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San Francisco, CA, US

Specializing in fractional CTO/VPE services, I provide strategic leadership in software development and technology innovation to growth-stage startups and established companies driving digital transformation.

Oakland, California, US

Led product and platform engineering teams fueling the resale revolution. Oversaw full-stack development spanning customer-facing web, native mobile apps for iOS and Android, backend services, and cloud infrastructure for the core marketplace as well as Resale-as-a-Service offering. Fostered an environment of innovation and high productivity, contributing.

Santa Clara, California, US

Led product strategy, development and go-to-market of Guide-Rails®, an enterprise-focused DevSecOps SaaS platform for speeding software development, delivery and operation on any cloud platform, resulting in early market growth and $1.6M annual revenue. The company was acquired by CloudBees in 2022.

Neuilly Sur Seine, Ile De France, FR

Directed teams of engineers, administrators, and analysts in providing critical infrastructure services and continuous technical operations across Retail Stores, Ecommerce, Supply Chain, and Core Corporate functions for Sephora's expanding markets in the US, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil. Applied my extensive software development expertise to instill a robust.

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

Consulting engagement focused on assessing and improving engineering productivity throughout one of Verizon’s largest technology divisions; guided senior leadership in the creation of initiatives to accelerate adoption of and migration to Verizon’s private cloud and integrated “DevOps toolchain” among various engineering teams

Cupertino, California, US

Consulting engagement focused on improving engineering productivity of teams leveraging Apple's Internet Services

San Francisco, California, US

Accountable for software and platform engineering, in-store IT infrastructure and technical operations of systems serving 3000 stores in 9 countries; led architecture and process modernization efforts to improve speed-to-market

San Francisco, California, US

Executed end-to-end delivery of projects for the ecommerce division of Gap Inc.; key driver in the division’s adoption of Agile methodologies and complementary Extreme Programming-inspired development and testing practices - iterative architecture, test-driven development (TDD), behavior-driven development (BDD), automated testing, continuous refactoring.

Provided guidance and advice to founder of early-stage travel startup; recommended technologies needed to take founder's ideas from concept to reality; recruited and hired first software engineer; Routehappy acquired by leading airline industry data platform, ATPCO in 2018

Directed organization of 30+ responsible for software development spanning several product lines such as site-wide UI redesign and performance optimization, search engine optimization (SEO), targeted advertising and cross-product merchandising; helped drive adoption of Agile development methodologies

Led the design and implementation of Travelocity's Vacation Package and Cruise websites, including the development of custom content tools for managing product descriptions, destination information and multimedia

Part of a small, entrepreneurial team of one of the first online travel companies, Preview Travel which which provided content and travel services direct to consumers and through partnerships with America Online, Yahoo!, Lycos and other popular web properties of the time In 2000, Travelocity acquired Preview Travel