As the leader of the Protection Systems Services department, I work with elite teams to deliver software, forensic analysis, test automation, test execution, and value-added hardware engineering. Our teams strive every day to make electric power safer, more reliable, and more economical. Our work improves quality of life around the world.The configuration software that customers experience as the "face" of our protective devices is one of our primary responsibilities. We work hard to provide intuitive, approachable, performant, and easy to use software interfaces to facilitate interaction with, and management of, devices that are critical to the safe, reliable, and economical operation of the power system.I'm also charged with supporting the protective relay forensics and test automation teams. We make sure that the devices perform as designed and we get to root cause in the rare cases where they don't.Prior to this assignment, I was responsible for firmware and test development for high and medium voltage protective relay products.I developed & taught SEL's Python training class. I have helped hundreds of colleagues become proficient Python coders. Python has really taken hold throughout the company.

Spinnaker provided management consulting, interim technical executive leadership and contract software development services.

I was on-site at Oxford’s client, Morpho Detection, where I built system diagnostic and automation tools using Python.

Grip QA captures data from the software development process, then employs machine learning and predictive analytics augmented with simulation to help teams create great software, on time, and within budget.As a contributing member of a small team, I did whatever most needed doing on any given day, including back-end software engineering, container wrangling, testing and content creation. I started learning Scala, functional programming, micro-service based architectures and Docker containers as fast as I could.

BluMtnWerx believed in the mobile revolution. We developed leading edge applications that enable innovative wireless devices to deliver on their promise of utterly destroying conventional computing and entertainment paradigms. I used Objective-C for apps and Python for internal tools.

I helped deliver highly optimized SDR waveforms by building and analyzing resource aware executable models of communications systems and SDR waveforms. These models provided critical insight into performance, resource requirements and portability of the waveforms. I used Foresight Modeling Language and C++ to create the models, with Python for tools and analysis.

We attempted to improve software quality by applying data analytics to the development process. I developed the prototype in Python, using Mongo DB for data storage. We ran on an AWS Linux VM with an Apache web server. Our server side software was a combination of Python, HTML, PHP and CGI. I wrote all of the software, including the test automation framework that allowed me to validate changes as the code evolved.

My primary responsibilities included executive leadership, sales, marketing, business development, technology refinement and all of the random administrative tasks that popped up as we did our bit to fuel the vertical integration revolution.

Responsible for global marketing and public relations for The Symbio Group, a leading Chinese software outsourcing company.

China TechSource was an outsourcing company with a focus on localization, testing, software development and IT implementation projects utilizing carefully selected Chinese technology teams. We started the company with the mission of building bridges between the outstanding development teams in China and North American companies that wished to take advantage of opportunities in the region.

Responsible for establishing, and executing this hardware/software design company’s strategy. Discontinued service offerings and sales channels that were generating poor returns. The company eventually focused on wireless data communications projects.

Responsible for all aspects of system semiconductor and software development. Primary executive responsibility for moving the company from an R&D organization to a product deployment organization. Built building strong working relationships with development partners in Japan and India.

Responsible for everything that someone else wasn't doing at in this effort to develop revolutionary programmable logic technology to address the specific needs of mobile communications.

Management consulting, technology turnaround practice and a team of software engineers doing contract software development. Client list is available on request.

Provided management and strategy consulting to the VP of Engineering

Management consulting and program consulting for the CEO and VP of Engineering.

Interim Executive at Windward Group clients

Consulted on corporate strategy, led development of a family / recipe management system

Set corporate objectives and operate the business. Direct accountability for establishing technical direction and delivering Now Software’s group scheduling & address book management products. Full P&L responsibility for the business unit, including responsibility for sales and marketing of Now’s technology products. Products were available on both Macintosh and Windows platforms. Products were the category leaders on the Mac. Successes included helping Now transition from being a software publisher to being a mainstream software developer by building the Windows development team, and rebuilding the Mac team. Several product revisions were delivered, including the release of breakthrough Web products that enabled sharing of schedule and contact information on the World Wide Web. Initiated and led the development and market introduction of Now’s next generation of client / server products. Sold Now Software to Qualcomm, Inc. to strengthen their Eudora product line.

Led engineering for this pioneering developer of online virtual environments.

Responsible for all aspects of product development and delivery of INTERSOLV’s PVCS series of Software Configuration Management tools. Managed software development, quality assurance and documentation. Responsibilities included setting strategic direction, removing non-performing members of the organization and rebuilding the team, while continuing to deliver critical products.

Responsible for multiple different engineering projects at Mentor including IC Layout, Logical Design Creation and (very early) User Interface. Grew from an entry level engineer to a second level manager. My team was one of the early adopters of C++. Anyone who remembers debugging Cfront generated code will understand my pain.