Management Manager

Paul Ignatius

** ****** ***** • North Grafton, Massachusetts 01536

732-***-**** • ****.********@*****.***

VP OF ENGINEERING ~ CHIEF ARCHITECT ~ CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

Highly motivated, people oriented, success-driven IT industry executive with 22+ year progressive career record

spanning full range of IT operations, software engineering, and product development. Multiple patent owner.

Past performance in architecting cutting edge technology, products, and platforms for diverse organizations

ranging from startup to multibillion dollar corporations.

• Combine business acumen, technical expertise, and extensive IT leadership experience to drive strategies

and tactics that deliver technical solutions with a measurable ROI.

• Build, lead, and motivate top-performing teams of technical professionals; skilled at improving team

morale and building rapport with individuals on all levels.

• Goal-driven approach to project and product management; known for bringing revenue-generating

products to market, and delivering multiple projects on time and within budget.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• IT Strategy & Management • Strategic Planning • Software as a Service

• Lifecycle Product • SDLC & Agile • Local/Offshore Team

Management Methodologies Management

• Budget Management • Cloud and Virtualization • Recovery Management

• Scaled Agile Framework management

SPC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CA Inc., Framingham, MA 2007 – Present

Vice President, Strategy & Senior Principal Architect 2010-Present

Delivered Architecture, Architecture methodology and Building codes (development paradigm &

NFRS) across multiple business units. OCTO Architecture advisor for ITBM, Security and Mainframe

Chorus & Recovery management Business units focused on adoption of PaaS & DevOps.

• Created alignment with Business Units at all levels on architecture process and instituted

central architecture reviews

• Architected data services and backup aspects of CA Platform architecture as a service.

• Led due diligence for technology and company acquisitions as well as product divestment.

• Architected and delivered 4 products based on new PaaS addressing multi-tenancy, data

analytics and automated deployment needs using DevOps Methodology.

• Performed In depth analysis of 3rd party components of ca products resulting in 30M $ savings

• Collaboratively developed and drove adoption of USM, normalizing the service model system

interfaces enabling solution composition and System of Record interfaces of 45 products.

• Community developed and delivered building codes development. Instituted, published and

drove adoption of 4 key building codes resulting in 20 Million $ cost savings.

Vice President, Software Engineering, Recovery Management 2007-2010

Principal Architect and CTO, Recovery Management

Lead architects team for recovery management and cloud technologies, as Principal architect and CTO for the

Business Unit as well as VP of Engineering responsible for delivery of company’s XOsoft product development,

QA, support and strategy. Manage and coordinate $9 million development budget, 77 people organization.

• Delivered 2 major releases and 3 service packs within 16 months to using agile practices

• Strategically invested into protecting fastest growing application eco systems and virtualization and

delivered simpler deployment, deeper penetration into market and additional routes to market and revenue

using SaaS.

• Augmented and transferred the R&D to cheaper economies and consolidated development, QA and L2

support across Israel, China and New York reducing cost of R&D from 40% to 19%.

• Reduced costs by improving test automation by 800% and volume driver analysis of call volume saving

30%.

• Chaired CA’s SaaS platform evaluation committee delivering SaaS platform recommendations and built

alliances with key industry players such as HP, Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce.com, Jam Cracker, Progress

Software, Citrix and VMware – Established CA as a strategic advisor of Microsoft’s PaaS initiative

Scentric Inc., Alpharetta, GA (Backed by HIG Ventures and Valhalla Partners) 2005 – 2007

Vice President, Engineering

Architected and delivered privacy, content archiving, legal discovery and infrastructure optimization solutions

for legal, media, financial and healthcare markets based on data classification. Leadership and direction for +

$4.5 million annual budget and 50+ member engineering team. Orchestrated product development, QA, and

support across locations in India and Alpharetta, Georgia. Oversaw third party technology qualification process

and product vision. Key contributor to fundraising and OEM activities.

• Created initial prototype and delivered first two entry versions to market and 2 service packs to resolve vital

customer concerns, with revenue in 18 months, delivering 1.0 release within 5 quarters and 2.0 within 8

months under budget. Oversaw beta process and converted multiple Fortue 200 POCs to successful sale.

• Built, mentored, and trained offshore development team to peak performance.

• Captured Network Computing Data Classification Product of the Year Award.

Computer Associates Intl., Islandia, NY 2001 – 2005

Vice President, Development / Manager, Software Development: Planned and orchestrated development and

rollout of enterprise and departmental market solutions in market base from a single code base. Established

product vision and roadmap, cost-effectively managing $9 million budget and 66-member team. Ensured

continuous delivery of top quality products/services, orchestrating communication of product features, system

stability, scalability, integration of quality data architectures, prototype development, budgeting, and

establishment of business development/growth plans. Enforced compliance with corporate IT

standards/regulations.

• Spearheaded engineering unit, fostering business revenue growth from $135 million to $220 million in

2 years. Coordinated development across 5 remote development centers and 100+ staff.

• Developed ground up data protection solutions for Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes, fueling 3X

revenue stream growth and 44% reduction in support calls within 1 year.

• Launched 3 service packs and 4 releases, triggering $35 million additional revenue.

• Re-aligned the corporate vision to key customer segment of Windows enterprise, effectively reversing

20% revenue decline. Produced 700% growth in messaging applications revenue.

• Instituted Pareto analysis of call volume to address key product, slashing support call volume by 35%.

Manager, Development

• Managed a team of 15+ and delivered AllFusion ERWin Data Modeler and Model Manager 4.1 to

market.

• Storage Advanced Technology Group : Managed Server less & image option for BrightStor ARCserve

backup. Articulated storage virtualization strategy, evaluated potential acquisition targets

CommVault Systems Inc. / AT & T CommVault, Oceanport, NJ 1995 – 2001

Senior Manager, Development

• Joined during start-up to manage the first product releases of enterprise data protection segment. Lead

engineering through strategy, product definition, architecture, design and development . Acting CTO in

charge of technology decisions, architecture stack and technology acquisition Team size: 43

Re-architected legacy software platform and created Galaxy Backup as a software offering replacing

bundled solution, leading to IPO. Responsible for enterprise application server technologies of Galaxy

Backup solution including advanced storage enablers (SAN, NAS, MMS, DDS, Unix, Oracle and DB2

and Kernel technologies). Created a patented high-speed cross platform data transfer architecture

across UNIX, Linux and windows – Integrating multiple device architecture, delivering database

backup.

Additional experience as R&D team lead at Wipro Infotech Ltd & Systems supervisor at Asian Paints

India Ltd

EDUCATION

MS by Research, Distributed Computing, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India 1993

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, University of Calicut 1990

CERTIFICATIONS / TRAINING

• SAFe Practicing Consultant & Lean Six Sigma Black belt trained

• Certifications: Project Management (AT&T, 1995), Windows Driver by OSR http://www.osr.com

(1998), ISO 9001 –Wipro InfoTech Ltd, India, Unix Driver Creation-Wipro

• Multitudes of leadership trainings at CA including LDP, Leading successfully, Leading remotely, etc.

RECOGNITIONS

Patents (a few from 20+)

1. 6,760,732 Storage management across multiple time zones

2. 6,658,436 Logical view and access to data managed by a modular data and storage management system

3. 6,542,972 Logical view and access to physical storage in modular data and storage management system

4. 6,418,478 Pipelined high speed data transfer mechanism

CommVault Systems, Oceanport, NJ - President’s Award for Engineering, 1996, 1999

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Applications: Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, Network & System Management,

Web

Servers (IIS, Apache, Tomcat), . Net based development, J2EE servers,

SharePoint Servers, Dynamics, Exchange

Languages/Tech PaaS, Containers, SOA, MAPI, C, C#,C++, SQL, shell, XML, SOAP Lotus

Notes API, Microsoft Exchange APIs, SCSI, Java, Virtualization

Technologies: SAN, NAS, snapshot management, virtualization, drivers, kernel, data privacy,

Classification, CDP

Systems: Intel (Linux, Windows), Sun/Solaris, AIX, HPUX,

Databases: Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, Informix, DB2, ODBC, Ingres,, Unify

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