Responsible for leading and delivering enterprise SaaS, packaged, custom applications, integrations/APIs, Quality Engineering, and DevOps covering global locations in 45 countries and heading a team of over 100 IT employees and 45 contractors. Reporting into CIO and partnering closely with senior business executives on strategy, innovation, and multi-year roadmaps. Overseeing numerous multi-million-dollar (over $10 million) programs that are fundamental in business and IT transformation to help obtain Skechers goal of $10 billion in revenue by 2026. Managing capital budget of $45 million and operational budget of $27 million.

A wholly owned subsidiary of Kroger, 84.51° builds software and data solutions that enables more than 1,400 CPG (consumer-packaged-goods) companies and partners to drive value and insights through better understanding of and engagement with shoppers in the digital and physical retail arena. We analyze over 3 billion shopping baskets each year, own 30 Petabytes of data and collect 35+ Terabytes of new data each week sourced from 62 million households, 100 million consumer transactions a week, 24 ecommerce sites, and 3,000 stores from Kroger owned supermarket chains such as Kroger, Ralphs, Dillons, Smith’s, Fred Meyer, Food 4 Less, Fry’s, QFC, Gerbes, Harris Teeter, and Pick ‘n Save.Responsible for leading Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, and QA Automation teams.

Leading Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, QA, and DBA teams. Partnering with clients, business executives, and product managers to evolve the OceanX DTC subscription eCommerce, SaaS APIs, and B2B platform that processes over $1.5 billion/year in sales. Platform includes front-end eCommerce, order management, fulfillment/warehouse management, and BI. Responsible for recruiting and leading staff of 35+ employees, 20+ on/offshore contractors, and managing budget of $11M.• Led client onboarding of large companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Allergan, Madison Reed, Glossier, Proactiv, and Guthy Renker running on the OceanX platform.• Drove new engineering/SDLC best practices such as platform unit testing, code reviews, QA automation, and business/technical requirements leading to better quality and team productivity.• Re-architected and right-sized cloud platform by leveraging AWS services such as Lambda, Fargate, SQS, API Gateway, S3, ElastiCache, and RDS reducing AWS monthly bill by 72% resulting in $2.8M in annual savings.• Orchestrated BI portion of platform migration from AWS to OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) saving $1.3M in licensing fees and taking advantage of Oracle Exadata.• Guided DevOps team in implementation of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Docker containers in AWS ECS and serverless Fargate and move to Infrastructure-As-Code using Ansible and CloudFormation.• Realized reduction of defect rate by 90% and 4x increase in production release frequency via CI/CD pipelines, QA automation, monitoring/alerting, and engineering best practices.• Technologies: Python, PHP, .NET, Ruby, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS (Lambda, ECS, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, API Gateway, CloudWatch), OCI (Oracle Exadata, Data Guard), Kong, RabbitMQ, PyTest, PHPUnit, Postman, Selenium, TestRail, JMeter, Jenkins, SonarQube, Docker, Ansible, Prometheus, New Relic, Splunk, BitBucket, Microservices, REST APIs, Swagger, OWASP, Jira, Confluence.

Leader in Mattel’s Digital First strategy providing technical leadership, program management, enterprise architecture, and product development using the latest digital and cloud technologies in an Agile environment. Directing 10 direct reports, over 40+ on/offshore contractors, managing budget of $10M annually, and leading the life-cycle of a large portfolio of enterprise applications and consumer facing products. Key highlights:• Consumer Websites/Apps - Directing web development, product development, content management, and CRM. Responsible for 60+ high volume consumer sites/custom apps reaching over 10M unique visitors per month (Barbie.com, Hotwheels.com, MonsterHigh.com, etc.). Technologies: AngularJS, Node.js, REST APIs, .NET, Mongo DB/SQL Server, AWS, MEAN/LAMP stacks, Drupal, APIary, Google Analytics, Jira, Akamai, Solr, TeamCity, TFS, Selenium, SOAPUI, JMeter, ReSharper, Jenkins, Adobe Marketing Cloud.• Digital Content Supply Chain (DCSC) Program – Led and directed DCSC with core program applications that included: >> Global Digital Asset Management (DAM) supporting 3M+ digital assets, global userbase of 7K+ employees, and 3K+ external partners including post-houses, broadcast affiliates, licensees, and e-tailer partners. >> Enterprise Product Information Management (PIM) system for centralized collection of product data with company-wide usage, partner portal and Tibco ESB for B2B integration. >> Global licensing system for licensing Mattel IP to 3rd party companies and digital rights management for distribution and broadcast of Mattel’s entertainment media. • Enterprise Architect - Mattel’s Enterprise Architect responsible for defining technology standards, policies, strategies and architecture roadmaps for IT overall. Led Mattel’s Architectural Review Board (ARB) providing technical guidance and approving project technologies, application architectures, and infrastructure design.

Senior Technical Program Manager at 20th Century Fox responsible for implementing and evolving Fox’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform and related products called the Fox MediaCloud. Fox MediaCloud is used to manage and globally distribute 5 PB of digital media content and its associated metadata for Fox (Fox Television, Fox Studios, Fox Cable, and Fox News), EST-VOD partners such as Netflix, Amazon, and iTunes and broadcasters world-wide. • Worked closely with business stakeholders and executives to understand their pain points and business objectives and collaboratively develop and shape strategies, roadmaps, and iteratively implement product features. • Led multiple teams in Agile/DevOps environment on design, development, QA, and product delivery.• Utilized latest engineering innovations to enable Content Discovery, Asset sharing, Asset Transfer, Asset re-use, Ingests, Transcoding, Streaming, and automated metadata tagging.• Key member of leadership team that moved business unit from Waterfall to Agile and DevOps/CICD delivery resulting in software release cycles going from three months to two weeks.• Built trusted technical relationships with other Fox IT departments, such as Fox Fast team (foxfast.com), for migration off SOAP services and integration into Fox MediaCloud via REST APIs. • Key technologies used: include: Aspera/Signiant, Jenkins, Maven, Git, Selenium, SoapUI, JIRA, JMeter, Chef, Sonar, REST, Oracle OSB, Solr, Vantage Transcode, Oracle OSB.

Thirteen years with Sierra Systems as Consulting Director and Principal. Responsible for all aspects of client management, project delivery, project planning, and financials. Provided direct hands-on technical direction and leadership to multiple concurrent engineering/infrastructure teams, projects, and delivering $17M in revenue. Directed the writing of persuasive RFP responses ensuring proper scope, price, and margins with awards totaling over $25 million in new business. Served as a trusted technical advisor working closely with client CIOs, DCIOs, and stakeholders to strategize and implement technology solutions to achieve business unit objectives. Developed and reviewed project deliverables for architecture, planning, estimating, scheduling, monitoring, and management of initiation, execution and transition phases and led technology teams and system design.• Implemented enterprise DMS (Document Management System) with custom .NET/Oracle desktop and ASP.NET web applications securely managing over 220 million documents with 800,000 document pages added per day.• Developed court-wide self-service kiosk system with custom kiosk application and public-facing website with revenue generating online services.• Developed custom .NET workflow application for automating, streamlining, and processing of orders between Los Angeles Superior Court, Los Angeles Sheriff’s, and a statewide Department of Justice (DOJ) repository.• Implemented custom Lockbox application with Wells Fargo Bank for processing $1 million per day of check payments with integration into Case Management System for dispersing $200 million of judgments each year.

Co-Founder of T3 Technology that developed a successful simulator product called the “2200 Simulator”. The product was licensed by numerous companies around the world including: NASDAQ, Disney, Carnival Cruise Lines, Qantas Airlines, Boland Bank of South Africa, Lockheed Martin, NBS Bank of South Africa, EMC Insurance, Scandinavian Airlines, SITA, EDS, Bell Atlantic, and Unisys. As Product Manager and Development Manager:• Developed go-to-market strategy, worked with sales personnel to develop marketing and sales collateral, and developed product roadmap and release plans.• Led product architecture and development.• Attended industry trade shows and conferences and held break-out sessions with customer base to collect product feedback and understand future needs to help define product strategy and roadmap.• Developed product user guides and training material.

Senior Developer and Technical Project Manager. Responsible for designing, developing and leading numerous in-house products and client web and server based applications. Key clients/projects included:• Bausch & Lomb – Led the design and development of an interactive web ordering system for Bausch & Lomb Surgical enabling over 20,000 hospitals/clinics worldwide to purchase and reorder ophthalmic surgical equipment and tools via a three-tier, secured web application interfacing with company Baan ERP system.• Stovact Inc. – Technical project lead for team that designed, developed, and implemented the Stovact (Stolen Vehicle and Activation) System, a nationwide vehicle tracking and recovery system. System features include integration with Aeris Network for live GPS vehicle tracking, transmission of vehicle unit commands via a web interface or phone sub-system, and a call-center operator application used for managing stolen vehicle episodes.• RCI (Cendant Corporation) – Designed and developed a web-based credit card processing application enabling RCI (Resort Condominiums International) operators in San Diego to charge time-share owners maintenance fees and other resort/vacation package fees via Authorize.Net API’s using OpenSSL• CSSS Inc. – Technical project lead of team responsible for the development of a Windows MFC and web-based application used for home sobriety testing of Court offenders throughout the U.S. A Windows application directly communicates to in-home video cameras and breathalyzers using a central database to test subjects at predetermined and random schedules. • HomeSeekers.com – Key developer in the development of one of the first real estate websites on the internet: HomeSeekers.com. Application was developed with proprietary CGI components written in C.