SUMMARY:

• I am a technologist and leader who believes growing organizations equate to the most elegant challenges.
• A serious traveler, music lover, avid reader, amateur historian, genealogist, enthusiastic skier, wannabe golfer, philanthropist, pet adopter, and Raspberry Pi hacker - 1 combine my loves of the past, helping others, travel, and technology to lead organizations in new directions.
• Technology and Business Executive with a proven record of, leading and motivating teams that design, manage, implement and support large-scale, innovative, and first-in-world solutions delivering products and services to clients.
• Business process integration expert, merging systems and processes through four post­acquisition/merger events spanning ten years; enabling corporate expansion and smooth transition for internal users and customers.
• Expertise in cross-functional management and collaboration with a focus on moving whole organizations in a common direction through strategic planning and industry best practices.
• Expertise and experience in growing organizations from start-up through acquisition and beyond.
• A business executive whose focus on quality, integrity, coaching, and mentorship has enabled his teams to become the focus of excellence within the organization and the go-to partner to get things done.
• My career story involves a seventeen-year journey ( ) that starts with being recruited as lead technical designer and implementer for a video conferencing start-up (employee #13), and ends when I left the business after three M&A events leading the technology teams of a global, Tier-1, collaboration services provider with revenues approaching $500M. During that period, I wore just about every tech hat one can - architect, coder, DBA, SA, data analyst, all the way up through the various management levels, finally to CTO/CIO.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Consulting for a large non-profit national family and senior housing provider - consultation, research, data collection, and planning services for a large acquisition of properties and IT systems. Systems integration, data migration, financial and business experience, M&A, and planning skills are required.
• Additionally managed A/B evaluation of ERP systems. Previously, consulted for a large software / service provider.
• Researching and analyzing their business, seeking project opportunities to streamline, save costs, and provide concrete strategic and tactical direction to enable continued success for the organization.
• Specifics include activity / task analysis, current / future state process modeling, best practices guidance, business transformation. SAFe, DevOps, LEAN, ITIL are all in play. Alignment of tactical projects (specific to project goals) with overarching strategic business needs and directions was key to the deliverables for this client.
• Specific areas of strategic analysis were cost-to-value alignment, organizational structure, foundational tenets and frameworks that support the overall business vision, overall alignment to corporate vision, and resource optimization and outsourcing.

Confidential, Louisville, Colorado

President

Responsibilities:

• A technology and business process consultancy helping small and medium businesses with their implementations of technology, software development, and business processes focusing on the use of Agile methodologies within the workplace; additionally, collaboration technology consulting.
• Latest engagement involved a global product launch of a new collaboration technology for a Tier 1 services provider.

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Senior Director, Engineering, Cloud and Managed Solutions

Responsibilities:

• Reporting to the CFO, led two large global technology teams of a nascent video managed services division within Confidential ’s $1.4B equipment manufacturing business.
• Collaborated with executive management to formulate product direction and an engineering roadmap taking the business from $30M+ revenue stream into a planned 25% year-over-year growth engine for the company.
• Directed 50+ individuals comprising the technology and engineering teams in US and India to design and build the new user-experience, systems, and software for the end-to-end customer and partner service offering.
• Motivated and coached division-wide teams to tighten focus on product requirements that accelerated services delivery by two-quarters and enabled revenue gains.
• Facilitated cross-functional management across marketing, product management, operations and sales to change the direction of the organization resulting in a profile of growth for the division.

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Vice President of Technology (CTO/CIO)

Responsibilities:

• Led the strategic and tactical technical and product management of the business to drive leading edge development of software and services and high-quality infrastructure support that drove top line revenue growth opportunities and bottom line cost containment efforts.
• Collaborated with executive peers to forge the technology direction of the company that influenced future marketing, sales and operations processes and goals.
• Managed multiple teams of 60+ that contributed in the following areas: Software and Systems Engineering, Research and Development, Delivery Management, Quality Assurance, Configuration and Change Management, Network Architecture, Design and Implementation, and Security. Delivered the highest quality services and software to the market.
• Directed large broad-based IT projects for the company; coordinating intradepartmental and inter-company resources to deliver results on time and on budget using metrics and processes refined over time.
• Headed the teams that delivered first to market Global Video Exchange™ enabling B2B Telepresence video communications.
• Implemented product and implementation processes at scale utilizing Agile methodologies across product marketing, development and operations in the manner of SAFe and DevOps principles.
• Influenced product direction using customer marketing data, research, and development, and industry knowledge and collaboration over a period of 10+ years, leading the organizations toward industry-leading product offerings on a global scale.
• Built the teams and systems that enabled Confidential Communications to become the first Telepresence Global Partner for Cisco achieving first-mover status in the market and catapulting Confidential onto the global stage to lead the explosion of Telepresence into the business workplace.
• Collaborated with Cisco on the product / service initiative that formed the basis for implementations by other Service Providers.

Confidential, Boulder, Colorado

Director of Systems

Responsibilities:

• Managed four teams of engineers and clerical workers who performed the following functions: UNIX Systems Administration, Database Administration and Architecture, Configuration and Change Management, Build and Source Code Management, Release Packaging, Data Warehouse design, ETL, Data Quality and Data Maintenance.
• Directed the teams that provide services to the company’s entire worldwide organization in a 24/7/365 environment enabling the company to deliver higher quality services to customers.
• Migrated the software development, QA, and CM teams from a waterfall to an Agile-based development methodology achieving higher throughput and quality software releases for the company and customers.

Confidential , Boulder, Colorado

Director of Network Systems

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of engineers consisting of UNIX administrators, Microsoft engineers, video engineers, and telecommunications engineers.
• This group provided support for Confidential 's worldwide operations.
• Oversight included personnel issues, budgets, equipment maintenance and procurement, Telecom carrier contract negotiations, project management of future build-outs, maintenance of telco and IP networks, and UNIX and Microsoft server environments.

Confidential, Boulder, Colorado

Systems Architect/Software Developer/DBA/SA

Responsibilities:

• Drove the green-field development of the company’s enterprise information system. The system, Onward™, provided cradle-to-grave management of information and process for the company’s business, Video Conferencing -- still in use and development today at Confidential Conferencing.
• Designed and implemented the world’s first web-based Video Conference scheduling engine that interfaced directly with a Managed Service Provider - Engage Schedule™. Engage is still in use today and is a recognized leader in the Conferencing industry.

Confidential, Boulder, Colorado

UNIX Operations Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided sole support to the organization’s UNIX computing and application infrastructure.
• This infrastructure was responsible for running the organization’s major enterprise software applications.
• Provided expert support for UCAR's UNIX systems (RS/6000s and Suns) from both a hardware and software standpoint.
• Functioned as the DBA for UCAR's financial database operating on an Informix Online Engine (version 5.01).
• Provided expert programming skills in the following areas: Informix 4GL, ESQL/C, and C programming languages, HTML, shell scripting (csh, sh, and ksh).
• Developed end-user applications to provide functions to the organization not provided by UCAR's third party vendor (reporting and application development and support).

Confidential, Golden, Colorado

Lead Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided software engineering and architecture services to Confidential, implementing their first audio conferencing reservations system for the Confidential service
• Designed the reservations system from the database and user interface point of view.
• Implemented the designed systems in Informix 4GL, ESQL/C, and C languages.
• Performed unit and integration testing on the system.
• Released the system to the production environment
• Performed duties as a Database Administrator (MS-SQL Server) for production and non-production environments for the business.