Technologies:
Node.js, Java, Spring, .NET, microservices, message bus architecture, data lake, DevOps, SecOps, AWS, Google GCP, Azure, Heroku, GitHub, GitLab, VMWare, SQL, DB2, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Cassandra, Neo4J, MariaDB, Redshift, Spark, Hadoop, HBase, Athena, SQLite, GraphQL, Scala, Flink, NoSQL, MongoDB, CouchDB, Druid, Pulsar, Trino, Kubernetes, Angular, React, Django, Python, GoLang, JavaScript, TypeScript  

Industries:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning, Fintech (Financial Technology), Healthtech, Edtech, Cybersecurity, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, Big Data and Analytics  

Experience

Redacted Company
VP Software Engineering
02/2022 – Present  
- Joined the executive team to focus on growth and neutral cash flow objectives.  
- Right-sized and retrained the cloud engineering team to use petabyte-scale open-source solutions, allowing the company to double revenue growth for 2 years in a row while cutting burn-rate by 25% each year.  
- Architected a petabyte-scale replacement platform to handle 100x data volume to support revenue growth needs. The MVP (legacy) system was near its maximum scalability capabilities.  
- Introduced data lake and analytics-first software paradigms to prioritize impactful insights over real-time data points.  
- Redesigned and automated DevOps, SecOps, and Prod Ops for scale.  
- Operating as the company’s CISO while pursuing ISO 27K, SOC 2, and GDPR certifications.  
- Sharing executive product management responsibilities to develop 2 and 5-year roadmaps.  

Crossover (Remote)
VP Engineering
03/2017 – 01/2022  
- Managed 20+ VPs of Technical Product Management in simplifying 80+ acquired start-up tech stacks to achieve 50% profit margins on existing products.  
- Developed a LEAN/factory approach to product spec writing.  
- Helped build small centralized global teams supported by automation to improve margins on acquired companies.  

Green Dot Corporation
VP Product Development (Pasadena, CA)
07/2013 – 01/2017  
- Replaced the legacy monolith with scalable, high-availability microservices and APIs to handle 100x more transactions.  
- Successfully eliminated 85% of legacy code.  
- Simplified Salesforce instances to use OOB Salesforce instead of custom Apex, reducing TCO by 50% ($m/year).  
- Bridged Engineering and Ops to introduce DevOps, increasing stability to five nines.  
- Introduced Agile Scrum and automated code quality, yielding 90% less regression, shifting from 85% bug fixes per release to 85% new features per release.  

Rovi Corporation
Senior Director Software Engineering (Santa Clara, CA)
07/2007 – 07/2013  
- Rebuilt core platform to scale from 40K to 40M web service calls per day at 999.99% availability.  
- Rebuilt core music platforms to achieve 100x scale.  
- Introduced Agile Scrum to achieve quarterly releases.  
- Built a data science and research team to expand the portfolio of over 5,000 patents.  

Johansen Enterprises
Consultant (Los Angeles, CA)
03/1983 – 03/2007  
- Helped 90+ clients recover, renovate, and innovate their IT teams and tech stacks.  
- Operated as a fractional CTO for 11 public housing authorities.  
- Designed, built, grew, and exited 22 successful dot-coms and start-ups.  
- Embedded, Micro-, Mini-, and Mainframe Application and Systems Programming.  
- Partnered in Quantum Data Systems, selling specialized pre-press software (The Forms Machine) to Mergenthaler Linotype Company in Germany.  
- Transformed Ojai Hospital to be the first in the County to pass HIPAA certification.  
- Designed and delivered Version 2 of Harbor Health System’s managed care process, allowing large employers to reduce worker’s compensation loss through self-insurance.  
- Optimized a multi-company strategy to maximize profits from providing long-distance telephone services (B2C).  
- Created a white-label core platform for billing and customer support, using Verizon, MCI, and AT&T as carriers.  
- Delivered a white-label UI for customer self-service and marketing automation to identify potential switch candidates.  

Education
BSIT in Software Development
Western Governors University, 2016  

Professional Certificates
- Certified Systems Programmer – IBM (MVS, DOS, VMs of many flavors)  
- Certified Scrum Master  
- Certified Java Programming Professional  
- CompTIA Certified - A+, Network+, Security+, Project+