SUMMARY

• I am an instigator, pilot, locksmith, entrepreneur, agilist, hacker, hustler, info sec dabbler, linux systems administrator, empirical program manager, lean product manager, mediocre programmer, part time sales guy and I'm customer focused
• With a career spanning 13 years of servant leadership I have worked with both the Fortune 500 and bootstrapped startups both domestically and internationally. My leadership style has a heavy leaning towards agile with bits taken from Lean Manufacturing, Kata, Kanban, Scrum, Xtreme Programming (XP),
• Toyota Production System (TPS), Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Design thinking, DevOps, TDD, BDD, Continuous Delivery/Integration (CI/CD), Six Sigma and lastly the Project Management Institute (PMI).
• Though I have spent my fair share of time in business roles, I enjoy business roles with a more technical leaning. The majority of my career has been spent in the Engineering, Telecommunications, Startups,
• Fintech, Healthcare and Insurance industries. I have held full financial responsibility on bootstrapped startups clear up to $25mm/yr programs. I have taken over five products from MVP (minimum viable product) to market, varying from open source products, to closed source SaaS models.
• I have the distinct advantage of coming to management from a systems engineering background primarily focused on Linux server infrastructure. I greatly enjoy programming and scripting for automation of tasks and testing, ultimately resulting in high performing teams. I am definitely a generalist, but my speciality is is working with distributed and diverse teams.
• As a transformational leader I believe it is most important to test business as usual to ensure our process is based on something we have learned rather than simply 'the way its always been done'.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Enterprise Agile Coach / Program Manager / Product Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a leader in the enterprise platform engineering department I oversaw delivery and agile coaching for our product primarily focused on platform automation and DevOps enablement, with the longer term goal of bringing more of our applications to the cloud. Outside of my own program, I was responsible for onboarding 20 distributed teams focusing on security, compliance and regulatory to our SAFe/Agile release train as well as follow on coaching efforts.
• I was also responsible for heading up the creation of our Agile and DevOps CoE (center of excellence). While I was primarily responsible for Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and Platform as a service (PaaS) initiatives I also worked on a few projects on the Software as a Service (SaaS) side.
• I was directly responsible for program delivery of several initiatives primarily utilizing the following technologies: Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, Vagrant, Ansible, JVM and Docker for our Next Generation Infrastructure Services initiative (move to the cloud). Technical experience with engineering teams primarily writing code in Java and Ruby. As a project manager, I was directly responsible for implementation efforts of Hunk (Splunk on Hadoop), AEM (Adobe Experience Manager), Informatica and an Oracle 11 g upgrade.

Transformational Engineering Leader / Product Manager / Program

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Self - owned consultancy with successful repeat engagements to several Fortune 500 companies. Managed over 30 full lifecycle projects with budgets ranging from 500k-10mm. From 2006 to 2012 initially focusing on program management consulting on strategy to telecommunications companies on extremely large- scale network rollouts.
• Primarily focused on 2g/3g/4g networks and secondarily followed by optical networks (10gbit+). In 2011, I pivoted my consulting engagements away from telecom rollouts, and towards software engineering and security operations where my focus has remained. Since that time my consulting process has turned entirely towards the practices of agile, embraced lean and continuous improvement.
• I am entirely focused on building products that delight customers. I have since worked on several startups (including one eventually VC funded for $14mm) building five products from scratch and four agile transformation engagements. I am familiar with most high-level PPM products. Clarity, Microsoft Project, Primavera as well as agile management tools Rally, Jira and Pivotal Tracker.

Team Leader / Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the lead project/implementation manager on Sprint Network Vision and AT&T UMTS & LTE network and engineering expansion and integration projects, ultimately upgrading both networks to 4G LTE. Leading engineering teams of up to seven to ensure projects were completed with utmost quality.
• I also serve a secondary role as account manager for SBA accounts with General Dynamics Wireless Services, Samsung, and Confidential . Responsible for scope, vendor, risk, schedule and budget management for all client accounts.
• Leading and mentoring a administrative staff of six. Regularly met with executive management on process improvement activities, culminating in the development of an entirely new delivery process. Lead projects from kickoff to sites on air. Touched approximately 20,000 sites in my tenure by writing scripts to automate the creation of engineering documents.

PMO Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Customer facing PM responsible for P&L and management on all network engineering expansion projects, employees and vendors in the largest market for AT&T Mobility in Michigan/Indiana. Expanded 3G/UMTS ultimately resulting in the launch of 4G/LTE. Directly responsible for a team of ten, including site acquisition managers, construction managers and administrative personnel.
• Indirectly responsible for contracts, scope of approximately 10 vendors and 100 staff. Responsible for approving and rectifying all POs for any dollars spent in market as well as employee time cards. Closely involved in the supply chain from scoping, to bill of materials to logistics.
• Ensured safety standards and procedures were met and ensured ISO 9001 compliance was met. Was chosen among existing PMs to spearhead a cost saving strategy that resulted in the savings of $2mm. Directly responsible for leading the creation of the company's first Project Management Office (PMO).

Site Acquisition Project Manger

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Brought on as a project manager to manage the implementation and integration of all network infrastructure in AT&T Wireless' acquisition of Centennial Wireless.
• Managing scope, staff and external vendors on acquisition, compliance, A&E, legal, zoning, permitting, construction of merging Centennial's GSM network into AT&T's existing UMTS network. Responsible for reporting on said work at the program level to executive staff at GD, AT&T and Centennial. Built, staffing plans and helped interview candidates for a newly acquired market in NY.
• Responsible for progress and reporting of over 2000 sites in Siterra, CASPR, Oracle and Primavera. Managed, negotiated, on boarded contracts, reviewed RFPs with new vendors in several markets. Gained solid understanding of architecture of GSM, UMTS, LTE, fiber and microwave backhaul acquisition and construction procedures.

Engagement Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served as the main customer point of contact (sales and architecture) for various projects around: delivery of infrastructure, hardware, network, security and software solutions.
• Responsible for quoting, budget and vendor management for projects. Architected SAN, NAS, wireless and wired networks (Cisco and Ubiquiti), POS systems, workstations, servers and security policy for over 30 small and medium businesses.
• Served as lead PM for over 15 web design projects primarily utilizing Joomla, WordPress and Drupal. Developed training plans, modules and programs for internal staff. Architected security policy, including audits, threat intelligence and incident response for various clients. Much earlier on I administered several Linux severs and supported the LAMP stack.

Growth Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Third employee of an ecommerce/mobile app startup centered around online mobile food ordering.
• Served as the direct link between customers and the development team. Developed go to market strategy and product marketing plans, culminating in the launches of the Boston and Nashville markets.
• Used targeted research to build our lead generation strategy. Closed several hundred b2b sales using both hot and cold lead. Tested for QA on our MySQL/PHP backend. Ultimately had total ownership for the direction of the product.