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Transformation and growth consulting for SaaS companies with expertise in Cloud Architecture, Application Development, Agile Methodologies, DevOps, Automation, AI, and Business Intelligence.

Irving, Texas, Us

Privately held SaaS company and payment facilitator (payfac) in the dental industry providing patient financial solutions for 1,000 practices in the US and processing over $1B in transactions annually.Engaged with business units, partners, and enterprise customers to refine the company’s strategy and market positioning. Led product and engineering teams, and managed corporate IT to provide a seamless and scalable foundation of highly integrated systems.Significant Accomplishments• Established a multi-year strategy, defined product roadmaps, and refined the company's software architecture, org, processes, automation, security, and compliance to position the company for rapid growth.• Implemented fully automated CI, CD, IaC, and QA testing resulting in 20x faster deployments, and Azure improvements that reduced cloud spend by 50%.• Grew from 18 to 60 people while increasing EBITA by implementing organizational optimizations and systems/process enhancements.

Dallas, Texas, Us

PE-backed retail chain making hand-made plant-based soaps in store with 270 locations nationwide.Created a comprehensive retail technology strategy to support 1,000 stores within 5 years. Led the discovery, design, and implementation of POS, Inventory Management, Loyalty, Scheduling, Network, EDW, Supply Chain Management, and Corporate IT systems.Significant Accomplishments• Designed and executed a modern, comprehensive retail tech strategy instrumental in growth from $5M in valuation to over $200M in 18months.• Engaged franchisees and built an OpEx tech funding model in a complex multi-stakeholder environment while opening over 200 new stores.• Implemented an integrated SaaS tech stack consisting of new POS, Inventory Management, Loyalty, Scheduling, Network, Data Warehouse,and Enterprise BI/Analytics in under 18 months

Dallas, Tx, Us

Tasked by KFC's CTO to solve enterprise challenges with software & cloud architecture, cross-functional collaboration, IT project planning & management, and DevOps automation.Significant Accomplishments• Interviewed stakeholders across the the enterprise to compile pain points and potential solutions.• Socialized the improvements across teams and leadership to achieve alignment.• Implemented surgical improvements across the business, and increased velocity without introducing any new systems, org changes or significant investments.

Louisville, Ky, Us

• Neurodiagnostic startup developing a cloud powered med device platform which enables doctors to monitor and diagnose patients anywhere in real-time.• Assembled a team of over 20 software, electrical and mechanical engineers and led the design, development and commercialization of software and hardware medical devices using lean methodologies.• Principal architect of the technical design and development of HIPAA-compliant RPC, REST, Streaming Time-series, and Video APIs on AWS using microservice and serverless architectures for low latency and high-scalability.• Implemented a novel hybrid agile / waterfall SDLC with integrated regulatory which resulted in FDA approval in less than 4 months.

Louisville, Ky, Us

Led remote teams on UX design and database development for this web app that imported social content to build mock portfolio that ultimately served as data source for TD Ameritrade. Developed function UI with no backend to demonstrate proof of concept to secure funding. Delivered data and sentiment analysis through API licensed by TD Ameritrade.

Omaha, Ne, Us

• Employee 1 for a social networking startup for traders, acquired by TD Ameritrade and now powering social in their retail trading platforms.• Brainstormed, architected, and built responsive web applications, APIs, and UXs scaling from 0 to 100k+ users daily.• Pioneered trade sharing technology allowing traders to share complex options, futures and forex strategies in real-time.• Leveraged emerging cloud concepts and web frameworks to build n-tier applications ahead of their time.

Developed software applications in .NET, C++ and Perl for optical coating analysis and data visualization. Collaborated with engineering team on software, chemistry, and hardware for revolutionary nanoparticle coating system. Modeled mathematical formulas for thin-film analysis in Maple. Collaborated with Ph.D.’s, scientists, and other academics from University of Kentucky and University of Louisville to write software used to analyze coatings.

Led new product R&D for mobile automotive diagnostic systems. Specialized in low cost prototype and production phases. Designed and patented a ruggedized rubber case for an existing device. Reverse engineered vehicle firmware update system and recreated server-side implementation.