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San Diego, California, United States

Leading the transformation of the 900+ global software engineering team in the Cardiac Rhythm Management business.* Achieve a continuous flow of value with a contemporary Lean/Agile execution framework* Medical device software for programming and monitoring implanted devices (pacemakers, defibrillators, and diagnosic devices)* Alleviate pain, restore.

San Diego, California, United States

Lead 200+ global software engineering team for the Digital Science business.* Developed Connect Enterprise laboratory orchestration cloud platform* Automated regression tests, cutting release cycles by 6+ months* Created and introduced a GxP-compliant SDLC based on Lean Flow and Continuous Delivery

San Diego, California, United States

• Formed a Program Management function and drove a business transformation to establish a Scaled Agile execution framework for a 1500+ person global product development team.
• Developed, coached and mentored a 50+ person Program Management team.
• Worked with business leaders to organize ten release trains and established a quarterly cadence.
• Replaced confusing and overlapping processes with a single streamlined, end-to-end process.
• Enabled data to inform decisions through consistent adoption of tools and standard views.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Led 500+ global software engineering team for $450MM+ Value Based Care business. Excellent track record of quality and timeliness in releases across ten product lines.
• Established Lean and Agile across all product lines with strong engineering technical practices.
• Drove cross-functional transformation to SaaS and re-platforming to cloud.
• Led technical due-diligence for successful divestiture from GE in 2018 (renamed Virence Health)

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Led 250+ global software engineering team for the $350MM+ Ambulatory Care Management and Enterprise Financial Management businesses.
• Drove a quality turn-around, establishing strong engineering practices and a culture of quality resulting in over 50% reduction in customer reported issues and stemming customer attrition.
• Consolidated engineering sites to effectively grow cloud expertise in Seattle.
• Revamped Electronic Data Interchange software platform, responsible for billions of dollars in healthcare financial transactions, to modern cloud infrastructure without disruption to customers.
• Recognized with the CDO award for urgency and speed.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Led the global transformation of all of GE Healthcare to Lean and Agile software development. Worked at all levels of the organization to affect change.
• Introduced a pragmatic mix of Lean and Agile approaches, including Lean Startup, Lean, Scrum, Kanban, XP, and the Scaled Agile Framework resulting in better products, more predictable execution, and quality.
• Hired and mentored an excellent global team of coaches. Transformed thousands of employees in hundreds of scrum teams in several sub-businesses around the world.
• Influenced at the executive level to address organization-wide challenges including software capitalization, regulated medical devices, combined hardware and software, technical debt, and culture change.
• Served as go-to person to solve big business challenges worldwide.
• Recognized with the CTO award for inclusiveness and the CEO award for rigor.

Minden, Nevada

• Led 175+ global software engineering team for the $725MM+ Bently Nevada business. Repaired relationships between engineering and commercial.
• Reorganized to align talent with key results and properly engage India site.
• Established orderly sustaining process. Reduced backlog from hundreds to fewer than twenty, and began measuring VTW driving improvement to 95%.
• Introduced innovative new products, including wireless mesh sensors and monitoring for wind turbines.
• Drove next-generation software product platform. Introduced Agile and User Experience.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

• Led 50+ multiple-location development team. Served as site lead from 2005. Developed and sustained several effective visualization products.
• Transitioned Historian development to Edmonton adding alarms and high reliability/availability.
• Managed multi-site development of new Proficy SOA framework and Workflow product.
• Avoided $4MM warranty cost by turning around a troubled installation.
• Introduced iterative development.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

• Led the Human Machine Interface (HMI) team. Total Control Products was acquired by GE in 1999.
• Developed a new HMI product for plant-floor applications, running on Microsoft Windows CE.
• Wrote a TCP/IP replacement for unreliable Microsoft ActiveSync one month before release. Added web capability to the product in three weeks.
• Transitioned development for $40MM per year QuickPanel product line to Edmonton in less than two weeks.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

• Developed software and firmware for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems.
• Developed real-time Remote Telemetry Unit (RTU) firmware for data collection and alarming.
• Designed Parallel Object Management System software to synchronize databases across multiple hosts with fault-tolerant failover.
• Developed multiple-protocol data acquisition subsystem and system configuration application.
• Installed and commissioned systems in Canada, Bahrain, Singapore, and the UK.