Early stage startups in areas such as AI/ML, IoT and Cryptography.

Working with several startups, from generative AI and machine learning, to real-time data engineering, to agritech and industrial internet of things, to strong cryptography, providing fractional chief technology officer and chief product officer services.

Chief Technology Officer - Fractional

Seamless Revenue

Stealth mode company in financial services.

Fractional CTO

Hazelcast

Driving Technology Vision and Innovation in cross-functional teams. Innovating across ecosystem to democratize adoption of disruptive use-cases across real-time machine learning and the industries only true giga-scale streaming analytics. 
Directed engineering strategy for Hazelcast, establishing organization as leader in real-time
stream processing and machine learning, capable of processing billions of events per second.
 Championed next-generation architecture tiger team to optimize for multi-core
processors for faster I/O and storage
 Enhanced competitive advantage, establishing Hazelcast as only real-time data platform with
ability to deliver over 10 Billion events per second performance, running 10X faster than
competition such as Flink and Spark, with 10X lower latency.
 Oversaw team of 30, including Chief Architect, Principle Architect, Principle Software Engineer,
Director of Cloud Engineering, and Head of Data Science, and managed $3M budget
 Drove strategy to for real-time machine learning/ML Ops business use cases including fraud detection, personalized offers, and predictive maintenance,
ultimately growing pipeline by $10M and boosting annual recurring revenue by over $2.5M
 Built a Tiger Team of 10 to build and deliver solution accelerators for real-time fraud, transaction
monitoring, churn detection, connected vehicles, predictive maintenance, real-time risk
monitoring, real-time recommendation/personalization, and clickstream analytics, leveraging Juypter notebooks and frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, Caffe, SciKitLearn, Large Langage Models like BERT and LLama2, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, etc.
 Served as Cloud Product Manager and expanded engineering team at all levels, growing team
from 20 to 75 employees including hiring Chief Product Officer and launching Serverless Cloud product.

Chief Technology Officer & Chief Solutions Officer

Cloudera

Innovating with Cloudera pre-IPO to accelerate growth and lead to successful IPO. Early advocate of Cloudera Data Science Workbench and Machine Learning use-cases. Instrumental in forming IoT strategy, frameworks, and IoT Council to work with IoT innovators like Bosch, Navistar, Rockwell Automation, Caterpillar, Komatsu, Vivint, and others.

Data Strategist

Software AG

Led specialist team focused on advanced technologies and innovative solutions. Focused on evangelizing cutting edge technologies across Mobile, BigData, Cloud, and Internet of Things.

Chief Innovation Evangelist

Worked with top customers and partners across financial services to ensure their success with leading technologies by providing architectural leadership and guidance. Worked with product management and engineering to align strategy with the needs of the industry.

Chief Architect - Financial Services

webMethods

Provide architectural guidance and direction to our customers by gathering system requirements, clearly define and understand the business processes, and while using the gathered requirements and the understanding of the business processes, develop and design a system wide integration plan incorporating the webMethods methodology.  Nurture and foster the Professional Services business relationship with the customer.

Provide thought leadership and visionary direction to prospects and customers on an extensively broad array of related BPM, SOA, B2B and EAI subject areas.
Key Projects: 
- ABN AMRO Global Clearing - Lead Architect on Real-time Global Integration Architecture for Securities Clearing with target SLA achieved of over 20K transactions per second (over 50K events per second) with zero downtime and follow the sun deployment, integrating to Finastra Core (formerly Misys) and custom business functions such as real-time risk calculations.
- Prime Brokerage project for Prime Funds Solutions (now part of Credit Suisse) that integrated Finastra Core, TCS BaNCS Position Manager, and other bespoke systems.
- Principle Architect for the Integration interfaces into SAP using webMethods Integration Platform, SAP Business Connector, to call SAP BAPI and expose ABAP functions as APIs, along with integrating IBM WebShere Application Server, WebSphere Broker, and WebSphere MQ supporting global scale SAP project adhering to strict Navy requirements for Disaster Recover, Security, Performance and Resilience. Represented the US Navy ERP Program to DoD-wide standards initiates around web service APIs, Service Oriented Architecture, and XML and EDI standards.

Chief Architect - Benelux / Principal Architect - US Navy ERP

Program manager and project lead for integration backbone projects for the IT team at webMethods. Responsible for building out the integration infrastructure and delivering projects that leverage this SOA (service oriented architecture) to solve critical business problems.

Program Manager - Integration Backbone

Product Manager focused on the Integration Server product. Responsibilities covered the full product lifecycle from gathering requirements through delivering the product to market and ensuring the gloabal field organization and professional services teams were prepared to effectively deliver and market the latest release.

Senior Product Manager

Chief Technology Officer / Chief Data Officer @ Early stage startups | AI/ML, IoT, Cryptography | Technology GTM Leader

As a Chief Technology Officer & Advisor for startups and scale ups, I drive vision and innovation in cross-functional teams. I have held leadership roles at growth startups and scaleups, three with  successful exits, two IPOs. I am a relentlessly curious lifelong learner.
My core competencies include innovative real-time AI/ML, distributed compute, fast data and high performance computing architectures. I also have extensive experience with Cloud, Internet of Things, data platforms, and applied cryptography. 
My mission is to democratize the adoption of disruptive use cases across various industries, such as banking, capital markets, online stores, telecommunications and media, retail, industrial and logistics. I maintain a global network of industry leaders, including over 400 executive contacts at Global 2000, enterprise software, and startups. 
I am currently seeking new opportunities and advising early stage startups in areas such as machine learning, generative AI, Cloud, and industrial Internet of Things.

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