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Redmond, Washington, US

Enterprise Architect within Microsoft Customer and Partner Solution (MCAPS), Enablement & Operations (E&O). Responsible for technical strategy and innovation, architectural governance, reference architecture development, and enterprise architecture practices across the MCAPS E&O organization.

Redmond, Washington, US

Having built my career on multiple generations of Microsoft technologies building products, services, and solutions for dozens of businesses. I see data as a ‘cash equivalent asset’, to be used to drive business innovation, transformation, and insights. As a consulting-engineer for decades, I enjoy working closely with stakeholders to deliver solutions.

Angola, IN, US

I serve as an Adjunct Professor in Trine's graduate program in Business Analytics where I teach a course on Analytics Software and Tools.

New York, NY, US

Advisory Director in the Engineering practice for KPMG US. Experienced in providing software, data and cloud consulting to the Financial Services and Resources industry. I lead the Enterprise Architecture community within the Engineering practice with a focus on TOGAF and BIAN architecture principles.Architect transformational technical solutions to move.

Phoenix, Arizona, US

• Superfeed™ is a revolutionary tech startup that has delivered a mobile and web app that brings a user’s news, information, media, and social content in a Superfeed™ that they can control. As a co-founder, corporate.
• Conceived and constructed the initial platform and app prototypes within three months in order to secured $1.5M in bootstrap funding.
• Responsible for the native cloud architecture design and engineering of the Feedme platform using Azure PaaS.
• Led agile, yet disciplined, multi-national product development team and produced beta platform and apps within three months.
• Securing product release approvals from Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
• Established product, marketing, and operational go-to-market strategies and teams; hired key staff members for marketing, operations and program management.

Phoenix, Arizona, US

• Liftable Media produces quality content promoting truth in publishing, puts their readers' interests first, and above all works to drive positive culture change. Specific accomplishments include:
• As a corporate executive was responsible for leading the development and delivery of technology solutions in support of the Liftable Media business operations and digital media properties.
• Developed comprehensive analytics solutions used across LMI’s 100+ digital properties resulting in month-over-month growth.
• Led the migration of all infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform IaaS
• Ensured technology systems provided uninterrupted business operations across LMI’s digital properties and e-commerce sites.
• Reduced technology spending by 50% within first 4 months of joining company; reduction accomplished through vendor consolidation, contract renegotiations and service elimination.

Seattle, Washington, US

• Avanade is a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft, formed in 2000, and is one of the most successful large corporate joint ventures ever. Specific Job accomplishments included the following:
• Responsible for Global Platform Services, Offerings, and Capability Development related to Analytics and lead the global development of our Analytic Architecture, Data Engineering, and Analytics Advisory Services.
• Capability Development including large deal preparation, large deal review and training for a 4300 person global practice.

Seattle, Washington, US

• Expanded Avanade Data & Analytics Capability to Enterprise Architecture, lead a seed group of individuals to begin development of CIO Advisory Services capability.
• Continued to serve at Microsoft and began to expand CIO Advisory Services with a pilot Financial Services client going through a major expansion via acquisition of smaller institutions in the midwest.* Midland States.

Seattle, Washington, US

• Coordinated and expanded the Avanade Business Intelligence practice into a Data & Analytics practice encompassing Data Management, Data Governance and Data Engineering practices.
• During this period my key client was Microsoft where I served on numerous projects including:* Microsoft Business Intelligence Service Center* Microsoft Enterprise Data Management Program* Solution Development for.

Seattle, Washington, US

Lead the Western US Collaboration and Business Intelligence Practice, a new practice that launched to capitalize on Microsoft expanding capabilities with SharePoint and SQL Server Services. Beyond Practice Lead, I served two key clients (Chevron & ExxonMobil) for several years.* ExxonMobil - Enterprise Collaboration - 2008* Chevron - Upstream - Enterprise.

Seattle, Washington, US

Served as the App Development Practice Lead, led a group of 15 Group Managers and Managers, with a practice of over 500 professionals in the Western US.

Seattle, Washington, US

Defined the application architecture, created the project estimates and was a key player in winning the first multi-year, multi-million dollar project for Avanade for State and Local Government. Served as Lead Architect on this four year custom enterprise solution project, a distributed solution used across the state, the solution was a leading edge.NET.

• Developed SaaS products AutoChooser and IdealHire e*Cruiting used by publishing industry. Specific accomplishments included the following:
• Developed a web-based solution to assist the publishing industry in their digital transformation.
• Created the enterprise architecture and led the development of the AutoChooser and IdealHire e*Cruiting products.
• Products were used by media outlets owned by Gannet Media, EW Scripps Co, Morris Communications Corp, McClatchy Co., and Cox Newspapers.

Phoenix, AZ, US

• SkyMall is a specialty publishing firm headquartered in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, best known for once publishing a self-titled in-flight publication, SkyMall, that at one point had an annual circulation of.
• As the Director of Development for SkyMall, Led team of 30 developers in the design, development, and deployment of e-commerce solutions in support of the SkyMall catalog business.
• Built e-commerce sites for SkyMall Inc, its subsidiary Durham Company, and several branded partner sites for companies such as The Globe, MyFamily.com, United States Postal Service, Delta Airlines, Continental.

US

• Software Spectrum is a company acquired by Level 3 Communications in 2002. Insight Enterprises purchased Software Spectrum from Level 3 Communications in September 2006. It is the world's largest Microsoft Large.
• As the Managing Consultant for Software Spectrum Phoenix, led business development and delivery in the Southwest.
• The Phoenix team designed, developed, and deployed workplace solutions based on IBM and Microsoft technologies for numerous clients including Honeywell, Best Western International, Toyota America, Universal Studios.

• ClearMind Inc. was acquired by Software Spectrum in 1996. Specific Job accomplishments included:
• As Partner and Co-Founder of ClearMind Inc., led the development of custom workplace solutions based on Microsoft products and technologies.
• Clients included Fidelity Investments, Electronic Data Systems, Snelling Personnel, and Mary Kay Cosmetics.

West Hartford, US

• Electronic Data Systems was a large multinational information technology equipment and services company. Specific job accomplishments included:
• Began career at EDS working for companies like AT&T, GMAC Mortgage, Norwest Bank, Bank of Boston, and the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC).
• Became a Research Engineer in EDS’ Proprietary R&D group and development some of the first multi-platform messaging applications based Window, Apple, and Unix operating systems based on burgeoning Internet standards.
• Served 8 years in the financial services industry as a Systems Engineer, developing and deploying mainframe-based banking systems and was honored with several innovation awards for my development of a solution to.
• Engineered and deployed the first Microsoft-based network on the EDS campus in Plano, Texas in 1990, which led the way in the transformation from mainframe to TCP/IP-based communications.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Data Science

Master Of Science, Data Analytics

Master Of Science, Information Technology Management

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

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