Aug 2021 – Aug 2024 · 3 yrs · Santa Clara, California, United States

• Defined and lead a Zero Trust strategy deployment across Palo Alto Networks. This entailed the following:
• Building an easily adoptable step by step framework, based on heavy learnings from DoD/NIST/CISA and in close conjunction with the CPO, to ensure Palo Alto Networks customers could easily follow in our journey and measure progress accordingly.
• Heavy influence into cross functional engineering teams for product requirements and validation of Zero trust principles being met.
• Defining rigorous internal standards for Palo Alto Networks adoption of it's own products internally.
• Relayed the PANW on PANW Zero Trust program to roughly 70 of Palo Alto Network's S&P 500 customers.
• Drove GRC (Governance / Risk and Compliance) across a series of functions TPRM (3rd party risk management / technical risk management / legal assurance as well as certification compliance such as FedRAMP Moderate / High and DoD Impact Level 5)

Mar 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States

Oct 2014 – Mar 2020 · 5 yrs 5 mos

• Promoted to Director challenged to deliver high-performance, quality applications that improve the productivity of ~10k employees worldwide. Own the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for a portfolio of 250+ applications—many custom built—across a myriad of technologies. Direct 5 managers, and a team of 50+ engineers in the U.S. and India. Manage 15 global vendor relationships, project budgets of up to $10M, and OPEX budget of ~$500k.
• Select Accomplishments:
• Established an advanced technology team to address emerging use cases within IT such as machine learning / chat bots. Heavily focused on supervised and partially supervised classification problems to eliminate manual tasks.
• Architected a cloud migration strategy for the entire application portfolio based around Azure. This comprehensive model accounts for ROI / application rationalization / technological obsolescence.
• Reengineered the organizational structure, and established an SDLC framework and RACI model that better enabled internal partnerships, and drove standardization and best practices across technology platforms, contributing to a strategic shift in focus—from business unit (vertical) to technology (platform).
• Transformed a negative end-user experience and perception on a number of core applications—including a custom defect tracking system and a product lifecycle management (PLM) system—utilizing a multi-pronged approach to establish an application architecture, dedicated teams, and a leadership council to prioritize investments and resources.
• Improved employee productivity globally by decreasing transaction time in defect tracking system, leveraging Microsoft SQL Server to establish master-to-master replication across the U.S. and Asia.
• Achieved one of the highest satisfaction scores in the annual employee survey, and led engineers to receive recognition and awards, providing challenging assignments and opportunities for career growth, and creating a knowledge sharing forum.

Oct 2011 – Oct 2014 · 3 yrs

• Oversaw Select Accomplishments:
• Defined the vision, strategy and roadmap for multiple technology programs, including search, mobility, and application refresh, and transitioned legacy applications to Business Objects reports and packaged solutions—
• establishing the foundation for a company-wide enterprise architecture.
• Led the first-time development of an internal mobility strategy/roadmap for 264 applications, performing a cost/benefit and performance analysis that led to discussions with senior management on future funding and resources.
• Improved global support operations by defining, documenting, and instituting formal processes for the transition of applications from the build environment into production.
• Reduced maintenance costs by 35%, spearheading a portfolio and application rationalization project to refresh applications and port 152 legacy applications to .Net 4.0, Salesforce.com, and SharePoint.
• Honored with the IT Oscar for leadership in 2012—the first year of the company award—earning nominations each consecutive year.

Jul 2008 – May 2010 · 1 yr 10 mos · Santa Clara, United States

• Challenged to lead the application life cycle management processes, and improve an underfunded and underperforming .NET platform. Led and managed a team of 20+ engineers in the U.S. and India.
• Select Accomplishments:
• Introduced a release-oriented approach to improve quality, speed of delivery, and end-user experience on the .NET platform, recruiting and hiring a team of 5 developers to reinvent the SDLC, and turning around poor performance.
• Transformed the development team from a reactive group to a proactive one, establishing standard release cycles with 3 key mechanisms—emergency, weekly, and 45-day release, and introducing dedicated resource pools.
• Led the rewriting of the company’s defect tracking system, improving transaction volume, and integrating enterprise search, data visualization, and seamless source control. Also drove static source code analysis into the organization to reduce security debt.
• Developed and mentored engineers who received awards for organizational results and paper presentations.

Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr · Santa Clara, California

• Participated in and guided the planning, development, implementation, and support of a number of custom applications, and streamlining a fragmented architecture for the HR organization.
• Select Accomplishments:
• Identified root causes of problems, and significantly reduced downtime in custom solutions, introducing a reusable, component-based approach to application development—that was leveraged by Corporate IT.
• Initiated an opportunity to expand role and partner closely with product marketing, assisting in the development of a Vista home media center control with WPF to interface with company’s cutting-edge drivers.
• Led a team of 3 developers in the updating of more than 200 legacy applications, ensuring automatic user provisioning, termination, and reconciliation from master systems.

Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr · Santa Clara, California

• Hired as a Senior Software Engineer to this start-up company—founded in 2003—to author and architect enterprise-level features for its flagship product—Slate—a distributed automation platform that enables test, diagnostics, triage, repair and certification of devices, equipment and applications in wireless carrier ecosystems.
• Select Accomplishments:
• Partnered closely with senior management in the entire product release life cycle, creating project plans, defining product specifications, and communicating to team members.
• Enabled collaboration across the product lifecycle, improved build process efficiencies and scalability, and increased time to market—architecting a number of key features, and creating customized tools.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2006 · 4 yrs · Cupertino, California

• Hired as the first employee by company’s 2 founders—to bring software engineering expertise and discipline to the design and development of enterprise-level architectures to create web applications for marketing, commerce, and relationship management—for medium to large organizations, solving information management problems and web integration challenges.
• Select Accomplishments:
• Designed and developed an enterprise architecture for client, Sequoia Capital, creating a solution that encompassed the venture capital process flow with a specialized customer relationship management (CRM) system, and a custom reporting interface with the Crystal Enterprise Suite. Solution provided client with a competitive advantage, reduced operating costs, and improved turnaround times.
• Developed a fitness recommendation engine for client, HyperStrike, designing a custom workout for specific sports, and muscle groups.