Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs · Sunnyvale, California

• Executive management for the start-up leading all Cloud strategy and implementation including SaaS operations for revenue management systems

Oct 2012 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Foster City, California

• Led entire SaaS operations as well as the infrastructure and platform engineering teams for performance, highly available and scalable implementation clouds for the subscription and revenue management economy.

Nov 2009 – Oct 2012 · 2 yrs 11 mos

•  Leading all engineering changes required to transform the Application Performance Management (APM) product from an on-premise to SaaS delivery model include development, QA, performance, SCM, building engineering and development process.
•  Modernized the APM software engineering practices, infrastructure and test-automation strategy resulting in a reduction in build validation times from 2 weeks to 8 hours, a 60x reduction in build validation costs and a significant reduction in the time required to “harden” the product during the release end-game.
•  Drove new SCM practices to insure continuous development and testing.
•  Built out the APM performance engineering team. APM is a very performance-sensitive product. The team was so successful that I have been asked to establish a global “center of excellence” focused on establishing performance tooling and best practices for all CA products.
•  Sponsored application integration modeling for the next release of APM product line based on REST API.

Sep 2006 – Feb 2009 · 2 yrs 5 mos

•  Led the engineering organization responsible for developing and delivering Oracle’s next-generation communications platform strategy. Responsible for all aspects of product development including development, QA, performance, SCM and build engineering.
•  Created and delivered a ‘common suite and platform’ approach for application assembly development that dramatically improved seamless customer application integration. Services delivered incrementally included app servers, operations and performance management, database connectivity, customer customization APIs, GUI, and order orchestration.
•  Responsible for all technology selection within the business unit. Developed strategies, frameworks, and productivity tools for continuous improvements and automation excellence. Insured efficient adoption of the highly available and robust infrastructures.
•  Elevated Performance Engineering to be an integral part of the development process for architectural reviews to determine bottlenecks. Provided benchmark data for proof of scaling for field and customers which led to the ease of product sales.
•  Led engineering Due Diligence team for acquisitions.
•  Formalized a single consolidated engineering process for all the acquired companies.

Apr 2000 – Sep 2006 · 6 yrs 5 mos · Cupertino, California

• Managed 50 person engineering team responsible for Applications Service (high availability, transaction management, connectivity, resource management, load balancing, plug-in APIs, SDK), Performance Engineering and specialized Telecom support (Radius, Diameter protocol, Mediation).

Jan 1996 – Jan 1999 · 3 yrs · Menlo Park, California

• For the Universal Server Object-Relational Database Management System development, Informix needed an experienced technical manager to drive the program to initial market delivery. I was recruited to do this job. My responsibilities include the Universal Server, Database roadmap and the Java Server product line.

Jan 1980 – Jan 1996 · 16 yrs · Pasadena, California, United States