As President of Laterality, I lead the company's mission to provide shared services and software solutions for private equity funds' portfolio companies while driving innovation in the B2B health and service industries.Strategic Leadership: • Optimize shared services across portfolio companies of private equity funds, enhancing operational efficiency and IRR. • Align technology strategies to maximize value creation and drive collective growth.Product Innovation: • Develop new products tailored to replace outdated software used by our B2B health and service sector customers. • Established an AI-first culture by integrating LLMs, agentic AI, and proprietary machine learning across all aspects of the company.Business Expansion: • Drive market growth through strategic partnerships and client engagements. • Align exit strategies of platform companies to fund MOIC goals and LP timelines.Team Leadership: • Manage a high-performing team, fostering collaboration and innovation. • Focus on talent development to strengthen organizational capabilities.

As Chief Product Officer and Operating Partner at IgniteTech, a $1B AUM private equity-backed software company, I led a strategic transformation to maximize product longevity and drive sustainable margin growth.Strategic Transformation: Overhauled product strategy across IgniteTech's suite of 63 B2B SaaS solutions, focusing on long-term value, tech replacement, and cash flow generation.Margin expansion: Increased the company's EBITDA by 40% through updated operations, position focus, tech, and monetization strategies.Business Expansion: Led the acquisition and integration of three companies, expanding IgniteTech's product offerings and market presence.Leadership: Directed a global remote team of over 100 personnel, fostering a high-performance culture and aligning cross-functional teams with overall company objectives.IRR performance: Grew the underperforming evergreen fund yield to outperforming top quadrant funds of the same vintage.

I founded Coasly with the vision of revolutionizing global healthcare access by harnessing the power of edge devices to create a decentralized AI platform that fundamentally changes how we manage healthcare services and personal data.What I Did: • Developed edge machine learning methods to enable a decentralized AI platform tailored to global healthcare needs. • Prototyped ecosystem software and hardware, ensuring innovative, commercially viable, and user-centric solutions. • Secured essential funding by demonstrating our value to investors.What I Achieved: • Invented new machine learning protocols and built numerous viable prototypes. • Successfully led the company to an early exit through a strategic sale

I created and led the strategic accounts group, focused on leveraging Amazon.com's scale to enhance the consultancy's experience. Enterprise customers often ask, "How does Amazon do this?" I aimed to provide them with direct knowledge and insights from Amazon.com teams.What I Did: • Partnered with Amazon.com business and technical leaders to implement strategic initiatives targeting data platforms, engineering enablement, and security. • Enhanced organizational capabilities and developed new roles to enable AWS service adoption and maximize customer outcomes. • Strengthened service integrator partnerships to support AWS's largest and fastest-growing customers.What I Achieved: • Played a crucial role in migrating Amazon's company-wide initiatives, such as their migration from Oracle, which increased scale, lowered operating costs, created AWS services, and drove hundreds of product improvements. • Grew the strategic accounts group and selected SI partners to support and lead AWS's largest and fastest-growing customers. • Developed new engineering and data science roles with a robust hiring pipeline. • Significantly contributed to increasing AWS Professional Services' organizational capability and revenue.

Guided Fortune 100 companies through transformative technology projects, ensuring alignment with long-term business goals.What I Did: • Developed and executed a comprehensive software portfolio strategy, leading to operational efficiencies and revenue growth. • Managed high-impact, confidential technology projects, delivering transformative business outcomes.

As a strategic executive advisor to enterprise companies, I consulted on large cross-organizational cloud transformation projects.What I Did: • Provided strategic guidance for cloud transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals. • Led the implementation of enterprise architecture solutions to enhance operational efficiency and scalability.

Led the development of IBM's SmartCloud for Government, doubling group revenue year over year. Achieved FEDRAMP certification and FISMA high compliance, ensuring the highest security standards. Played a key role in integrating the $2B SoftLayer acquisition into high-security environments, significantly driving revenue growth in IBM's cloud services.What I Did: • Led the development of IBM's SmartCloud for Government, doubling group revenue year over year. • Successfully achieved FEDRAMP certification and FISMA high compliance for IBM's cloud products. • Integrated the $2B SoftLayer acquisition into high-security environments, enhancing IBM's cloud service offerings.

Played a vital role in the successful $190 million/year business spinoff, demonstrating strategic foresight and effective execution.Led strategic shift from Managed Hosting to enhanced technology consulting, aligning Acxiom's focus with market demands and future growth.Directed large-scale infrastructure migrations and Big Data integrations, supporting Acxiom's transition to a data aggregation platform.Advocated for and implemented enterprise hypervisors, enhancing operational efficiency and advancing technical capabilities.

Spearheaded a strategic application and data center consolidation project, creating a comprehensive migration roadmap in collaboration with engineering leadership.Achieved a 70% reduction in customer-impacting outages and enhanced overall system performance to align with future state plans.Facilitated the closure of multiple unstable data centers and improved power efficiency through the adoption of optimally sized hardware, reducing overall footprint.The strategic improvements and operational efficiencies enabled a successful exit for the parent company.

Transitioned from network engineer to infrastructure consultant, delivering strategic solutions for enterprise clients.Designed and developed infrastructure for major clients like Best Buy, McDonald's, and Ford.Maintained high-level engagements post-dot-com bubble, collaborating with executive and technical leaders.

Began my professional career at 15, managing outages and developing skills in a critical section of the internet backbone. Gained mentorship and exposure to advanced ideas, cultivating a foundational understanding of technology's impact on business.What I Did: • Managed network outages and configuration updates, ensuring minimal downtime and maintaining critical internet infrastructure. • Developed foundational skills in network architecture and business transformation through hands-on experience and mentorship.