Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs · Greater Chicago Area · Hybrid

• Led a 50+ member global Data Engineering and Data Science organization across North America and India, managing a $10M portfolio and defining the multi-year enterprise data, AI, and cloud modernization roadmap in partnership with VP and senior leadership.
• Stabilized enterprise reporting and improved data reliability by migrating legacy SQL data warehouse workloads to Google BigQuery, enhancing performance, scalability, and analytics delivery for executive decision-making.
• Projected 30% annual infrastructure savings by defining and leading a strategic Snowflake migration roadmap supported by complex TCO modeling and cross-functional architectural planning.
• Reduced Cloud OpEx 90% by re-architecting Title Process Automation from Azure Form Recognizer to Gemini multimodal LLMs, improving document extraction accuracy to 98%+ and decreasing latency by 75%+ while eliminating manual retraining cycles.
• Generated $100M+ in incremental annual seller revenue by designing predictive auction and digital assistant ML models that reduced valuation error 60% and optimized real-time pricing decisions.
• Achieved 99.9% system availability by implementing enterprise-grade disaster recovery and resiliency frameworks, strengthening compliance, uptime, and business continuity across critical data platforms.
• Reduced manual model oversight 60% and increased model accuracy 30% by establishing a scalable enterprise MLOps framework with automated drift monitoring, retraining pipelines, and governance controls, while leading a Generative AI Proof of Concept using RAG and MCP architectures to modernize internal assistants.

Jan 2016 – Jan 2023 · 7 yrs · Greater Chicago Area · On-site

• Led a global organization of 30-50 professionals with $6M portfolio ownership, reporting directly to the CIO and overseeing enterprise ERP, Data Warehouse, BI, and the establishment of IAA’s first in-house Data Science function.
• Modernized enterprise data infrastructure by migrating from on-prem warehouse to Azure Synapse, improving execution times 50%.
• Migrated 1.2K+ datasets and 200+ dashboards to Power BI, democratizing data access and enabling self-service analytics across the organization while establishing a scalable data governance framework.
• Built and scaled IAA’s first internal Data Science team, transitioning from vendor-dependent analytics to a high impact in-house capability aligned to revenue and operational strategy.
• Increased revenue 20% by designing and deploying predictive vehicle valuation and starting bid models.
• Improved underwriting and valuation accuracy through Azure AI and Computer Vision, implementing vehicle damage severity scoring as a core input into predictive pricing algorithms.
• Doubled user engagement by launching a personalized ML recommendation engine processing 100M+ daily recommendations.
• buyer experience and drive marketplace activity.
• Directed the Automated Salvage Auction Process (ASAP) ERP platform supporting 200+ branches, ensuring stability and scalability for a business-critical system processing millions of vehicle transactions annually.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2010 · 7 yrs · Greater Chicago Area · On-site

• Spearheaded the end-to-end design and development of IAA's mission-critical auction management systems, replacing complex legacy ERP frameworks with modern, scalable web platforms to support international buyer and seller ecosystems.

Jan 2010 – Jan 2016 · 6 yrs · Greater Chicago Area · On-site

• Scaled offshore engineering organization from 5 to 45 consultants within 24 months, leading a $3M delivery portfolio supporting IAA and establishing a high-performance global delivery model.
• Reduced project turnaround time 25% by driving Agile transformation across distributed teams, improving execution velocity, collaboration, and delivery predictability.
• Increased buyer traffic 75% by leading the end-to-end redesign and architectural modernization of the Auction Center portal, enhancing user experience and platform scalability.
• Expanded digital revenue capabilities by launching I-Pay and Buy Now enhancements, while building trusted executive relationships with client stakeholders to drive sustained engagement and portfolio growth.

Jan 1998 – Jan 2003 · 5 yrs · Greater Chicago Area · On-site

• Leveraged deep technical expertise to build mission-critical applications across diverse sectors, from high-volume digital marketing platforms for CoolSavings to precision life-science diagnostic systems for Nycomed Amersham

Jan 1995 – Jan 1998 · 3 yrs · Greater Chicago Area · On-site

• Engineered core Price and Product management systems for AC Nielsen, developing high-performance applications to process and analyze global retail data.