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Everett, Washington, Us

CTO responsible for corporate strategy, product management, program management, product development of a leading provider of industrial hardware and software solutions. Key results include development of strategic three year plan, execution of portfolio turnaround, and acquisition of best of breed AI company to enhance portfolio.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Vice President and Chief Technology for Honeywell Connected Industrial Business Unit responsible for development and delivery of Industrial IoT solutions. Lead international R&D organization of approximately 400 software engineers supporting approximately 400MUSD in ARR. Key responsibilities include the people, process, and technology transformation of a traditional project based software organization into a modern multi-tenant SaaS enterprise software product development organization and portfolio.Additional responsibilities include: - M&A due diligence and integration - Lead architecture and technology governance for Honeywell Connected Enterprise.

Saint Louis, Missouri, Us

Aclara is a leading provider of smart infrastructure solutions. These are industrial IoT solutions for electric, water, and gas utilities. The software portfolio spans pure play multi-tenant SaaS solutions such as Adaptive Consumer Engagement, through to thick client PC applications such as MeterMate. Responsibilities include:• Managing software development and execution across the full Aclara organization, domestic and global. • Development and execution of Aclara’s Software Strategic Plan, and Utility Technology Roadmap as well as all Software development for the SGS, Lighthouse, Meters and AMI divisions. • Long term capital planning through a prioritization process. • Development of competitive software platforms• Assessment, demonstration, development of technology as well as the evaluation of technologies for environmental mitigation and customer end use.• M&A of additional software solutions and intellectual propertyKey accomplishments include:• Creation of single unified sensor data management platform encompassing network gateway software, a sensor data management platform, and advanced analytics functionality.• Institution of a generalized architecture for onboarding new sensors and devices into the sensor data management platform from cloud to edge sensor• Establishment of a DevOps practice across the SaaS portfolio• Strategic rebalancing of resources across onshore, near shore, and offshore to optimize mix of resource cost and skill sets• Reorganizing development organization into appropriately skilled, self-sufficient scrum teams following an agile process to deliver SaaS solutions

Zurich, Zh, Ch

Responsible for the development of overall software architecture for Grid Automation solutions including leading the transition to cloud based delivery of value add device management and analytic functions.

Key accomplishments are as follows:• Created and maintain a formal technology and functional platform strategy where one did not exist• Established and maintain our two major strategic partnerships as the basis of our cloud and SaaS strategies• Reset product roadmaps, eliminating tens of millions of dollars of ill-conceived development projects• Established our analytics product strategy and three year vision• Leading the transition from a product development to a devops, live site, product delivery organization• Establishment of User Centric Design (UCD) practices based in a centralized User Experience development team. This includes creation of branding and style guides, integration of UCD into our agile development processes, and establishment of a common desktop UI framework.• Established a mobile development center of excellence (COE) with successful delivery of over a half of a dozen applications• Established Product Security Group and the subsequent definition and implementation of the Product Security Lifecycle (PSL) Responsibilities include:Developing the long term product, organization, and technology strategy for SaaS delivery.Management and leadership of common services and application development teams.Leading product architecture and technology rationalization within the portfolio.Managing identification of, and collaboration with, industry technology partners.Technical Due Diligence for mergers, investment, and acquisitionEstablishing and governing IP (patent) generation activities.Defining and commissioning mid-term (three year) corporate research projects.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Overall Software Architect for the Systems Management and Solutions Group. The Systems Management and Solutions Group is an organization of several hundred people responsible for delivering the OpenManage family of systems management products and data center automation solutions marketed under the VIS umbrella. Responsibilities include: - Working with product management teams to create product strategy and road maps.- Interfacing with the technical leadership teams within Enterprise Product Group and Enterprise Software Group to align technology and product road maps. - Setting technical strategy, architecture and design review for individual products within the ESSG portfolio. - Participating in M&A activities, leading the technical due diligence component.Lead Software Architect on Dell's data center automation solutions. Responsibilities include:defining the high-level application architectureleading the component architecture and high level design activities for the developmentWorking with product planning organization to develop solution portfolio.Developing behavioral definition for initial product release.Working with engineering management team to create staffing plan.Performing 3rd party technical due diligence for partnership and acquisition opportunities.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Software architect for systems management including leading the development of industry standards and product implementations.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Lead Engineer responsible for integration of System X and BladeCenter hardware management into the IBM Director system management software application. Tasks included architecture, design, and implementation of console, server, and agent components utilizing multiple proprietary command protocols as well as IPMI to interface with the service processors. The implementation was primarily in Java with some C and C++ components for interfacing with device drivers on each supported OS. Responsibilities included all phases of product development including working with the marketing, test, and planning teams to determine requirements, test plans, and fall plan resources and line items.Developed C and C++ application for managing IBM TB3 switches. Developed standby clustering software for OS/2 and IBM PC Servers utilizing shared external storage. Responsibilities included debugging and development of C and Object REXX components

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Mathematics