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Des Moines, IA, US

Grinnell, IA, US

Grinnell, IA, US

Leading the next digital transformation of one of the media industries most successful and established information technology teams as we continue to serve over 1,000 diversified media brands across 182 million consumers around the globe.Creating and collaborating with a fantastic group of both new and veteran staff as we evolve our team structure, process.

Minneapolis And St. Paul, Minnesota, US

Teaching a graduate level course on Big Data Strategies, Services and Analytics. This course prepares students to contribute as analysts, engineers or architects on enterprise projects requiring big data platforms and technologies while also understanding and appreciating the role of Data Science in today's business environment.I have also conducted a.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

Led a world-class engineering team that has delivered one of the industry's most innovative browser-based page builders, a high performance API gateway and integration middleware, a new identity management system, an event-driven data services platform connected to over 20 integration partners, a new data science program, and the industries first open.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

Building version 2.0 of LeadPages, an industry leader in digital marketing tools and services with over 20k customers and millions of landing pages served every day. During my first year our engineering department:1) Grew the core engineering team from 25 to 65 wonderful and talented people with 5% churn and retention of the senior technical leaders that.

Richfield, Minnesota, US

• Initiated big data and open source pilot projects to demonstrate integrated approaches to large scale data interaction, composite and dynamic rules based services, analytics, and storage.
• Orchestrated significant shifts in enterprise architecture policies and capabilities around browser based frameworks, UX engineering, microservices, event driven architecture and exception handling.
• Drove the re-architecture and project turnaround of the enterprise portal, serving dynamic content to thousands of concurrent users across hundreds of groups and departments.
• Led the design of new content targeting capabilities along with federated security, enterprise search, and enterprise social networking.
• Recruited to lead the technical solution for a new home connections line of business delivering a unique retailing platform for major media and communications service providers.
• Provided architecture and project leadership on multiple applications advancing partner promotions, online delivery and activations around gaming and other digital download or subscription based products.

Canton, MA, US

• Directed the product and engineering efforts for the company’s two unified communications products, Concourse & Portico, resulting in marquis customers and multiple industry awards such as the 2009 Red Herring Award.
• Led professional services engagements to include enterprise architecture and strategy oversight for Fortune 500 clients while providing engineering leadership, technical architecture, strategy and governance across US.
• Acting VP of Engineering for Atigeo, a software start-up supplying advanced correlation and inference engines under evaluation by major media companies. Restructured Atigeo’s product architecture, methodologies and.
• Led design and code reviews with West Coast, Canadian, and Romanian software teams, and drove the transition from a.NET based product company to a new Java team porting over to Apache Tomcat, Cassandra, and Lucene/Solr.

Bellevue, WA, US

• Turned around T-Mobile’s Next-Generation Retail store initiative, first saving the business model at the CXO level and then re-architecting everything from the middleware forward to deliver rich media applications and.
• Led vendor evaluations and negotiations, identifying performance and cost optimizations that resulted in the 40% cost reductions required for the program to move forward.
• Directed enterprise architects and software development teams to design and implement new content management and partner media management relationships to provide an integrated customer experience in the store while.
• Interviewed and re-assigned all T-Mobile managers, staff and contractors as needed to conform to the program and project team structure created for this enterprise initiative.
• Managed the build out of T-Mobile test and integration labs while also working on-site with major suppliers to validate component integrity and performance.

Englewood, CO, US

• Performed as interim VP of Architecture for EchoStar Communications (Dish Networks) and as Engineering Liaison for the EchoStar CIO, bridging the corporate culture and technology gaps between Denver based IT operations.
• Selected to lead many key enterprise initiatives for EchoStar CIO, to include billing system evaluations and CRM consolidation, improved quality assurance and requirements management.

• Providing executive consulting services to organizations seeking technical oversight and strategic guidance. Leading or participating in business case development, staff and process assessments, and vendor evaluations.
• Consulted with Pioneer Health Partners and Athena Health to build a technology practice, serve key clients in the development of health care and insurance systems data integration, and manage healthcare portal projects.

• Built a supplier of leading-edge broadband consulting and integration solutions serving notable clients such as AT&T Broadband, The Weather Channel, RoadRunner and Thomson Multimedia (RCA). Responsible for emerging.
• Developed and managed new accounts, taking the business from ground zero to over one million dollars in annual revenue in less than 24 months.
• Led critical, groundbreaking projects for AT&T Broadband, directly advising senior executives such as CIO, SVP Marketing, VPs of Operations and IT while leading technical teams tasked with integrating systems and.
• Consulted as the interim CTO of Mediapike, led the company through technical and market trials of their media streaming and management products while also supporting partner and investor activities, invited by founders.
• Consulted as the interim CTO of Thomson Home Health Services, worked with senior executives of Thomson Multimedia to correctly define and position the new venture with both internal and external partners. Worked with.

• Represented IT on a small cross functional team tasked with developing business cases for digital services and then leading their planning, engineering and deployment on a national basis. Served as a senior member on.
• Technical Lead across multiple software development, vendor testing and delivery, and systems integration projects. Provided administrative project reports to regional executives and corporate headquarters while also.
• Facilitated relationships with set top box manufacturers new to the North American cable market, providing MediaOne with important cost options that drove new business plans. Directed the software integration.
• Led MediaOne’s premiere CRM initiative, Project Vector, an advanced distributed computing effort focused on providing a modular software development and maintenance approach to address the needs of convergent business.

Responsible for end-to-end systems integration efforts on large scale projects for each of the three parent organizations (TELE-TV was a partnership of Bell Atlantic, Nynex, and Pacific Telesis). Led project management, application integration, testing and delivery teams. Worked directly with company senior executives to structure vendor relationships and.

Led many new projects and initiatives for the Austin division to include data analytics, geographic information and knowledge based systems, and classified software development projects. Selected to lead one of the few exclusive teams at Lockheed tasked with productizing defense technologies in the commercial marketplace and developing new lines of business.

Master Of Science (Ms), Software Engineering

Bs, Computer Science

Aas, Intelligence Operations

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