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Systems Consultant @ marketxt Responsible for architecting, designing and operating a real time after hours stock exchange From 1999 to 2000 (1 year) SVP, Head of Digital, Emerging Technologies and Guardian India @ Guardian Life Greater New York City AreaSVP, Head of Digital and Emerging Technologies @ NBCUniversal Media, LLC From June 2017 to March 2019 (1...

Systems Consultant @ marketxt Responsible for architecting, designing and operating a real time after hours stock exchange From 1999 to 2000 (1 year) SVP, Head of Digital, Emerging Technologies and Guardian India @ Guardian Life Greater New York City AreaSVP, Head of Digital and Emerging Technologies @ NBCUniversal Media, LLC From June 2017 to March 2019 (1 year 10 months) New York, New YorkConsultant @ Sunrise Systems, Inc. From 1997 to 1998 (1 year) Consultant @ Wipro Technologies Designing and supporting infrastructure for financial services clients From 1995 to 1997 (2 years) SVP, Chief Technology Officer NBCUniversal News Group & Media Labs @ NBCUniversal Media, LLC As a member of the executive leadership team, responsible for all technology related to the NBC News Group (NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC) across all platforms/formats (broadcast, online, mobile & social), its supporting architecture, infrastructure and operations. Responsible for identifying emerging technologies and improvement opportunities across cross-functional technology organizations and developing business cases and execution plans to effectively and efficiently capture benefits. AccomplishmentsInitiated a future proofing strategy by completing an end-to-end technology assessment of the News Group brands across all platforms for high impact opportunities to transform the News Group to be more innovative, collaborative and agile without compromising editorial priorities.  Developed and implementing a self-funding actionable roadmap along with an investment plan that will deliver ~$100M over a 3 year period.Streamlined technology capabilities by integrating fragmented technology teams into a core technology organization that fosters shared services and innovation.Developed and instituted a pragmatic architecture discipline with a cross platform global team. Developed and implementing a cross platform architecture that allows for scalable content capture and distribution across traditional broadcast, web, mobile and social platforms.Envisioned, designed and developed next generation content consumption platforms purely based on mobile and social and targeted towards millennials. From June 2013 to March 2019 (5 years 10 months) New YorkChief Technology Officer, Product Development @ Dow Jones & Company In collaboration with business and product stakeholders, responsible for developing a business aligned technology strategy along with implementing all aspects of consumer and institutional product and infrastructure architecture, engineering and operations within the organization. Responsible for identifying emerging technologies and/or improvement opportunities across cross-functional technology organizations and develop business cases and execution plans to effectively and efficiently capture benefits. Supporting the CIO and business units during M & A with technology and financial due diligence.Accomplishments* Transformed a global engineering organization of over 200 developers from a traditional waterfall software development model to an agile development model.* Developed and operationalized a cross functional framework to leverage global talent to provide broad and expanded development and product support across the entire product portfolio.* Engineered and implemented full featured German, Chinese and Japanese WSJ.com sites in addition to foreign language “lite” sites in Korean, Bahasa (Indonesia) and Turkish.* Engineered and delivered the first version for a Universal Mobile app for WSJ on the iOS platform. Additionally, delivered multiple enhancement releases for WSJ, Barrons, WSJ Live, Marketwatch and Factiva across various mobile platforms.* Through proactive and non disruptive re-engineering improved site performance and user experience by over 100%* Designed and implemented a real time product performance dashboard to support editorial and business operations.* Delivered over 300 product performance and usability improvements for Factiva to improve user engagement and customer retention.* Delivered new products to the portfolio to include WSJ Real Estate (Print), WSJ Real Time and WSJ Portfolio.* Through non disruptive re-engineering significantly improved real time delivery of government key indicators to financial institutions. From June 2012 to June 2013 (1 year 1 month) New York/New JerseyVice President, Global Strategic Planning & Architecture @ Dow Jones & Company Led an organization of senior technologists and subject matter experts that....* Partnered with the company’s senior leadership to align technology vision with business strategy * Partnered with business and technology leads to identify opportunities and risks for delivering business products; including identification of competitive services, opportunities for innovation, and assessment of marketplace obstacles and technical hurdles to the business success.* Led strategic technological and operational planning to achieve business goals by fostering innovation, prioritizing initiatives, and coordinating and supporting the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future technologies across the organization* Developed and maintained multi-year business aligned strategic plans and technology roadmaps for crucial services and attain or maintain compliance with critical IT service level agreements.* Participated and advise management and stakeholders during enterprise technology agreements development, negotiations and execution to capitalize on economies of scale.* Designed, implemented and operationalized strategic technology platforms and infrastructure to support new product development and/or enhance/refresh existing product operations* Identified opportunities for the appropriate and cost-effective investment of financial resources in IT systems and resources, including staffing, sourcing, purchasing, and in-house development From October 2010 to June 2012 (1 year 9 months) Vice President, Global Systems Services @ Dow Jones & Company As VP of Global System Services and reporting to the CIO, I lead an organization focused on current and emerging technologies and have global accountability for all aspects of critical infrastructure services which include Hosting, Database, Shared Storage and Messaging & Collaboration services. Responsibilities include* Collaborating with executive teams, identify, develop & implement cost-effective technology solutions. * Manage a multimillion dollar budget, global & regional vendors and provide leadership and governance for strategic sourcing relationships.* Lead global delivery teams of over 120 technology professionals responsible for delivering 24x7 real time news delivery platforms, financial information delivery systems such as DJ Global Indexes & Industrial Averages and financial news and business information web platforms such as WSJ.com, Marketwatch.com & Factiva * Lead IT strategic planning, performance & capacity engineering, service delivery and risk mitigation From September 2008 to September 2010 (2 years 1 month) Director of Platform Engineering and Operations @ Dow Jones & Company As the Director of Platform Engineering and Operations, current responsibilities include:Global responsibility for systems, database, storage and infrastructure applications architecture, standards and engineeringResponsible for 24x7 operations of US operationsGlobal responsibility for compliance (SARBOX and PCI)Single point of contact for the business for all systems infrastructure related issuesService manager for Storage and DatabasesResponsible for vendor management and contract negotiationsCurrently, managing a team of over 90 technology professionals and managing a budget of over 15 million dollars From July 2005 to August 2008 (3 years 2 months) Infrastructure Architect @ Dow Jones & Company Infrastructure Architect responsible for enterprise infrastructure strategy, standards, guidelines and polices.Areas of responsibilities include systems, storage, enterprise applications and services. From December 2002 to June 2005 (2 years 7 months) Senior Infrastructure Consultant @ Bristol-Myers Squibb Lead infrastructure architect and engineer supporting the Clinical Trials group within the research institute. Functional responsibilities included design, implementation and support for systems, storage and databases.Key participant in the migration of clinical trial environment from a legacy custom platform to Oracle Clinical, an industry standard platform. Significantly reduced risk, complexity, and operating costs. From 2000 to 2002 (2 years)