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Boston, Massachusetts, US

Helping Dutchie on their mission to create safe and easy access to cannabis.

Mountain View, CA, US

Helping the team at Vorlon solve the problem of securing data in 3rd party applications.

Member of The CISO Society

Seattle, Washington, US

Helping Nametag build a more secure way to access online accounts

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Member of Protect Council, helping extend Glasswing's founders’ knowledge and capabilities to secure the connected enterprise.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Overseeing HubSpot’s engineering operations teams, including program management, business intelligence, security, employee enablement, and offshore development teams that help best protect our customers, partners, and the business. If you’re interested in building something great together, we’re hiring: www.hubspot.com/careers. As the co-executive sponsor.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

- Have successfully grown an engineering organization from 50 engineers to a team of over 600 engineers over 6 years.- Helped build our Dublin Product Team from single digits to well over 150. Helped ensure healthy growth of that team as they developed their own unique culture while keeping the best practices from headquarters.- Scaled out the engineering.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

- Collaborating with HubSpot's Engineering Culture and Engagement Team to introduce workshops, trainings, and team events that encourage relationship-building, learning, and employee growth. - Our engineering team uses TinyPulse and 15Five to share feedback on their role, work, and mission. A key responsibility is reading every response, responding to.

Helping Seva redefine the future of knowledge at work. (Seva acquired by Boomfire)

Boston, MA, US

Helping Oort Create Identity Analytics & Automation for Enterprise Security. Oort was acquired by Cisco.

Boston, MA, US

• Hired into an organization with very little product development process and junior staff
• Implemented agile development methodology and standardized on quarterly release cycle for major features to create a responsive, predictable development cycle
• Implemented continuous integration build system and unit testing infrastructure to transform a manual, error-prone process into a completely automated system
• Transformed team from junior team with little leadership into successful, productive team through mentoring existing staff, hiring new staff, and managing underperforming staff
• Built offshore development and QA capacity growing team from zero
• Owned full development lifecycle (from requirements gathering to product strategy and feature definition through development and QA) for company’s data collection platform

US

• Ran ~50 person R&D organization (25 domestic and 25 offshore) including development, QA, technical publications, product management, project management and technical support.
• Managed annual $4M budget
• Transformed R&D organization from reactive, ad hoc product development team to a predictable, proactive team that can scale with the companies needs.
• Rebuilt both QA and documentation teams for future growth
• Led product roadmap for 10 product releases (including major releases and service packs)
• Implemented highly predictable release process based on schedule-driven releases.

• Provided technical vision for multi-year product roadmaps to achieve company goal of becoming a leader in Predictive Analytic Applications
• Led development of SPSS’ Predictive Analytic Platform and Model Management product.
• Developed strategy for supporting both.NET and Java clients for SPSS technologies.
• Authored SPSS Enterprise Development Standards to promote consistency and interoperability between SPSS technologies.
• Organized and led multiple R&D conferences on SPSS’ platform development strategy.
• Taught internal classes on topics including Java programming and design patterns.

US

• Ran ~50 person R&D organization including development, QA, sustaining engineering, technical publications, project management and technical support.
• Met key engineering deliverables while remaining under budget every quarter.
• Managed downsizing of organization by 30% while continuing to achieve results and keeping the team motivated and focused.
• Acted as “expert resource” to sales representatives in customer meetings to help close critical high value customer accounts.
• Transformed R&D organization from a serial development organization to a team that successfully developed multiple releases in parallel including first product internationalization and localization and major.
• Led development of automated acceptance test and functional testing suites to decrease development time for new releases and increase product quality.

US

• Strong partnership with VP of Engineering to lead day to day operations.
• Represented R&D at corporate planning sessions.
• Conducted training sessions for customers and partners and presented at conferences.
• Solicited product requirements from customers, prospects, and sales representatives to develop product roadmap and specific release plans.
• Developed engineering standards including coding conventions, build system, product design template, and core libraries.
• Led integrations with Vignette, NetGravity, DoubleClick, and IBM NetCommerce.

US

• Technical lead and primary developer for net.Thread – one of the first commercial solutions for web-based discussion forums.
• Technical lead and primary developer for net.Form – one of the first commercial web application development environments (predates Allaire ColdFusion and Microsoft ASP).
• Developed custom solutions for customers including ESPN and the Boston Globe.

Designed a language used to express syntactic and semantic constraints for use with a handwriting recognition neural network.Implemented a constraint engine that received a set of weighed outputs from neural network and applied constraints to identify the most likely “valid” output.