• Reporting to the CTO and then later to the SVP of R&D as VP of Applications, responsible for leading the product development efforts including Product Management, Program Management and Development Operations.• Drove strategic alignment through the establishment of product council meetings bringing executives together to focus on strategic product planning ensuring that product requirements are aligned with the overall company’s strategic vision and goals.• Reorganized and streamlined the product management team structured toward a more Agile development paradigm. Established the Product Line Owner role for each product line. Trained the Product Managers to act as Scrum Product Owners.• Streamlined the product requirements process with a focus on shifting from long product requirements documents to sequenced actionable product backlogs designed to deliver customer value in shorter releases.• Initiated the effort to modernize the product user interface with a strong focus on new Web 2.0 paradigms and user interface design.• Optimized and streamlined the product development process converting the entire R&D department to Scrum, leading to an increase in quality as well as time to market.• Trained and led the shift to Scrum and adapted the Scrum process in order to handle Scrum at scale with up to 21 teams all focused on a single release. • Drove the increase in overall development velocity through investments in tooling, automation and improved processes.• Increased overall product quality from an 88% test case pass rate to 96% pass rate over the span of two releases. • Lead the effort to fully automate the build and deployment system using Jenkins.• Product owner and overall design responsibility for NexJ’s Scrum tool development.

• Reporting to the Sr. VP of R&D, responsible for managing all product development activities for NRX’s primary application – Asset Hub, a J2EE software application built on top of SAP designed to manage assets for large petroleum, oil and gas companies. • Participated in strategic product planning with Sales, Marketing and Product Management to ensure product development priorities were aligned with strategic goals and customer requirements.• Collaborated with Development, QA, Sales and Support to deal with customer issues and ensure Customer satisfaction. • Established Scrum as the defacto methodology for managing the software development process. Developed the training material and coached the Product Owners, Developers and QA to operate effectively. From the point when I joined, as a company with no process, NRX now delivers software in regular 2 – 4 week iterations.• Collaborated with Product Management to help define requirements.

• Designed and managed the development of next generation SAS project management software hosted on Amazon’s elastic cloud computing environment EC2. Still running today.• Responsible for all the UI design and management of the Product Backlog• Responsible for guerilla style marketing including twitter (2000 followers in 6 months), Yahoo and Linked in.• Responsible for SEO (Achieved #2 spot on Google search after 6 weeks).• Resident blogger – Agilebuddy.com.• Blogger – Agilesoftwaredevelopment.com.• Performed various Agile consulting engagements in order to help customers adopt Agile methodologies.

• Reporting to Managing Partner, as COO managed the web and backend development of multiple internet startups including Agilebuddy.com, Collectionbuddy.com, iStopover.com and ecommerce site Jewlr.com.• Hired all the, architects, developers, graphic designers and QA members and established the various teams.• Designed the user interfaces for each site.• Created the detailed specifications and implementation documents working with the software architects and the founders• Managed all software and operational development activities for multiple services clients, including shoptheblock.com, infinityassets.com, and appointmentcity.com including managing all client relationships.• Responsible for building and managing the development, creative and QA teams (a total of 15 people).

• Reporting to the CEO, responsible for all mobile product development for a multi-product portfolio including Tira’s Java Porting platform, Brew Porting platform, Multi-Media content adaptation Platform for Wallpapers, Ringtones, Screensavers and Video, Operator Submission portals and more.• Directly responsible for hiring and building the product development group from scratch including Architecture, Development, Quality Assurance, Technical Writing and Program Management – approx. 44 people.• Responsible for establishing the foundation for the services group which generated in excess of $10M in revenue.• Assisted in the acquisition of some of our key customer accounts, including Disney, THQ, Mforma, Sony, Mobliss and Babel.• Assisted in building strong relationships with strategic partners including Vodafone Global, T-Mobile and AT&T.• Responsible for driving the change in the development group to an Agile based product development methodology.• Participation at the board level.