SUMMARY

• 19 years’ direct experience at a Vice President and Director Level. Possess a track record of scaling and motivating development and QA software teams.
• Impose a high degree of self - example, ethics, integrity. Possess strong presentation skills with C level audiences.
• Successful motivating staff and working with executives at all levels. Have a relentless passion to innovate, drive architecture, technology and reach across organizational boundaries to drive initiatives and revenue.
• 23 years of software development covering software architecture, infrastructure, customer management, product development, quality assurance, system design and delivery.
• Motivational, passionate, lead by example, hands-on collaborative style of management.
• At ClickFox, delivered the first version of ClickFox Hadoop Cloud software and Angular UI that generated 8 million dollars of software sales.
• Implemented Spark, Riak, and Impala. Developed a new product lines for Journey Analytics using Machine Learning, Spark, and Python.
• Delivered stable releases through implementation of software principles, Agile practices and QA automation.
• Confidential SaaS, grew the Cloud Services Security Platform to provide 40 million dollars of recurring revenue through a 70K customer and 4-million user-base. Integrated Mobile email on iPhone and Andriod, Web, DLP, Encryption, SSO applications.
• Scaled the Saas Platform and the software team. Ingested 600 million emails a day, and processed 700 web URL hits per second in the cloud.
• At Confidential CRM (competitor with Siebel and SAP), led the architecture, vision, and technology for 600 CRM customers.
• Generated 12 million dollars of CRM revenue. Scaled on-shore and off-shore teams and implemented program practices to ensure on-time releases.
• At Confidential, implemented a highly transactional web ordering system to scale to two million hits per day. Built a nascent team to maturity. Right hired team and introduced SOA, Java Spring, and Web 2.0 technologies.
• Supported 7 product lines on a 6000-customer base.
• At Confidential, delivered DLP, PCI, and HIPA compliance software for Walgreens and scaled the platform to ingest to 2 million events per day.
• At Confidential / Confidential, architected software components for airline applications. Coded forecasting passenger, route and cargo optimization for an 8 million product line

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Vice President of Engineering

Denver, CO

Responsibilities:

• Managed the efforts of 36-engineer development and QA team: 22 in Denver and 14 in India to deliver Journey Analytics Agile Scrum Releases in 8-week cadences.
• Converted Legacy Flex UI to Angular 2, nodes js, and JavaScript, and using REST/Swagger interfaces. Delivered continuous QA automation using Soap UI, Jenkins, Protractor and Jasmine.
• Led architecture and vision. Converted legacy ClickFox Big Data to the Hadoop Platform to scale to ingest 12 million session/day and process 30 TB/month of Journey Events.
• Led innovations in Spark, Map-Reduce, Hive, Hbase and Impala on Hortonworks and Cloudera distributions. Delivered first version of ClickFox Hadoop to Verizon Wireless.
• Implemented Machine Learnings Algorithms for Journey Analytics using Python, and Spark.
• Enabled rapid deployment of software to cloud and on premise environments using AWS, Mesos, Kubernetes, and Docker.

Senior Director of Cloud Engineering

Confidential, Englewood, CO

Responsibilities:

• Managed efforts of 47 Software Engineers: 25 staff in Denver; 14 in Canada, and 8 in India to deliver Confidential cloud based Email, Mobile, Cloud Identity, Web and Mobile security products.
• Established well defined Quality Metrics for Release over Release. Improved Quality for Agile Releases in the Cloud.
• Delivered a highly multitenant, redundant, and scalable SaaS platform to 63 K SMB, VARS, and enterprise customers.
• Extended and sold the VAR and subscriber model to AT&T and Verizon private clouds. Improved Scrum Agile processes to deliver 4 Releases per year in the SaaS Cloud.
• Delivered Green Plum shared nothing architecture to process 500 million/day dispositions and queries across multiple data centers . Implemented Sharding on Solr for archived email product to process 16 TB of data on dual stores.
• Architected, and integrated Mobile Email, DLP, and Encryption into SaaS Cloud Platform. Converted Legacy Flex UI to ExtJS, JQuery and BootStrap.
• Grew the business to 60 million dollars of recurring revenue, and 15 million of annualized Telco revenue. Developed stable, innovative, and scalable products.
• Energized the sales channels and the VAR’s through delivery of mobile applications to end consumers. Architected the cloud platform to process 500 million emails a day, and 700 URL’s per second.
• Extended the platform for Mobile and Identity. Drove innovation through Puppet, MongoDB, Solr, Riak, and REST APIs. Led Dev-ops initiatives through Puppet, Hiera and Docker on AWS, and internal servers.
• Led PaaS (Platform as a Service) initiatives in Confidential on Open Stack.

Director of Applications

Confidential, Ft. Collins, CO

Responsibilities:

• Grew a nascent 5 staff development team to 33 mature and scalable development team. Hired critical business analysts and project managers to run individual projects. Built Agile Scrum Teams.
• Managed efforts of 33 Software Engineers, Database Engineers, DBA’s, QA staff, and 18 off shore staff on an annual IT budget of 12 million.
• Managed a high transaction/volume Software-as-a-Service configurable web based java ordering system for 21,000 users, and 6000 customers.
• Exposed web services on a software-as-a-service model. Provided highly scalable, configurable, and multi-tenant features to the product line.
• Added bandwidth and capacity through an off-shore team in Pune, India and delivered 7 product lines.

Senior Development Manager

Confidential, Denver, CO

Responsibilities:

• Managed efforts of 40 engineers. Scaled the existing 15 On-shore engineers with 18 offshore developers and 7 QA staff in a 24-x7 cycle.
• Led Confidential in the DLP (Data Leakage Protection) magic quadrant. Managed efforts of 24 staff to deliver security applications on an Open Source Java/Linux/Tomcat/Apache platform.
• Delivered 3 major on-time software releases using an agile Rapid Prototyping methodology. Managed offshore resources, budget, machines, and deliveries.
• Brought the offshore project back on schedule through hands-on management techniques, team building, and synchronizing the India and US teams towards common goals.

Confidential, Golden, CO

Senior Director of CRM-Ecommerce Software Development

Responsibilities:

• Vice President of CRM Engineering. Managed global software team of 160 engineers towards successful deliveries.
• Managed efforts of 92 staff in US, 30 staff in Copenhagen, 20 staff in Hyderabad, and 18 staff in Netherlands to deliver products to a 600+ customer base.
• Provided strong motivation and leadership to teams in challenging environments that involved multiple acquisitions.
• Drove product architecture and development. Channeled product requirements and interfaced with customers, sales, consulting, and executive management.
• Brainchild of Interactive CRM and conversion of the product from thick client server model to a zero-deployment web based using Java stack.
• Architected the application to expose well- defined data access layers and integration APIs.

Senior Practice Manager

Confidential, Herman Miller Grand Rapids, MI

Responsibilities:

• Provided strategy for Herman Miller to ensure leadership in the office furniture marketplace. Instrumental in making Herman Miller LIVE on Confidential .

Consulting Manager

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Led the software process redesign engagement for GTE. Transformed their legacy system to a client-server environment with Informix/C++ back-end and Java/Web.

Project Manager/Software Engineer

Confidential, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Wrote routing, cargo revenue, and passenger/forecasting algorithms for Confidential .
• Architected, implemented, and supported applications for a real-time Crew Scheduling and Flight Scheduling system for Britannia Airways (U.K). Seconded to Britannia in U.K. Managed the final critical implementation phases of a 40 million-dollar project. Directly supervised the work of 12 developers.
• Instrumental in the “go-live” of the system that tracked 200 crew and 30 aircraft route in real-time.
• Generated client savings of 8 million dollars.
• Demonstrated product to EuroWings, LTU, and Lufthansa to drive additional revenue.