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Kirkland, WA, US

Park City, Utah, US

Providing Fractional CTO and technical leadership to enable startup customers to build and scale V1 products using Cloud, IoT, Edge & emerging technologies.Specializing in:- Building and scaling V1 products with a focus on IoT- Defining technology & Product Strategy- AWS Cloud- IIoT digital transformation- Hands on development & implementation- Technical.

San Francisco, California, US

Seattle, WA, US

• As a hands-on technical leader in the Global Prototyping team, I worked with Enterprise customers to ideate and build early iterations of products/solutions to solve business problems using emerging technologies. I.
• Enabled a pharmaceutical company to reduce manufacturing downtime using IoT, time series data, analytics, ML, & visualization
• Designed a solution to automate a power plant using IoT, Computer Vision and edge ML
• Designed an IoT solution which enabled a global automotive manufacturer to connect vehicles to AWS & deliver new services to customers

Seattle, WA, US

• Wore multiple hats as the interface between product, engineering, BD and field teams as part of a new product team building Amazon’s no-code platform, Honeycode. As lead Architect, I partnered with customers and teams.
• Led GTM strategy, hired and mentored new SA’s enabling the team to scale and meet customer demand post launch
• Built PoC’s and led demo’s resulting in AWS’ largest customers securing the usage commitments required to launch
• Drove awareness & adoption through workshops teaching developers and field teams how to build apps using the platform
• Hired & mentored 2 new Solution Architects

Seattle, WA, US

• Hired as the first SA of a new team dedicated to providing technical leadership to sales teams and AWS partners across Startup, SMB and Enterprise accounts.Key Highlights:
• Worked with AWS partners to drive practice development and provide technical guidance which influenced $246M in annual spend on the platform.
• Built and presented an innovative Industrial IoT demo to executives at a global Wind Energy company which helped secure a $120M opportunity to close.
• Authored technical content including a blog post on AWS IoT for Asset Condition Monitoring which made the top 10 read articles on the AWS blog.
• Selected to present to an audience of 50 technical leaders at re:Invent on how to use AWS to Modernize.NET Applications.
• Led a team of 4 SA's and served as interim manager during the team initiation.

Seattle, WA, US

• Owned the end-to-end technical strategy for an API cloud service which enables developers to deliver digital gift products through web/mobile applications.Key Highlights:
• Automated the developer onboarding experience (DX) reducing the time to issue a gift card by 70%
• Launched a new API, Login & Receive, which enables technology partners to disburse funds directly to customer accounts reducing transaction cost, fraud and overall friction
• Championed a bold product vision that would integrate a series of REST API services into all Amazon ecosystems and enable a unified stored value platform.
• Led the design of enhanced security architecture to migrate legacy API authentication systems to use AWS managed services—API Gateway, Identity & Access Management (IAM) and CloudFront

• While at Microsoft I was recruited to join Caradigm—a health-tech startup formed by Microsoft and GE—to partner alongside customers and build applications that provided insight into patient data and enable improved.
• Led the delivery of applications with several large medical providers in the US
• Built a technical training practice and delivered on-site training workshops which enabled developers to build analytics applications on the platform for their internal clinical customers
• Continually identified gaps in the delivery process and designed new processes and tools which reduced delivery timeTechnologies: C#, JavaScipt, jQuery, SQL, SSIS, Visual Studio, Windows Server

Redmond, Washington, US

• I helped guide enterprise customers through the technical architecture, design and implementation of Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions. Microsoft Health Solutions Group became Caradigm in June 2012.
• Designed the architecture and led the implementation of Microsoft’s largest clinical customer UPMC which provided ~40,000 users with enhanced security, context management and disaster recovery functionality
• Reduced overall integration time by 50% through development of a new methodology which enhanced overall project margins and simplified solution delivery.Technologies: Linux, ADFS, LDAP, XML, Networks, Windows Server

Singapore, Singapore, SG

Partnered with an early stage Smart Buildings startup building an analytics product to improve energy efficiency in commercial buildings

Dallas, Texas, US

• Client-facing role leading the most profitable and demanding account where I served as the interface for business-client groups and led an engineering team toward delivery of web applications for enterprise clients.
• Leadership and technical expertise was key to the profitability of a $10m account
• Problem solving aptitude enabled several critical software updates mandated by the FDA
• Reduced testing time by 50% and improved product quality through automation and QA training

Charlotte, NC, US

• Developing B2B financial web applications across business and technical requirements, prototyping, hands-on code and testing.
• Developed a suite of reusable components resulting in a 50% reduction in build time
• Introduced and evangelized agile development with prototyping reducing design iterations and rework