Service Delivery Manager role with Nexius Insight, Inc. Responsible for Team management (effective use of team members, team morale, and growing/mentoring a strong team); Delivery management (quality services/products to clients); and Project/Program management (ensuring quality/productivity; maintaining strong relationships with client executive management team, managing expectations with client, Nexius’ senior management, peers, and team members; and financial management). - Successfully led and managed a team of 20 architects, Project Managers, and Business Analysts supporting Nexius’ client Cox Communications in Atlanta in SOW-based work. - Transitioned to managing a team of 6 engineers supporting Nexius’ client Verizon Wireless in their installation and implementation of HP’s Business Service Management (BSM) Suite (80 servers across 4 environments).

Part time Agile Project Management instructor in the College of Business. Part time facilitator for distance learning project management classes in the Denver Tech Center.

Contract work supporting Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) companies by providing guidance and assistance in proposal development, teaming, budgeting, government contract negotiations, and research execution; enabling small businesses to develop market-driven products for government and commercial use.

Managed the architecture, development, sustainment, and Tier 3/4 service assurance of Inventory and Supply Logistics software/systems within the Inventory and Provisioning department, an Agile/Scrum environment. Transitioned legacy applications to open platform, cloud-based web applications. Fostered relationships with Product Owners, Project Managers, and business partners at multiple organizational levels.- Supervisor Recommendation, "He places the needs of his staff above his own and provides adequate structure, direction, and feedback to his team members. ... ensures open communication and staff camaraderie, actively listens, and treats people with respect and professionalism and expects them to respond in kind."- Successfully led a staff of over 25 architects, engineers, Scrum Masters, and QA personnel (employees and contractors, local, virtual and offshore) using SOA/Java/C#/.NET and Rally with excellent retention.- Adeptly handled Dev Lead role for three cross-functional Scrum teams covering the Inventory realm for the company's top initiative, Order Management, and applications/systems interfacing with company suppliers.- Laid off in large worldwide budgetary layoff after 5 months with company.

Worked directly for small defense contractor CEO. Rose through the ranks from Scientist/Developer to CTO based on consistently delivering high-value results to the business. Guided technology engineering efforts from planning and proposal development, resourcing, team building, and budgeting through government contract negotiations, execution and performance monitoring, earned value management (EVM), system integration, vendor management, and delivery; enabling business to deliver quality products for government and commercial use. Coordinated efforts of over 95 software engineers, systems engineers, technical writers, and scientists (virtual and local) using SOA/Java/C++/MATLAB in waterfall and Agile activities.- Supervisor Recommendation, "Stuart's superb organizational skills allow him to perform exceptionally well ... If I had to select a single area where Stuart excels, I would say it is his organizational and management skills. Stuart has an incredible ability to take a complex project and distill the essence of what needs to be accomplished, prioritize the tasks, and motivate execution to accomplish the goals within the time and budget constraints."- Managed and led successful technology engineering efforts developing effective solutions for security and border protection, military command and control, situational awareness, intelligence analysis, video analytics, Big Data challenges, casino security operations, and more.- Led R&D proposal development efforts securing over $28M in new funding for research and development from agencies including the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Energy.- Outstanding technology project leadership led to $30M in follow-on product funding, gaining company recognition by Department of Defense for 5 consecutive years of 100th percentile rating in research commercialization.

Distinguished 20-year career including assignments in Minuteman operations and training, reconnaissance operations and training, air refueling operations and training, airlift management, and a joint assignment at US Transportation Command. Master Navigator with over 5,000 flying hours, including 50 hours of Combat Support time in DESERT STORM, and 9 Air Medals.• Led joint team of 10 technicians and civilian defense contractors in support of data management activities, while also managing the Global Transportation Network (GTN); a centralized system consolidating data from 23 individual transportation systems.• Identified errors causing daily rejection of more than 1M transactions due to incorrect data from source system databases, corrected weaknesses in legacy systems; and coordinated with data and systems managers from Air Force, Army, and Navy resulting in improved accuracy and data retention.• Directed $139M training program for Department of Defense C-135 transport aircraft by coordinating training for more than 1,300 crew members in multiple headquarters and more than 30 field units; saving $8.2M in training.