Summary of Qualifications

• 16 years of experience as C or V level executive. 19 years of software project management experience. 20 years of hands-on developer experience.
• 21 years of general project management.
• 15 years LAMP stack development and operations experience.
• Experience rapidly building, scaling and managing 2 million user apps.
• Deep knowledge of highly scalable, fault-tolerant and secure application and data center architectures. Expertise implementing effective Agile Software Development Life Cycles.
• Superior problem solving skills from abstract conceptual levels to deep technical details. Skilled at functioning as an individual contributor as well as managing large teams.
• Thrives in complex, rapid development environments that create zero defect products.
• Ability to work across marketing, product management, QA, support, R D and Network Operations. Adaptable to working with varying degrees of resources, time constraints and capital.
• Out of the box thinker who thrives on providing innovative solutions to challenging problems. Currently able to travel up to 50 of the time.
• Excellent communication, leadership, negotiation, persuasion and other soft skills .
• Runs a check your ego at the door , no drama , no cowboys , failure is not an option shop. Developing software since the age of 13.

Professional Experience

Confidential

Principal Consultant

• Consulting, in between full time responsibilities, offering a variety of technology and management services. Past projects range from Enterprise SOA SaaS and PaaS design and build-outs to stand alone embedded and mobile POCs. Was formerly Van Vleit Creative Services.
• Most recent companies/projects that I can discuss:
• EPIC Diagnostics and Research: epicdiagnostics.com Consulting Architect. HIPAA compliant FDA Medical Device. C .NET, MS SQL, Matlab
• Gideen: gideen.com Interim CTO. A music platform that empowers independent music producers to manage their music content and monetization opportunities effortlessly. HTML5, CSS3, Ext JS, Canvas, PHP, MySQL, Solr, AWS RDS, S3, SQS, EC2, ELB .
• SnackBooth: snackbooth.com Consulting Architect. HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, PHP, AWS
• DynamoDB, S3, EC2, RDS, ELB . Companies/projects I am contractually bound to not discuss.
• Stealth Bioinformatics Company: Consulting Architect. Stealth company started by a key researcher at a major Bay Area University focused on gnomic analysis across large populations. HTML5, CSS3, AngularJS, Ext JS, Canvas, Hadoop, HDFS, Cassandra, Spark, PHP, Perl, Python, c/c , Assembly data compression/expansion , Linux and university super computer.
• Stealth Internet of Everything Company: Consulting Architect. Stealth company, funded by major manufacturer, that is changing how we communicate with IoT and WebServices. HTML5, CSS3, Java, MySQL, Apache Storm, AIML AI Bots, OpenNLP, Mahout.
• Stealth Human Capital Management Company: Consulting Architect. Stealth company focusing on disrupting human capital management. HTML5, CSS3, iOS, Android, WSO2, Java, Jaggery, node.js, PHP, AngularJS, Ext JS, Solr, HBase, Cassandra, Hadoop, Spark, Storm, MySQL.

Confidential

Board Member

SnackBooth seeks to define a for a cause social commerce opportunity. I am currently serving as a member of the Board of Directors.

Confidential

Chief Technology Officer

• A 12 year old company that has focused on UI/UX and development for SaaS, Mobile, Tablet, Desktop, and Embedded. The company developed projects across multiple verticals for Fortune 500 and emerging growth companies. Example customer's and projects that I directly contributed to or managed:
• Stanford Hospital: Mobile platform, app, and physician's portal for post operative cardiovascular patients. HIPAA complaint. HTML5, CSS3, Canvas, PHP, MySQL and PhoneGap
• Gracenote: Application layer of demonstration in dash car audio embedded system. ExtJS for CES 2013 and Qt for CES 2014.
• Hasbro: Gameplay event management system with ad hock peer to peer secure networking PKI, AES . Ext JS, Node.js bundled into desktop app container. PII/PCI Compliant
• Intel: Future of cloud security for enterprise study with Forture 500s like Coke, Kaiser, etc. and others brands like NetApp, Intuit, FICO, Where Traveler ControlGap, XYPro, etc.
• using other technologies like jQuery, AngularJS, ObjectiveC, Java, MuleESB, WSO2, etc. Duties and Responsibilities:
• Provide leadership and management for the global engineering teams, consultants, and vendors Romania, Costa Rica, Singapore, Dublin, San Francisco, Austin, San Manteo, New York .
• Mitigate of project risks through functional scope, task, and cost analysis.
• Manage the execution of multiple large to small engineering projects concurrently.
• Define and staff resources needs for engineering and QA teams and co-ordinate with Dir. of Tech. Adapt and drive best practices to improve efficiency of the engineering and QA teams.
• Design agile software development life-cycle processes per project risk and need.
• Work with key members of the executive team to define and drive technical strategy. Stay current in cloud, SaaS, BaaS, PaaS, IaaS, web, tablet, and mobile technologies.

Confidential

Chief Architect

• TASER International is the industry's leading manufacturer of Electronic Control Devices. TASER products are deployed in law enforcement, military, correctional, professional security, and personal protection markets worldwide. TASER expanded its offerings by launching several new products.
• Responsible as C-level systems and software architect with a focus on starting a new software division and developing four new software/hardware product offerings AXON, SYNC, SYNAPSE and Evidence.com .
• Member of executive team responsible for starting a new division TASER Virtual Systems . Worked directly with customers and other key stakeholders to gather product requirements.
• Developed software architecture for embedded, appliance, SOA SaaS/PaaS/IaaS, and desktops. Architect of TASER's world class data center s that cost effectively scale to exabytes of storage. Designed the Software Development Life Cycle SDLC using proven disciplines and processes. Created staffing plans that had no single contributer dependency through cross skill redundancy. Developed and presented proposals to upper management and the BOD for program approval.
• Collaborated with hardware R D to architect software solutions for new products.
• Presented and lectured at the TASER Technology Summit to 1,000 law enforcement customers. Part of a two person team that worked with HR to hire 40 managers, leads, and devs in 90 days. Ongoing mentor to teams of best practices in design, documentation, testing, and quality.
• Help teams form solid strategies for testing unit, load, fault, and security and readiness reviews. Promoted collaboration, appropriate communication, transparency, accountability, and auditing.
• Fostered teamwork, mutual respect, honesty, pride of ownership and personal humility as culture.

Confidential

Chief Technology Officer

• Founded by a number of Silicon Valley's top entrepreneurs and investors for the purpose of creating quantum level improvement to the traditional search experience. Responsible for defining and executing the product vision of an innovative search platform. Specific areas of contribution include:
• Collaborated with VP of Product, CEO, and team daily to define, develop, and test product. Architect software and implementation methodology of the online service and desktop client.
• Co-managed a small team of engineers and testers using a rapid one-week iterative release cycle. As an individual contributor, wrote 80 of the online service on a LAMP stack.
• Hosted all development, testing, and production environments on Amazon's Web Services. Wrote c/c MS Windows services, DLLs and collaborated on the Desktop Executable.
• Successfully launched product within one year of engagement.

Confidential

Technologist

• Altura Ventures was an incubator/venture firm started by serial entrepreneur Lee Lorenzen. My function was as the in-house technologist for the venture firm. Moved to favored project KallOut, Inc. as CTO.
• Worked with existing portfolio companies.
• Performed technology evaluation of prospective client companies Assisted in due diligence for acquisitions.
• Developed POC products for portfolio companies, examples:
• Conceived, developed, and grew a 2 million user Facebook app in two months. Created a web-based iPhone simulator.

Confidential

CTO/VP of Network Operations

• One of the early pioneers in WiFi Internet access technology for the hospitality and food services industry.
• Collaborated with other managers to develop company vision, strategy, and goals.
• Served as the technical adviser and decision maker to the company and its stakeholders. Formed product requirements, specifications and developed them into software services.
• Performed due diligence and analysis on outsourced partners and communicated technical needs. Invented a table turnover protection system for Quick Service Restaurants that resulted in
• winning multiple large-scale contracts from chains such as Denny's, IHOP, Jack-In-The-Box, etc. Management of all day-to-day network operations, processes, procedures and partners.
• Developed, tested and launched:
• Custom Network Operations Center software that reduced network down-time.
• CRM/Fulfilment System that reduced deployment times from 1 hr/unit to 5 mins/unit.

confidential

Chief Technology Officer/VP of Engineering

• The founding goal was to create an SaaS product that commercial production companies could use to normalize international bids with different formats and currencies into a standard format.
• Collaborated with founders to define product offering from vision and business opportunity. Developed resource, timeline and budget for delivery and launch of service.
• Designed architecture for the international bid exchange and translation system. Staffed and managed 16 developers, data entry, and QA personnel.
• Successfully lead the design, development and launch of a first-of-its-kind product.

Confidential

Chief Technology Officer

• All-Life.com was both a print and online health, fitness and lifestyle magazine that was attempting to stealth develop a next-generation diet and exercise product that tied to e-commerce.
• Recruited, hired and managed a 20 person team including developers/engineers, QA .
• Responsible for hiring/management of outside technology partners, vendors and consultancies. Innovated and developed next generation product POCs to fast-track requirements and design.

Confidential

Founder/Chief Technology Officer

• One of three co-founders who bootstrapped and launched the company. LiquidGolf was an online golf equipment e-commerce site that grew to a capitalization of 100 million at its peak.
• Developed original e-commerce engine, corporate brand, database and software architecture.
• Co-developed the business plan and pitched to investors to raise the first 1mm round in 8 days. Recruited small team to continue development of e-commerce site.
• Established network operations to launch and sustain site evolution and growth. Company eventually went public but vanished after multiple mergers.

Confidential

Programmer/Designer

• Developed Web Sites, Database powered Web Apps SaaS , eCommerce Sysems, CMS, Community Engines Social , interactive CD-ROMs, and on-set animation. Designed Annual Reports, Logo Design/Brand Kit, brochures, 3D modeling and animation for the film industry. Clients included Walt Disney, Warner Brothers, MGM Studios, Touchstone Pictures, Columbia Pictures, MCA/Universal Pictures, The Princess Cruses, MCI, PhoneTime, The Beverage Store, Credit Card Services, Joe Weider Body Building, YouBet.com, RhynoTek. Uncredited film work Credited to Liz Radly, David Watkinson, or Main Street Multimedia includes Antitrust, Mumford, My Favorite Martian, The Insider, Armageddon, 8mm, A Perfect Murder, Primary Colors.
• Prior irrelevant jobs have been removed, but are available upon request.

Other Training

Eucalyptus Training

• WSO2 Carbon and Stratos Workshop
• Eucalyptus RightScale: Zero-to-Cloud Training,

HIGHLIGHTED SKILL

• Product Development: Functional Requirements, Epics/User Stories, UI/UX design, Use Cases, Test Cases, etc. Visual Modeling tools: Wireframes Balsamiq , Mock Visual/Graphic Design Photoshop, Illustrator , etc. Software Design: PRD, FRD, ORM, UML, REST API, ERM/ERD, OOP, Round- trip MDE, SOA, EAI Patterns, etc. Project Management: Scrum, Agile, Unified Processes OpenUP, Agile UP, RUP, Enterprise UP , MS Project, etc. Productivity Tools: MS Office, MS PowerPoint, MS OneNote, Visio, OpenOffice, Quark Xpress, etc.
• Cloud/System Architecture: WSO2, AWS, Solr, PaaS, IaaS, SOA, parallel/distributed/clustered computing, etc. Web Development: HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, JSON/JSONP, jQuery, Ext JS, XHTML, AJAX, XML, etc.
• Mobile Development: jQuery Touch, Sencha Touch, PhoneGap, iOS, Android, Core Animation, iOS, iPad, iPhone, etc. Social Mash-up API/App Integration: Facebook, Google, Firebase, Force.com, Stripe, YouTube, LinkedIn, etc. Current Programming Languages: C , PHP, JavaScript, SSJS node.js, jaggery , c/c , Objective-C, Java, etc. Security: RSA SSL, OpenSSL, PKI, PGP, IDA, Defense in Depth Strategies, Firewall configurations/policies, etc. Embedded Hardware Architecture: ARM CPU, Nvidia GPU, PIC16/18 BASIC C , I2C, Atmel Cryptoprocessor, etc.
• Windows Development: ASP.NET, Desktop Executables, DLLs, Win Services, .NET Frameworks, DAO, NHibernate, etc. Database Development: MySQL, SimpleDB, SQLite, NoSQL, CouchDB, MongoDB, Oracle, MS SQL Server, etc.
• Network Architecture Experience: Cisco UCS Switches, Dell Blades, TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, Apache, IIS, DNS, LDAP, etc. Storage Architecture Experience: SAN, NAS, Eucalyptus, IDA, RAID, JBOD, LUNS, iSCSI, etc.
• OS Platform Experience: Linux, Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7, FreeBSD, Apple OSX, Sun Solaris, UNIX, etc. Software Development Tools: MS VisualStudio, Eclipse IDE, Xcode, Komodo IDE, cURL Lib, SVN, Git, etc.
• 3D Animation Tools: Electric Image, Commotion, AfterEffects, Form Z, AutoCAD, etc.
• Collaboration Tools: Confluence, TFS, SharePoint, Google Docs Calender, Skype, BaseCamp, Github, etc. Virtual Environments: VMWare vSphere, Amazon EC2, CA/3Tera, XEN, Sun VirtualBox, Eucalyuptus, etc.