Senior individual contributor to software projects, advisor for important software architecture decisions, and mentor to other software staff in the organization.

Leader of team responsible for maintaining and enhancing common code base for automated data collection systems.

Leader for team responsible for maintaining automated data collections from ISOs and other data publishers, and team responsible for maintaining infrastructure dataset covering price nodes, transmission lines, power plants, etc. which enables visualization of market data in Yes Energy software.

Manager of team responsible for creating and maintaining automated data collections from ISOs and other sources relevant to wholesale power markets. The team creates, manages, maintains, and tunes the collection of over one thousand different types of data, overseeing the collection of over 75 million pieces of data from 150,000 collection events on a daily basis.

Responsible for creating, tuning, and maintaining PL/SQL packages in Oracle database to provide data to front end applications. Focuses were on applications for FTR portfolio management, and risk management for ISO traded financial products.

Leading the consulting practice at Yes Energy providing 1.) quantitative analysis to clients trading in ISO markets, and 2.) a R&D function for new Yes Energy software products with development partner clients. Managing the Yes Energy RiskSignals product for measuring and managing risk and p&l across ISO trading products (FTRs, spreads, virtuals).

Company strategy coming into focus after being lost in the fog of entrepreneurial possibility. Personal expertise being made available as a consulting service to utilities and banks. Navigating path to creation of software products by reaching out directly to potential customers to advise on development of product concepts. Searching for advisors on entrepreneurship and partners for product development.

Proof that it is possible for engineers to have fun and not be completely boring! Work focused on creating or validating models and presenting results in the areas of: generation asset / derivative contract valuation (including for bankruptcy of a major IPP); risk management and risk reporting (VaR, CFaR, FAS 133, FAS 157); real options analysis for resource planning. Swallowed by the giant defense contractor SAIC in summer 2009.

A sleepy little restaurant company that almost drifted into a coma with recent private equity ownership (in addition to milking the cash cow blood was being drawn). One of my projects was implementing a credit card processing interface to a new bank for handling $200+ million in transactions annually. Great people and culture in the IT department with some pretty intense lunchtime roller hockey games.

Uplift is more of a network of people than a company, and this structure has allowed it to adapt to the turbulence of the Valley. During my "being connected" I worked on a few projects including creating and documenting an SDK for the IP phone company ShoreTel.

Assisted in developing and refining go-to-market strategies for products ranging from marketing services to enterprise and consumer software.

The best company I've worked for. Yes, it was a 'dotcom' tech company and VC funded the day the Nasdaq peaked. But, we had some great product ideas that are now on everyone's phones, and our marketing phrase "the people are the network" lives on with Cisco's "the human network." Too early perhaps, but also hard lessons in the importance of sales and of having a single floor of office space when only 25 people.