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
Own AI/ML strategy and analytics roadmap; establish governed data products, SLIs/SLOs, lineage, and cost guardrails. Lead delivery across data warehousing, observability, and applied ML tied to business outcomes.
Led Web3 capabilities (Self‑Sovereign Identity‑as‑a‑Service, Wallet‑as‑a‑Service, Tokenization‑as‑a‑Service). Scaled microservices and API platform; improved workflow reliability and security patterns.
Defined standards for multi‑tenant auth, event‑driven services, and secure integration. Drove best practices for CI/CD, observability, and data privacy.
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
- Enterprise Solution Design
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Machine Learning
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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