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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 health, and extend life for millions of patients* Focus areas: team organization, role clarity, SDLC, metrics, backlogs, prioritization and WIP limits, knowledge silos, modern architecture, regression tests and continuous delivery

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.