As a manager of multiple managers, works with various BlackSky leadership members to provide technical planning, direction, and leadership for the geographically-distributed teams responsible for building BlackSky's Platform applications, imagery services, analytics integration services, and technical customer programs.

- Organize and manage engineering effort for multiple geographically-distributed, BlackSky Platform back-end services teams, encompassing both core imagery ordering/delivery and analytics integration services.- Work with infrastructure to determine needs and approaches for deployment and operations of cloud-based software.- Collaborate with application team to develop back-end requirements.- Oversaw all platform services development through BlackSky's growth from supporting hundreds to thousands of delivered images a day.- Established team development and work-planning/tracking processes to ensure maximum team effectiveness.- Led hiring and technical onboarding during growth of the back-end services team resulting from BlackSky's public IPO.- Mentored development hires to grow their technical and non-technical capabilities.- Contributed to operational support and development on features as needed.

- Participated in discussions on technical integration of tools and technologies during OpenWhere/BlackSky merger.- Provided architecture and development implementation across the full-stack of BlackSky Platform satellite imagery ordering and delivery applications.

Custom software development consulting services.

- Transitioned from a contract-based consulting role to full-time architect to help provide technical direction of software development.- Provided general software development architecture, focusing on a ground-up port an existing Angular-based legacy application to a React-based framework used for quickly building custom, customer-facing geospatial applications.- Worked closely with back-end Java developers to define system interactions.

- Custom software development services as a senior software developer and project manager.- Lead developer and project manager for the Numerical Propulsion System Simulation software GUI.- Lead developer, project manager, and architect of the Lockheed-Martin Mission-Manager Surface-to-Air-Missile system framework and supporting plugins.- Provide code reviews and effort/budget estimates for various types of development projects.- Published A&L blog pieces relating to various programming technologies.

- Provided integral design and development on GeoEye’s satellite imaging online dissemination platform, EyeQ.- Created image processing and interfaces for the EyeQ platform’s Web Map Tile Service (WMTS).- Developed a distributed, multilayered image and data caching service for the EyeQ platform.- Researched and provided advice for various geospatial database and mapping technologies for use in imaging interfaces.- Primary languages and technologies include ASP.NET MVC, C#, HTML and JavaScript (with a heavy focus on jQuery), SQLServer, PostgreSQL, and PostGIS .

- Responsible for the design and development of the SpeedTree Compiler, a core component of the Academy Award winning SpeedTree toolkit used for creating and rendering vegetation in video games and film.- Responsibilities included architecture design, development, and project management roles on all of the company's software products.- Outside of development, provided extensive beginner and advanced level training as well as support for all of the company's products.- Worked as a primary contributing developer on the Eye-Sys application, an advanced generalized visualization application, as well as Eye-Sys plug-ins, specifically portions involving .NET and/or COM development and design.- Responsible for the architecture design, development, and project management of graphical user interface for Virtual Test Bed Professional, a next generation simulation and visualization application based on a proven research-based simulation technology.- Primary languages and technologies used include, but are not limited to, Qt, Visual C++, OpenGL, MFC, C#, various scripting (JavaScript, VBScript), COM, SQL Server.

- Helped architect, design, and develop the Point-of-Care Communications Solution (POCCS), aspeech-based hands-free communication application targeted to health-care industryworkers.- Application was developed as a multi-server configuration with one server primarilyusing the Avaya UCC Speech Server platform (JavaScript and VBScript) with VisualC++ developed components, and the other server using the Apache Tomcat HTTPServer with Java extensions (J2SE).

- Per specifications by acquisition, primary tasks and responsibilities included but werenot limited to those with the previous company (Conita Technologies, Inc.)- Responsible for planning the future direction and development of the managementinfrastructure for the Speech Recognition based Personal Virtual Assistant (PVA)development and deployment platform.

- Designed and implemented management applications for a Speech Recognitionbased Personal Virtual Assistant (PVA) development and deployment platform.- Designed and implemented interface for speech applications to access MicrosoftExchange data stores.

- Worked as a Graduate Assistant on the Virtual Test Bed project, a large-scaleresearch project with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering for theUnited States Department of Defense.- Developed graphical user interface and lexer/parsers for multi-language translatorapplication including such source languages as ACSL, SPICE, and Saber.- Set up and supervised all labs for a programming lab emphasizing the MotorolaM68332 and 68HC11 processors (EECE 301, Spring 1997).- Administered and graded examinations and homework assignments for aprogramming class targeting the Motorola 68000 processor and general assemblylevel programming (EECE 212, Fall 1996).