Indoor Vertical FarmingSW architect & Engineering Leader bringing digital transformation to optimize operational efficiencies increasing margins by 20%. Developed SaaS platform architecture from the ground up, technical roadmap, budget, Agile project management, staffing, cross functional collaboration aligning engineering projects with overall business objectives. Delivered, scalable, extensible platform from the ground up leveraging streaming data, IIoT sensor endpoints & edge computing, machine learning, advanced environmental sensing, and image analysis for real time dashboards and provide automated proactive feedback to uses & integrated systems for standard & mobile devices. • Developed & executed the company's technology vision, roadmap, business-to-tech strategies• Directed all SW development: architecture, coding/coding standards, CI/CD, SQA, risk analysis, DevOps• Developed Engineering & IT budgets – annual and 3-year plan• Architect for browser based real time dashboards, reports, autonomous data streaming• Selected Off the Shelf & third-party tools, Established strategic technology partnerships• Evaluated emerging, converging, commoditized & disruptive technologies for benefit to the platform• Increased yield by 20% using Computer Vision/Machine Learning & Analytics• Provided early predications of total net yield using Computer Vision/Machine Learning & Analytics• Developed reactive & proactive data driven decision making processes

Information System – Medical Markets (Start Up)Software Architect and hands on leader. Designed a global SaaS browser-based web platform for the pulmonary market providing end-to-end electronic data management and AI analytics of medical data from anywhere worldwide. Provides electronic data exchange between all elements of a medical system EMR, billing system, patient scheduling, physician review, common business applications, and medical device data systems.• Developed initial Business model & pricing for financing and seed capital• Cloud Hosted multi-tenant SaaS platform using Amazon Web Services, Angular, .NET Core• Apple iPad/iPhone mobile device development using XCode/Swift as a priority• Single Sign On integrating with multiple authentication providers• State of the art security for Protected Health Information and HIPAA compliance• Machine Learning framework using pattern recognition of graphs and statistical analysis to help identify respiratory disease states and effectiveness of various treatments for long term patient care (Python)• Developed DevOps infrastructure – CI/CD, automated installation, GIT branching & source control• Collaborated with Clinical Research Organizations, researchers, physicians, and medical directors to refine the platform for worldwide Clinical Trials with initial deployment for a Clinical Trial with 120 worldwide sites

Architect and Engineering leader driving adoption of digitally transformative technologies. Responsible for software design, development, deployment, and endpoint support of a global SaaS Integrated Information System for the Pulmonary market. Included physician diagnostics, EMR integration, Business and Predictive Analytics dashboards using a Software as a Service business model. Restructured the development team adding positions/skillsets for UX/UI, web front end, Services Oriented Architecture backend and Software Quality Assurance.• Collaborated with Pulmonary physicians, medical directors, lab managers, peer review organizations to define the next generation Pulmonary Function Test system & Integrated Information System• Cloud-based SaaS web platform using AWS supporting clinical diagnosis & review, Business Analytics, Machine Learning Predictive Analytics web-based dashboards for Enterprise level asset management• Developed cloud hosted system for patient home data using a secure first to market method to disassociate identifiable patient information from protected heath information• Developed information driven, evidence-based dashboards to improve patient test quality – improved good patient spirometry tests by up to 40% at one large health care organization• 30% Physician & technician time savings, billing cycle reduced to less than 10 days from 90+ days• System Architecture accounted for Medial IoT devices & connectivity (home data)• Developed Intellectual Property portfolio with global patents• Developed automated deployment & software upgrade – reduced initial deployment time by over 30%• Developed Apple Mobile apps (iPad/iPhone) using Xcode and Swift/Objective-C• Developed Android apps using Android Studio and Visual Studio Xamarin with plans to migrate to a single hybrid (iOS & Android) environment• Hardware/Firmware redesign of Pulmonary Test system aligning with the IIoT system architecture.

Architect of a cloud-based SaaS platform designed to connect any vehicles that require service with those that provide the service. Key elements included ground up full stack development, large number of concurrent users/connections, self-learning API for multiple IoT devices, real time analytics and complex backend analytics big data back end database designed to deploy & scale regionally, asynchronous message bus using Azure Service bus (endpoint IoT sensors to cloud), mobile/smartphone applications. Key deliverables & artifacts included:• Product Requirements, Use Cases, UX/UI design (customer portal and management interface)• Complete Project Plan and key Milestones for prototype, beta, MVP, production release• Developed comprehensive cost/benefit analysis for backend system – evaluated AWS, Azure, company hosted data datacenter, co-location (ForTrust located in Denver)• Developed DevOps plan – including source control, build system, release control, application upgrade, server load balancing, continuous integration, local/remote server backend monitoring

Managed design, development, and delivery of business applications and wireless software at FreeWave including web/SaaS and embedded applications. Application layer software development included Windows desktop applications & server based enterprise level Network Management System, web based applications for desktop, tablet, and mobile platforms, and Software as a Service. Embedded development included embedded operating systems, real time modules, network & communication protocols, modem algorithms, middleware, and application level programs. Implemented an Agile planning and development process including Test Driven Development. Implemented a Continuous Integration build and test system. Restructured and grew the software development department.

Managed and led the design, development and delivery of software for sleep diagnostic devices. Products included real time patient data acquisition, real time patient data analysis, windows server and cloud based applications for off line data aggregation, analysis, reporting. Led the development of a large enterprise server application, real time consumer analytics Software as a Service application, tablet & mobile application for onsite real time data display. Development and support was in ISO 13485 and FDA CFR 820 environment.

Managed product development, Quality Assurance and document control. Built a team and strategy for providing engineering services. Directed architecture development for Premio PC/Server reference designs – on-site and cloud based. Directed development of several customer specific applications implementing full stack development, .NET framework – Windows desktop, server hosted, SaaS. Products included coin sorting machines, airport baggage scanners, RAID storage servers, DVR servers, network appliances, financial market reporting software

Managed design and delivery of commercial wired & wireless mobility products. Managed architecture and platform engineering development including detailed software and hardware design. Managed the technical product roadmap, contract engineering and manufacturing partners. Identified, selected, and managed worldwide ODM, contract engineering, and manufacturing partners. Directed design of mobility and wireless product line including iPod/iPhone accessories, Bluetooth accessories (headsets and remote controls), USB hubs and port replicators, Wi-Fi dongle adapters. Directed architecture development for FM Transmitters and RF remote control products – using 27MHz, 900MHz, and 2.4 GHz ranges. Developed and managed project plans from concept to market capturing all costs including prototyping, legal, tooling, marketing budget allowances, shipping and freight. Managed offshore ODM and CM suppliers – including project technical, financial and contractual areas. Member of industry standards committees including CEA and USB-IF – key contributor to development of CEA 2017 (Portable Media Player Common Connector)

Managed development and delivery of mobile computing accessories and wired/wireless connectivity products. Managed product platform engineering, test, quality. Identified and managed design and manufacturing partners, ODMs, technology providers, contract engineering/manufacturers. Developed technology roadmap – evaluated emerging and converging technologies that could be incorporated into Targus products. Co-holder of patent 20070171201A1 (wireless PowerPoint Presenter with voice recording). Designed first to market USB docking station, first to market ExpressCard docking station. Provided technical guidance to sales/marketing for OEM/corporate channels.

Hired to build an engineering development team as part of contract engineering services. Responsible for software design, implementation, and validation; production test systems; generating quotes in response to customer Request For Proposals. Directed software development for complex silicon laser/etching equipment, power distribution and control equipment, communications controllers, network appliances, consumer electronics. Software included enterprise server based applications, full stack web applications, Windows desktop. Directed development of 900 MHz wireless medical heart/health monitoring device. Responsible for design control within ISO 13485 and ISO 14971. Responsible for compliance certifications – IEC60601 safety/EMC, CE. Managed SMT manufacturing operations as part of company restructuring

Start-Up Company: Managed software and hardware engineering, quality, and outsourced manufacturing partners. Software architect for leading edge network to Ethernet device servers, terminal servers, and print servers. Managed design of windows server & web based configuration/system management software applications. Developed engineering requirements, specifications, design documents, reviewed & approved detailed design and code from contract engineering partners. Designed a software based portable and efficient test system that reduced production build time by 30%. Developed and implemented a semi-finished goods manufacturing strategy resulting in lower manufacturing costs and reduced product delivery time. Analyzed product labeling methods and developed a new efficient print-on-demand method resulting in cost savings of over $300k per year.

Design, coding, unit testing, integration testing, Flight Test Engineering for Advanced Projects (Black Projects)• Developed software requirements, design, coding, and unit testing for various airborne & ground systems• Software & protocol development for Flight Test Data Acquisition System and Ground Station Systems• Senior Systems Test Engineer for the F18 Flight Controls Test and Secondary Power Integration Test• Lead Data System and Instrumentation Engineer – B2 & F23 programs• Developed algorithms and software to determine the non-linear and multi-dimensional effects that stealth technology had on data and data acquisition• Flight Test Engineering: developed test plans, data requirements for Stealth & Propulsion missions• Nominated for Engineer of the Year Award, TS/SCI Clearance (Inactive)