Alex B

► Building a new generation of automotive software

► Designed an open-source platform, filed four patents and released over five products. ► Raised ~$25M in revenue through an ICO (initial coin offering). ► Developed ideas, crafted and implemented strategic plans. ► Held complete P&L responsibility while directing legal, accounting, technology, and product development. ► Expanded company globally, building marketing and engineering teams in the US, Europe, and Asia. ► Recruited COO, CMO, and CTO and built a company to over 50 employees and contractors. Notable Products: ⇒ LimitlessReward - cashback site with millions of products and hundreds of stores, provides search functionality with a focus on user preferences and personalization. ⇒ MatchICO - personalized anonymized matching companies and investors using BitClave matching engine. ⇒ BASE - an open-source decentralized matching platform to connect users and businesses. ⇒ Vault - a user data storage for all personal information that can be shared on BASE. ⇒ Cyber Security Risk Assessment Tool - assesses cybersecurity risk for small and medium businesses.

► Recruited to define product architecture and develop company strategy. ► Led cross-functional teams of 90+ program and product managers, business analysts, technical architects, and other technical resources. ► Championed SDL (Secure Development Lifecycle) process within the company. Crafted strategy for product security and built a team of security experts across several product lines. Notable Products: ⇒ webOS - a Linux Kernel-based operating system used by TVs, smartphones and wearable devices. ⇒ webOS backend services - backend services to support webOS OTA (over-the-air) updates, ML (machine learning) services, identity management, etc. ⇒ BlueBox - an automotive connectivity device used as a brain for autonomous driving vehicles.

►Managed a 40-member software team. Defined strategy, roadmap, and built engineering and business teams. ►Directed building of new generation of software stack for mobile and IoT processors. ►Drove innovation in approaches to software security. ►Reduced development time from four months to two weeks while improving product security. Notable Products: ⇒ Secure Element - a hardware chip used in mobile payments systems like iOS and Android. ⇒ Hardening Tool - an LLVM based compiler used to create software layer for code hardening.

►Grew company from a $50K investment to $10M and built an engineering team from two to 20+ people. ►Managed $3M budget while scaling organization, developing products and creating go-to-market strategy. ►Developed strategic roadmap, directed business development and cultivated customer relationships. ►Acquired a large customer base including five in the Fortune 100 through direct sales and resellers, reaching profitability in the first year with revenue over $2M. Notable Products: ⇒ SKB - a Secure Key Box - provides customers with ways to protect their secrets in code. Shipped to over 50 enterprise customers with total revenue of $10M+. ⇒ Code Protection - an advanced application protection tool for C++ and Java developers to obfuscate and integrity protect their software on Android, iOS, Mac OS, Linux and Windows.

►Defined, architected and designed products ►Managed development team; performed technical due diligence, security reviews and M&A. ►Built key strategic partnerships. Notable Products: ⇒ Expressplay - a studio approved DRM for protection of live and on-demand content. ⇒ SeaCert - a trusted certification authority used to generate keys for customers like Sony, Panasonic et. al.

►Architected, designed and strategized implementation of complex software solutions applying Agile methodologies and Cloud computing. ►Defined and architected products, coded and performed code reviews. ►Instrumental in overseeing the redesign and development of the entire data layer. Notable Products: ⇒MediaRoom - an IPTV solution used by AT&T to stream service (similar to Comcast). ⇒Hotmail - a Microsoft email service. ⇒Conducted threat modeling, identified security vulnerabilities and mitigations for Mediaroom. ⇒Achieved a 90% reduction of outgoing spam by implementing a new heuristic-based system. ⇒Led team of developers in ASP.NET migration project as a response to Gmail launch. ⇒Patent: Rights management using recording definition information (RDI), US7823210. ⇒ Implemented a new DRM system for IPTV, C++/C#.

►Responsible for multiple client applications in eBay. Implemented several features in eBay Browser Toolbar and in eBay Turbo Lister client. ⇒ Redesigned and implemented Turbo Lister update process, C++/MFC ⇒Designed and implemented new features in Toolbar, COM/ATL ⇒ Skills: Agile project management, Mobile applications, security, cryptography, big data

►Responsible for developing client/server data mining applications. Led the team to design a new generation of Informatica’s client suite. ⇒ Designed and implemented solutions for backward compatibility of repository server, C++ ⇒ Designed and implemented a sophisticated monitoring application, C++/COM

►Responsible for a new design and complete implementation of Microsoft Fax Client. ⇒Delivered a new Fax Client ahead of deadline and on budget by re-architecting old client from C to C++ ⇒ Integrated Fax Client with Exchange Server using MAPI