I led the development organization of Baker Hill which includes Product Management, Business Analysis, Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Technical Publications with team members in multiple office locations and countries. In less than five months at Baker Hill, I was a change agent implementing processes and solutions to support principles of agile software development and continuous delivery including:- Working with the executive leadership team to align strategy and product development initiatives.- Working with the PMO to align operations and marketing teams with product development initiatives.- Leading process change to roll out and train the engineering team on the Scaled Agile Framework utilizing 9 agile teams with multiple value streams and release trains.- Implementing Visual Studio Team Services for source code management, work item tracking, test management/automation, build automation, release/deployment automation, and integrations with a variety of internal systems.- Initiating and leading an architecture modernization project in conjunction with the development of a unified product solution utilizing architecture components to produce cloud native solutions running on Azure Platform as a Service.- Leading an initiative to bring together many different products with very different user experiences into a consistent, modern, efficient, and pleasing user experience.

As an Enterprise Architect, I worked with a team of strategic and highly technical architects that reported to the global CIO/CTO of D+H. In this capacity, I was responsible for various aspects of enterprise strategy management. - Build and communicate a holistic enterprise view of the IT and Product Development portfolios for the global business.- Produce strategy and ensure alignment between business and IT during execution of strategic initiatives.- Ensure alignment between all architecture domains to achieve enterprise architecture strategy.- Promote important strategic objectives and influence leaders across the organization to align IT and product development roadmaps with enterprise strategy.- Maintain close relationships with product development leaders and teams and ensure alignment with security, infrastructure, application, and information standards.- Quantitative and qualitative analysis of existing solutions to communicate areas of improvement and optimization. Identify and communicate important areas of risk associated with outdated technologies or processes.- Vendor relationship management during solution evaluation and acquisition phases. Perform qualitative and quantitative analysis to determine alignment and fit with existing assets.- Improve information flow and optimize business execution via shared initiatives and standardization.- Create reference architectures, standards, and other enterprise architecture deliverables that improve the maturity of the business.- Manage and facilitate governance processes for collaboration and peer design review activities associated with ensuring alignment to enterprise architectures. - Work with solution architects to ensure alignment with established standards and architectures.- Primary responsibility for cloud, mobile, and user experience strategies, technologies, and architectures.

I led and contributed to all aspects of the software development lifecycle including business analysis, engineering, QA, release management, deployment, and production monitoring. Direct responsibilities include:- Built, led, and mentored cross-functional teams in providing secure, compliant, scalable, and highly available financial solutions with broad integration capabilities for both on premise and SaaS environments. Ensured teams were trained and using industry best practices for technology, processes, and methods.- Instituted a disciplined Agile continuous delivery DevOps process to streamline the solution delivery and produce consistently repeatable results in line with forecasts and expected quality factors. - Engage with customers and product management to ensure a high quality user experience through user testing, evaluating and aligning business and software capabilities, and continuously improving existing solutions to assure an intuitive and efficient interaction model.- Engage with leadership in achieving key initiatives while communicating the general status of the solution to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Effectively communicated architecture, capabilities, security, quality, user experience, and product roadmap to internal and external stakeholders.- Guide, coach, and mentor highly technical resources on architecture, code quality, and non-functional requirements to ensure technical alignment with key business imperatives. - Managed both internal and external resources to effectively accomplish various initiatives. - Responsible for hiring great talent and managing key employee engagement processes for technical and non-technical employees. Inspired team members to acheive growth and loyalty through a variety of activities including performance management and formal/informal training.- Responsible for producing and managing departmental budget and reporting while aligning project costs to approved budgets and timelines.

As CTO of Financialware, a software solution provider, I held primary responsibility and accountability for all Product Development and internal company IT solutions. The primary software products produced were Enterprise Content Management, Item Processing, and Statement Delivery solutions. Financialware was acquired in 2006 by Harland Financial Solutions.- Managed internal and external product development teams to build software solutions.- Responsible for the entire software development and solution delivery.- Played a key role in pre-sales and post-sales activities to ensure customer satisfaction.- Ensured that technology strategy was defined, goals established, plans made sense, and were executed successfully to achieve the desired business outcomes.- Ensured that great employees were hired, retained, and engaged.- Mentored employees and ensured that team member’s skills were advancing in alignment with business objectives.- Worked closely with COO and CFO to align IT investments with budgets and financial models for optimal delivery.- Personally contributed to the development of key architectural components when needed to accelerate delivery.

As a developer for Financialware (an ISV), I developed key software solution capabilities to enable a highly automated, scalable, and high performance financial content management product. The system was developed using .NET platform technologies of ASP.NET (C#), Windows Services, and SQL Server. While I was involved in all aspects of the system, the key capabilities I focused on were the document delivery engine that supported a variety of output formats independent of the original input format and an automated ETL engine that did not require user interaction. This allowed for a consistent ingestion and presentation of content within the archive system as well as a variety of batch delivery formats necessary for financial systems integrations.

Custom software development consultant

Led a team of software developers and contributed to custom software solutions for a variety of clients in many different industries. Produced common frameworks and solution building blocks to ensure a competitive advantage and agility in assembling custom, hosted, web based content, data-driven, and workflow solutions.

As a contractor I served in a variety of roles with the Kemtah Group.- Windows deployment engineer at Intel Corporation.- Desktop and network support engineer in fabrication and office environments at Intel Corporation.- Manager of desktop and network support engineers supporting approximately 5,000 end users.- Internal corporate software developer for Kemtah Group. Created a web based timesheet submission system integrated with Great Plains financial accounting system.