Joe Alfaro Cupertino, California 95014 (805) 220-8965 joealfarosb@gmail.

com Summary Im a rock star VP of Engineering with a proven track record of technical, organizational and business leadership. I got a world-class education at Stanford University. Ive held executive level positions at large companies such as Symantec, Borland, and Citrix. And Ive cofounded and led startups that were funded and successfully acquired. Im interested in high growth technology companies that are looking to challenge their teams to achieve extraordinary results. Experience VP Engineering, Fe Ciega, 2012 present. Co-founder of stealth mode SaaS legal services startup. Product is in development. Owner, JA Consulting, 2012 present. I provide technical, organizational, process and management consulting services. I specialize in change management, process optimization and organizational streamlining of teams experiencing growing pains due to explosive growth. I am passionate about the difference an agile culture makes to a business. SVP Engineering, lynda.com, 2011 2012. All technology departments reported to me: Engineering, Web Operations, Corporate IT, and Business Intelligence. Teams are located in the US, Australia and Romania. The lynda.com service provides online video content to millions of users 24x7x365. Technology stack included: .Net, ASP, SQLServer, Ruby on Rails, Solr, Lucene, other Open Source Technologies. Tripled the size of engineering team in the first year. Increased quality and productivity by more than 100% by installing an Agile, TDD process. Increased performance and reliability of video delivery by more than 50%. Increased customer delight in our products by creating UX team and iterative usability process. Built mobile technology web services based platform and applications. Built BI team to transform business processes from spreadsheet-based to SaaS systems. Senior Director Engineering, Citrix Online, 2006 2011. Responsible for 325 people with centers located in California, New Jersey, Germany and India. I managed engineering for all Citrix Online products: GotoMyPC, GotoMeeting, GotoWebinar, GotoTraining, GotoManage, GotoAssist and HiDef Corp. Product technologies included: o Thick desktop (C++, Obj C), web (Flash) and mobile (Obj C, Java) clients. o Web servers supporting delivery of our customer facing website and application servers (Java, Spring) providing back end business logic for client applications. o Communication servers (C) for distributed data flow (screen sharing) between desktop, web and mobile clients. o Soft switch technology for audio conferencing (VoIP and POTS) and video server technologies for multi-party video conferencing. o E-Commerce applications for online purchasing and order fulfillment for sales activities.

Improved security, stability and availability by 100%, and increased scalability by more than 1000% by transforming the existing legacy monolithic code base to a SOA system. Increased quality and productivity by more than 100% by installing an Agile TDD process. Pioneered a Global Enterprise-wide SCRUM methodology. Increased customer satisfaction and user conversion by creating UX team and formalizing usability processes. Reorganized team from technology oriented structure to product-based organization allowing for growth from 2 major product lines to 7. Technical and organizational due diligence for acquisition targets. Successfully integrated teams and technology for 3 subsequent acquisitions. Built first offshore team for Citrix Online in Bangalore. Represented company in external forums, conferences, and customer meetings President, De Anza Youth Soccer League (DYSL), 2005 2006. League members recruited me into this position because of my leadership and organizational background. The league was in serious trouble with city officials, and its membership had lost faith in leadership. I turned the situation around to make DYSL one of the strongest and most respected leagues in the state. I made the tough decisions that nobody was willing to make and I installed policies and procedures to insure the trend continued. Co-Founder and VP Engineering, Velosel Corp., 1999 2005. Founded enterprise-level supply chain management SaaS company. Built engineering and web operations teams from scratch. Secured more than $40mm funding from SoftBank, and others (3 rounds). Built technology platform (LAMP stack) and all B2B products. Acquired major Fortune 500 customers including: The Coca Cola Company, Campbell Soup Company, Wyeth Pharmaceutical and Safeway. Sold the company to TIBCO. Director Engineering, Borland, 1995 1999. Managed engineering for Borlands InterBase product division. InterBase is a small footprint, high-performance DBMS. More than doubled the size of the engineering staff. Met with customers in pre and post sales situations. Grew revenues from $6mm to $40mm. Represented the team at conferences (speaker) and standards committees (SQL). Director Engineering, Quorum Software Systems Principal Architect, Manager Engineering, Symantec Corporation Senior Software Engineer, Valid Logic Systems Computer Scientist, UC Davis Education Stanford University