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Retired from "real" work

Seattle, WA

Partner with multi-industry technology organizations, guiding to successfully address technology challenges, and maximizing opportunities. Bridge the gap between the engineers’ desire for bleeding-edge technologies and actual business needs. Radically improve product development efficiency, providing transparency to the executive team. Through deep.

Bellevue, Washington

Portland, Oregon Area

Brought in as the Interim CTO to perform a technology turnaround. Collaborated with a 4-member team to assess and report on the state of the WHS technology organization and presented findings to the WebMD board. As the interim CTO, took over product development, software security, and technology operations, driving the restructuring of leadership team.

Seattle

Recruited to replace both the VP of Engineering and VP of Product after their departure. Managed 22 employees while performing the day-to-day functions including architecture reviews, feature prioritization, and decisions on 3rd-party technology solutions. Hired 2 technical product managers, an engineering manager, developers and IT staff. Along with CEO.

Bellevue, WA

Brought in by the CTO to combine disparate HW teams into one cohesive department with a consistent development methodology. Reorganized isolated groups of hardware engineers into a well-integrated department with defined design, validation, testing and compliance processes. Eliminated redundant practices, promoted proposals to streamline hardware.

Bellevue, WA

Recruited to turnaround engineering organization and transformed the organization into a smoothly functioning team that produced software of known quality and on-time delivery. Managed up to 40 employees and $6.5M budget. In one year, more than doubled the size of the development team, hired and managed SDETs to automate QA processes, and introduced.

Seattle, WA

Founding member of Kiha Software, a company that provides a suite of software services for mobile devices, starting as VP and promoted to COO, reporting to CEO. Hired and managed a team of over 30 developers, program managers, QA, HR, and cloud operations staff, within first year, establishing all company processes and developing company’s prototype. As.

Seattle, WA

Hand selected to lead Engineering temporarily when GM left, and then chosen for a permanent role to oversee engineering along with manufacturing, sales, marketing, and operations teams of over 50 internal employees and 100+ external vendors with a $96M budget. FlipStart is a pocket-sized Windows Vista PC and the first commercial product shipped by Vulcan.

Worked with Microsoft Architects and Program Managers to develop areas of technology that benefited both EMC and Microsoft (SQL Sever Group, Cluster Server Group, Filesystems Group). Researched and advised solutions for file system and device management issues. Developed technology to detect data corruption occurring anywhere in the IO stack, patent.

Developed custom device drivers, kernel-mode software, memory management libraries, and emulation software for the MISEM ultrasound machine. Served as the consulting expert for all Windows NT system-level software.

Implemented new features for SourceSafe, Microsoft’s source code control application. Added support for double-byte character sets; updated user interface for consistent look and feel; and wrote recursive algorithm to find errors in the proprietary database, fix the errors, and upgrade the database to a new format. Language: Visual C++.

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