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What makes powerful leadership? Vision, passion, and understanding. Vision to align a team towards a powerful goal.Passion to keep excitement within a team as they drive towards a goal. And understanding of the business, the technology, and most importantly the people. People enabling the momentum that turns a concept into a product, a dream into a reality, and technology into something people find useful. These values define the leadership I bring to a team of technologists as proven by my seventeen year career guiding a small telecommunications company through explosive growth. Yearly revenues starting at a mere 1/2 million increased to over 14 million and customer base growing from 5,000 subscribers to over 45,000. I thrive on growing individuals just starting their career by aligning their ambitions to those of the company to enable a harmony that provides success for the company and the people who support it. At FreedomVoice, I have led the evolution of our telephony platform through five generations of architecture. During each phase the logging and monitoring systems I developed enabled transitions to be smooth and transparent to our customers. Each generation of technology met the changing business needs: Technology Independence, Cost Reduction, New Product Lines, Technology Modernization, and Feature Expansion.Specialties: Team Building, Career Development, Agile Project Leadership, Lean Methodologies, Software Development, Cutting Edge Technology, Telephony, Cloud Computing, Architecture, SaaS

Listed skills include Voip, Telephony, C#, C++, and 46 others.