As an associate partner at AKF, I perform technical due diligence on targeted companies on behalf of clients who are making investment decisions. Fill roles as an interim CIO/CTO and other roles where clients have short term technical leadership gaps. Work with CTO's and chief executives to improve technical operations and software development velocity.

Designed, architected, and lead the product development and operations organization as a hands-on technology leader for a new mobility platform as a replacement and platform for the evolution of their flagship product, MoveTrack. Product based on a secure web scale architecture delivering a single page application (SPA) experience to clients and users.• Built a full web service application Microsoft .Net / .Net Core platform to address current and future business requirements with the goal of replacing a monolithic legacy VB6 product.• Platform implementation required the development of a strategy to provide graceful migration of the existing application capabilities delivered of a multiyear release plan.• Platform provided decoupled and stateless services for authentication, authorization, data, presentation, process, analytics, and mapped entity services encapsulated into distributed macro services.• Platform met or exceeded requirements for security, scalability, and flexibility to ensure new features and market value propositions could be implemented outside of code.• High level of meta data driven implementation with business and domain data models available on top of legacy database architecture which modeled files in tables.• Test driven development with focus on clean code which supported fast issue identification and resolution.• Product released implemented single page web applications, native mobile applications on iOS / Android and transactional and conversational APIs.• Team of 13 local, remote, and offshore developers within an agile SCRUM, continuous integration environment.

As VP Development and Technology, I am responsible for design, architecture, and development of software products and technical strategy. Participate as a member of the executive team, product management, and sales to develop road maps for new product offerings. Deliver products using an Agile software methodology on a mix of platforms. Apply continuous refinement of processes and staff abilities to increase efficiency and the capabilities of the professional services organization. Architect and lead the integration of partner and OEM software products into our core offering to increase overall market value. Serve as a key participant in transforming the company from services to product revenue.• Leadership, market strategy, organizational development, technical excellence, software product development, intra-customer and SaaS deployments, professional services, customer support, and sustaining services.

Created TeleTech’s new software products group to develop next generation software and technologies create support of TeleTech's strategic goals. Goal was to deliver their first commercial software product initiative directed towards acquiring new customers. My role was leading the design and development of their leading edge global software product offering as SaaS technology. Through organizing, staffing and technical leadership the team was able to bring the product from genesis to prerelease. During that time many technical challenges were overcome in creating a linearly scalable web delivered product. Our architecture and implementation is based on a new services framework which provides secure access across ubiquitous delivery platforms and devices.• Created a start-up software product company within the parent holding company including funding model and P/L.• Responsible for the product design and implementation of the technology to take TeleTech into the next generation of customer support capabilities using SaaS delivered web and web app based technology.• Reinvent the experience of customers by being able to understand what is important to them and provide comfortable and convenient ways for them to interact with information within a conversation.• Conceive an innovative platform model on which this new experience resides.• Leverage a bleeding edge, all-encompassing communication platform embedded within the product.• Deliver the product with customized characteristics while maintaining a common user experience.

Open Scan Technologies is a software application company focused on providing software technology that allows companies to automate inbound receivables processing for companies that have a large volume of remittance transactions. The application is provided as packaged software with configuration and customization provided by professional services. Through the use of paper form templates in conjunction with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, pertinent information is extracted from remittance documents and matched to the open invoice or receivables data held in the customers accounting systems. Through the use of proven development methodologies and leadership, the engineering organization was reduced from a staff of 18 to a staff of 9, standardized all customers on a single product release, which increased delivered quality by 90%, reduced implementation times from 16 to 4 weeks and created a customer base that provided references and delivered valuable new features into the market.

Recondo Technology is a software as a service (SaaS) product company that provides comprehensive and contextual health care pricing and coverage / eligibility verification for hospitals, physicians and consumers. Through advanced architectures created from open source and proprietary technologies a successful market launch was achieved in 4 months. Use of proven development methodologies and leadership, successful growth of 3 to 85 staff in 14 months was achieved delivering increased product quality and innovation.

MidTech is a software development and services company focused on the integration, business process management and business intelligence product development. The primary customer verticals include healthcare payor and provider, city and county government and integrated justice solutions. Practice focus on Microsoft technologies achieving recognized core competencies in healthcare process innovation.

Xcel Energy is a major multiple state utility that supplies electricity and natural gas to business and residential customers. The Business Systems division of Xcel Energy in partnership with IBM defined a strategic direction to implement a common middleware and business process solution using the WebSphere product suite. The delivery of a successful implementation of integrated business applications allowed Xcel to realize visiblity into the overall business, increase customer service and establich controls necessary to better meet regulatory guidelines.

AdamApps was founded by senior staff of New Era of Networks, Inc. in the spring of 2002 to deliver hosted business applications via the internet using a fee for service model. Product differentiation in the market was achieved through the ability for customers to tailor the delivered applications using self service technology.

Sybase is a global provider of software and infrastructure technology which enables businesses to store, manage and share information across environments. New Era of Networks, Inc., was acquired by Sybase for their integration, business process and adapter technology. Explosive growth was achieved prior to the acquisition through the delivery of high performance transaction integration software to global financial and large ERP organizations.

Unidata (U2) is a software product company focused on specialized database and infrastructure technologies supporting a diverse set of industries. Through the development of legacy application database integration technologies, Unidata was able to capture an unrealized customer base which allowed companies to retain their legacy application investments while gaining ubiquitous access to their data.