Led multi-disciplined product development team for Spectrum’s pet division. Directly supported $180M annual sales in North America through customers such as Walmart, PetSmart, Petco and e-commerce. Managed the $1.3M annual operational budget and the $8.2M annual product development capital investment budget.• Reduced capital spend approval process from over 12 weeks to 2 weeks.• Led company through the challenges of creating a data-driven aquarium keeping mobile app and associated equipment (IoT) that engaged with the consumer before, during, and after the product sale.• Data driven design enabled reference data updates via the cloud without requiring a new app release.• Architected security model to use long automatically generated encryption keys to ensure live creatures in aquariums not compromised by poor user passwords. Keys securely shared through cloud.• Designed secure cloud messaging protocol to minimize cloud resource consumption and cost by pushing encryption to the system edges within the equipment and apps.• Saved company over $10M by creatively reducing project timeline by 55%.• Identified ongoing annual savings of $800K by analyzing and classifying outstanding liability claims. Leveraged ongoing project to build new aquarium frames to address remaining $400K of annual claims.• Implemented process changes to prevent common issue of late-breaking additional/surprise testing requirements by securing legal and regulatory requirements at project initiation.• Leveraged external engineering, design, and manufacturing resources to complement and augment team’s capacity to meet constantly fluctuating project priorities.

Co-founder of mobile application company specializing in the travel industry. Developed business, marketing, and investment plans. Led day-to-day operations, all customer engagement, and company’s product strategy. Built the Android product platform and steered the development of the Apple (iOS) platform.• Led company to profitability within 3 years, pivoting numerous times to capitalize on the emerging opportunities of a fast-changing market. Raised $500K in 2 funding rounds.• Built end-to-end automated publishing system to create award winning Android and Apple mobile apps from customers’ web-based content management system.• Grew customer base to 16 national park, destination marketing organizations, print publisher, and Federal government customers, each with 1 to 9 apps, supporting multiple languages.• Developed a novel software architecture that enabled an 80% reduction in development costs and improved company profitability.• Championed multiple concurrent customer deployment projects to successful conclusions, resulting in excellent customer satisfaction and positive references to new customers.• Designed and built real-time transit app with anonymous passenger tracking to measure end-to-end passenger journeys resulting in a better understanding of actual transit system demand.

Transformed existing team of 30 engineers to deliver marketable software products from proof-of-concept implementations. Introduced quality processes and focused on delivery rather than experiment. Participated in numerous sales presentations at Director and C-level to explain the benefits of highly technical products.• Directly product/project managed multiple concurrent projects to develop technology in parallel with revenue generating products. Championed minimal viable product culture to quickly reach market.• Built 3 separate products from same underlying core technology for both Windows and Linux.• Conceived and developed company’s simplest product by repackaging existing technology to address immediate market opportunity.• Managed high-profile $1M engagement with Merrill Lynch Bank to deliver a complex self-scaling trading message switch – only member of consortium to be paid in full by ML for product and services delivered.

Provided guidance and direction for the company’s engineering organization: hardware, firmware, software development, product documentation, and QA testing. Developed automated cellular testing products supporting seven different cellular technologies and multiple customer groups within each tier-1 and -2 carrier.• Led expansion of engineering organization and product portfolio to position company for acquisition by increasing revenue and market coverage and by diversifying customer base. Company acquired within 3 years with better than expected terms – 50% over original target price.• Grew multi-site engineering organization by 70% to 22 people – representing 40% of the company - in two years. Transitioned the culture into a cohesive team delivering complex products in a predictable and methodical manner.• Tripled the number of addressable cellular markets in less than 2 years, while adding 5 major technology neutral voice and data testing services.• Developed the next generation product line to increase power and reusable modularity, reducing cost and time to market, while maintaining revenue with prior product line versions.