Futurist leading the world’s largest advocacy network for the ethical use of technology and religion, organizing conferences and publications, and facilitating humanitarian projects.

Web development & consulting on the side

Growing the future of flexible work

• Drive strategic technical direction for Ancestry’s transformation to open source platforms and the public cloud.• Manage all applications and QA teams with over 150 people in all of Ancestry’s development centers and offshore.• Drive process improvements through adoption and adaptation ofObjectives and Key Results system.• Organized annual company-wide developer conferences attendedby over 400 developers.

Responsible for the software engineering teams that build products to expand the market reach of Ancestry, especially on new platforms: mobile, social, desktop.

• Drove widespread adoption of Agile development practices.• Grew award-winning mobile team from one developer to 30developers.• Launched Ancestry’s first DNA-based applications.• Received patent award for spearheading development ofinnovative social features.• Provided technical due diligence and post-acquisition migrationleadership for three acquisitions.

Manage development of social apps integration (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), including Mundia.com, and mobile applications (iOS, Android, mobile touch web)

• Launched a fully featured social family history website in seven months to hundreds of countries in 14 different languages.• Introduced Agile software development to Ancestry.• Directed architectural decisions and agile process adoption.• Hired and managed outsourced teams and contractors.

• Wrote a new family tree viewer in only a few weeks that became the standard across Ancestry.• Launched the first implementation of Ancestry’s new search engine.• Submitted a patent application for an innovative localizationplatform.

• Developed the architecture and led the technical team in developing a leading personal publishing system, growing revenues from $3M to $9M.• Dramatically improved deployment, flexibility, performance, scalability, stability, and security of applications and systems.• Completed a major platform migration while sustaining andgrowing the business.• Introduced and established best Agile software developmentpractices and processes and established technical frameworks forapplication development.• Established QA team, hired and mentored developers, workedclosely with product management and marketing to determine and refine functional and technical requirements.

• Developed a machine learning system used for identifying and associating biographical and genealogical information retrieved from the web.

• For a major multinational pharmaceutical firm, working with clients in North America, Europe, and Australia, architected, designed, and implemented an internationalized software framework. Deployed five applications on the framework.• As lead technical architect for a prescription benefits management company, developed a drug information site, including drug interaction analysis tools serving over 50 million people, which won a 2002 World Wide Web Health Merit award.• Replaced a team of over a dozen designers and developers with a team of three to develop content-managed customized online benefits management applications serving millions of users.• Designed and implemented a clinical information application and website for over 290 clinics nationwide.• Architected, designed, and implemented an award-winning e- commerce hotel reservation application for a major hospitality company with over $20 billion in sales in 2003. In 2000, the site was named #1 Overall Hotel Web Site by Gomez Advisors. Launched three separate brand sites on the underlying framework.

• Implemented business process reengineering and automation formultinational healthcare company.• Managed IT for 300 employees.

Managed the automation of lead processing and improved turnaround time from 2 weeks to 2 days.