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Terrell, TX, US

• Interface with C-level team to facilitate and implement Google's Design Sprint to rapidly prototype, test new concepts and gather customer insights to form business strategies.
• Provide coaching and mentoring in creation and growing of the development team, management and process.
• Implement Agile/Scrum process for the organization.

• Advise on technology stack and architecture for initial implementation of Aegis product. • Ongoing advisory position for strategic partnerships with new customers. • Strategic advise on company financing as well as 3rd party consulting• Advised and performed architectural design on new web billing system.

Dublin City, County Dublin, IE

Perform Technical Due diligence of Product, IT and Engineering departments for new incoming CEOAdvise Board of Directors on capabilities and optimizations regarding delivery and technical strategies for the organizationFacilitated Business, product, and engineering inceptions on major technical debt initiativesAdvise on organizational changes in.

• Managed the assimilation of three acquisitions (Stayz.com.au, Bookabach.co.nz, Yesbookit.com, implemented standardized processes, operating cadence, succession planning and metrics to provide global visibility.
• Developed and managed transition of local development teams from local business development to contributing to global initiatives
• Increased capacity of ANZ team from 9 person product development team to 36 contributors split into 6 teams handling 4 brands.
• Significantly improved time to delivery from monthly release cycle to weekly deployments through introduction of agile methodologies, automated testing, and operational procedures
• Coached and mentored 5 new development managers and 1 new senior manager on career development, effective communication skills, delivery management, and working in a larger parent company.
• Developed metrics and operationalized collaboration to facilitate business planning and product roadmap delivery

• Directed Engineering organization with direct oversight of Operations, 7 Development Teams, and QA organization, that had global product responsibilities
• Implemented Agile development process into a previously waterfall “loose process” development organization
• Managed and facilitated over 300 weekly sprints following Scrum/Lean Kanban/Agile development process
• Coached and implemented development teams with the Scrum/Lean Kanban/Agile methodology
• Managed the Homeaway Connect development team, whose responsibilities include developing and maintaining Owner facing management tools for Reservations management and Payments Management
• Managed the Traveler team responsible for HomeAway.com and 23 international brands as well as 8 separate local brand.

• Directed Operations, Quality Assurance, and Development teams.• Managed, developed, and executed engineering deployment of over 30 quarterly and monthly releases• Performed requirements gathering from satellite office Product Team. • Managed a well-documented and scaleable agile mini-Rational Unified development process studied by Carnegie Mellon of best.

• Advise and help set funding raising directions for fiscal year. • Participated in fund raising subcommittee and raised $20,000 thru company partnerships and direct contributions. • Directed decisions on policy and growth for the Academy.

• Brought in to coordinate a small team of 6 engineers and an outsource group in development of a behind schedule, UK based portal destination. Worked with Product team to development and deployment of product. Helped managed partner relationship with P&G UK. Coordinated a geographically separate teams.• Managed a 4 person team for Content Applications.

• Coordinate and manage 13 district IT teams across the US. • Developed and deployed corporate wide intranet solution on Lotus Notes. • Managed a team of 2 engineers to provide new internal applications to support field offices. • Provided both hardware and software technical support to end users. (Windows and Dos based systems, and network consulting.)