SVP, Digital Transformation ➱ SVP, Global Head of Engineering

• Currently leading and accountable for Jefferies’ digital transformation vision, strategy, execution - with ownership of engineering, product, SRE/DevOps, UX, as well as budgets and P&L, encompassing end to end delivery across the entire firm ( 44 new 0-1 products/ change-the-bank, 161 KTLO/run-the-bank apps, ~530+ team, 8 directs, $250mm+ budget ).
• Extensively collaborated and partnered with C-level and Senior leadership teams across multiple business lines (Investment Banking, Global Markets, Wealth Management), and other departments (Risk/Compliance/Legal), firm-wide to develop and execute a multi-year digital transformation strategy.
• Spearheaded, nurtured, and instituted a culture of engineering excellence, high performance, continuous innovation, commercially optimal, high quality delivery. Started and built the team from scratch to over 350+ geographically dispersed engineering leaders of leaders, engineering managers and Senior/Staff/Principal level architects and engineers, leveraging my industry network, as well as promoting top talent from within. In the last 3 years, I promoted 3 out of 7 directs from Sr. Director to VP, reduced regrettable attrition in my department from 24% to 11%, advocated for and advocated for and increased neuro-diverse talent in the team, exceeding divisional diversity targets by achieving 53% diversity vs 40% targeted
• Built omni-channel multi-cloud, data driven, and AI enriched M&A Sell Side platform, transforming end to end Deal Origination, Tracking, Executon, and Reporting, augmented with real time insights streaming. The platform now handles several billion dollars and 100$ of all M&A deals. Saved over 800 person years in manual efforts and improved deal seeking accuracy by 26% YoY. Javascript Web UI, Swift for iOS, Salesforce LWC and Experience Cloud (Salesforce platform , Private Connect, 3rd party and custom built API’s), AWS based Data Platform (Kafka - MSK/Kinesis/AWS Glue/EMR/S3/RDS/API Gateway/Lambda/Quicksight/Athena/Cloudwatch/EKS/Springboot/Redshift/Neptune)
• Stood up enterprise-wide Sales and Revenue Engineering team of ~70 engineers and built out an analytics-driven, CRM and Sales Engineering infrastructure, leading to uptick in sales rates by ~16% YoY.
• Coached 34 scrum teams to improve broken Agile processes, revamped engineering practices across AWS, Salesforce, Azure, and On-Prem systems, improving release frequency from once a quarter to multiple high-quality, intra-day releases.
• Envisioned, and delivered, sophisticated Salesforce based CRM and Insights engine across Sales, Marketing, Product, Engineering, Customer Success, Finance, Legal, People/HR and IT.
• Architected and delivered omni-channel client recommendation & cross-sell system that improved client discovery rates for Investment Banking by 12% globally.
• Implemented a data-driven product GTM strategy from Requirements Gathering to Post Production and leveraged metrics to engage stakeholders.
• Drove savings of ~ $7 mm over 2 years (automation, in-housing 3rd party integrations, optimizing cloud spend).
• Built an engineering excellence culture, promoted 3 out of 7 directs to VP, reduced regrettable attrition in my department from 24% to 11%, advocated for and increased neuro-diverse talent in the team.
• As member of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), supported and contributed to firm level technology strategy & selection, people strategy, disaster recovery & business continuity programs, security & compliance audits.

Business Lines: Sales & Trading, Investment Banking, Wealth Management, EQ/FI Research

Engineering Manager ➱ Senior Manager ➱ Vice President, Engineering

• Managed and directed geographically dispersed multi-function agile teams of ~350+ technologists. Full ownership of product and technical roadmaps, backlog, and team financials.
• Co-defined vision for Advisory, Research, Investment Banking departments and translated vision to high impact product strategy, working collaboratively with business leaders.
• Created and chaired Architecture review board for Advisory cross-functional business unit that introduced best practices, increased reuse, and ensured consistent engineering standards. Improved focus on long-term view of quality, performance, scalability, architecture, supportability, user-experience.
• Led development, and delivery for several award winning products - e.g. Research App (Kotlin/Swift/React/Elasticsearch/Oracle) resulting in a 16% uptick in readership, Morgan Stanley Content Creation and Collaboration ( EidosMedia/HTML5/CSS/React/C#/Oracle).
• Delivered award winning Research and Distribution engine and offer management platform, for millions of Private Wealth customers, resulting in ~21% growth in AUM in the first year, due to increased conversion rates.
• Reskilled ~200+ functional testers to SDET/DevOps engineers, got 29 senior IC’s, and 11 engineering managers promoted.
• Introduced and implemented SAST/DAST/Penetration Testing( Sonar/Checkmarx ), and Chaos Engineering ( Gremlin ) for multiple critical external facing applications.
• Played senior role in firm-wide consolidation of ~7000 team members across 16 vendors to 2 key strategic vendors, in ~1.5 years, resulting in ~$220 mm savings in billing rates, over 4 years.
• Played pivotal roles in numerous demos and product launches, engaging with COO/CFO/Business heads, at client firms.

Business Lines: EQ/FI Research, Investment Banking, Wealth Management

Senior Engineer ➱ SDET ➱ SDET Lead

• Multi-discipline tech lead managing developers, testers, and product management analysts for Bing Ads (C#/.Net/HTML/CSS).
• Lead Test and Release Engineer for SQL Server Business Intelligence and shipped several high-quality customer builds for BI management studio and SSIS (C#/.Net/C++).

Product Lines: SQL Server, Bing Ads

Associate Engineer ➱ Software Engineer ➱ Senior Engineer

• Tech lead & Senior Software engineer - shipped several features and award-winning releases of ERwin, Modelmart, eTrust (C++/Ingres).
• Architecture re-design and development for the ERwin data modeling suite and helped triple market opportunity by integrating seamlessly with multiple metadata vendors.

Product Lines: ERwin/Modelmart, Autosys, eTrust Security Suite