Responsible for the leadership, strategic direction, and daily operations of all aspects of software engineering that deliver software solutions for The Seattle Times' online presence: content management system, photo/video management, ad serving, analytics, personalization, performance monitoring and subscriber / customer service SaaS integration. • Lead the development and administration of the department’s strategic and tactical plans consistent with short-term and long-term IT plans, business plans, and corporate strategies and goals.• Establish, manage and reconcile annual goals and objectives, expense and capital budgets and expenditures, and project activities.• Keep informed of industry trends and developments, communicating as needed internally to keep staff in alignment with the industry.

Established company to provide custom data curation, and data modeling consultation. • Designed and wrote software in Python to acquire and manage data from various sources.Technologies: Python, PostgreSQL, AWS. Data Modeling: Logical, Semantic, Relational

Led the Big Data and BI Engineering teams. Collaborated with marketing and development teams.• Worked closely with marketing management to capture business nuances that provided analytical insights not previously possible. Enabled self-serve analytics using MicroStrategy.• As the data architect, modeled enterprise data spanning conceptual, logical, and physical layers. Defined model and data standards. Mentored engineers in best data practices.• Ensured scalability of data architectures and pipelines including messaging, BI systems and personalization data marts used in large-scale daily email marketing campaigns.Technologies: Hadoop/Hive, Netezza (MPP), PostgreSQL, Data Architect, Elasticsearch, Solr, Java.

Led 3 teams of software and quality assurance engineers. Built information systems including: proprietary search algorithms, a multi-terabyte database with large volumes of daily updates. • Collaborated with IT departments and business customers to improve software delivery including a team that deployed new features once or twice a week.• Introduced Lean Software practices which built upon existing Scrum practices to improve request to delivery time and reduce software waste.

Delivered key software products for container terminal management including "as it happens" logistics with mobile notifications, as well as vessel and rail planning. Directed two software engineering teams.• Built and mentored high performance technical teams that greatly improved software quality. Introduced software processes and continuous improvement philosophy. • Developed client relationships in conjunction with the Business Development team.• Collaborated with clients’ senior management to design system integration software.• Architected software for narrowband data display on mobile equipment in Europe and U.S.

Delivered web-based corporate travel software by leading a 10-person software engineering team. • Improved team morale and productivity via new software processes and better communication. • Provided architecture for a .NET web application including internationalization strategies.

Directed two software teams: One that implemented the flagship product – a set of J2EE applications including dynamic components such as inventory search and an XML based website design tool, the other that developed interactive voice recognition (IVR) and web applications.• Delivered features faster and with better acceptance by adopting Agile software development practices.

Produced software that utilized term vector models to match articles and advertising on major media sites.Technical Consulting Manager• Evaluated new markets and product strategies. Wrote project proposals to Fortune 500 companies.Software Architect• Defined distributed, multi-tiered software architecture.• Collaborated closely with product management to define product features and risks.

Successfully launched development of a web-based information security education system by leading a diverse team of computing security experts, instructional designers, and software engineers in partnership with a Fortune 100 company. Hired to architect software application and recommended purchase of commercial software rather than a custom build.• Developed project plan, team structure, and hired personnel. • Audited database security for several clients and wrote evaluations.

Acting Manager: Distributed Computing Research Group• Directed researchers in developing project proposals and plans.Technical Program Manager and System Architect -- Applied R&D• Influenced the company to implement significant web applications including one that saved over 20 million dollars by applying web technology expertise and managing user-interface researchers in development of a new presentation layer. • Leveraged new technologies to deliver – early and under budget – a system for accessing and viewing internal and external DoD program information. Software Engineer / System Analyst• Developed X Window application for Harborview Hospital from requirements analysis through software delivery. • Led the requirements analysis and functional specification of a large rule-based system that encapsulated engineering expertise to discover system faults.• Designed data architecture and created data models for all seven departments and 27 systems in the single-aisle aircraft manufacturing division. Implemented one of Boeing’s first OLAP systems.

• Coached management of large and small companies on data management strategies. Assisted companies with the development of data models.• Developed courseware and taught data modeling to analysts and developers.• Wrote a data model translation application in C++/Win32.