Differentiation through controls features and functionality has become even more. Responsible for the creation and execution of long-term strategy to develop innovative products through the software team supporting controls systems and mobile applications.

Provided strategic and technical leadership for a globally dispersed team of over 240 software engineers, including commercial B2B and residential B2C SaaS and IoT software, through a high-growth phase. - Trusted to lead one of the company’s most important software efforts from original ideation to delivery through a rapid growth phase from 5 to 60 engineers, including two acquisitions. The IoT solution built is a critical strategic pillar for Allegion’s future. - Championed and implemented Scaled Agile (SAFe) on a critical, 120 person cross-disciplinary engineering effort resulting in on schedule and on budget delivery. - Increased on-time delivery above 90% for all software deliverables. - Managed $10.7M budget where predictability was key. Saved $1.5M in fixed expenses allowing reallocation for retention and hiring during the competitive covid hiring market. - Developed and piloted a new Performance Development process which helped to increase Gallup employee engagement scores from 3.5 to 4.3 (out of 5). - Drove QA automation resulting in CI/CD pipeline improvements and significant time savings for every pre-release regression cycle allowing the team to deliver in days vs months. - Scaled several software services and teams through organic growth and acquisitions for exponential growth of Allegion’s most popular real time connected electronic lock from 100k units to 1.4M units. - Coached engineering leaders through frequent and consistent one-on-one conversations in new product development as well as maintenance of existing systems. Reduced voluntary resignations from 11 to 2.

Led the creation and development of the companies most important new software product, an energy management IoT and SaaS solution creating a Virtual Power Plant with residential thermostats, which was delivered on time and met customer expectations creating significant sales growth for the company.• Managed through a high growth era hiring four teams while delivering against milestones.• Pioneered a new agile based development methodology to increase performance and job satisfaction.• Delivered a revolutionary new machine learning based product that individually managed thousands of thermostats providing peak load reduction for Duke Energy and other utility companies in the US and France.• Provided technical and people leadership for legacy system maintenance and support of Tendril’s most valuable legacy product.• Created a mentoring and training program for new hires.

Responsible for career development and engineering direction at Tendril.

Responsible for the system architecture of everything from the cloud platform to the home area network (HAN) at Tendril.

Working with embedded Linux platforms and providing proof of concept engineering and architecture. Evangelizing Headless Android as a non-UI based embedded Linux platform for the future. Serving as the Smart Energy Profile 2 Working Group Secretary.

Responsible for architecting and engineering support for partner integration with Control4. This includes porting Control4 software for different platforms made by our partners, architecting integrated solutions with our partners, and helping to create the next generation of integrated products using the Control4 Ecosystem.

Engineering director over firmware and low level software at Control4.

Managed the software and hardware Quality department.

Responsible for home automation hardware platform bring up including two home controllers, a touch screen, and a distributed audio device. Wrote Linux device drivers for customer hardware including IR capture, IR output, contacts, relays, serial ports, and video. Developed upgrade technology for all systems in the home in a managed and fail-safe manner. Wrote Linux servers for management of connections from sockets to actual hardware running on the device.

Linux kernel and board support package engineer.

Wrote software for a network encryption device.

Educational software