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Scottsdale, Az, Us

Security, compliance, and infrastructure strategy and direction.

Scottsdale, Az, Us

Accountable for technology strategy, Titan GPS engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, IT, information security, compliance, and overall technology budget.

Scottsdale, Az, Us

Accountable for technology strategy, Field Service Management engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, IT, information security, compliance, and overall technology budget.

Scottsdale, Az, Us

Report directly to CEO. Accountable for product-focused software development, information security, and technology strategy.

Scottsdale, Az, Us

Report directly to CEO. Accountable for all engineering, IT, and information security activities.

Scottsdale, Az, Us

Report directly to CEO. Accountable for platform engineering, hardware engineering, enterprise architecture, backend web development, quality engineering, DevOps/SecOps, IT security, big data, APIs, and companywide technology infrastructure.

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

Accountable for companywide innovation and technology initiatives, as well as Public Sector Division product management, software development, quality assurance, and operations for 10 products and 60% of company revenue. Full accountability for division P&L. Reported directly to company President.Drove product, technological, organizational, process, and economic model change as division shifted from "shrink-wrapped" software to a fully-integrated SaaS platform. Collaborated with ownership, executive team, functional teams, and customers to ensure the company’s technology and operational processes delivered product offerings which met market needs and provided the expected business outcomes. Provided regular updates to ownership on the status of all operational activities.Led effort to modernize software development and quality assurance tools, practices, and skillsets. Collaborated with product and engineering management to increase traceability of requirements and technology components. Evaluated and adopted new processes, technologies, and architectures that increased quality and scalability of processes/systems while decreasing time to market, manual error, and toil. Spearheaded companywide cloud computing and DevOps strategy for 500-server AWS environment, including: HA/DR, scalability, automation, infrastructure-as-code, workload optimization, and serverless technologies. Strategy focused on leveraging modern DevOps practices and technologies as force multipliers to rapidly deliver business value, increase reliability, decrease operating costs, and eliminate the divide between traditional “build” and “run” organizations.

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

Responsible for overall company technology vision, strategy, execution, and engineering staff of 50 across two business divisions. Reported directly to company President.Championed new technologies and engineering practices to develop next-generation product platforms; served on architecture and security councils; and fostered a positive, innovative, and empowered company culture.Led nine-month effort to design, implement, and operationalize two greenfield SaaS products which allow pharmacies to increase their point-of-care testing capabilities and expand the reach of their services beyond traditional in-store visits. Products launched on-time to a Fortune 10 customer. Collaborated with the division GM to ensure functional, quality, timeline, and budget goals were met. Primary technological focuses were user experience, multitenancy, scalability, high-availability, build/deployment automation, immutable infrastructure, and a validated DR plan. Personally designed and implemented deployment architecture and fully-automated CI/CD pipeline.Identified and nurtured strategic business and technology relationships and partnerships, focused on aggressive growth, technology as a competitive advantage, and enabling a "re-startup" approach to business.

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

Delivered the two largest product launches in company history via agile methodologies: a next-generation vaccine management system and a HL7 data quality business intelligence platform. Products had multi-million dollar budgets and accounted for 50% of record-setting annual revenue. Product development occurred in parallel and had simultaneous launch dates.Managed two development teams consisting of in-house and outsourced (on-shore) development staff of 10-15 engineers each. Application technology stacks included: React, Redux, Node/Express, ES6, Java 8, Jasper ETL & Reports, Postgres, Flyway, and ActiveMQ.

Gilbert, Arizona, Us

Led teams of 4 to 22 consultants to deliver IT professional services projects up to $6M. Accountable for all aspects of engagements, including: estimation, staffing, roadmap, communication plan, change management, and budget. Engagements included software development, systems integration, process improvement, managed services, identity and access management, performance and scalability, and tech due diligence.Served as primary point of contact for clients. Responsible for all client communications, including communication plan, status reporting to technical and non-technical stakeholders, project review meetings, risk escalations, and invoicing. Responsible for building strong relationships with clients, understanding needs and motivations, establishing trust, and ensuring continued support of engagements.Managed yearlong, multimillion-dollar project to develop a client’s flagship web portal for use by millions of students. Served as software development and DevOps engineer on as-needed basis to augment team capacity, velocity, and skillset. Personally implemented high-availability, Docker-based, microservices deployment architecture and fully-automated CI/CD pipeline in AWS.

Gilbert, Arizona, Us

Collaborated with Product Owners to define roadmaps, backlogs, and releases. Managed all projects using agile methodologies, primarily Scrum and XP. Served as Scrum Master and coached/mentored clients and consultants on agile best practices. Utilized Scrum boards, sprint/release burndowns, and velocity charts to ensure successful project delivery. Conducted retrospectives to facilitate process improvement.Accountable for optimal staffing and balancing resources across multiple projects and clients. Served as coach and resource manager for consultants and conducted performance reviews. Identified professional development opportunities for consultants to expand their skillsets, facilitating career growth and increased value to the company and clients.Managed two-year development project to implement a common application for college and a statewide SAML-based identity federation for use by millions of users. Led effort to create a custom curriculum delivery system, and a bleeding-edge tablet-based writing feedback management system, for a client in the K-12 education market. Applications debuted in a high-profile launch at an internationally-renowned technology conference.

Co-founded, defined, and developed Global Trade Services, an internal “skunkworks” multinational venture focused on solving complex international trade issues. Grew initial investment of $100MM into $250MM in revenue and 300% profit margins in under three years.Accountable for all aspects of group's technology budget, strategy and execution. Developed programs and roadmaps focused on enabling business outcomes, use of technology as a competitive differentiator, platform stability and scalability, and reduction of operational costs.Reported directly to global executive management in Germany. Conducted regular group-level business reviews with C-level global management board, including: business case justification, operational progress reports, performance against budget, and group resourcing needs.Accountable for 30-person product development and operations team, including: project managers, trade experts, business analysts, internal and outsourced software engineers, system administrators, and external consultants. Responsible for groupwide vendor and contract management.

Served as chief of staff to the Head of IT (CTO), representing the group with, or in the absence of, the Head of IT, both internally and externally. In their absence, acted as Head of the group, including escalation, decision making, and signature authority.Responsible for all aspects of a commercial B2B SaaS platform which facilitated international trade, including: product management, technology strategy, software development, vendor/contract management, marketing research, and sales activities. Led global systems integration initiative to allow multiple DHL business units to utilize the SaaS platform in both internal and customer-facing applications. Developed and executed programs to enhance application performance, reliability, and ability to respond to market demands.Partnered with customers’ executive teams to design and implement highly-profitable trade management and advisory service offerings. Offerings included trade finance, customs consulting, and foreign market expansion for customers such as the Dallas Cowboys, Neiman Marcus, and Bank of America.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Cum Laude, Finance

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Double Major: Finance, International Business