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• Executive Director | Database Product Group Owner, 

  Jul, 2019 - Dec, 20234 years 5 months

  Product Owner for a suite of database products including Cassandra, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, and Graph Databases. Responsible for the strategy, design, build, operate, risk/controls, financials, vendor management, customer engagement, and audit/compliance of the whole product suite.

  • Responsible for all aspects of large complex database platforms that have deployed over 28,000 database instances for critical business systems

  • Engineered self-service innovatove platforms from the ground up to provision/manage/destroy databases on-demand.

  • Managed database financials with a cost/recovery of approximately $160M annually

  • Built a global organization of ~100 employees to engineer and operate databae platforms. Adopted agile engineering principals to manage the book of work and deliver modern products

• Executive Director | Cassandra Product Owner, 

  Aug, 2013 - Jul, 20195 years 11 months

  Product Owner for the Cassandra as a Service platform, and firmwide Cassandra database Subject Matter Expert for JP Morgan Chase. Pitched, funded, designed, built, and supported the Cassandra as a Service platform, and managed all processes end-to-end.

  • Pitched the idea of a full Apache Cassandra platform as a service to executive management to help solve the data management requirements for several use cases within JP Morgan Chase globally. Got buy-in and commitment from senior leaders in central technology and individual lines of business.

  • Developed business case including charge back models to fund the operation of the service and prove value. Managed assets that totalled ~$50M annually, with a projectted savings of ~$8M vs managing a similarly sized environment manually

  • Initailly acted as engineering lead to design software, automation, and tooling to support the platform, enabling on-demand delivery with minimal support personelle.

  • Executed all roles within the project including business management, operations, client engagement, training, risk and controls, and vendor engament.

• Vice President | Lead Software Engineer, 

  Aug, 2010 - Jul, 20132 years 11 months

  Worked in a central technology orginization called the Cheif Development Office (CDO) to provide company-wide frameworks and advocate for best practice software methodologies. Operated in many roles within the Chief Development Office including software developer, technical support, training content development, training content delivery, and implementation services consultant.

  • As a senior consultant for the CDO Software Engineering Practice, developed process and content for the implementation of software practices firm-wide at JP Morgan Chase. Then implemented these software practices via documentation, training, and development team engagements.

  • Worked as a member of a team to engage development teams within JP Morgan Chase to adopt firm-wide tooling and improve development processes. Provided training and consulting services to ~50 teams in 3 years within this role

  • Acted as a technical support lead for the FAST Application Stack (internal JPMC application server). Was responsible for managing support cases up to and including P1 support calls for some of the most critical applications in the bank

  • Sotware development lead for the FAST Application Stack.

• Lead Software Engineer, 

  May, 2000 - Aug, 201010 years 3 months

  Developer of software solutions for Sterling Commerce, a business ecommerce company now owned by IBM. Responsible for the design, creation, testing, deployment, and maintenance of applications to improve processes in the company.

  • Technical team lead for several applications used by the sales and finance/billing orginizations to improve processes and give greater visibiity into our customers needs and usage

  • Worked with commercial product development teams to design and develop customer facing applications to improve customer/user experience

  • Standardized product development environment from an adhoc development shop to a fully process controlled environment. Configured environment and trained development orginization in modern software tooling and practices

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