Lead a high-performing team to overcome critical challenges in the company’s flagship product, delivering innovative solutions. Balance leadership responsibilities with hands-on technical contributions, increasing developer efficiency by over 50% through co-developing and evangelizing a key framework. Drive initiatives to transform the platform, architecture, user interface, and developer experience across a 10M+ LOC codebase. Member of AI technical and engineering leadership teams.

Researched, prototyped, and designed new features for company's market leading offering. Coordinated strategy and priorities with engineering, product, and program management teams. Developed and evangelized architectural vision. Responded to customer escalations and critical issues. Organized track for annual technical summit.

Contributed to platform architecture initiatives including advanced monitoring framework, software dependency analysis, on-premises deployment of cloud applications, parallel configuration, and instant product evaluation using technologies like .NET, C#, Kubernetes, Docker, neo4j, Roslyn, and Mono.Cecil.

Recruited to develop new products as part of SolarWinds Cloud Labs using technologies like Python, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Zookeeper, JavaScript, D3.js, Docker, AWS, Ubuntu Linux, and Librato.* Led RESTful API and back-end service framework and implementation* Led inference engine to deduce network topology from AWS and agent data* Led Python agent instrumentation, including Django, MySQL, Elasticsearch, logging* Led data model and metadata system prototype* Created D3.js visualizations including network topology view* Created unit test framework for RESTful operations * Joint ownership of operating and automating CI, staging, and production environments

Provide occasional freelance software consulting services, assisting clients with mobile, web, server, and desktop applications, always with full awareness and approval by my primary employer.

Contributed to FICO's acquisition of Infoglide Software in April 2013. Architected and implemented multiple software products, including the flagship enterprise application's web services and UI, a hosted SaaS OpenStack offering, and one of PC Magazine's "20 Best Facebook Apps." Contributed to prototypes, demos, and executive presentations.

Early-stage Ruby on Rails hosted monitoring startup.

MatrixNetSystems was the re-branded name of Matrix.net. Matrix NetSystems merged with Alignment Software of Superior, Colorado to form Xaffire. The Austin division was eventually sold to Keynote Systems.

Developed web framework used by start-up for nearly a decade.

Implemented, consulted, and managed in Chicago, Austin, and Scotland. Technical lead when launching largest European software center.

Developed scientific visualization software in the organization that launched NCSA Mosaic.