Float is a tech enabled marketplace that connects skilled hospital nurses with home medication visits. I advise on technical strategy and execution, helping to deliver better service, more efficiently.Year 1:• Rebuilt product development organization: Head of Product, Head of Design, 7 senior/staff level engineers.• Managed strategic deployment of contractors to smooth-out hiring and provide additional short-term capabilities.• Simplified architecture, reducing infrastructure costs as well as management costs.• Introduced CI/CD and stabilized release process, resulting in fewer defects while reducing QA costs.• Formalized security and compliance program ensuring adherence to HIPAA.• Oversaw development of data-platforms and new BI systems that allow for faster, data driven decisions to be made.• Guided transition to a multi-product strategy, serving 3 distinct personas across web and mobile.• Assisted with org design and management beyond the technology organization.Year 2:• Bring it on...

Continuing to support the team building high-quality software for large-scale innovation efforts.

Productable is an innovation enablement platform that helps federal agencies de-risk new initiatives and map a faster path to the best outcomes.As interim CTO, I worked with the team to:- Establish an in-house product development organization (software engineering, design, product management)- Develop effective practices for operating as a fully remote team.- Launch a version 3 innovation management solution, migrating from a no-code platform to a proprietary tech stack (Go, GRPC, React, Postgres, Redis, Asynq).- Set up infrastructure and practices that allow daily deployment to Air Force customers in a controlled, Impact Level 4 environment.- Continuously deploy to an AWS public cloud for corporate clients.- Laid organizational and technological foundations to achieve SOC2 Type II compliance for security, privacy, and availability.

Short engagements helping with engineering management, org design, strategy, and architecture.Example projects:Crypto/Fintech Startup: Represented seller-side during acquisition technical due dilligence process. Managed team of contractors to essentially perform archiology on the technology, and then maintained platform operations during ownership transition periodVoice AI Startup: Restructured engineering team post-RIF and worked with CPTO to execute new product strategy, replacing proprietary AI with off-the-shelf foundation models. Provided direct management to engineering team, implemented engineering processes, and set quality standards, ultimately shipping a brand new platform to customers in 8 weeks.

Continuing to support Range customers while maintaining and operating the product and business.Range helps teams check-in asynchronously, track goals, and run more efficient meetings. Teams using Range are more connected, focused, and productive, even when remote.

Range is built on research-backed methodologies to help teams be more effective and happy. Our products keeps teams in sync and connected, even in today’s distributed world. At its core are tools that help teams check-in asynchronously, track goals, and run more efficient meetings.We are proudly backed by General Catalyst, Bloomberg Beta, First Round Capital, and other great investors.With high engagement, we achieve a 45% DAU/MAU ratio and a 6/7 customer satisfaction rating. Companies such as Twitter, Flexport, Adobe, HubSpot, New Relic, and T-Mobile have used Range to be more effective.

Spported platform growth from zero to 60M monthly uniques and 600K published stories per month.Grew eng team to 60+ at peak, distributed across SF, Boston, and NYC (Product Eng, Web, iOS [4.5 stars], Android [4.5 stars], Infrastructure, DevOps, and IT). Continuous integration and delivery to AWS based service-oriented stack. Worked to engender a diverse and inclusive work environment. 95% NPS from pulse survey August 2016 ("I would recommend Medium to others as a great place to work”). Eng demographics: 65% M, 35% W; 63% white, 31% asian, 5% black, 3% latino; 11% LGBTQ; 33% non-US. Guided development of leadership training, mentorship, on-boarding, relatedness programs, feedback, and career progression. 10 reports with reports; 5 first time managers.Deep collaboration with non-product development functions; including legal, people ops, marketing, partnerships.Developed and deployed purpose oriented operating model for the 150 person organization.

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