Forte is a blockchain platform/FinTech company focused on the game economies. I was the Senior Director of Engineering in the Accounts and Assets business unit, building and mentoring a remote engineering and product group across the US, Europe, and South America.

AuthenticID is an Identification Verification and proofing company with a focus on Fraud Prevention for the Enterprise. As the CPO I manage the Product Portfolio, Product Organization, Engineering, and Program Management. I have built an empowered high performing organization starting from 3 people to now more than 50. Using Trust and Influence, I guide thought leadership around product processes, such as building product and technology roadmaps and following the product development lifecycle in sync with our software development lifecycle with products realized by our empowered product teams. Products were mobile and web-based automated document-proofing systems built on custom datasets used to train custom ML/AI systems. This brought the document proofing and authentication down from what were hours prior to near real-time. Focusing teams on being Effective first, and optimized for Efficiency second, we can deliver at a high rate, ensuring the continued growth of the company.

Healthcare-focused industry with a core focus on realizing the SB137 initiative in California. Came into a small Development organization with the goal of scaling it to meet the growing needs of California Healthcare Master Data Management. Helped define and build Master Data Management (MDM) Platform for Healthcare in use by big players like Blue CrossInitiated Lean Scrum based process for moving the individual developers into focused teams. Also put in place new contract with software and support vendor to manage 24/7 Tier 1 and Tier 2 calls without requiring the small development team to be on call.Currently hiring the next new development leadership for Gaine. Building out the Job Architecture. Building out the processes for release management.Directional setting with new technologies for Master Data Management in particular integration with blockchain for data, and new Machine Learning methods for detecting valid master data.

Health and Wellness focused Software Engineering Leader. Strong knowledge of the health and wellness industries with a focus on fitness. I thrive when working with and building a highly dynamic cross-functional, cross- organizational team focused on performance as well as culture. Scaling Software Teams with a focus on continual improvement is my wheelhouse.Took over Front-End Web, Native Mobile Apps, Austin Branded Web, Remote India Team (Pune). Grew from 65 in org to over 130 in direct org doubling staff in 1 year. Effectively managed and grew Engineering team by utilizing best practices in Software Management, Leadership. Brought in Scrum and rolled out to the entire Engineering organization and entire company.Led Change Management and Change Program Growth across the Enterprise. Participated in the IMO and help with Acquisitions vetting architecture, software, security for fit. Travel and spend time in all our offices building tight communication patterns using Autonomy by Alignment and Empowerment. Built several different Software Organizations and measured / compared / contrasted the various teams with some using OKR (Objectives and Key Results) method, other using SMART goals. All with a focus on scaling the organizations effectively. Pushed out an automation (Accelerate, Unicorn Project style) program across all org.Still very active in Technology and Development handling the Mobile Architecture and directly building the Applications. Also achieved Quality at Scale and Speed by setting the CI/CD North Star for the company and enforcing the direction. Currently built out the Developer Performance Measurement via GitPrime and proper engineering guidelines for our entire org as a model. Helped set the MB2020 Architecture via Microservices. Currently engaged in bringing our latest acquisition into profitability via merging with MINDBODY best practices.

Tasked to take small development group acquired by a marketing company and implement standardized SDLC appropriate for the fast-paced client focused environment. Implemented a stringent code review policy, Agile programming principles, and Project Management plans initially to meet short term goals as well as longer term refactoring of the legacy code base

A mobile apps company creating award winning applications for the Palm Web/OS, Google Android and Apple iOS systems. With more than 9 applications released and multiple awards won with what started out as a weekend company tinkering with basic app creation.We also accept contracts to produce mobile apps for your business.

Head up product engineering and development efforts. Brought on at early stage startup to oversee the growth and prepare the Development Team and Product for mass adoption. Helped to define and build mobile applications utilizing unique biometric modality, Eye Print, utilizing large scale Machine Learning and AI to train the modality. Set strategy for Development Team Growth. Create a set of tactical Product changes for addressing OEM needs as well as Product subsets for specific customer apps. Implemented Lean and Agile methodologies for addressing all stages of Product development, design, and post release processing

Director of Software Development at Data Systems International focused on MADP/MEAP and ERP based development. Manage team of motivated developers in creating a world class enterprise mobility application development suite. Create API that accesses the back end data services that link and mirror data across ERP systems and a data agnostic mobile database server. Utilize big data concepts in creating a high speed database structure that several disparate ERP database systems can feed so mobile devices have one protected data source on both internal networks and Cloud based networks. Wrote several white papers and delivered several webinars on the value of back end integrations and HTML5 versus Native development for Enterprises.Brought new Agile processes into group and have successfully delivered several iterations of the product on time and in budget. Continuous Integration concepts where integrated and in process. Introduced better development with behavior Driven Development using Jasmine and Sinon for JavaScript front-end and TFS for the .NET backend. Expanded on Open Source project, Fabrik, for all graphical SVG rendering in house. Integrated personal 1:1 meetings with entire team to learn to better manage individuals for their needs. Helped manage offshore teams consisting of more than 20 individuals and brought them into our Agile process. Built a world class development team focused on mobility and enterprise. I was able to contribute successfully to the effort to have Data Systems International on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Development Application

Built a world class mobile development team responsible for creating 9 branded iOS (iPhone, iPad) Apps, Android Priority Club 2.0 App, Blackberry native Priority Club 2.0 App, Windows Phone 7 Priority Club App, Tiered Mobile Web strategy utilizing (HTML5, Javascript, CSS3.)

Product Manager of Software Solutions in the Biometric industry. Was in charge of creating, managing, documenting and developing biometric software products, solutions and strategies for Cross match technologies. Was responsible for originated, co-designing and co-developing the MOBS software for Cross Match. Developed late Software Strategies such as mini-AFIS, IDTrak SOA and new mobile strategies.

Managed a team of highly motivated .NET and Java developers in the biometrics industry successfully several biometric software products.

Build and Managed website and back end technology using ASPX, .NET and ajax.

Linux based payment processing and marketing company. Used LAMP, Perl, PHP, MySQL primarily. Full OO development. Was responsible for integrating the Jettis system and creating the Debit Freedom project. Managed the Software Development team.

6 month contract working on C# and ASP.net for Campus 2000 software.

Contracted as Senior Software Developer 2 times. Was responsible for Internationalizing the Valuelink system (Java, JSE) to support Japanese for the very first Starbucks Gift Card in Japan. Also translated into Japanese the entire product and created the language cataloging system. After that contract I moved into creating the Duetto card system. This was a short term software contract.

Natural Linguistic Modeling company where I helped start and create Marnee product. The company changed names in 2001 and I stopped working full time down to a part time influence / maintenance developer while I concentrated on First Data. Skills include PL/SQL/SQL (Oracle and Sql Server), C/C++, Java development.

Accountable for the design, development and maintenance of a web site using ASP for Westmark Corporation. Expanded the web site to include mortgage data to customers. Was responsible for creation of large scale paperless mortgage generation system from inception to packaging of loans for purchase by Mortgage Investors. Responsible for the integration of the full network / database application with custom code utilizing Visual Basic, SQL (7.0 and Oracle), Clipper, FoxPro, C++, Platinum Financial, Eastern Software, Delphi, FileNET, HBOC, and ABRA HR Systems.

Started out building custom computers for EBIT and moved into a Software Development role creating the FAX server system still in use at Holy Cross Hospital. HP3000/HP6000 based system. HBOC compliant. CNA