An experienced leader of innovation and technology development looking for new problems to solve.• Experienced in management, with more than 15 years of managing software engineering, hardware engineering, and related innovation.• Adaptable communication style with 10+ years of experience translating between technical requirements and challenges; customer desires and concerns; business development goals and constraints; and corporate metrics and budgets.• Capable of being very hands-on or hands-off as the situation requires. Has been a one-person technology department, as well as the leader of a department with multiple management levels.• Proven track-record of creating or growing a small unstructured team into a structured department using software engineering best practices.• Enthusiastic to learn new things where they help to drive the business forward, from deep technical skills to techniques to improve cross-functional communications.• Passionate about mentoring people to achieve the extraordinary; building teams that value their uniqueness. Persistent about solving difficult challenges.