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Provide innovative product and technology leadership for profitable, remotely staffed ed-tech company. Gaggle provides the industry leading, cloud-based SaaS solution for solving student safety issues for over 3.5 million kids in K-12 schools.Determine strategic direction and spearhead technological exploration and development of core service offerings. Lead product strategy planning with CEO. Collaborate with Leadership Team on company mission, long-term strategy, goal planning, and execution. • Lead all Product Management, Software Engineering, Data Science & Machine Learning, Quality Assurance (QA), System Administration, and System Support Engineering functions within the company.• Recruit, coach, and mentor a remote staff of U.S. based employees (90%), and offshore contractors (10%), to develop their skills and increase their team’s impact on the business. • Accountable for $4.3M technology budget, ensuring aggressive product development goals are met within budget.Key Achievements:• Successfully pivoted product platform from standalone SaaS offering to fully integrated Google and Microsoft service offerings which enabled 25% YOY revenue growth over the past 3 years.• Identified, developed, and implemented a cloud migration strategy to re-architect and migrate core services from on-premise data centers to cloud-based Amazon Web Services (AWS), to support 88% annualized usage growth over the past 3 years.• Reduced manual operations workload by 52%, and achieved operating cost reductions of over $500K in the last 12 months by launching a focused machine learning initiative to reduce manual content review.• Reduced critical incident response times by over 90% by migrating from polled content capture to real-time content capture.

Delivered multiple new products to the K-12 market: safe collaboration tools, archiving, and learning management systems (LMS). Responsible for delivering an archiving and e-discovery product for a newly formed division (Authority3) into the corporate/government market. • Responsible for the product development process, and software engineering team focused on backend services, scalability, and reliability.• Spearheaded exploration of the integration of Gaggle’s proprietary safety monitoring platform into 3rd party products.Key Achievements:• Architected, designed, developed new productivity products for the K-12 market.• Successful delivery of archiving / e-discovery product for a new division in the corporate/government market.• Successful prototypes of Google Apps integration with Gaggle Safety Management

Lead activities relating to the design, development, and deployment of software solutions. Implemented network operations, development, and deployment procedures to streamline internal processes.Key Achievements:• Designed, developed, and delivered embedded Linux/Java-based SSL-VPN solution (OfficeVPN) to the mid-sized enterprise market.• Developed and implemented a software-only version of OfficeVPN called Neovilla Personal Portal to shift into the home-office market.

Lead design and development for web-based VoIP call management product with a focus on reliability, flexibility, and scalability. Collaborated with hardware teams to validate application design.Key Achievements:• Designed and implemented call agent to allow bridging of calls between VoIP and PSTN networks.• Served as a key member of Technical Advisory Board during early stages of Active Telco’s company development.

Lead company transformation from web-based tools developer to syndicated application service organization. Assembled, trained, and managed internal development teams, vendors, and contractors. Researched emerging technologies and standards, and planned development strategies for the organization.Key Achievement:Planned and executed technical transition, which resulted in a gain of more than 1.5M users in 9 months.

Researched and implemented practices and standards for software design and application deployment with Java, XML, n-tier, and distributed publish-subscribe system methodologies. Collaborated with global software development teams on architectural and implementation strategies and best practices. Assessed software designs and functional requirements versus project scope and deliverables. Researched and presented material on software internationalization, deployment architectures, and distributed workflow systems.Directed development of distributed financial reconciliation system that oversaw all ERP-related financial events. Interviewed finance team members to determine deliverables, and timeline. Led team activities to meet business requirements.