› Leading the Public Safety Technology division with ownership of enterprise data analytics, data science, police and fire department applications, 911 dispatch platforms, outdoor warning systems, audio/video recording systems, records management systems, fire station alerting, mobile computers, advanced crime analytics, and public reporting solutions serving over 740,000 metro residents.› Managing, mentoring, and developing a more highly skilled workforce of technology professionals in infrastructure, mobile computing, digital recording, telecommunications, business analysis, project management, and customer support.› Streamlining department processes and contract approval pipelines, managing smarter budgets, recruiting technology consultants to improve the technical competency of the City’s IT workforce, restarting stalled projects for public crime reporting and fire department scheduling, and evaluating 3rd party solutions to replace costly in-house systems.› Modernizing public safety technology platforms and executing roadmaps for interagency emergency communications while implementing enterprise data and analytics, cloud computing, infrastructure modernization, data center colocation, cybersecurity, and data governance.› Improving emergency responses and shared technology partnerships between federal, state, and local agencies.

› Founded a new technology division with teams skilled in data science and data engineering to create a more data-driven culture at the City of Des Moines.› Developed a roadmap to integrate high-quality data from hundreds of legacy data sources for use cases including crime reporting, Fire accreditation, Police operational analytics, and open data portals.› Selected Microsoft Fabric as the City’s first cloud-based data analytics platform with the goal of moving data and applications from existing on-premises infrastructure to a new cloud-based service paradigm.› Defined the City’s data governance roles and processes for proper data management and quality control.› Hired and managed a team of data science and data engineering professionals.

› Led a global technical program of 17 software teams on three continents encompassing 150+ employees and several 3rd party vendors developing online pharmaceutical solutions for veterinarian hospitals including CRM, ERP, Rx management, product fulfillment, and eCommerce solutions.› Drove teams “over the finish line” for go-live product deployment to 12,000 US veterinarian practices by refining strategic and tactical plans and working with senior leaders to complete software testing, product integration, and legacy customer migrations.› Improved communication to all program stakeholders while connecting teams, surfacing dependencies, improving work processes, identifying risks, and resolving impediments to ensure the technical products were delivered on time and under budget.

› Led the company’s first global enterprise data and analytics division encompassing 50+ employees including managers, software developers, data analysts, software engineers, and data architects distributed across the U.S. serving 5,000+ internal consumers.› Pioneered, built, and supported cloud and on-premises analytics platforms including Power BI, MicroStrategy, Spotfire, and MS SQL Server while delivering hundreds of reports, dashboards, visualizations, and ad-hoc analyses to senior executives and project leaders in R&D, Operations, Supply Chain, Commercial, Marketing, and Regulatory departments.› Led technology teams and stakeholders through consolidation of three legacy companies (DuPont, Pioneer Hi-Bred, Dow Agriscience) as they merged into a single agriscience organization (Corteva).› Drove multiple organizational technology initiatives and managed a portfolio of several hundred technology projects for consumers across the organization while retiring redundant platforms thus increasing efficiencies and reducing costs by hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.

› Led multiple agile / scrum / kanban / waterfall software teams encompassing 50+ employees located around the world delivering technology solutions to 5,000 global company consumers.› Founded a data science kanban software team who created machine learning models that improved the quality and selection of new crop seed products while reducing expensive product development costs.› Founded a scrum software team building biotechnology data repositories and laboratory information management systems to improve the data capture and laboratory creation of new biotech crop seed products while reducing expensive product development costs.› Rescued an application development team that was stuck creating new workflow management software and a laboratory information management system at the heart of a $30 million capital improvement plan to build fully automated crop development greenhouses.› Managed global teams of data scientists and software engineering professionals.

› Led a research program creating new digital tools to identify novel sources of disease resistant genes in soybeans and other agricultural food crops.› Developed custom software solutions for screening large-scale plant genome sequences and analyzing potential gene products of Asian Soy Rust disease resistant plants to improve US crops.› Managed a team of research laboratory professionals and improved processes.

› Led several biotechnology and computational analytics projects to identify novel plant defense mechanisms leading to bacterial pathogen immunity in crops.› Employed advanced statistics and machine learning algorithms for big data analytics.› Managed a team of laboratory professionals and mentored students.

› Led technology design for innovative website content and eCommerce marketing solutions for large corporations across numerous sectors including banking, retail, automotive, government, technology, business consulting, and entertainment.› Designed websites, implemented cybersecurity, and created professional illustrations.› Web content was consumed by 50 million people per year and won the prestigious JD Power & Associates award for top U.S. automotive manufacturer website twice in 2003 and 2004.