I am a forward-focused technology executive driving strategies, pivotal initiatives, and innovative problem solving that propels growing companies to scale and acquire competitive advantages. Industry thought leader establishing and nurturing businesses from start-up, to successful IPO's, and large enterprise organizations. Championing integration of ITIL, DevOps, and Agile methodologies to strategically deliver comprehensive quality improvements coupled with processes for managing organizational issues and transformational change. Ideating market-leading products, unifying collaborative teams around vision then leveraging emerging and existing technologies to make products and extend products to untapped markets. SELECTED CAREER CONTRIBUTIONS - Capturing prominent wins with 100% success rate in R&D projects that produced cutting-edge technology solutions which propel revenues, improve profit margins, reverse underperformance, and underpin successful IPOs.- Pioneering new profit center for Grant Thornton launching start-up Technology, Strategy & Innovation division to attract federal clients seeking to elevate customer intimacy with mission-critical digital modernization initiatives.- Architecting best practice models along with Centers of Excellence for product management as focal point for ideation, human-centered design, AI, and Agile development as well as platform for knowledge sharing showcasing subject matter experts.- Securing multi-millions dollar USPTO contract for prototype and hired team including engineers, business analysts, and managers that led to Grant Thornton acquiring first-ever development project from NARA valued at $15M and projected to grow to $100M+.- Piloting entirely new product platform for Bloomberg that delivered superior economies of scale. Bring on technology vendors, hiring internal team, and outsourcing partners to develop 5 new products in first year with projected $70M in potential revenue.- Launchng largest IPO in Washington Metropolitan area, later to be acquired by Sage Software for $500M+. Building the #1 product in category and boosted annual revenues to over $95M by evolving product lines through multiple technology paradigm shifts.Expertise:Revenue & Profit IncreasesEnterprise Systems ArchitectureInvestment Capital RaisingStrategic Partnership DevelopmentStrategic Leadership and PlanningContract/Deal NegotiationsSolutions Innovation and DesignTechnology Process ImprovementsBig Data & Machine LeaderningOpen Source / SQL / NOSQLAgile/Cloud/ITIL/Azure/AWSNew Product Innovation
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