May 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 10 mos · Burlingame, California, United States

Jan 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos · Danville, CA

• At the intersection of machine learning and real estate

Nov 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• I am a volunteer at RippleWorks. RippleWorks pairs leading tech and business executives with impactful, high-growth social ventures.
• I completed two projects with Rippleworks. Harambee is a not-for-profit youth employment accelerator that connects young people in South Africa looking for their first job with employers looking for entry-level staff. 4G Capital has supported micro-enterprises in Africa since 2013, providing financial literacy training with working capital loans to help small businesses grow sustainably.
• I provided guidance around optimizing their technology platform including issues around scaleability, reliability, and security.

Sep 2017 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · Burlingame, CA

• The mission of jaris is to provide a secure and natural way of addressing the funding gap in small business lending

Aug 2015 – Jun 2016 · 10 mos · San Jose

• Member of the Executive Management Committee and reporting to the CTO.
• Led the development teams responsible for various services: Payment, Estate Management, Commerce Platform, Media and Taxi.
• Delivered the EMV migration in North America.
• Drove the migration to the Cloud of legacy software as well as new services.
• Responsible for the end-to-end delivery of payment solutions to customers.
• The organization included Development, Tier 2 Support, Global Quality, and Global Project Management (1500 people)

Jun 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Jose

• Promoted to CTO in June 2016 reporting directly to the CEO.
• Led the transition from a hardware business to a Cloud services organization
• Rationalized the existing product portfolio, creating synergies and eliminating redundancies
• Reduced engineering cost by 10%
• Additional responsibilities included:
• o Advisor to the CEO and board of directors on Cloud and services strategy
• o Renegotiating of key supplier contracts
• o Technical representation to customers and Analysts
• o Due diligence on M&A and key outsourcing decisions

Dec 2013 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Promoted to Senior Vice President in June 2013 as a result of the contributions made to both Fusion Middleware and Fusion Applications. Building them as well as delivering them to the Oracle Cloud.
• Responsibilities were increased to include the Middleware Development central team.
• One of the nine Senior Vice Presidents reporting directly to Thomas Kurian President of Oracle Development (30,000 people).
• Led the development team responsible for the provisioning, upgrade, patching, high availability, and all related cloud features of middleware.
• The overall team included 1000 people across the globe covering Architecture, Development, QA, Product Management, Release Management, Release Engineering and Operations. Distributed across US, India, Russia, France, China, UK, Israel and Malaysia.
• Hired half of the eight Vice Presidents in that organization.

Jun 2006 – Dec 2013 · 7 yrs 6 mos

• Led the acquisition of technology, which became the foundation of Oracle Fusion Middleware and today represents a $5 billion a year business.
• Worked on a number of projects across the company
• o Re-platforming Middleware on top of WebLogic server
• o Due diligence on M&A of Siebel, PeopleSoft, SUN, BEA
• o Product rationalization with acquired companies
• Responsibilities include Middleware releases (WLS, SOA, Portals, Security, Java, Business Intelligence, Tools...), testing, system and release engineering, porting, Strategic office and platform architecture across Middleware and Fusion Application.
• Successfully engineered and implemented the integration mechanism used across middleware.
• Adapted the above mechanism to cover the integration of Middleware with Fusion application.
• Led and delivered continuous integration across all of Middleware.

Jan 2002 – Jun 2006 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Ran all Oracle Tools (Forms, Designer and JDeveloper) as well as the ADF (Application Development Framework) and Oracle SCM (550 people)
• Refocus the organization by canceling non strategic projects
• Pushed ADF as the foundation of iAS (Portal, Integration, Wireless)
• Pushed JDeveloper as the single development tools for iAS
• Drove a number of operational initiatives
• Off shoring in India
• Improvements to development processes
• Organizational consolidation (integration, documentation)

Jul 1999 – Jan 2002 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Led the development effort for JDeveloper and Business Component for Java
• Initiated and completed an all Java rewrite
• Completed the first integrated UML modeling into an Integrated Development environment

Jul 1998 – Jul 1999 · 1 yr

• Led the implementation of a "clean room" implementation of a Java Virtual Machine (Ferrari)
• Focus was on client side performance and Tools support.
• This JVM allowed a unique feature set in JDeveloper

Jun 1995 – Nov 1996 · 1 yr 5 mos · Redwood Shores, CA

• One of a handful of engineers who built Oracle’s “Visual Basic” (Power Object)
• Hired by Marc Benioff (subsequently Salesforce.com founder)
• Made the 16 to 32 bit port of the entire product and implemented the Netscape plug in of the product

Nov 1996 – Jul 1998 · 1 yr 8 mos · Redwood Shores

• NCI was a joint venture between SUN, IBM and Oracle aimed at promoting the idea of a diskless desktop device
• Recruited the entire engineering team
• Ported the SUN JDK to the Network computer operating system.
• Implemented the JIT (Just In Time) compiler for StrongArm and Intel architecture

Sep 1991 – Feb 1995 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Worked on various projects: Borland C++, Quattro Pro for Windows, DBase for windows, Turbo Pascal
• Wrote in assembler various critical pieces of the Borland C++ runtime library
• Implemented various heap management for the C++ runtime library

Mar 1990 – Sep 1991 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Product manager for Borland C++ and Turbo Pascal

Sep 1988 – Mar 1990 · 1 yr 6 mos · Paris Area, France

• Founded a company specialized in Software Development in the medical field
• Implemented a patient record management application (Esculape)
• Developed a PC extension card to turn a PC into an electrocardiogram, at a hundredth of the cost of dedicated systems from Siemens and HP.