Strategic Technology Leadership Profile
Technology leader with more than three decades of experience turning complex systems into practical, scalable solutions for business across five continents. Recognized for building platforms that make organizations more efficient, adaptive, and future-ready. A dyslexic thinker with strong spatial reasoning, known for pattern recognition and systems integration across AI, cloud, open finance, and ERP.
Belief: technology should serve people. Led teams that built 36 modular business systems used across 28 industries; launched an environmental risk platform processing billions of data points (Oracle Technology Company of the Year). At Emapta, oversaw an integrated employee platform where AI assistants, resume scoring, onboarding automation, and intelligent search improve hiring and reduce time-to-productivity.
Advised banks, insurers, and public institutions; launched a secure open finance ecosystem; built offshore hubs with 99.9%+ uptime and clean audit history. Principles: solve real problems, build for scale, be transparent, measure outcomes.
Core Competencies - AI Leadership & Strategy
- AI/ML Leadership: Oversaw cross-functional AI teams for large-scale systems (recruitment, HR, platform intelligence) including predictive scoring, interview simulation, and NLP queries across 200K+ monthly users.
- Agentic AI & LLM: Integrated advanced LLMs and agentic workflows across ADAM, AVAR, Emparse, EmScore with human-in-the-loop, red-flag detection, and embedded consent handling.
- AI Governance & Compliance: Operationalized AI with board-level oversight, explainability, traceability, and GDPR/PDPA consent frameworks.
- AI Ethics & Risk: Aligned model behavior to audit standards, equity, and transparent evaluation workflows.
Strategic Thinking
- Dyslexic Thinking & Pattern Recognition: Synthesizes complex systems into scalable platforms; identifies macro-patterns in disconnected systems.
- Technology Executive Leadership: 30+ years, board-facing, across enterprise transformation, startup scaling, and PMF alignment on five continents.
- High-Trust Change Management: Builds transparent, feedback-driven cultures; scales teams via mentoring, architecture reviews, and global delivery governance.
Platform Engineering & Delivery
- Enterprise Architecture & Modular Systems: Deployed ERP/MRP/SCM across 28+ industries; federated GraphQL, service mesh, cloud-native components.
- Platform Engineering & Shared Services: IAM (Keycloak), notifications, CI/CD, file store, observability (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry), audit logging.
- Cloud & SaaS Modernization: Multi-region elastic SaaS on AWS; microservices; blue/green; serverless pipelines for 99.99% uptime.
- DevSecOps & Observability: CI/CD governance, ISO 27001-aligned gates, feature promotion, full-stack telemetry.
Experience
Lead strategy, architecture, and execution for the MyEmapta SuperApp and enterprise platform (TA, onboarding, HR ops, support automation). AI-first design with microservices, event-driven GraphQL service mesh, Keycloak IAM, ISO 27001-aligned DevSecOps, and deep observability.
Core Platform Modules
- AVAR (AI Recruiting): Accepted into AWS GenAIIC; subsystems - Emparse (LLM resume parser), EmScore (fit-ranking), AI Interview Simulator (Bedrock, red-flag detection, human-in-the-loop). Processes 200K+ candidates/month, integrated with TRM/ETM.
- TOP (Talent Onboarding Platform): Automates contracts, preboarding, ID validation, AIM registration; single-pass conversion from offer to active user.
- TRM (Talent Recruitment Management): End-to-end ATS with requisitions, recruiter dashboards, campaigns, AI-enhanced evaluation; integrated Emparse/EmScore.
- ETM (Enterprise Talent Marketplace): Hybrid vector+keyword search on OpenSearch with weighted matching and natural-language queries.
- ADAM Chatbot: Bedrock-based assistant for HR/IT; source-linked answers, Freshservice escalation, multilingual capabilities.
- HCM & Shared: Time & Attendance (biometrics, geofencing, exception workflows, agentic marking), Leave Management (multi-country engine), HRIS Core (authoritative source), design system (Flutter microfrontends), shared services (IAM, notifications, observability, file store, audit), DevSecOps and privacy-by-design.
Signature Achievements
- Banking Superapp Framework: Modular API-driven ecosystem across retail, payments, lending, SME onboarding; embedded KYC/AML and federated user state.
- Xpanse Open Finance Platform: Distributed-asynchronous transaction pipeline (DATP) ensuring workflow integrity; onboarded 250+ banks, e-wallets, and fintechs via a secure unified API gateway with sandboxes and automated compliance.
- AI-Powered KYC/AML Automation: Real-time ML for fraud and AML, OCR document intelligence; 60% reduction in manual KYC review; PHP 40M annual OPEX savings.
- AKIN (SSI & Consent): Hyperledger Indy credentials, biometric auth, DID-based consent; password-less access and federated consent revocation (DPA, Open Finance mandates).
- Scale & Compliance: 200K+ SME users, 9,000+ agents, 250+ institutions; 99.99% availability; BSP/ISO/AMLC audits passed with zero major findings.
- Business Outcomes: 5x tech revenue (2021); partner onboarding time cut from 3 months to less than 1 week; foundation for Series B.
Technology leadership and services across APEC; built ITO ops; mentored teams; led change management. Architected payment gateway processing PHP 18B/month (Kafka, Spark) and a modern eCommerce ecosystem (Nuxt, Nest, GraphQL).
- Built Manila innovation hub; agile teams across engineering/QA/BA/DevSecOps/support/HR/finance; ~99% on-time releases.
- Architected OMNI microservices SaaS unifying claims, policy admin, premium billing, payments, reporting.
- Launched HaelthLink Cloud Services (real-time transactions web/mobile); HL7/FHIR-ready APIs reduced integration time from weeks to days.
- Embedded FWA analytics; anomaly detection cut suspect-claim review time by 60%; double-digit loss-ratio improvement.
- Instituted DevSecOps on AWS; blue/green, compliance scans; 99.9% uptime with zero major audit findings.
Led cloud transition, SaaS enablement, and mobile-first programs across ESG portfolio (5,500 employees, 22 companies, 16 locations). Implemented RAD/OutSystems; overhauled corporate web and apps.
WorkBench platform aggregated 1,800+ databases and 45 map layers; real-time property data analysis; earned Oracle Technology Company of the Year (2014).
SaaS to improve factory performance; sensor integrations for continuous monitoring; responsive UX; single-portal supply chain visibility and risk reporting.
Culture and delivery transformation; recognition systems; modernization of engineering processes.
Open-source eCommerce rebuild; 150+ team; advanced search, ML recommendations; marketer-driven site factory enabling rapid redesigns.
Set up Manila dev center; transitioned Russian engineers; rebuilt Dev/QA; instituted methodologies to meet aggressive goals.
IT-ASM ITOM/ESM/EAM suite; ITIL/SOX compliant; web appliance with HW/FW/SW; SaaS for SMEs; EAM lifecycle, inventory, CMDB; integrated incident/problem/change/release management.
Built 36 ERP/SCM/MRP modules adopted across 28 industries; global deployments; modular ERP strategy; programs for user training and continuous improvement across NZ, AU, HK, SG, TW, PH, CN, TH, EU, US.
Project Highlights
- Global AI/ML programs for 9,000+ employee org; process re-engineering and automation.
- Blockchain-based Self-Sovereign Identity; multi-rail payments; Flutter superapp for fintech.
- ERP/MRP/SCM systems for multi-country deployments; logistics and supply chain excellence.
- Digital transformation for ESG-focused global corporation (5,500 staff across 22 companies).
- eCommerce platform for 2,850+ stores; logistics and real-time analytics.
- Payment gateway processing PHP 18B/month (Kafka, Spark); high reliability and scale.
- Environmental GIS with 1,500+ data sources and 26 map layers; 8B tx/month; Oracle award.
Advisory & Governance
- Beachheads Advisor, New Zealand Trade & Enterprise (2014-present)
- Head IT Audit, Philippine Statistics Authority - PPP/ADB engagement (2018-2019)
- Advisor, Mobbiz Solutions (2018-present)
- Advisor, CRDZ - blockchain (2017-2019)
Skills
Applications Built (selected)
Operations, Finance & Commerce
- Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cash Management, Fixed Assets
- Sales Orders, Quotations, Rebate & Royalty Management, POS
- Project Monitoring, Contract Management, Service Job Costing
- Purchase Requisitions, Direct Deliveries, Store Inventory
- eCommerce, Loyalty, Super App, Payments
Manufacturing & Supply Chain
- Bill of Materials, Production Control, Works Orders, Production Scheduling
- Material Requirements Planning, Logistics Requirements Planning
- Routing, Shipment Tracking & Costing, Transport Planning, Warehouse Mgmt
Enterprise & Compliance
- Enterprise Asset Mgmt (EAM), Enterprise Requirements Planning (ERP)
- ITIL, Environmental Risk Mgmt, Human Capital Mgmt, Learning Mgmt
- Insurance & Eligibility, Talent Mgmt & Onboarding
Industries Served
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