Since 1931, Capital Group, home of American Funds®, has been singularly focused on delivering superior results for long-term investors using high-conviction portfolios, rigorous research and individual accountability. Today, Capital Group manages more than $2.3 trillion in equity and fixed income assets for millions of individual and institutional investors.

BCG Digital Ventures is a corporate investment and incubation firm. We invent, build and invest in startups with the world’s most influential companies. We share risk and invest alongside our corporate and startup partners via a range of collaborative options.Founded in 2014, we have major Innovation and Investment Centers in Manhattan Beach, Berlin, London, Sydney, San Francisco and New York, as well as DV Hatches in Silicon Valley, Seattle and Mexico City, with more locations opening in the coming quarters.Our Centers and Hatches are home to a diverse range of entrepreneurs, operators and investors who are building businesses, creating and expanding markets and developing new technologies that benefit millions of people across the globe.

Chaos Labs is a software consulting firm that provides expertise in engineering leadership, system architecture and software engineering. We have worked with a wide variety of companies ranging from large military/defense contractors to small startups.As a CEO and founder, I’m responsible for evaluating, bidding, managing and executing software projects.HealthSymmetric (Social Care):Responsible for the engineering leadership, system architecture, software engineering and project management necessary to build the system from the ground up. The system was comprised of an iOS app (Objective-C) and responsive web interface (Ruby, Sinatra, Bootstrap, Mustache, jQuery) which interacts with open APIs (Java, REST, JSON) powered by Amazon Web Services (RDS/MySQL, EC2, S3). Upon completion, the system was valued at $100MM.Participant Media/TakePart:Provided system architecture and software engineering support for the social action platform. We developed scalable services to handle participant actions (Ruby, Rails, SQS, Resque, Redis, RDS), implemented the user registration and login flow (Ruby, Rails, OAuth: Facebook, Twitter, Google+) as well as developed data exchange services (Ruby, Jenkins, RDS/MySQL, ESP, Drupal) necessary for analysis, reporting and marketing.Raytheon Missile Systems:Provided system architecture and software engineering support for Program Operations involved with various missile programs (Java, ColdFusion, MS SQL Server, MS Project).Decortiva:Was responsible for the system architecture and software engineering to build the system comprised of a responsive web interface (Ruby, Sinatra, Bootstrap, Mustache, jQuery) which interacted with services (Ruby, REST, JSON, Solr, Redis) powered by Amazon Web Services (RDS, S3, ElastiCache).

Enhanced Real Estate Applications (EREA) is a real estate technology company that applies a contemporary approach to a conventional industry. EREA consists of three components: the network of highly skilled & specialized agents, client gateway and broker/agent portal. EREA uses cutting edge technology to inform and support clients throughout the real estate process, manage and monitor marketing, automate and enforce best practices allowing our network of agents to focus on what they do best, serving our clients.

RatherBe is a new kind of digital media company with a focus on bringing visitors a high-quality, personalized content experience centered around the things they truly care about and to surround themselves with like-minded enthusiasts.As a founder, I’m responsible for building and leading our team as well as system architecture, application development, rapid prototyping and productionizing a modern, scalable social platform with a feature set that rivals most existing popular social networks.The RatherBe technology stack consists of a responsive web interface (Bootstrap, Mustache, jQuery) which interacts with a service layer (Scala, Finatra, REST, JSON) powered by Amazon Web Services (DynamoDB, Kinesis, Lambda, Elastic Transcoder, EC2, S3, CloudFront, CloudSearch, CloudWatch, ElastiCache)

TrueCar is an automotive pricing and information website for new and used car buyers as well as dealers, it enables consumers to communicate with TrueCar Certified Dealers.As the manager of the Advanced Products engineering team, I was responsible for engineering leadership, system architecture, application development, rapid prototyping and productionizing several applications using agile development techniques. Some of the projects include: Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Autos, USAA Auto Reviews, Clearbook, Honk.com and various marketing systems.The TrueCar Advanced Products technology stack generally consisted of a responsive web interface (Ruby, Sinatra, Rails, jQuery, RSpec, Jasmine) which interacts with a service layer (Ruby, Sinatra, REST, JSON, RSpec) powered by Amazon Web Services (RDS/MySQL, EC2, S3).

Applied Real Estate Technology was a technology company that developed integrated software systems to support every aspect of a real estate professional's business including: MLS integration, customized listing search (IDX), web marketing, Customer Relations Management (CRM), Content Management System (CMS) as well as integrations with social media platforms. ARE-TEC integrated with 50+ MLS systems across the United States.As CEO & Founder, I personally financed the company in addition to being responsible for providing leadership, system architecture, application development, marketing, sales and integrations with external MLS systems.The ARE-TEC technology stack consisted of a series rich internet applications (Flex, ActionScript) which interacted with a service layer (Ruby, Rails, REST, JSON) powered by Amazon Web Services (RDS/MySQL, EC2, S3) as well as integrations with third party open source applications (SugarCRM, Wordpress) and MLS systems (RETS, FTP).

Distributed Software Systems was a software consulting firm that provided expertise in engineering leadership, system architecture, software engineering and project management to large defense companies.As CEO and principal consultant, I was responsible for building and leading our team as well as evaluating, bidding, managing and executing software projects. I traveled extensively and worked on some extremely interesting projects.Raytheon Missile Systems:Assembled & led a multi-disciplined software engineering team responsible for hiring, system architecture, application development, database design and integration in support of a multi-billion dollar Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) initiative for the latest weapon system programs.Future Combat Systems (DARPA):Assembled & led a multi-disciplined software engineering team responsible for hiring, system architecture, application development and database design for a secure distributed logistics system that coordinated movement and tracked military assets.

Managed and led a multi-disciplined software engineering team responsible for system architecture, application development and database design for health care systems used by governments, HMOs, physicians, employer groups and health plan members in a highly distributed environment. Actively involved in the largest project in IT history worked with Lockheed Martin and IBM on the UK’s National Health System (NHS) $9B National Spine and Local Service Provider projects which involved international travel and collaboration.

Member of the application and technology board responsible for determining the architectural and technological direction of the company as well as a member of a multi-disciplined software engineering team responsible for system architecture, application development, database design of enterprise applications. Architected and developed a version control system to automatically deploy software updates to users. Earned an award for developing software in my free time to automate tedious time consuming tasks of co-workers.