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Texas, United States

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Mclean, Va, Us

Led the architecture, engineering, quality assurance, and delivery of the 4.9-star, award-winning Hilton Honors apps for iOS and Android.

Memphis, Tn, Us

Led the product management function for Mosaik's core products - MapELEMENTS, TowerSource, CellMaps, Network Validator, and consumer mobile applications in addition to all software engineering functions including Engineering, DevOps, UX/UI Design, and QA. Additionally led the back-end and front-end re-architecture of the acquired Sensorly product line.

Memphis, Tn, Us

Led all software engineering at Mosaik including Engineering, DevOps, UX/UI Design, and QA — building web- based SaaS applications and mobile apps which utilize Ruby on Rails, Python, a custom GIS rendering stack, Swift/Objective-C (iOS), and Java (Android)

Lexington, Kentucky, Us

Led multiple Agile Scrum development teams and provided architectural direction for new mobile and cloud products for banking, retail, and the enterprise. Responsibilities included creating user stories, providing code reviews, coaching team members, and crafting new features by working directly with customers.

Architected and developed 6 apps for the Apple App Store. Managed all aspects of a start-up, including legal, advertising, and finances. Consulted with large and small companies on iOS application architecture, development, and integration with other systems.

Lexington, Ky, Us

Led the development of Volar’s desktop video streaming products for Mac OSX – Production Truck and Ad Trigger Pro. Created architecture and strategy for Volar’s future products. Recruited and staffed the team to enable achievement of very aggressive product development milestones. Worked with the executive team and board of directors to ensure alignment of the team’s activities with business objectives.

Lexington, Kentucky, Us

Managed the development and delivery of premise and cloud/SaaS-based print release and document management solutions to Lexmark’s customers worldwide. Managed 25 onshore software engineers and 11 offshore engineers; operated as two Agile Scrum teams. Utilized Java, Groovy, Grails, and C#/.NET technologies.

Lexington, Kentucky, Us

Drove the implementation of internal-facing mobile applications to accelerate sales/services growth; focused on iOS applications for sales force automation and field service. Served as primary interface to business management and end users, leading requirements gathering process. Managed all vendor activity for application development, integrations development, and environment set-up and installation.

Lexington, Kentucky, Us

Provided strategy, development, and implementation of enterprise-wide "single version of the truth" engineering/supply chain tool suite for 2K users in 10 countries, based upon Enovia V6 (MatrixOne) and NX/ TeamCenter technologies. Led organization of 30+ employees, contractors, and offshore consultants. Managing annual expense and capital project budgets of $6-10M. Implemented access requests, defect tracking, quality assurance, production support, and user training processes. Coached and mentored employees; some to new management positions. Frequent presenter at PLM industry conferences and analyst events.

Lexington, Kentucky, Us

Managed thermal design and qualification of entire line of mono-laser printers. Solved critical thermal issues while reducing cost on the Optra, TXX, and E3X printer product lines.

Lexington, Kentucky, Us

Developed technology components of developer sleeve sub-assembly of electrophotographic printer cartridge.