Dublin, Ohio, United States
Software engineering leader who combines left-brain analytics with right-brain perspective to perceive, guide and explain stakeholder needs; to build and inspire successful teams; and to design and lead implementation of reliable and scalable solutions. Loves diving deep into the hardest technical challenges with the team as well as empathetically supporting and growing the individuals. Selected Accomplishments • Provided vision, leadership, and execution for large automotive, agricultural, energy, and life science corporations, closing sales and growing consulting teams with direct traceability to over $60M in revenue. • Led a group of independent and intelligent agile programmers from early-startup disorder, through growing pains, to become a unified team providing leap-frogging functionality in stable and repeatable releases, enabling $25M in sales. • Provided vision and led agile implementation of a project, previously thought impossible by a 275-developer organization, yielding $12M in annual cost reduction for this Fortune 100 company. • Developed software that reduced engineering costs by 67% while simultaneously shortening product lead time by six months for a 300-person network-management systems manufacturer. • Delivered a 44% performance increase to 50 million internet subscribers by optimizing software for a major telecommunications systems vendor. • Created the vision and architectural direction to close a $50M Smart City contract and then developed an open-source data platform to optimize city operations and enable partners to provide enhanced city services.
Tech lead for Privacy on AR glasses, solving hard problems at the intersection of technology and policy. Expanded the Android/AOSP permission model to support XR applications. Supported the introduction of private cloud compute into AI applications on Wearables. As a side quest, optimized engineering tools/workflows to give the company back 300+ years of engineering productivity annually.
Helped Path navigate a period of rapid, VC-fueled growth. Supported Path's software engineering organization during its growth from 13 to 40 people. Led agile transformation and introduced a number of software development best-practices including CI, DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, and automated test. Established a scalable engineering management structure. Established an IT capacity.
Helps clients understand their toughest digital challenges then execute with speed to realize meaningful value. Creates innovative technology and organizational solutions; builds cross-functional rapid prototypes; and leads development to bring connected products and solutions to market. Defines and supports the Growth Artisan and Solution Architecture capabilities within Product X.0. Polyglot programmer, turned digital solution architect, implementing AI/ML, Data, DevOps, and IoT solutions especially in the automotive, media, products, and life sciences verticals.
Provides servant leadership for agile teams and technology consultants, as a part of a regional leadership team supporting 175 consultants and developers. Established many of the patterns Pillar uses in its DevOps, Embedded, and Rapid Prototyping practices. Created Big Data, Internet of Things, and Augmented Reality solutions in the automotive, agriculture, energy, and healthcare verticals.