Joined an early stage startup with strong product/market fit to lead their technology strategy and scale their growth journey.

Recruited by a partner of a real estate private equity firm to architect the platform vision, establish the product foundation, and drive all technology operations for a real estate accounting and investment management SaaS solution. • Collaborated with the founders to define the product vision, develop and deliver the product, setting standards to ensure optimal scalability, security, and performance throughout product development and iterations.• Spearheaded the initial development of the platform, crafting a robust cloud-based infrastructure tailored to meet stringent security and compliance requirements.• Positioned the company to grow from 3 employees to 65 and expanded annual revenue, reaching profitability within less than 3 years and continuing an upward trend, having secured 100s of clients and processed millions of transactions.• Recruited, hired, onboarded, and managed a team of geographically dispersed product managers, product designers, engineers, data scientists, and QA teams to develop product, ensuring continuous updates and support.

Established the technology and product framework for the "Hub" application, providing the basis for the company's next-gen eCommerce goals.• Orchestrated a strategy to internalize eCommerce operations, developing a proof of concept guiding cloud-based technology adoption.• Built and led an innovative product engineering team, ensuring seamless integration of solutions with core business operations.

Following the successful sale of ShopIgniter, stayed on for 18 months in this VP role to support new owners with the full integration of the technology into their existing systems as well as building out additional product functionality to adapt to their business needs.• Established a dedicated social ad tech team within a 200-employee company, assuming a leadership role to drive innovation and spearhead the team's development efforts.• Secured a partnership with Twitter to develop “Twitter Cards” an innovative social media advertising tool. Following the deal, led a development team to create and deploy this program successfully across the Twitter platform.• Coached senior leadership at Mixpo on the optimization of ShopIgniter’s software across its applications and advised on both technical and business strategies to optimize use of the software.

Partnered with a business-oriented entrepreneur to serve as technical lead on the conceptualization, development, go-to-market planning, and technical operations for a retail-to-ecommerce inventory management solution. • Secured first 100 clients and surpassed $1M in revenue within year 1 which provided the leverage needed to secure $13M in venture capital funding (from top-tier firms such as Madrona and Trinity) and advance the startup into its growth phase.• Built and managed a team of 50+ to design the platform, scaling appropriately to accommodate a 10X growth surge within the first 2 years and continuously adapting to new client requirements and market demand.• Acquired multiple Fortune 500 customers highlighted by Target, Ford, GM, Disney, and many others. • Spearheaded key market differentiation by redirecting product into the social commerce space, forging partnerships with Facebook and Twitter to support in-platform stores.• Pivoted functionality towards ads when users identified this as the most profitable use case. This led to the acquisition by Mixpo, a prominent digital advertising solution provider. • Personally led all technology M&A operations and due diligence during the highly profitable sale of the business to Mixpo.

Tech advisor to TechStars and Portland Seed Fund startup Vizify acquired by Yahoo!

Initial architect and software engineer for social media analytics startup acquired by Covario

Led custom software development for a digital agency with clients that included Columbia Sportswear, Cisco, Microsoft, and Visa.

Co-founded and built a managed dynamic DNS web application start-up

Led custom software development of several concurrent large-scale projects for enterprise clients.

Built internet and hosting services for major telecommunications provider.

Software engineer for hardware/software co-verification group.