-Head of Kinship Mobile engineering, including: creation of mobile engineering team from the ground up, providing technical architecture, code and QA guidance to build the best in class pet care app-Head of TeleVet engineering, including: creation of the engineering team, providing technical architecture, developer onboarding guides and code, partnering closely with Product Management and UX teams -Led Wisdom Panel engineering (industry leading pet DNA product), including: creating B2B team focused on partnerships/DNA pipeline and expanding existing teams and technical leadership-Partnered with Product Management, Engineering, Research, Marketing, UX and Executive Leadership in Product transformation which resulted in record revenue and re-establishing market leadership-Recruitment of talent for mobile, full stack, customer platform/Twilio and e-commerce solutions-Implemented engineering readiness and best practices including production monitoring, architecture reviews and blameless postmortems-Championed innovation initiatives include Hackathons, Guilds and Tech Leadership/Architecture groups-Engineering lead for due diligence on acquisitions-Provided technical guidance for Mars Audit and Security commitments

-Created Platform teams to focus on cross domain capabilities, increase developer speed and efficiency and enable paved path to operational excellence-Utilized DORA based approach, reusable components and community (guilds) to strike balance between autonomy and alignment for best practices and patterns-Established Design System Engineering team, championed UX initiatives and hosted React meetup-Directly contributed to culture improvement initiatives to empower decision makers and increase diversity in our internship program-Engineering leader for customer account and analytics engineering including micro frontend framework, team expansion and reorganization to scale-Engineering leader for major system retirement project including cross team alignment and coordination of deliverables and go live-Core team member for modernization projects, guilds and best practices initiatives

-Implemented agile development cycle to align planning, commitment and delivery with customer needs.-Recruitment of top talent in robotics hardware and software, full stack development, quality engineering and DevOps. Tripled size of the Engineering team in one year.-Substantially improved Engineering culture by creating a healthy collaborative team environment.-Created Quality Engineering team to implement quality improvements, automated testing and provide end to end test coverage.-Created system monitoring and production support process. Active participant in customer go lives.-Re-organized teams to align more closely with business and customer needs and to provide structure to scale.-Implemented employee goals and reviews process.-Worked closely with Product Management to define functionality and plan releases.-Involved in specification, design and prototyping of new product.

-Implemented agile transformation from inception to completion with focus on teamwork, quality and customer value. The transformation included reorganizing all teams and management structure across a 170 person product development group, hiring coaches, managing budget and driving work streams to improve culture, accountability and focus on customer value.-Created Architecture and DevOps teams to drive quality, reliability, scalability, security and Continuous Integration projects-Managed team of delivery and technology managers to drive improvements and delivery of releases-Created production support process including pager duty emergency support for 24x7 support of customers -Implemented Green Day initiative to improve automation tests and software builds-Initiated prototyping approach for UX improvements-Actively involved in talent management including recruiting of key hires and new grads, goal setting and performance management-Delivered presentations on architecture and agile to our leadership team and customers

-Managed original software team of 5 engineers and scaled up to Core Technology team of 50+ engineers through 60+ software releases-Scaled integration architecture from 1000s of transactions to a billion transactions per year-Created Cloud Tools to enable customer self service using Solr and data linking approach for end to end transaction visibility and data reprocessing -Transitioned teams from Waterfall to Scrum based Agile and built the best agile team in the company-Managed team of architects providing scalability, UI and common components for application development teams-Designed and implemented enterprise SSO for our platform-Managed security framework enhancements for our platform (XSS, CSRF and SQL injection)-Designed and developed software for e-logistics applications including creation of booking and documentation products for international shipping using J2EE (JSP, Java, EJBs), SQL, EDI and XML-Worked closely with Product Marketing to specify product features and with QA to ensure quality of each release. Also provided production support to investigate and resolve customer issues and performance concerns-Participated in M&A activity including bridging and integrating teams and technology across companies-Delivered presentations on System Architecture, Agile and Frameworks to engineers and customers

-Designed and implemented product components and tools using JSP, Servlets, XML, Javascript, ASP and Oracle 8i as well as developed e-commerce plug-ins using COM and Java.-Assessed and recommended development tools and architecture.-Developed course material and instructed courses on JSP and e-commerce.

-Guided architecture of solutions, business direction, project management, and hiring of employees.-Assessed Internet technologies, developed methodologies, and implemented software frameworks.-Designed and implemented various Internet e-commerce web sites using JSP, Servlets, JDBC, Oracle 8i, PERL, and MySQL.

-Designed and implemented an Intranet based asset management system using Silverstream and Microsoft SQL Server. Presented white papers on CORBA and web security.-Performed evaluation of web architecture and development tools including assessment of Weblogic, Silverstream, Websphere and NetDynamics. -Developed course material and instructed courses on Visual Café and web architecture

-Managed complex software projects as Project Manager and Technical Lead.-Designed and implemented Client/Server solutions on Unix and Windows NT using Sybase, SQL stored procedures, C, and Visual Basic for SCADA systems software.-Created Intranet project and developed timecard applet/server.

-Designed and implemented embedded software for telecom products.-Evaluated and selected real-time embedded OS.

-Designed and implemented real-time simulation software for Space Shuttle.-Project Lead of team responsible for upgrade of simulation software and hardware, including redesign of software for multiprocessor optimization.