology strategies and visions

Developed and implemented application development policies, procedures, and standards for all company technology initiatives

Hired, developed, and managed the global technology teams (in-house and off-shore) to deliver cost effective solutions and meet planned product release schedules while addressing dynamic business and clients’ requirements

Established needs, cost analysis and implemented the appropriate IT initiatives that improved company development process ROI by 45%

Designed and oversaw the application development and IT infrastructure for mission critical cloud enterprise applications with 99.95% availability

Responsible for the ground up creation of environmental management industry’s leader cloud technology enterprise solutions and products

Performed risk assessment of existing and emerging technology platforms and trends

Migrated Enviance enterprise solutions to the SaaS,PaaS architecture and mobile platform

Led and archited inovative integration platfrom

Responsible for ensuring continued technical and domain currency through enhancements and maintenance to deliver a solid, scalable product, supported by best in class networking and technology architecture

Promoted ideas and actions to drive platform scalability and operating efficiency within financial performance objectives for technology through accurate forecasting, budget adherence, and innovative new forms of revenue generation

Defined the standards, internal controls, and operating effectiveness of the controls which allowed to obtained SAS 70 Type2 and SSAE16 audit certification in the record time

Technical Director/Senior Architect, STELLCOM INC. 1999-2001

Led and architected enterprise level integration projects in the insurance, medical, and automotive industries

Involved in design and architecture of different enterprise level applications at the pioneering stages of cloud computing

Obtained profound understanding of enterprise level architecture, along with security and scalability concepts of Big Data

Performed technical analysis of scalability performance and security for enterprise level application during .com era

Participated in an early adoption of revolutionary integration technology (SOAP API’s), that led the whole IT Industry to the new horizons in integration (modern era API’s)

Technical reviewer for Wrox Inc.'s Windows 2000 Distributed Network Architecture book

CEO and Founder, ROSTINTERNATIONAL, Austrian-Russian Joint Venture 1992-1998

Founded and ran a successful mid-size Export/Import corporation with offices in Vienna and Moscow

Build up the team of 100+ employees prior to selling the company

EDUCATION

Master Degree in Computer Science from Rostov Technical Institute, 1990

Microsoft Certified Software Architect, 2001

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