Global Chief Engineering, Finance and Marketing Leader available immediately - 4253012760
Visionary engineering executive with over 15 years of industry leadership experience, known for delivering enterprise-scale transformation through the strategic adoption of emerging technologies. Holds a postgraduate degree in engineering and brings a consistent track record of driving measurable business outcomes across complex, global environments. Recognized for blending deep technical expertise with executive presence, enabling seamless engagement with C-level stakeholders, while mentoring high-performing engineering teams and architects. Proven success in leading digital modernization initiatives across AI/ML, multi-cloud, DevSecOps, and hardware, with hands-on leadership in robotics, software, networks, AI, and mobile-first product strategies. Now seeking to accelerate enterprise innovation and value creation by embedding modern engineering practices that drive scalability, resilience, and customer-centric experiences.
Education and Qualifications
2007 - 2008 Masters in Software Systems Engineering (MSc Computer Science), Middlesex University
Thesis: Worked with biomedical engineers, using Java, Simulink, JS, ECG, AI models to develop user interface for the robotic arm of a disabled wheelchair for paraplegic users with upper extremity motor disabilities.
2004 - 2007 Bsc Hons (Joint Major) Information Technology & Biomedical Science Middlesex University
Dissertation (Class 2:1|3.7 GPA): I developed an AI auto-image analysis system (BRECANALYZE) for detecting Microcalcifications in breast cancer cells using bioinformatics, Matlab, C++ and Condor G (the grid).
2003 – 2004 Bsc Biomedical Science (ext), Spanish level 1 cert. University of West England
2020 Certificate in AI, Java, UI Fullstack Programming | University of Washington | Seattle, WA
2023 Chief Technology Officer at Wharton School of Business
Employment
Principal GEM/ Finance Technology Director – Cloud & AI/COO Microsoft, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA,
Jan 2022 – Present OrgSize: 100+ personnel including director, managers, Principal/prompt engs, DS/ML/AI/SDEs, TPMs | (USA, Canada, India)
Duties and Key Achievements:
🔹 Organizational & Technical Leadership with Engineering Culture & Talent Development
References available upon request
- Led 200+ engineers across distributed teams in California, Washington, Texas, Atlanta, Charlotte, Colorado, Vancouver, Hyderabad, Chennai, and Dublin, with a focus on building high-performing, autonomous squads, vendor/partner manager for 300+ engineers.
- Oversaw Procurement and AI Shield squads supporting 50+ enterprise services, acting as a strategic thought leader and SME.
- Established MPUS Architectural Council, coached Principal Engineers and Directors, and developed engineering bench strength
- Prioritized engineering excellence through semester-aligned OKRs and P0 items, fostering a secure, compliant development culture.
- MsTravel & MsExpense (https://expense.microsoft.com) (360K+ users), 25yr+ MSInvoice: 1clickAI-Invoicing with Doc intelligence/llm model ($70B annual payouts, 1.6M invoices (https://invoice.microsoft.com/en-us), 190 company codes, 50k users, 0.85 NLP (NER, sentiment), and Supplier Platform (https://supplier.microsoft.com 70K suppliers, 135K users) — modernized via microfrontends, serverless and OS frameworks. Supporting larger suppliers including Lenovo, Dell, HP, Zones and others.
- GS-Receipting/AutoCOR managing $1.4B+ in purchase orders; Delegation Platform refactoring SAP data for $100M revenue impact.
- MSApprovals (https://github.com/microsoft/assent-app), and Assent showcased at Hackathon & Demo Days; tech stack includes React, LIT Web Components, Adaptive Cards, and Azure OpenAI (GPT-4o mini).
- Recycling Platform(https://msrecycling.microsoft.com) supporting Microsoft sustainability efforts and $10M asset savings.
- Nuance Acquisition Support: Technical leadership on ERP and cloud integration efforts for $19B acquisition.
- Founded and led AI Thinktank, FAST (FinEx AI Sharing Time) and Multi-Agent Copilot ‘Finance Autonomous Agent platform’.
- Developed hybrid LLM+ML agentic finance platform for HH invoice risk scoring using GPT-4, Semantic Kernel, AzureML RAG.
- Extended 70+ AI plugin frameworks by 20%, built tools for AIobservability, testing/PromptFlow, auto-remediation with MCP server
- Delivered 60% reduction in invoice approval time, saving $15M annually via intelligent automation, genAI and fraud detection.
- Productionize ML/AI models (NLP, computer vision, RAG pipelines), managed large TB datasets; deployed on cloud; integrate pipelines using IaC, MLOps, NLP chatbots, cognitive services,computer vision systems, recommendation engines, anomaly detection.
- Led DevSecOps Maturity Certification and FUN P0 initiatives including BCDR, SDL/threadModel, accessibility B, privacy, SLI/SLO, quarterly SOX compliance for 100+ services. Championed Secure-by-design/s360 privacy-first initiatives as GC/M2 owner.
- Delivered PCI-compliant infrastructure enabling secure processing of $25B annually across 300M+ credit card transactions via Azure.
- Achieved Zero Sev-1 incidents over 6 months via 24x7 DRI operations; maintained maturity level 3 for Live Site reliability.
- Automated $1.5B in data center hardware procurement and saving 2,800 hours / $330K savings in SAP and approval processes.
- Coordinate company-wide $2B fiscal rollover, $6B approved commodities deployment, $4.5B PO issuance, CCLA CAPEX for $28B.
- Led delivery of the $70M NBA digital transformation initiative, orchestrating 13 parallel engineering workstreams across AI, cloud, and user experience—culminating in modernized fan engagement and content delivery platforms.
- Promoted to Principal Engineering Manager and Member of Industry Solutions Leadership Team, leading 6+ cross-functional crews (product, software engineering, ML) focused on co-innovation with global customers and ISVs.
- Built trusted executive partnerships with Fortune 500 clients including Disney, NBCU, DreamWorks, Comcast, Walmart, AT&T, US Government, and WarnerMedia—guiding cloud architecture, DevSecOps and AI transformations.
- Championed DevSecAIOps maturity across customer engagements, enabling automation of OTT/VOD workflows and virtual production control using Power Automate, Dynamics, Teams extensions, and APIM.
- Partnered with Fair Work Commission (Australia) to build a secure, Microsoft Teams–based courtroom solution, unlocking $33M in efficiency savings and digitizing judicial workflows.
- Supported Industry Solutions and MCAPS organizations in achieving:
- $10B in Multi-year Azure Consumption Commitments (MACCs)—a 269% YoY increase
- 23% YoY revenue growth across industry segments, with M+C delivering >20% YoY growth in 7 of 10 verticals.
- Co-authored 90+ reusable OSS code assets and AI adoption patterns for 9 emerging Microsoft products, directly contributing to Disney’s video metadata transformation using AI and cognitive services.
- Developed and deployed cutting-edge media platforms:
- 5G-as-a-Service, Virtual Courtrooms, Cloud Studio Labs, and Virtual Production Control Rooms using Azure, TypeScript, Electron, Microsoft Teams, and cloud-native architectures.
- Built an Action Detection Scoring pipeline for digital dailies and automated metadata tagging, processing petabytes of video data using Azure AI, Service Bus, Event Grid, and ontology-based pipelines.
- Directed domain experts, mentoring 500+ customer-facing engineers on cloud, AI, DevOps across 15 Microsoft partner technologies.
- Led internal and customer-facing readiness initiatives including screen-in programs, game plan reviews, co-innovation workshops, and monthly executive checkpoints.
- Overseeing 5 DevTestMLOps teams of Principal Eng Managers, ICs, TPMs, data scientists, UX, and customer engineers.
- March2018 CTPO Chiflen & Matchliners www.chiflen.com
DB/Big Data: NoSQL/SQL,MongoDB/Big data, Hive, Mapreduce, Kafka, Storm, MariaDb, PostgreS, MySQL; CORBA Analytics: omniture, tableau, heartSDK, OCV |
Scripting: Perl/Python/Powershell/Groovy/Ruby | ML/AI Tools: Jasper reports, PowerBI, SciKit, OpenAI, ChatGPT, LLM, Bard, Dall-E2, Gen-1, jupyter notebook. Python, R, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Spark/Hadoop; NL, Prompt Engineering, RAG, LLMs, CV, Azure ML, openAI, ChatGPT, GCP AI |
Graphics: Photoshop, Quark, Director; final cut pro| Biostatistics: SPSS, ELISA, GLP/ GCP envi | App Servers: Apache web, IIS, Tomcat7, Websphere7, Weblogic10.1, JBoss,Nginx+, Varnish, SAP, Lighttpd | Containers: Docker/ kubernetes/ Microservices/ Vagrant | Patching/Compliance: Foreman, Spacewalk, SCCM |
OS: Windows 11 | Unix/Linux: Centos 7, RHEL, Ubuntu, Linux, Mac | Cloud: Azure, Google,Vsphere/ESX, SCVMM, Openstack, Oracle, AWS | Containers: Docker, K8 |
SCM: Github, Perforce, Subversion, Starteam, CVS | CM: Chef, Salt, Puppet/hiera, Ansible, Fabric, CFEngine, Cobbler |
Caching: Ehcache with Terracotta, Hazelcast, Coherence, Redis, Couchbase, Memcache/Elasticache | CICD/Orchestration: TFS, Jenkins, Teamcity, DeployIT, Rundeck, |
IDE: Visual Studio, Eclipse, Intellij, TOAD | Code analysis: Sonarqube | ALM: JIRA, Silktest, Mingle, mingle, Trello |
Test Tools: JUnit, Mockito, Jmeter, Cucumber, Webdriver, labrun| Perf:pagespeed, LoadRunner, Selenium,Grinder Tools: Kickbox, responsys |
Web Tech: AJAX, JavaScript, Jquery, Json, Xml, JAXB, SOAP, REST, RMI, EJB, Swing, AWT, JSF, Java, Scala, SOAP, Servlets, Spring, Hibernate, DropWizard| |
Monitoring: Zipkin, Catchpoint, Zabbix, Icinga, Graphite, ElasticSearch(ELK), Grafana,Sensu| Logging: Splunk, logstash, app insights |
Frameworks: Spring MVC, Hibernate, Spring, J2EE, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, JTA, Java Swing, JMS, LINQ, Ada95, C/C++, JAVA, Servlet, VB, HTML, JavaScript | Design: Figma, sketch.io, Invision, adobe cloud | CRM: PeopleSoft, Amdocs | CASE tools: Select SSADM, SEERS, SIMULINK Artisan UML |
Azure stack: C#, CosmosDB, Blob/Storage, reactJS, SAP, D365, Kubernetes, Service Bus,Azure DevOps, AD, SAML, OAuth. App Insights, Functions, Event Grid, Event Hubs, Key Vault, Logic Apps, SignalR, Storage, •Visual Studio, GitHub Co-pilot, VS Code, Git, ReSharper, NCrunch, VSTest, NMAKE | Networking/Load balancer: Netscaler, F5, ELB, SMTP, ACE, UDP, Mashery, IaC (Terraform, Bicep), AI tools: EvidentlyAI, WhyLabs, Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor, Azure Data Drift Monitor, |
Certificates:AWS+Azure architect certificate, Certified Cloud security eng, RedHat Certified Engineer, Agile/PRINCE 2, ISO90003, Artifical intelligence/ML |