Cardinal Peak is a 120-person engineering services firm that helps our customers bring products to market across hardware, embedded software, mobile apps, and cloud infrastructure.- Successfully led projects across multiple customers, tripled scope and revenue in 2023. Ran weekly customer meetings to discuss progress and direction.- Led technical consultations with customers to gather requirements, and completed full project work breakouts from architecture down to epic and story levels.- Implemented and iterated on processes for project proposals, project management, and personnel management. Developed scrum team staff augmentation process. Introduced 360-degree reviews, customer reviews of engineers on staff augmentation, and project retrospective processes.- Managed a team of junior, senior, and staff engineers, team leads, and project managers, that delivered projects at consistently high velocity and high quality.- Grew engineering department, interviewing directly and mentoring to ensure a high performing team. Mentored in many areas including technical, process, project and personnel management, and customer communication.

Gnarbox created a rugged backup device for pro content creators who need the most reliable way to back up their files in the field. The powerful hardware and small form factor led the way for a company pivot to edge computing.- Led the embedded engineering team from board bring-up through release of second generation product resulting in first profitable quarter and $15M annual run rate.- Reported to CEO, CTO, and COO. Managed engineering department of 3 teams and interfaced with product team to define and implement quarterly releases. Implemented and iterated on processes leading to less requirements churn, more accurate estimates, decreased rate of bugs, and decreased technical debt.- Managed OTA releases of mission critical OS and application software to tens of thousands of devices. Decreased release timeline and risk by implementing and enforcing CI processes.- Led requirements process and definition, hybrid OEM/ODM hardware project, and corresponding software project for pivot to edge computing.

Joined a team of experienced embedded Linux developers to complete project contracts for DirecTV. Transitioned to role as subject matter expert placed within teams after DirecTV was acquired by AT&T. Mentored junior developers and led the push for simplicity of implementation to reduce development and testing times. Prepared and briefed biweekly presentations of team progress to stakeholders.

First Linux expert on the team at this network test equipment manufacturer. Joined the product team to rewrite core software to support next generation hardware running on Linux, a first for the product line. Over time assumed ownership for software development on multiple core components of this software project and led a team of 3 engineers.

Administered the build and test manager server for this provider of commercial grade, high performance Wi-Fi Access Points. Implemented remote serial port access in bootloader and Linux device drivers. Backed up developers on a variety of software projects as needed.

Developed drivers and user programs on JTAG probe team for the largest independent embedded software provider, known for RTOS and software tools used to build high-reliability systems in aviation, military, and other markets that millions of people depend on every day.