Inspired outcomes and advanced strategic initiatives designed to elevate and scale the Onvio platform organization • Led an international platform organization of 120+, comprised of engineering, architecture, release management, quality automation, and DevOps that builds and operates an industry leading SMB Tax and Accounting Platform• Imprinted a new organizational culture centered in engineering accountability, ruthless prioritization, and experimentation transforming teams mired in legacy, desktop approach to a modern, cloud native organization• Championed architectural initiatives, performance/scalability efforts, and engineering roadmaps to executive stakeholders, senior leaders, and engineers resulting in redirecting over 40% of engineering capacity to focus on performance and systemic architectural challenges• Defined metrics and KPIs for platform performance, health, and organizational effectiveness focusing on accelerating delivery of Impactful customer changes• Drove enterprise alignment on Platform definition, shared capabilities, and internal/external customer expectations improving collaboration, accountability, and efficiency• Managed 3rd party vendor relationships from SoW inception to integration to delivery; stabilzing and increasing engineering capacity and delivery during organizational transformation

Leading organizational evolution through adoption of modern, cloud native development practices to drive delivery of scalable, reliable cloud software • Drove key platform initiatives of Observability, Performance, and Scalability by identifying KPIs, SLOs, and reducing MTTR, • Created cost forecasts, budgets, cost models that incorporate financial, sales, and strategic aspects• Organized Release Engineering efforts to create standards, shorten delivery cycles, and improve software quality by reducing developer friction• Oversaw all operational aspects of LLamasoft Cloud Platform including multi-region strategy, incident response, disaster recovery, security, and cost• Executed multiple successful SOWs through draft, negotiation, and delivery phases• Managed LLamasoft/AWS and LLamasoft/Azure relationships

Helped transform organizational culture and create foundations for future success• Spearheaded DevOps transformation transitioning both infrastructure and code from on-premise, monolithic architecture to cloud native infrastructure/services • Established LLamasoft Engineering Internship program, leading to hire of 6 full time engineers• Developed and improved critical departmental relationships with Operations, Support, and research organizations• Launched automation focused QA organization with a flex concept• Drafted a career matrix for roles across the engineering organization leading to improved talent development and retention• Managed up to 17 direct reports across all disciplines (QA, BA, Development, Documentation)

Scrum Master• Led Engineering and Product Management teams in transition of 25+ member development organization to Scrum • Certified Scrum Master of flagship product team (10+ team members)Senior Software Engineer• Refactored Discrete Event Simulation Software to reduce memory footprint and improve performance• Designed and implemented distributed Simulation Proof of Concept using WCF and C++ dlls • Worked with key customer to gather requirements and implement custom business logic

Scrum Master/Team Lead• Led multiple cross-functional Scrum teams• Mentored and trained new team members • Helped implement Scrum software development process• Coordinated scheduling, requirements, and delivery dates between Product Management, Program Management, QA and Engineering• Responsible for SDK products shipped to multiple Fortune 500 companies • Wrote architecture briefs, engineering requirements and product documentationSenior Software Engineer• Developed Android applications incorporating Rovi cloud based technologies• Created embedded Linux automotive application demo for CES• Participated and presented at Re-Think Music Hackers’ Weekend• Filed 5 Patents

• Implemented XML-RPC communication layer between C++ Server and Java application• Developed software to transform data between Access, MySQL, Foxpro and SQLite• Managed MySQL database organization and the handling of very large datasets (500 Million+ rows)• Optimized data-mining and deployment systems processing more than 1 Million transactions/day

• Developed automated script installer with update management capabilities and advanced framework allowing addition of custom scripts • Integrated 27 3rd party open source web applications into automated script installer• Added multiple user management and permissions functionality to code base• Wrote end user software documentation• Responded to customer support tickets

• Implemented encrypted client/server communications protocol using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) • Added support for several new network devices• Re-architected automated configuration process to provide seamless detection and configuration of any version of a network device using object oriented design principles• Optimized code to reduce configuration time of network devices by fifty percent• Utilized Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) to create a user interface • Wrote, updated and maintained unit tests• Wrote functional specifications and post-project documentation

• Designed and implemented COM interface between Visual Test and core product• Created and maintained library of functions used in automated scripts• Developed an automated test suite for W3C Schema and DOM Level 3 validation tests• Designed and implemented batch composition testing environment using Windows scripting tools• Wrote and integrated SQL query to improve and automate documentation processes• Developed test specifications and procedures for specific features