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Raleigh, Nc, Us

Mountain View, California, Us

Though my title change went from "VP Engineering" to "SVP Engineering", the scope of responsibilities I successfully led were well beyond delivering technology outcomes. After successfully driving sweeping improvements across the engineering department, the promotion to SVP Engineering expanded the scope of my responsibilities to two discrete P&L's as well as additional functions. Reduction of 40% of excess spending in the first year, while markedly increasing the throughput, quality, and predictability of the outputs from my department. Found, hired, promoted, and developed amazing leaders from underrepresented communities in technology. Launched entirely new product and service offerings, allowing Lark to increase its impact beyond the healthcare payer market into the PBM and employer market. Led modernization of well-established health coaching app to responsibly leverage LLM-based solutions where appropriate to enrich the end-user experience. Cultivated much deeper interdependence between other departments at Lark, to foment a "One Lark" culture. Was hands-on deeply involved in substantial improvements to Agile and Project Management functions that resulted in much greater predictability of outputs, and agility to pivot my department to meet emerging business opportunities. Reorganized customer support into Technical Project Management, which created a much smoother flow of resolving customer support tickets within Engineering team sprint plans. Launched a PMO to extend project management into the business. Democratized access to Data Warehouse to resolve a systemic bottleneck and allow Lark to treat our rich data as a value add to our users & business partners.Retained: * Software Engineering (end-to-end)* Data Engineering* Platform Engineering & DevOpsAdded scope:* Data Science* Data Reporting Operations* Analytics Engineering* Business Insights* Technical Project Management (TPM)* Customer Support* Information Technology

Mountain View, California, Us

After a brief period of functioning as a consultant / fractional VP Engineering, I joined the Lark team full-time to head up the Engineering department. This role included P&L oversight of:* Software Engineering (end-to-end)* Data Engineering* Platform Engineering & DevOpsDrove early excellence in Talent Density transformation, and more mature adoption of OKR's for aligning engineering initiatives directly to fulfillment of top line business objectives. Found and developed existing employees with under appreciated leadership potential (both in and outside of my department), with particular emphasis on developing up and coming women into more influential leadership roles. Was hands-on driving transformation of product roadmapping projections and helping my managers to prioritize on understanding their capacity, making commitments they can keep, and keeping them consistently. This led to product roadmaps we could be much more certain about. Led massive improvements in making our main revenue drivers more observable and predictable through the use of more mature instrumentation, proactive A/B testing, and deep partnership with business stakeholders to understand key drivers of business success.

Having a very brief but successful run as a solopreneur, my role shifts to one of merely keeping the legal entity intact for some distant future use.

Groktopus brings experienced yet outside the box strategic insights to executive leadership teams, following through with action and delivery. Let us know if you need:* Fractional CIO/CTO* Help solving your most challenging strategic problems* Developing workforce transformation strategy, leadership pipeline* Intersection of any of these areas with Neurodiversity.Groktopus LLC is an Autistic-owned business registered in North Carolina.

Brighton , Gb

Fixed-scope contract which included:* Bringing a new technology product to market for B2B/B2E customers, in a company without an existing tech portfolio.* Bringing rigor and uniformity to project management, task delegation, and delivery using Asana (software) as well as Agile & Lean methodologies.* Helping the sales team to level up with SalesOps. Working with head of Sales and CEO to model next generation Sales funnel in Asana, and also to use Asana as CRM.* Coaching department heads on how to use Asana to offer smoother handoffs between teams at key inflection points in customer lifecycle.* Drive soft reboot of ISO 27001 certification process.* Explore strategic relationships with other organizations in complementary space. Announced partnership with "business disability international".

San Francisco, California, Us

Lead a large global team of 300+ technologists to offer a curated infrastructure experience for our software engineering community. Portfolio includes:* Cloud compute & storage* API Gateways* Container Services* Databases (relational, key-value, columnar, document)* Messaging Services & Event Streams* Data Integration, Batch processing, B2B, EDI* Cloud Center of ExcellenceChampion of a number of key transformation & modernization initiatives.

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Accountable for * multiple cloud products (Kubernetes, OpenShift)* also building and leading a cloud coaching consultancy.* CA Layer7 API Management * IBM DataPower Gateway* Apache Kong / Cassandra (API Gateway)* Upskilling legacy teams for modernized workloads through tracks including SRE, DevSecOps, AI/MLLead the development of UHG’s Neurodiversity Hiring Initiatives, along with other autistic and Neurodivergent leaders.Extended global engineering team presence into the European Union.

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Accountable for multiple cloud products (Kubernetes, OpenShift), also building and leading a cloud coaching consultancy.

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Led multiple programs with globally distributed teams with accountability for:* IBM Websphere MQ (Distributed)* IBM Websphere MQ (zOS & iSeries)* IBM Integration Bus (IIB)* platform engineering* CA Layer7 API Management * IBM DataPower Gateway* Apache Kong / Cassandra (API Gateway)* Enterprise API design, certification, taxonomy, and review

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Led a program with 3 globally distributed teams with accountability for:* Websphere MQ (Distributed)* Websphere MQ (zOS & iSeries)* platform engineering

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Led three geographically distributed teams (across three continents) in support of Enterprise Messaging Services (IBM Websphere MQ, IIB). Led modernization effort of distributed, mainframe (zOS) and iSeries MQ services to DevOps principles and methodologies. Introduced Agile/Lean work planning and execution principles and methodologies, project management, and leadership dashboarding via Kanban.

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Strategic leader within one of the largest business transformations in history, focusing on the nexus between Agile and DevOps for an organization of over 200,000 people.Managed a department of DevOps and ATDD coaches to consult and assist with hands-on transformation of product and service development across all of UHG and support the successful adoption and maturation of Agile delivery.Worked with executive leadership on establishing and measuring KPI's for success.Key leadership role in DevSecOps adoption. Worked closely with Chief Enterprise Security Architect to create new capabilities for all software developers to get security feedback on new code contributions early in the software development process.Helped to establish Open Source and Inner Source practices. Member of the internal Open Source and Inner Source leadership council.

Austin, Tx, Us

In February, 2015, role changed to one focusing on Developer Productivity, reporting directly to Director of Production Operations. Mission is to be a force multiplier by improving software developer productivity across the organization through multiple vectors, both technical and non-technical. Assumed ownership of Atlassian Tool Suite (JIRA, Crucible, Fisheye, Confluence, JIRA Agile, Bamboo), SonarQube.Started as Principal Engineer representing Systems Engineering within larger Production Engineering team. Find and take point on strategic initiatives that will improve technical and business capabilities of the organization. Partner with engineers, technical leadership, and all levels of business leadership to align Engineering teams with each other and with the needs of the business and its customers. Raise the reputation capital of Bronto Engineering within the software development community through blogging, public speaking, meetup organization. Raise the capabilities of the Systems Engineering team through leadership in training on new skills, best practices, quality of work, workflow efficiencies (Lean/Kanban approach). Directed a 3 month long Ruby 101 course to elevate skill set of operations team.Key technologies include: Ruby, Puppet, Foreman, git, Racktables, Atlassian Suite (JIRA, Confluence, Fisheye, Bamboo, Crucible), datacenter, bare metal server, Dell Poweredge servers, bash, Ruby, Test::Unit, kvm, libvirt, GlusterFS, Nagios, ISC BIND authoritative DNS server, Hipchat API

Contribute short articles offering practical tips for autistic professionals to thrive in the workplace. Content written primarily by autism self-advocates.December 2014 - Invited to contribute as Freelance Journalist. January 2015 - Brought on as Staff Writer and assigned to Careers column.March 2015 - Promoted to Editor, joined the senior leadership team.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Principal DevOps Instigator on "Inception" (DevOps Enablement Team). Agile Coach to nascent Agile practice (Scrum/Kanban/Scrumban) of Systems Engineering, Cloud Operations, IT Enablement. Bringing DevOps cultural & process change, tooling, and methodologies to product teams. I function as a DevOps enablement specialist inside of Red Hat IT across the towers. I am also responsible for externally-facing communications about Red Hat's DevOps and Open Source values to our customers via Red Hat's Developer Blog. Identify opportunities in value stream, especially at the nexus between Product Development teams with IT Operations, InfoSec, and other teams. Provide technical leadership and follow-through on solutions. Work with IT-affiliated Agile/Scrum teams as an Agile process Subject Matter Expert (Scrum & Kanban). Act as a catalytic agent to the viral spread of DevOps inspired culture, tools, and processes throughout the IT organization.Technologies leveraged day to day include: Amazon AWS (EC2, EBS, ELB, VPC, CloudFormation), Ansible, Docker, Vagrant, Python, OpenShift, RHEL, git (via Github and Gitolite), Pulp, Jenkins. Develop custom tooling for DevOps enablement, principally in Python, and defaulting to Open Source via our RHInception group on Github. Take time to seek deep & meaningful input from our stakeholders frequently, and occasionally engage in speaking in front of large groups about DevOps.

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

Led a DevOps enablement team, first as a Senior Systems Engineer, and then as Engineering Manager and ScrumMaster, to enable reliable, secure deployment and quality control for both Amplify Learning and Amplify Insight/SLI. My team includes engineers from two different corporate divisions, encompassing subject matter experts in Software Engineering and Systems Engineering working closely together to drive effectiveness into our software development and operations efforts.As a leader / manager / ScrumMaster, led team through intense period of change in mission scope, from serving developers of a single project to serving developers on many projects across multiple business units. Through self-initiative, found new work for the team in another business unit, involving in a more than 4x uplift in business value delivered across two divisions. Ultimately joined my team with the operations team of the business unit and assumed leadership of the joint team. Driver of cultural change towards DevOps community values. Led a Kanban operations team that supported a Scrum software project with great success. Functional manager of team members. Helped organize and facilitate successful Technical/Leadership Unconference event. Set up direct-reports with opportunities to succeed at their goals. Grew the team to adapt to expanding role. Customized Jira/Greenhopper for operations-focused Agile workflow in service to over 20 software development scrum teams and 100+ discrete software projects concurrently.Also architected SaaS platforms in the Amazon AWS cloud (EC2, VPC, EBS, PIOPS, API). automation via tools such as Puppet, Capistrano, shell scripting. Stood up & sharded MongoDB. Survived the chaos monkey. RHEL, Puppet, MongoDB, Gazzang, Apache httpd, nginx, Apache Tomcat, managing Rails apps, cool ssh tricks, being awesome and playing well with others. Key part of team that brought InBloom to production-ready from the ground-up.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Worked across organizational lines to cross-team with engineers and form a DevOps functional scrum team, focusing on continuous integration services. Administrator of a production web server farm running FreeBSD, CentOS, Solaris, and Debian Linux systems. Manage Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliances (7310, 7420). Automation of configuration management via cfengine. Documented extensively processes that had previously been done ad-hoc to bring consistent quality to IT services. Affected cultural changes to break down the walls to IT services and help people to help themselves.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Directly accountable for a portfolio of programs that transformed IBM into a leader in Open Source. This included the CommunitySource service, the IBM Internal Open Source Bazaar (IIOSB), and most of the software development infrastructure for the IBM Linux Technology Center.Collaborated with colleagues around the globe on a distributed scrum team.

King Of Prussia, Pa, Us

Part of a team that managed a farm of hundreds of servers, providing web site services, data mining, and web crawling/harvesting. Automated provisioning of servers via PXE/tftpboot and scripting.

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Manage Linux-based High Performance Computing environment (Beowulf cluster) for pharma R&D. Also spearhead deployment of VMWare ESX virtualization environment for data center consolidation initiative.

Berwyn, Pa, Us

Only Linux system administrator in environment supporting Linux desktops, servers, infrastructure hosts, R&D and Q&A environments, as well as actual product deployments. Made extensive use of re-tasking retired Windows servers to extend their useful life by running Linux or OpenBSD. Extensive custom scripting developed to automate workload and allow one system administrator to manage hundreds of hosts.

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Managed Linux and Sun servers primarily to drive direct marketing campaigns. Responsible for hosts including high performance compute nodes, Oracle RDBMS, Postfix SMTP, high volume CUPS print servers, and more.

Replace aging Windows infrastructure with modern robust Linux and OpenBSD medical practice infrastructure. Implement distributed digital radiology practice at regional hospitals and clinics. Interfaced PACS system with geographically diverse physicians, specialists, and DICOM imaging modalities at regional hospitals all over the eastern third of North Carolina.

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Was first full time IT employee at startup company, created infrastructure based on Windows, Red Hat Linux, and Solaris from the ground up and scaled it over three sites across the country, and several international sales offices, acting as site IT manager and then IT Director, until additional IT staff and a more seasoned IT Director could be brought on. Supported hardware and software engineers directly, occasionally assisted engineers with product development issues on embedded Linux platform.

Houston, Tx, Us

Served as "top gun" consultant to lead projects for Fortune 500 clients, serve as technical lead on several, and also brought into other team's projects to manage scope creep or tackle any blockers be them technical or cultural. Primary focus was on Windows NT based solutions, with clients including Prudential Insurance, Mobil Research, Breyer's, U.S. Vision, and more.

Provided targeted consulting services for a number of Judge's clients. Duties ranged from creating functional & compatibility tests for the then-nascent Windows NT, to supervising IT operations for a utility company's customer call center.