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Waukesha, WI, US

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US

• Translate business goals into IT and engineering strategy. Manage budget and execution of strategic and operational projects. Set vision and direction for software engineering and architecture. Manage infrastructure.
• Built planning processes and technical product ownership disciplines for IT and Engineering that ensured timely delivery of strategic deliverables, and work transparency for alignment with business initiatives.
• Grew engineering team from a mixture of permanent operational staff and tactical contractors to a full department of permanent staff meeting both operational needs and strategic engineering initiatives.
• Led IT through technology modernization efforts while managing cost and improving effectiveness.
• Defined roadmap to SOC 2 validation including budget and vendor selection.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US

• Translate business goals into IT and engineering strategy. Manage budget and execution of strategic and operational projects. Set vision and direction for software engineering and architecture. Manage infrastructure.
• Led IT team at Health Payment Systems to deliver business-pivoting change to a massive legacy system on a highly compressed timeline. Spent less than $2M on execution to enable new revenue models with a total.
• Grew Health Payment Systems engineering team from minimal operational team of 10 full-time employees and contractors delivering for both growth and efficiency.
• Led infrastructure team through unplanned leadership change and contingency planning for staffing gaps.
• Re-oriented IT strategy to support business pivots that expanded addressable market.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US

• Manage budget and execution of strategic and operational projects. Set vision and direction for software engineering and architecture. Manage infrastructure, infosec, and software vendor selection. Analyze business.
• Rebuilt engineering team from a skeleton crew to fully support operational demands and new initiatives.
• Managed projects and teams for strategic software projects to add new business capabilities, successfully under high pressure for on-time delivery.

Reading, MA, US

• Manage project-oriented contract software development practice, through the sale and delivery lifecycle and across multiple delivery teams and projects.
• Designed a profitable project services delivery model for SafeNet Consulting that secured multi-year engagements worth more than $2M in revenue. Developed sales collateral, price and cost models, team composition.
• Built a new team of developers and project managers with skills to support the new model.
• Developed new client and project profiles and sales collateral.
• Managed resourcing and execution of cross-functional software development projects.
• Ensured profitable operation and client satisfaction throughout project execution.

Reading, MA, US

• Led development and architecture of a configurable UI platform for a family of commercial IoT products for Johnson Controls. Coached product teams in design and quality. Screened technical job candidates. Managed.
• Reduced the cost of creation and maintenance of new products in the family by refactoring common product functionality into an extensible product-creation framework.
• Led product development teams in migrating their products to the product platform.
• Designed reusable cloud clients and inter-process communication architecture consumed by all products.
• Interviewed technical job candidates for both SafeNet and Johnson Controls.

Nashville, Tennessee, US

• Design and develop core software products and architecture to improve distributed system stability.
• Established patterns and shared components to improve code quality, speed, and consistency.
• Selected and advocated for processes, tools, and automation improvements to enhance predictability, repeatability, and transparency across the entire software development lifecycle.

Reading, MA, US

• Led development of web UI for a smart building efficiency product for Johnson Controls.
• Reduced cost of ownership by reworking architecture for easy maintenance and additions.
• Improved team’s delivery predictability with better feedback cycles and velocity measurements.

Milwaukee, US

Led development of contracted projects and proprietary reusable libraries, including stewarding architecture, and mentoring developers.* Designed data structures and services for a Lab Info Management System handling multi-million record daily volumes.* Accelerated project delivery by building infrastructure libraries to address common friction points.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US

Managed the development of packaged ECM software products and shared reusable solution components.* Launched an enterprise software product for rapid desktop document capture.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US

Developed enterprise software products for lightweight desktop document capture and indexing.

Provided consultation and software architecture and development under contract for various clients.* Led development of Trane Technologies' Oracle data warehouse with over 100 million historical transactions.* Mentored other teams in data warehouse development, design, and system architecture.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US

I designed and developed batch processes, COM components, desktop and web interfaces, and databases in C++ and VB 6.