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New York, Ny, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Coached executives at a large, well-known financial institution to align their development efforts with business goals using Lean Enterprise practices. Piloted long-lived, multi-discipline product teams (as opposed to project teams), aimed at achieving a business outcome rather than delivering a specific output. Built an experimentation framework and put statistical business metrics in place that allowed us to rapidly iterate to a solution that over-delivered on the desired business outcome in dramatically less time than a traditional team took to deliver an initial release. The approaches we pioneered are now being piloted more broadly throughout the organization.Brought in to lead a software delivery project, for another large financial institution, aimed at increasing regulatory compliance and reducing regulatory risk. Mentored local and distributed development staff on various aspects of software engineering practices and technical challenges encountered, such as strategies for breaking their monolithic architecture using Microservices. Demonstrated the Lean approach to product development in order to rapidly get to business value.Worked with several other businesses of varying sizes to assess their current development capabilities and challenges, and provide plans on how to optimize their path-to-production, improve software quality, and decrease operational complexity through Continuous Delivery and Infrastructure as Code (DevOps) techniques.Provided technical sales support on several pursuits ranging from large organizations in the energy sector to start-ups

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Us

Built an effective technology organization that developed all of our consumer-facing properties including our search engine, yellowbook.com (reaching as high as the 26th largest web property according to comScore), our public REST-based Web API which served billions of searches per year, and our extensive suite of mobile apps (iOS, Android, HTML5, etc.).Led architecture for yellowbook.com, a massively scaled consumer search engine that powered multiple 3rd party search engines through a network of API partners.Spearheaded our mobile initiatives, taking an early lead among our competitors, particularly in the Android space where we ranked in the top 15 overall most popular apps for several years.

This company became Hibu

Erie, Pa, Us

Responsible for Development and IT for the Corry Publishing family of companies, including VertMarkets, BSM magazine, ISM magazine, and CorryMicronics spread across 5 locations throughout the state of Pennsylvania.

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Selected to lead the technology organization in a rescue effort to turn the portal business around and bring it to profitability for sale. Successfully right-scaled the organization. Improved uptime and increased development velocity by focusing on Mean Time To Recover (MTTR) versus Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF).

Founded a successful early Internet start-up that provided web development, web hosting, dial-up access, and dedicated Internet access to clients such as US Healthcare, Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, Manchester, Inc., Armstrong World Industries, Intellihealth, the Philadelphia Eagles, Star 104, WJJZ, KOIT, WOGL & WDRE.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Worked in Internal Research & Development on projects ranging from Strategic Missile Defense to Air Traffic Control.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, Management

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