Aug 2019 – Sep 2022 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Core Digital Media helps millions of consumers save thousands of dollars on recurring expenses, including their mortgage, insurance premiums, credit card fees, etc.
• As the software architect of the company, my responsibility includes:
• aligning the company vision and strategy with the technology roadmap
• ensuring the efficiency and effectiveness of our software systems and the production thereof
• coaching teams and individuals in software development best practices
• introducing and fostering new ideas, tools, approaches or evangelizing them
• owning the delivery of some of our most challenging initiatives

May 2015 – May 2019 · 4 yrs · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Led architectural transformation and cloud strategy for a global SaaS platform specializing in expense reporting and invoice workflow solutions. Partnered across engineering and product teams to evolve a mission-critical system used by organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises.
• Drove the company's cloud adoption strategy, aligning platform evolution with long-term scalability and operational resilience.
• Led the transformation of the architecture from a monolithic codebase to distributed microservices, improving agility, fault isolation, and development velocity.
• Ensured alignment of technical initiatives with the company’s broader technology roadmap and business objectives.
• Championed system performance, reliability, and maintainability by evaluating and evolving software design patterns and infrastructure choices.
• Coached engineering teams and individuals on software development best practices, fostering a culture of technical excellence.
• Designed and developed a data warehouse and ETL pipeline that enabled customers to analyze their expenses by category, location, and other dimensions.
• Introduced and evangelized new tools, ideas, and approaches to improve engineering outcomes and developer experience.

Jan 2015 – May 2015 · 4 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Led the architecture, development, and evolution of key procurement platforms, including Smart OCI and Purchase Manager (PMAN). Played a central role in shaping technical strategy, advancing cloud migration, and mentoring engineering talent to scale team capabilities and align with business objectives.
• Designed, developed, and maintained digital procurement and spend management platforms that formed the foundation of Vroozi’s product suite.
• Defined system architecture and technical requirements while managing day-to-day development operations and coordinating production releases.
• Provided technical and career mentorship to team members, fostering growth, knowledge sharing, and engineering excellence.
• Collaborated closely with Vroozi leadership to define technology and product strategies, ensuring alignment between execution and strategic priorities.
• Led cost analysis and migration planning for AWS cloud adoption, resulting in improved scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency.
• Scaled the product catalog intake process to support significantly larger datasets, improving system performance by approximately 67%.
• Architected enterprise SSO features, enabling compliant customer integrations that secured multi-million-dollar contracts.

Oct 2011 – Jan 2015 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• "League of Legends" is the world's most played game - a global phenomenon. People play more than a billion monthly hours across more than 140 countries worldwide. We had 67 million active monthly players the last time we counted in 2014.
• As the Engineering Manager for the global accounts team:
• Founding member and leader of the global account team
• Partnered with our talent organization to source and hire outstanding engineers
• Guided the team through storage technology options assessment and selection
• Oversaw the system implementation and thorough testing
• Extracted the account functionality from the monolith platform into a microservice and took responsibility for the web interface
• Established SLAs with other teams and load tested to verify that the system performance met the agreements
• We worked with upstream and downstream teams to address dependency risks. Where necessary, removed schedule risk by making changes to other teams' applications and sending them a pull requests
• Traveled to partner sites in Asia to conduct training on the new system, its design, and how to deploy and operate it
• Released the new system to over 67 million monthly active users with zero adverse events

Apr 2010 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 6 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Oversaw end-to-end technology strategy, compliance, and execution across CRM, analytics, and operational systems. Partnered cross-functionally to align product, marketing, and infrastructure initiatives with scalable, secure engineering solutions.
• Managed PCI and SOX compliance activities, ensuring system integrity and adherence to regulatory standards.
• Defined technology strategy and roadmaps across infrastructure, CRM, data, and application architecture.
• Led CRM-related technology initiatives, including email vendor selection, systems integration, and customer data platform development.
• Spearheaded data warehouse conceptualization and implementation, as well as internal analytics tool development for marketing and operations.
• Captured and translated business requirements across product, marketing, and operations into executable engineering initiatives.
• Directed the development and release management lifecycle, including infrastructure changes, operational processes, and deployment workflows.
• Designed and architected core software components and systems, while actively supporting implementation across teams.
• Mentored engineers and influenced business strategy through technical insight, fostering alignment between technology and organizational goals.

Jan 2010 – Present · 16 yrs 2 mos

Sep 2008 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr 4 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Led the engineering organization behind Fox.com during a high-growth period of digital media expansion. Oversaw all software delivery, infrastructure, and vendor relationships in a fast-paced, deadline-driven broadcast environment while elevating technical standards and platform strategy.
• Managed the Fox.com engineering team, driving technical execution, vendor coordination, and infrastructure oversight across multiple digital initiatives.
• Delivered 8 high-profile advanced media and content show websites—including 24, Glee, House, and So You Think You Can Dance—within six months.
• Successfully managed outsourced and offshore engineering partners to meet aggressive delivery timelines and production quality standards.
• Consolidated disparate codebases into a unified platform, accelerating future site development and reducing maintenance overhead.
• Introduced industry-standard practices such as formal code reviews and robust version control to increase software quality and team productivity.
• Directed the successful migration of Fox’s social networking and video delivery platforms to more scalable, future-ready systems.

Jul 2006 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr 6 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Led engineering and architectural strategy for Oakwood.com, the flagship digital property of the $3B corporate housing leader. Oversaw cross-functional product and eCommerce development while shaping technical direction, platform scalability, and agile engineering practices.
• Directed engineering efforts on Oakwood’s mission-critical public-facing web applications, ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance.
• Introduced architectural improvements to support greater scalability and future platform extensibility.
• Rebuilt the J2EE development team, recruiting and mentoring talent while elevating code quality and delivery velocity.
• Championed the adoption of agile methodologies, leading sprint planning, story estimation, backlog management, and continuous delivery across eCommerce initiatives.
• Managed end-to-end software development lifecycle (SDLC) execution, from planning through production releases.
• Played a strategic role on enterprise-level committees, including the Oakwood.com redesign, SEM vendor selection, and a three-person architecture working group.
• Represented IT in RFQ and RFP processes, aligning technical capabilities with sales and partner requirements.

Jan 2004 – Jul 2006 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Provided enterprise-level technical leadership across Buena Vista Home Entertainment (BVHE), driving the architecture and evolution of core B2B and product development systems. Served as the department’s subject matter expert in Java, J2EE, and WebSphere, shaping engineering practices and guiding cross-functional collaboration across the organization.
• Led the architecture and implementation of an integration between a third-party Product Data Management (PDM) solution and a proprietary product development application.
• Directed enhancements and ongoing maintenance for BVHE’s business-to-business and internal product development web platforms.
• Mentored and coached engineers across BVHE in enterprise Java, J2EE, and WebSphere technologies, building technical depth and consistency across multiple teams.
• Collaborated with business and technical stakeholders across departments to drive alignment and execution on cross-functional initiatives.
• Evaluated third-party solutions and provided strategic technical recommendations to senior leadership.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 · 1 yr · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Contributed to the design and delivery of the company’s flagship commercial benefits administration platform. Played a senior technical role across all application tiers, helping define system requirements, shape subsystem architecture, and deliver scalable functionality across core business domains.
• Partnered with business analysts to define functional and system requirements, ensuring alignment between technical delivery and business needs.
• Designed and implemented key components of the Membership, Claims, and Premium Billing subsystems.
• Delivered end-to-end development across web, middle-tier, and persistence layers, contributing to a robust and extensible enterprise application architecture.
• Served as a key technical contributor on a high-impact engineering team responsible for launching a major commercial product.

Aug 2001 – Jan 2003 · 1 yr 5 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Led the architectural modernization of core payment processing systems, transitioning the organization from legacy AS/400 infrastructure to a scalable J2EE platform. Played a key role in defining and delivering the company’s new loyalty platform, integrating architectural rigor with real-world performance and adaptability.
• Managed the migration of mission-critical applications from RPG on AS/400 to a J2EE-based environment, enabling long-term scalability and maintainability.
• Architected and developed major subsystems, including a high-performance credit card transaction qualification rules engine, a multi-threaded file parsing framework, and a B2B reporting web application.
• Built a centralized fraud management dashboard, enabling chargeback tracking, manual review workflows, and integration with third-party services for identity verification and reporting.
• Implemented multi-layered defenses including PAN truncation at POS terminals, address verification service (AVS), and card data encryption/tokenization to reduce data exposure & card skimming risk
• Captured business and technical requirements via stakeholder interviews and translated them into use cases, conceptual models, and detailed UML specifications.
• Applied architectural and design patterns—including Active Object, Composite, and Command—to build highly concurrent, change-resilient systems processing millions of transactions daily.
• Drove end-to-end system robustness through rigorous unit and system testing strategies.
• Developed and maintained the Affinity Program data warehouse, ETL pipeline, and qualification processing engine to support loyalty program analytics and transaction scoring.

Jan 2000 – Aug 2001 · 1 yr 7 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Led the development of major client-facing web applications while elevating engineering culture and delivery standards across the organization. Championed iterative development, modern tooling, and best practices, helping to professionalize the software development lifecycle and mentor the next generation of technical and business leaders.
• Directed teams that delivered high-profile applications for clients including ChefStore and Magna Entertainment.
• Built multiple internal tools, including a remote server administration system and a structured requirements-gathering application.
• Introduced and institutionalized engineering best practices such as continuous integration, automated testing, refactoring, code reviews, and reuse.
• Guided development schedules and mentored business analysts, project managers, and junior developers on software architecture, project planning, and delivery discipline.

Aug 1999 – Jan 2000 · 5 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Led core modernization efforts for HOB.com, transitioning the platform to a scalable Microsoft-based architecture. Drove key module design and backend improvements to enhance performance, maintainability, and user engagement across content and membership features.
• Led the successful migration from a Perl/Mini SQL/Solaris stack to an ASP/SQL Server architecture, improving maintainability and development velocity.
• Redesigned the backend data model during the port to SQL Server, enabling more scalable and efficient data access patterns.
• Designed and built critical site features including membership management and contest modules; enhanced high-traffic areas such as music downloads, artist interviews, and club venue directories.

Aug 1997 – Aug 1999 · 2 yrs · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Contributed to enterprise data transformation initiatives that modernized reporting and analytics for key insurance operations. Served as technical lead on CRM modernization efforts and helped architect a new data warehouse and real-time analytics platform that replaced month-long processes with self-service intranet tools.
• Co-led the design and development of a large-scale data warehouse in under three months, supporting claims, capitation, broker, and membership data.
• Served as technical lead for the business unit’s CRM overhaul, aligning architecture with business workflows and legacy constraints.
• Designed and implemented critical ETL pipelines to extract data from OS/390 mainframes running IMS and DB2, enabling accurate downstream analytics.
• Built intranet tools enabling business users to run real-time, self-serve analytical queries—reducing turnaround from weeks to seconds.
• Delivered custom ad-hoc reporting solutions by writing queries and programs against a Sybase database hosted on HP-UX.

Jan 1996 – Aug 1997 · 1 yr 7 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• As a Treasury Analyst, I supported the oversight of public pension fund investments through performance analysis and process automation. I worked closely with investment managers and internal stakeholders to streamline reporting and enhance decision-making.
• Developed and automated daily pension fund reporting using VBA, improving accuracy and timeliness.
• Built analytical tools to evaluate external investment manager performance more effectively.
• Enhanced portfolio analysis processes, contributing to more informed financial oversight.