Senior Technology and Engineering Leadership Consultant

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Chief Technology Officer

10Pearls

•	Leading organization-wide Engineering strategy, with a focus on hiring the top Technical Talent and building Engineering Teams and ensuring that Engineering is delivering high-quality Software solutions to 10Pearls’ Clients.
•	Championed and launched multiple new initiatives including the following: retaining talent, hiring, InfoSec and Operational Security, and DevSecOps.
•	Technical Lead for multiple projects for a global Cybersecurity Software Vendor including FIPS-140 certifications and other product engineering work streams.

VP Engineering

Afiniti.com

- Head of Engineering for Afiniti's core Call Routing Engine and Enterprise Reporting Web Portals.
- Leading the design & development of Afiniti vNext using C++ on Linux.
- Building and Hiring for Afiniti Engineering Teams.

VP Software Engineering

Software Technology Management, Product Development & Engineering, Technical Leadership, Software Architecture, C# and .NET.

Director Software Engineering

Pitney Bowes Business Insight

Led a team of 4 Software Developers, and was an individual contributor (Senior Software Developer), on e2 Vault - a high-performance Client/Server CCM (Customer Communication Management) system for document archival, indexing, and retrieval developed using C++, Java, and TCP/IP Sockets.

Major accomplishments included:

- Porting the e2 Vault application in its entirety to 3 UNIX platforms: IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, and Linux
- Led and owned the Release Management process for e2 Vault for Windows and UNIX platforms
- Developed a License Management system to protect and secure on-prem installations of e2 Vault
- Developed a rules-based Data Mining and Indexing engine written in C++
- Developed a Java API for 3rd-party application integration
- Established Software Configuration Management best practices and workflows using PVCS and Subversion

Development Team Leader / Senior Software Developer

MGI Software

- Developed MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 Demultiplexer DirectShow COM Filters to replace 3rd Party MPEG Codec components saving MGI over USD 100K annually in royalty and licensing costs.
- Designed and developed a multi-threaded Multimedia Engine and SDK written in C++ for Video Timeshifting for use in a Linux-based embedded Set-top PVR entertainment appliance.
- Ported Windows MPEG DirectShow Filter components to Linux.
- Wrote C++ framework code to enable porting Windows components to Linux.

Senior Software Developer (Consultant)

OnX Enterprise Solutions

Developed various Windows applications using Visual C++, MFC, COM, Crystal Reports, Java, and Apple Web Objects.

Software Developer

Oasis Technology

Developed various e-Payment and EFT applications using MS Site Server, Oracle iStore, C++, ATL/COM, and TCP/IP Sockets that were integrated with Oasis Technology's flagship payment & transaction processing gateway software.

Software Engineer

Leitch Technology

- Software Development using C++ and Motif/X-Windows on FreeBSD for a TCP/IP sockets based Client/Server system for retrieval of Still Images for use in real-time broadcast video feeds.
- Developed various Network Management applications for Leitch networked hardware devices using C++, MFC, Java, and SNMP protocol.

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