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Waukesha, Wi, Us

Leading a great team building cloud connectivity solutions across Generac product lines.

Commercial Drone Pilot offering aerial imagery for site mapping and inspections.

Cork, Ireland, Ie

Led product development organization to define and develop cloud native Digital Twin compute & API platform powering Smart Building products and solutions enabling processing over 100M telemetry events per day.Actively managed and delivered on product roadmap with Product Management, regional delivery teams, and JCI product lines.Built a cross functional agile engineering organization across US, EU, and India, coaching and mentoring engineering managers, architects, engineers, program managers, and product owners.Led programs to drive efficiency and maturity gains across engineering, SRE, DevOps, and product security enabling rapid releases while maintaining strong cybersecurity risk mitigation practices.Led transition of IoT compute solution from being a bespoke customer delivery to a supported product used across customers and JCI product lines, expediting building commissioning and customer onboarding processes.

San Francisco, California, Us

Established technical strategy for crowd-sourced city and food guide mobile app for this early-stage startup.Transformed mobile app experience to drive greater engagement and intuitive experiences.Expanded market reach by developing cross platform mobile app with existing development resources.Hands-on full stack development – AWS, Flutter, MAUI, Ruby API, AWS RDS, PostgreSQL, Lambda, Neptune.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Responsible for the Digital Advisory Services business in the West Region.Led a high performing team that drives enablement of new digital capabilities and experiences for our customers to empower their employees, engage their customers, and transform their products.Led our team's transformation from Enterprise Architects to Digital Advisors, coaching and mentoring the team and working across the field organization to communicate our new focus.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Executive level engagements include:Partnered with the CIO and direct reports at a customer in the financial services industry to lead a program of change focused on maturing the IT organization’s end-to-end application lifecycle management practices with the objective of improving time to market, stability, and quality of their product delivery. This program spanned approximately 900 employees in the US and India, up leveling their ALM tools and SDLC practices, redefining roles, and transitioning to a streamlined Azure based environment provisioning process cutting out up to 3 months of lead time.Led financial justification and market analysis efforts for multiple clients to invest in technology enabled initiatives including a talent payment solution for a prominent media and production company, and a client fulfillment tracking and reporting solution for a leading logistics provider.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Sample Engagements:-Development of SOA offering to drive maturity of key SOA principles in customer engagements now part of modern API Management solutions such as service versioning, authentication, authorization, and message transformation. Responsible for development and packaging of solution across customers and implementation of custom customer capabilities through WCF extensions to maintain integrity of offering.-Lead architect for the leading corporate tax compliance application integration with IRS e-File system. Planned SOA architecture for new tax product integrating with legacy mainframe systems and native C++ libraries. Solution involved rewriting a Java based application used by a majority of the companies in the Fortune 500 to benefit from the capabilities of .Net and a new modular architecture. Solution supported flexible deployment scenarios from running on a single laptop to hosted SaaS deployments running across multiple server farms. Business value delivered included: reduction in support and maintenance costs through greater reuse and consistency across application modules, improved customer experience and satisfaction, and improved application performance. -Lead the design and implementation of integration solution spanning 24 business processes for automotive dealerships throughout North America to the largest automotive OEM. This system was developed in conjunction with the leading dealer management systems in the auto industry. Conducted business analysis and prototyping of next generation dealership portal, business process realignment, and alternative DMS integration strategies. Business value delivered included: reduction of enterprise operating costs, increased productivity, and improved dealer satisfaction.

In charge of the technical strategy and implementation of the distributed push-based media subscription platform. This system included the ability to recommend media content to users based on collaborative filtering techniques. Lead development of a demographic based profiling and advertising engine leveraging OLAP databases for broad user behavior and ad performance analysis.

Madison, Nj, Us

Managed the corporate accounting, HR, and Payroll applications. Provided project management leadership for the migration of mainframe based HR and accounting systems to Windows based systems for the nations largest residential real estate firm. Designed and coordinated a secure remote check printing process for each office nationwide. This eliminated daily postage costs and improved commission check delivery to 32,000 agents. Lead the design and implementation of Data Warehousing and OLAP systems for corporate financial analysis and reporting.

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Bs, Computer Science