* Responsible for all custom software at Boom that isn’t an aircraft system* Manage in-house software development team, handling hiring, reviews, and coaching* Architectural oversight of all projects owned by the team, which includes systems such as: flight test control room (golang, TimescaleDB, D3.js), supersonic flight planning (golang, PostgreSQL), high performance computing (Python, PostgreSQL, Aero CFD), and an aircraft conceptual design optimization framework (Python)

Dapper is a software architecture and software engineering consulting practice focusing on two technical domains: 1) modern scalable web architectures handling at least 500,000 daily requests, and 2) security-focused distributed architectures leveraging hardware-based secure execution environments.Select clients:* iRobot – [consumer home robotics] Performed security evaluation of microprocessors and SOC (system on a chip) silicon for newly engineered products. Evaluated enterprise-wide handling of cryptographic material securing consumer robots, from initializing devices in overseas factories to daily IoT reporting from consumers' homes.* CardCash – [web site handling $20m monthly revenue buying and selling used gift cards] Helping client rearchitect entire software stack as scalable micro services backend with modern single page web applications and mobile apps. Wrote key components of new system. Extensive mentoring and oversight of in-house software development team.* Klaben Auto Group – [five automotive dealerships in northeast Ohio] Longstanding relationship to build dealership public facing web sites as well as numerous internal web application features used by staff on a daily basis.

Senior Director, Product Incubation* Manage offshore development team in Tel Aviv, Israel, releasing product to 1,000+ enterprise customers* Company representative to the FIDO Alliance and IIC (Industrial Internet Consortium) IoT standards bodies* Collaborated with company executives to identify new technologies and product opportunities* Lead the development of new product prototypes and proof-of-concepts* Built production product with Visual C++, TPM 1.2, node.js, Express.js, Mongo, ReactJS, Bootstrap, and DockerSenior Product Manager, Cloud Services Division* Blending Wave’s security core competency of TPM, UEFI, and SEDs into the modern web* Focus on web application high availability and scalability (AWS, Azure, J2EE, MVC4, HTML5, Cassandra) * Wrote NSTIC inspired products for online digital identity Senior Product Manager, eSignSystems Division* Managed development team split between Arizona and India* Transitioned team from waterfall to Agile development process and greatly reduced software defect rates* Transforming legacy codebase to use the modern web, including mobile, intertwined with delivering new features* Hands-on software architecture* Hands-on front-end development: HTML, Microsoft MVC3, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and AngularJS* Standards body contributor to MISMO (electronic mortgage industry)* Managed level 3 customer support, assigned engineers to issues, handled communication with customer* Sales presentations and product demonstrations* Modernized eSignSystems branding (logo, colors, web, collateral) working with outside agency and greatly simplified the marketing message, making it simpler for customers to decide to buy

* Managed remote software teams in USA and China and owned product’s requirement specification.* Managed in-house software development staff to continue development on the ePlay web application, which was built with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Apache 2, MySQL 5, PHP 5, CSS, Dojo, and Zend Framework.* Manage scaling issues – servers receive 500,000+ average hits per day (with some days 1,000,000+)* Client-side “Web 2.0” development in JavaScript (Dojo) and ActionScript 3 (Adobe Flex and Flash).* AJAX Web Services with JSON or XML replies* Database connectivity achieved with PDO and MySQL stored procedures, plus Zend_Db classes.* Display controlled by Smarty Template Engine and XHTML/CSS for layout, plus Zend_Layout.* Projects managed using Agile software development methodology, utilizing two week iterations.* Facebook Flash game development

Lead Software Architect* Led design and implementation of TPM security applications, Private Information Manager and Document Manager, which Dell shipped 10,000 copies daily* Regularly delivered high-quality software to Intel, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, NEC, and others* Introduced team to agile software development methodology and successfully lead 6-person team* Managed initial localization of product suite into 11 languages, using offshore teams in Ireland and Israel* Developed Waves installers using InstallShield and coordinated requirements with OEMs such as Intel and Dell for factory automated installation to desktops and laptops* Created Configuration Management (CM) process and tools to organize parallel development of 20+ components and frequent custom branded releases for different OEMsSoftware Architect* Managed office-wide, multidisciplinary project teams (8 to 12 people)* Primary contact between Engineering and Product Management (requirements, bugs, roadmaps)* Architectural artifacts based on Unified Modeling Language (UML)* Assisted with patent applicationsManager WaveDirect Software Group* Software Architect for team's products* Managed WaveDirect software development team* Team built and maintained diverse applications: Windows consumer desktop, Windows game publisher tools, eCommerce web site, and web-based diagnostic toolsProject Manager* Project Manager for Wave's first commercially released product, the WaveDirect Service. Role included responsibility for: client and server software development, modification of six commercially available PC video games, custom design and manufacturing of PCI card, managing vendors to replicate CDs and printed manuals, coordinated nationwide newspaper advertising that was synchronized with product release in all CompUSA stores across the USA.Senior Systems Engineer* Led design team for COM library of 29 interfaces* Integral member of software process team moving organization to CMM Level 2

Lead designer for Windows NT re-write of real-time newswire editor client software, utilizing UML notation. Upgraded 20 person team to ClearCase CM system, after an extensive analysis of competing products.

Software Engineer in the computer vision section of Sarnoff, where I added software engineering expertise to various contract research projects.* Netscape browser enhancement using MFC and a Versant Object Database* Automatic image mosaicing system that consumed video from UAVs (Unmanned Arial Vehicles). The system was deployed with the U.S. Marines at 16 locations across Europe* Designed and built user interface, using Tcl/Tk and Tix, which ran atop a Sarnoff invented algorithm to enhance the detection of breast cancer in mammograms. System deployed at two research hospitals and demonstrated to First Lady Hillary Clinton.* Ported Solaris application to Windows, which was deployed with the U.S. Marines during the Bosnia conflict. Output from the system was used in briefings for President Clinton.* Member of two person team that created the first commercial software product marketed by Sarnoff, which was a tool to assist Imaging Analysts creating large, seamless digital image mosaics.* Designed and implemented C source code optimizer to increase the performance of code written for the PV1, a real-time video processing computer invented and built by Sanroff.

Responsible for financial aspects of startup. Developed and hosted eCommerce web sites. Built custom shopping cart Apache plugin using C and mSQL database. Specialized good UX with fast loading web pages.

Software development in C++ for Windows 3.1 and TCP/IP communications. End user support lead for 38 Unix systems (SVR4, AIX, and Solaris). Configured, installed, and maintained two mission critical imaging systems, handling 16,000 new images per day. Conducted Process Safety Management study at St. Croix oil refinery to become OSHA 1910.119 compliant.

Software development in LISP and ANSI C. Administered PC running AutoCAD on a Banyan network. Administered Oracle database on SunOS. (Worked summers and major school breaks)