SUMMARY

• Highly accomplished senior executive and board member with more than 20 years’ experience in technology, IT, aerospace, defense, cyber, cloud and data science.
• Demonstrated experience transitioning concepts into solutions and products
• Experience building teams from 20 to more than 500
• Demonstrated business, management and organizational leadership for budgets exceeding $100M
• Experience leading IT, engineering and product development organizations
• Ongoing success leveraging agile principles to drive operational, technical and business change
• International experience across more than 25 countries
• Strong technical foundation spanning cyber security, cloud, virtualization, enterprise software, physics, mathematics, and data science
• Proven track record of developing innovative solutions to tackle the “hard” problems
• Willing to relocate

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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Chief Information Officer

Responsibilities:

• Executive lead for Information Technology, Procurement and Facilities Management.
• Crafted and executed DevOps strategy to form an integrated information enterprise across 6 companies (1,400 employees and 25 sites) brought together to form Polaris Alpha.
• Manages all internal infrastructure, applications, networking (WAN/LAN/Voice), data center platforms and cloud strategies.
• By focusing on business needs, efficiencies and synergies have been realized through development of a standardized roll out of support desk, engineering design, planning and implementation services to provide measurable improvements to business operations.
• Working closely with senior leadership to align IT with organic and inorganic growth strategy.
• Operational cost savings of more than 25% while generating a productivity increase of more than 80%

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Senior Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Executive lead for Information Technology, Knowledge Systems, Communications and Release Management.
• Implemented a DevOps driven approach that transformed the way we execute Information Technology supporting product development and corporate systems.
• Operational lead times reduced by 80% while realizing cost savings of more than 30%.
• Leading ISS' transformation to a managed, planned and repeatable DevOps/Agile infrastructure in support of corporate and programmatic goals.
• Established internal IaaS infrastructure (compute, storage, networking) and methodologies supporting software development across more than 100 ongoing back office and product development efforts.
• Ongoing evolution of the internal infrastructure that meets existing and emerging business needs.
• Responsible for establishing efficient and agile release management processes that ensure product releases are meeting requirements and compliance needs in an efficient and cost - effective manner.
• Responsible for network infrastructure spanning multiple offices across the US providing an ubiquitous single badge experience for software engineering staff.
• Reduced project implementation times by 80% with budgetary savings of 26%.
• Development of IT strategy addressing emerging security and compliance challenges.
• Reduced capital replacement costs by more than 35% through negotiated vendor contracts and improved project planning.
• Unified roadmap for network, storage, compute and business applications.
• Established business continuity and disaster recovery strategy.

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Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Product Management and Strategy for Core ISS Product Lines and Technologies.
• Developed WebTAS Enterprise containerized analytics platform that forms the foundation upon which all Polaris Alpha enterprise products are based. This platform emphasizes the need to provide a highly secure, flexible, and scalable analytic platform supporting rapid application development.
• Transformed previous agile SDLC approach into a fully automated internal continuous delivery pipeline for micro-services.
• Incorporation of Big Data and IaaS tenets into product architecture allowing for both vertical and horizontal scaling.
• Creation of ISS’ Springblox Professional Services to provide enablement, development and integration services for Search, Cloud, Analytics, and Big Data Technologies to Fortune 500 companies.
• Developed technology and revenue generating partnerships in the Big Data and Cloud Data spaces with Pivotal, Cloudera, EMC, LucidWorks, MuleSoft and others.
• Transitioned company compliance approach to the Risk Management Framework.

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Vice President of Programs and Operations

Responsibilities:

• $120M in product and services delivery for CIDNE enterprise spanning global defense operations across 4 continents.
• Grew team by 80% over 3-year period.
• Delivered and deployed operational capability on 3-week sprints.
• Captured and led the effort for the successful migration of existing products to enterprise native architectures.
• Stood up a new team of more than 150 technical personnel to deliver initial operational capability to a private cloud in 12 months leveraging a highly agile approach.
• Championed the introduction of Agile DevOps methodologies into the product development efforts.

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Director of Product Management

Responsibilities:

• Product Manager for WebTAS analytics platform.
• Implemented agile SDLC processes spanning requirements management through delivery.
• Developed accreditation and application security approach for compliance with emerging NIST RMF security frameworks.
• Developed strategy and approach for compliance with DoD information assurance requirements across DoDIIS, DIACAP, FISMA, Risk Management Framework and NATO.
• Reduced accreditation costs by 80% and time to field by 4-6 months per project.
• Oversaw development and modernization of the corporate infrastructure for documentation, testing, continuous integration and IA. Resulting in a 60% cost savings ongoing.
• Program Manager and Co-author on $985M IDIQ contract.
• Modernized the corporate software development infrastructure spanning source control through continuous integration while introducing key supportive processes.
• Stood up Core Product Team with personnel spanning software engineering, integration, testing, C&A and documentation.
• Aug 2005-May 2006: Operations Manager - Intel Division
• Responsible for program, budget and staff coordination for $15M in software development and services.

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Director of Business Development

Responsibilities:

• Complete oversight of all engineering and product R&D programs
• Transitioned initial engineering efforts in RFID to rollout one of the first operational EPC RFID solutions in a FORTUNE 500 manufacturing facility
• Led efforts to develop a single camera UAV system to support 3-D collision avoidance for NAVAIR
• Initiated, won and led development program to handle GPS blackouts for rail applications
• Developed WPAFB program leveraging Bayesian tracking analysis for assessment of future sensor fusion and tracking technologies
• Provide team leadership and strategic expertise on business development activities