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Draper, Ut, Us

• Conceptualized and executed on vision leveraging artificial intelligence, messaging and chatbots. • Created a new event tech product category: event chatbots with product EventBots by Sciensio. • Won 4 event industry innovation awards in 2017/18 and received extensive industry press coverage for EventBots product. • Delivered 50+ successful chatbot implementations in the last 18 months. • Designed and led the development of tools for AI Interaction Design Team that has increased their efficiency (+>200%) while improving conversation quality (+7%).

IT Representative in the office of the Chief Strategy Officer, managing a portfolio of 25-35 strategic enterprise IT programs. Responsibilities included defining an enterprise IT organization and service delivery capabilities including: staffing/resourcing model; methodologies (portfolio management, enterprise program management, agile, business transformation, change management); policies to support compliance for HR, audit, legal requirements; and strategic and operational planning. Engagement highlights included:• Led a multidisciplinary global enterprise security initiative reporting to the CFO and the Board of Directors. Developed and executed on an innovative cloud-based enterprise security roadmap tying 4 independent operating companies into a unified SOC.• Succeeded in championing, mitigating risks, and delivering a 5 month project requiring 15 system integrations to migrate to a private health exchange that reduced annual healthcare costs by 16% ($13.5 million).• Initiated a cloud first philosophy, internal customer success team, and implemented the organization’s first 7 enterprise SaaS services. Grew enterprise IT user base from 0%-60% of knowledge workers with >70% utilization rates without support of an executive mandate.

Redesigned the product management, development, operations, and customer support processes for a SaaS application. Led day to day management of the development, customer implementation, and customer support teams. • Converted internal processes from “scrum-a-fall” to a disciplined agile process that resulted in: • A 50% decrease in production outages while increasing the frequency of releases by 23%. • Decreasing untraceable feature deployments from ~25% to 0%.

Designed and built a custom application to manage the workflow associated with the life cycle management of enterprise business transformation projects while using the project as a transformation project to introduce agile development and IaaS. • Introduced use of IaaS to organization reducing project server acquisition time by 58 days.• Streamlined deployment process that decreased release cycle times from 3 months to 2 weeks while maintaining SOX compliance.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Project managed remote team for the full life cycle development of a shipping software product. • Interviewed field personnel to identify the most challenging issues with installing the product on site in customers’ data centers and their approaches for addressing these issues. In an organizational first compiled, tested, and achieved organizational consensus on best practices.• Pioneered the use of Test Driven Development (TDD) toolset to build a deployment best practice analyzer with the goal of reducing the number of consulting hours needed for implementation while maintaining legal and organizational requirements for shipping a software product.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Since 2003, Ridgeview Capital has invested in promising middle market businesses throughout the Mountain West, providing capital to help portfolio companies reach growth and profitability objective. From their headquarters in the Salt Lake City, Utah area, their team of experienced principals and advisors provide leadership and expertise in a collaborative process that has proven successful for multiple businesses. As one of Ridgeview Capital's operating directors I provided the firm’s portfolio companies and clients with IT operating discipline expertise. They chose directors that had held an executive position at a successful private equity backed or privately held growth company. As an operating director I added an important perspective to the firm’s investment evaluation and due diligence process, and served as a valuable resource for the management team partners.

Founded in 2001, Ascentium provides transformative results for some of the world’s top brands from offices in Seattle, Atlanta, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Portland, Spokane, and London. Hired to bring improved, customer-focused IT delivery and customer relationship management skills to a company ready for rapid growth. In the role of Principal Engagement Manager I grew a team of 4 to 40+ providing analysis, design, development, maintenance and operational support services for a portfolio of 15+ concurrent customers. I was consistently rated in the top two in customer satisfaction and number one in revenue contribution, while assisting my customers in earning multiple promotions and awards. In my two years in this role, I led the following changes:• Delivered a purchase incentive portal that exceeded participation levels by 100%; participating customers spent over $500 million in the first seven months• Introduced a personal dashboard/self-service advice portal for 4,600 field salespeople that helped the division achieve its highest sales performance in a decade• Grew revenue contribution by 400% year over year

Program Manager, Patterns & Practices, Microsoft (Redmond, WA)Managed the production of an application design patterns book, Enterprise Solution Patterns using Microsoft .NET. The book is one of Microsoft’s best selling technical books. IT strategy consultant working for the eBusiness business group of one of the nation’s largest retailers. Hired to help create a 3 year plan to improve the clients’ websites included over 20 brands, many supporting ecommerce sites.

Directed all aspects of IT including infrastructure development, build out of core product, human resources, vendor selections and product life cycle planning. Implemented Agile Development methodologies.

Lead the technical development of an internal skunkworks project to build out an insurance industry solution based on the Tenfold application platform.

Responsible for Y2K fixes for legacy insurance agency management system and the re-platforming from mainframe to PC.

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Managed solution design and delivery of complex technical projects primarily for Microsoft.

Early career history includes work as a Developer, Network Technician, System Administrator, and Project Manager. In 1992 moved to Seattle and worked as a Developer/Technical Project Manager primarily for custom development projects for AT&T Wireless, City of Seattle, Microsoft, REI, and Starbucks.