* Reporting to Chief Innovation Officer* Leading the architecture, technical design, build, test and release efforts for Armada’s commercial technology solutions* Providing technical oversight across Armada’s commercial applications, prioritizing our product development strategy in accordance with product roadmaps, continuous innovation, and product delivery schedules

• Founded the Innovation Accelerator as a key part of the strategic roadmap to establish Azena as a thought leader and drive innovation within the IoT and security industries• Lead a cross-functional business unit consisting of software engineering, technical support, business development, sales, and marketing • Established and grew the first U.S. location for Azena’s operations focused on capturing the North American market and engaging with partner organizations• Proposed and led strategic initiatives to improve integration product offerings and drive the development of end-to-end solutions on the Azena open IoT platform• Driving new product development in the area of ESG monitoring to aid Oil and Gas transition to carbon neutrality

• Built a 10-person full-stack agile engineering team from the ground up• Managed a portfolio of partner-facing software products including libraries, embedded android apps, development tools, analytic algorithms, and AI models• Coached team to become self-organizing, flexible, and effective in the face of changing business needs• Implemented and governed architectural and quality assurance practices• Ensured organizational alignment across multiple divisions including leadership, engineering, business development, and marketing

• Implemented a “pragmatic microservices” approach to re-design the original monolithic application into a scalable and modular event-driven data processing pipeline • Led effort to port the In-Store Analytics SaaS product from AWS to Azure; adapt it to a new metadata delivery system for Bosch IP cameras; and replace underlying message broker • Drove the adoption of agile development processes and coached a new team to achieve self-organization amid tight deadlines and challenging requirements • Established and led DevOps team to stabilize product release process for In-Store Analytics product and ensure commercial viability• Led the adoption of software quality practices including code analysis, reviews, functional testing, continuous integration, DevOps, and architecture design methodologies

• Led the research and development of a reliable communications layer for UHU, a Java-based, peer-to-peer middleware for IoT devices on local area networks• Evaluated a wide range of open-source communication technologies, gathered input from leading external experts, and re-designed a robust architecture • Improved the communications reliability of UHU from 70% to 100%, enabling it to be transitioned from research project to open-source product • Based on UHU middleware, developed a local area peer-to-peer personal assistant for Bosch Automotive Multimedia division

• As focus area lead and technical project manager for the $16M SDI research initiative, directed the R&D of 3 software projects involving 12 engineers over two locations • As chief architect, led the focus area to develop LIFT (Laboratory Integration Framework and Toolkit), an SDK for the rapid development of analytics-as-a-service applications for a wide range of government clients including the Dept. of Homeland Security and Dept. of Energy• Transitioned LIFT from research funding to a $4M company-wide IT project, catalyzing the migration of the company’s software delivery methods to the cloud

• Led a research team to create a REST-based interoperability platform for the smart grid, leveraging power industry standards and linked data to enable dynamic service discovery • Led a team of engineers to develop Virtual USA, a web-based GIS system for sharing real-time information with the US Dept. of Homeland Security

• Led the design and implementation of the MeDICi Integration Framework, a scalable platform and Java SDK for the creation of data-intensive streaming applications • Developed an event-based, distributed intrusion detection system for the US Dept. of Energy

• Developed a T1 WAN emulator for a Linux-based network simulation tool using C++ and Java • Designed, implemented, and maintained automated regression testing suite using Perl

• Joined WDIG during height of ecommerce and online video revolution, catalyzing the adoption of these technologies by the world’s largest media company• Managed production environment and developed automation tools for disneystore.com

• Part of the company’s explosive growth from 2,000 to 9,000 employees as it expanded internationally and introduce third-party merchants to the platform• Monitored applications, OS, and hardware for all public-facing systems as part of the network operations center

In-field data collection for ecology and forestry research, including "Alternatives to Clearcutting" and Forest Inventory studies.