Consulting for Crosslake Technology ( HTTP://www.crosslaketech.com ) to evaluate the technology, operations, software, hardware, data architecture and services, AI/ML, organizations, processes, etc of companies for investment and/or purchase.

Prophyles is pioneering a new category of Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS) coined Contacts-as-a-Service (CaaS) that empowers individuals and organizations to control their most valuable asset.

Startup creating a personal "hearables" device for noisy environments. Partnered with cofounders on product definition, architecture, design, and h/w and s/w development for consumer audio electronics.

Managed technology team aggressively scaling Raftr team, product and services. I lead a distributed development and test team of 14, reset processes for alignment across tech and business, and focus on maximizing the tech team's delivery of business value per release and quarterly time frames. Technologies include Python, Django, Postgres, React, AWS, iOS and Android apps.

Recruited to transform drone R&D organization into UAS product delivery organization.Managed teams and outsourced projects for data, software, hardware, and test in the design, delivery, and support of autonomous unmanned aerial systems (drones) for security, inspection, and photogrammetry applications. - Grew our deployed systems from 0 to 32 during my first ten months. - Delivered 4 key AI/ML services requested by multiple customers. - Created a data-driven culture and established data dashboards for UAS system monitoring, detecting and diagnosing production performance issues, and optimizing system performance. - Decrease by 70% hardware and software maintenance costs by established and enforced best practices and processes for development and testing of a system of drones, base stations, RF technology, and cloud services. - Reviewed and improved systems cyber-security and successfully passed US Army cyber-threat evaluation. - Delivered 2nd generation drone system for harsh environmental conditions and nearly doubled key performance metrics including flight time and system availability. - Quickly produced a resilient product configuration isolated from internet access.Primary Technologies: Python, ROS, Nodejs, MongoDB, Elastic-Logstash-Kibana, Linux, iOS

Transformed the consumer product organization and improved web and mobile apps and backend services. I led several strategic initiatives including CI/CD adoption, improved user data management, and analyzed our user data to drive key the key features: recommendations, search, and alerts.* Increased year/year traffic by 3x in each of my 3 year tenure, driven by analyses of our user data. * Increased SEO traffic by 40% by focusing the team on app performance and related SEO initiatives.* Drove company-wide adoption of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, TDD, DevOps, CI/CD, and real-time dashboards. * Reduced annual costs by $600k by eliminating mobile.realtor.com via responsive web site.* Reduced operations costs by 10% by migrating to cloud or eliminating several legacy products, services and redundant data stores. - Increased monthly consumer traffic (UUs) from 18 million to 50 million, passing Trulia in absolute traffic and Zillow in monthly percentage growth. - Delivered industry-leading four second page render times (from 11s) and a 40% increase in SEO traffic. - Drove company-wide adoption of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, TDD, DevOps, Continuous Integration and Delivery, and company-wide use of metric dashboards and data analysis tools. - Transformed underperforming mobile teams and delivered best-in-class mobile consumer real-estate apps.

Product and technology consulting and research between full-time employment roles. - Consultant VP Engineering for Rabb.it. Driving the maturation and scaling of process, team, and capacity. - Integrated R, an identity service, and a web UI for Lightminer’s high-end data science appliance system. - Designed, delivered and integrated audio analysis and services software for GetEthereal’s Pixel phone VR app. - Delivered complete Ruby, Rails, SQL backend for CloudPlay, Inc's multiplayer game.

* Recruited as first employee to architect and deliver MVP product and services.* Hired, trained and led the 7 person product and tech team. * Delivered MVP in 2 months to 4 customers via an AWS cloud service layer, B2B RESTful APIs, a Windows Installer plugin, a self-serve admin portal and MVP data analytics system for our customers.* Scaled MVP to support 100x traffic from an early customer using our service.

* Recruited to resolve production capacity issues and rapidly scale development team, expand into mobile and drive data-driven development.* Migrated service from Eventbrite colocation to AWS Cloud in 8 days to enable scaling up the service to meet the existing needs.* Re-architected system to eliminate scalable deficiencies and security issues.* Trained and managed tech and product staff on agile development process. The resulting increase in tech alignment, accountability, and output influenced Eventbrite Sales team to adopt daily stand-ups as part of their processes. * Increase tech team from 5 to 23 in 8 months. Hired domain experts in analytics, full-stack engineering, mobile, security, test, and operations and increased per engineer throughput by 5x.* Updated the public APIs to be RESTful, resilient, and secure. * Expanded use of AWS cloud resulting in 4x increase in capacity (predated dynamic scaling) and 50% reduced operational load on team. Designed a ticket-buyer queuing system for Eventbrite’s bursty site traffic profile.* Hired a mobile team and Ops Director, delivered our first mobile apps, a service re-architecture driven by performance and resilience needs, PCI compliance, and product initiatives and roadmaps.

** Appointed to lead Yahoo’s mobile engineering when Yahoo “got serious about mobile”. Defined and drove Yahoo’s global mobile technical strategy and roadmaps, played a leadership role in M&A, research, scope and definition of new products, and actively participated in defining business strategy and planning. Grew the mobile team from 6 to 150+ and drove global delivery of Yahoo! products and service to mobile devices. My group was instrumental in the integration and delivery of multiple Yahoo! services with the first iPhone release.My organization delivered multiple versions of backend platforms that support mobile web services and mobile applications delivered via web, J2me, iPhone, RIM and other application infrastructures. These platforms continued to serve Yahoo!'s global market through 2017. My team performed early work on mobile monetization and I was instrumental in the closing of the Yahoo!-Vodafone advertising deal.

Delivered enterprise-ready versions of the Yahoo! consumer services: My Yahoo, Yahoo! Messenger, Toolbar and Groups and integrated these into five Enterprise software systems from Sun, Oracle, BEA, Tibco, and IBM. I built and managed engineering teams for the enterprise versions of Yahoo services. Our focus was on exposing consistent integration interfaces, improved security, delivering high service levels (five 9s), and improving the quality and performance of services. I grew the team from 2 engineers to over 70 in three years.2003 March - September: I led the eGroups ad server development team and created the data mining team for eGroups. Acquisition by Yahoo! was completed in September 2003.

Built and led a team of 18 engineers to deliver BXXP (now BEEP) software and services plus web sites designed to employ this protocol for engaging user experiences. See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3117.txt for details and motivation for BEEP. I was the fifth employee of this startup and left shortly after an office relocation that increased my commute significantly.

I worked several short term contracts as I searched for the best, new opportunity. The contracts were with several startup companies that were either acquired or have gone belly-up. My roles ranged from hiring and training engineering teams to delivering a custom GUI for a high-level language for silicon chip design.

I joined the Inventor team at SGI in 1995. Inventor is software and supporting technologies for scene graph descriptions (and rendering) of 3D and audio. I joined as an individual contributor and became an engineering manager in 1996. The Inventor team was instrumental in the definition and delivery of VRML and supporting technologies (runtimes, authoring tools, etc.).

Worked on Open Inventor, a 3D scene description language and runtime, in C++ and on VRML.