Software Development Manager for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), primarily supporting LLM based Alexa. Our mission is to invent and advance self-serve, personalizable, and context-aware natural language and multi-modal understanding technology to enable accurate, fast, and personalized actions and responses to customer requests in all locales.

My team owns the Sponsored Products and reporting public APIs for World Wide Ads at Amazon. We delight our customers by continuously innovating, scaling, and improving these APIs for our advertiser customers every day. I also lead a team of Software Engineers that design, develop, and maintain a big data analytics system for the Amazon Advertising API. We surface insights and drive technical change throughout the organization to improve the experience of our API integrators and callers/users. Our roadmap focuses on enabling cross functional partner teams to improve their software and services using a data driven methodology.

Directly managed a team of 100+ Software Engineers, Database Administrators, Systems Engineers, and supporting personnel spread over three continents and many separate offices. Oversaw a group of five separate departments/budgets within the organization; largely responsible for ORBCOMM's SaaS platforms, mobile applications, network infrastructure, R&D (software), and internal strategic projects. Provided strategic and technical leadership across ORBCOMM's many software products and end-to-end solutions, regularly presenting to senior executive and C-level management on these programs. Member of the ORBCOMM technical due diligence team for mergers and acquisitions. Also responsible for post-acquisition team and technology stack integration(s).

Led a team of software and database engineers in the inception/creation, development, and sustainment of a SaaS offering for ORBCOMM's largest OEM customer. Responsible for the management and sustainment of ORBCOMM's flagship data center, including all physical hardware, virtualized infrastructure, and networking equipment. Regularly presented technical and program updates to upper management and key ORBCOMM customers.Implemented Agile development processes in order to better align deliverables with our customer's timelines and planning schedules.

Managed a team responsible for executing formal experimentation upon various Command and Control (C2) software capabilities such as Cornerstone Integrated Battle Planning and Course of Action Simulation (CASIM)Led daily and weekly status and tasking meetings for Alion team members as well as Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Program ManagersProduced detailed technical experimentation reports and briefed AFRL management on experimentation results, enabling informed decision makingImplemented ordering and tracking process for an Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) Rapid Reaction Branch (RRB) material procurement effort in Colorado Springs, COPlanned, tracked, and reported all program finances, ensuring timely and accurate program execution for the customer

Conducted research and development supporting the detection, identification, geolocation, exploitation and/or manipulation of electronic communication signals.Implemented agile software development (SCRUM) for the software team, resulting in faster and more frequent customer deliverables.Led company daily and weekly status and tasking meetings, and provided detailed reports to the customer(s) (U.S. Air Force).Planned specific technical weekly tasking for all employees based on customer needs, tracking progress for the customer.Implemented various cellular network (GSM) components and protocols used in the delivery and reception of mobile device data.

Instructor for Introduction to Computing and Programming in Java.

Developed and maintained various software components of the Joint Capability for Airborne Networking (JCAN) using languages: Perl, Bash/Shell, C/C++, and Java.Developed system software components for the Airborne Networking Component Simulation Environment (AN-CASE), primarily including an OSGI/Java user interface.Designed, created, and maintained an automated system creation utility whichwas able to reliably replicate any system build from the past or present,allowing for faster and more reliable customer deliverables.Improved and maintained the JCAN user interface used by military personnel deployed in theater by regularly adding new functionality requested from the field.Worked with teams to develop marketing materials and strategies for technologies relating to airborne networking and modeling and simulation for the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security.

Managed and maintained campus-wide Windows and Linux computer labs (15 labs, 250+ clients).Configured and administrated network services such as DNS, DHCP, SSH, Apache, FTP, SMB/Samba, and printing used by all campus labs.Administer Windows server 2000, 2003, MAC OSX, Redhat/FedoraCore Linux, Citrix Metaframe XP.