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Austin, Texas, Us

Leading the Office of the Chief Architect that ensures "our platform converges while using the Cloud"; we are the custodians of architecture. Guided architecture from start-up to IPO. Specific areas of ownership include: Architecture Practice, Engineering Processes (including Architecture Quality and Design Review), Platform Investments (short and long term), AWS Strategic Relationships, and Patent Portfolio. Highlights include:Bringing leading edge AI technology to LegalTech including Retrieval Augmented Generation using VectorDBs and LLMs and other advanced techniques to improve legal outcomes. Bringing together large scale platform architecture and AI into a cohesive solution so that AI is embedded within products and platforms rather than a "stand alone" effort or group.Aligning business needs between Product and Engineering by designing and implementing scalable requirements capture and architecture practices around Distributed Domain Driven Design and Design By Contract (in the vein of DOMA from Uber). Increasing team velocity and quality by establishing actionable and scalable architecture practices around System Design and Architecture Quality Attributes (pioneered by the Software Engineering Institute at CMU) (e.g. Affordability, Performance, Availability). These practices were iteratively developed via trusted partnerships with product and engineering teams.Research and Development of platform systems and technologies that simultaneously enable scale and affordability through architectural leverage in the evolving LegalTech landscape including: precision search, scale-out processing, complex orchestration.Leader in defining critical platform capabilities including: Embedded Product Analytics, Scalable Micro-tenanted Configuration, Application Protocols.Principal designer and custodian of an Architecture Naming system that unifies our documentation, team ownership, FinOps, and Cloud Tagging Strategies into a integrated model.

Austin, Tx, Us

Partner with Product Management to translate EdTech complex business needs to replace the first generation pipeline from “batch-oriented” workflows to continuous data collection, processing, and presentation for use in Data Science-based predictions and scores.Developed a generalized university catalog graph data model that can capture different vendor structures in support of advising and audits. Lead the engineering principals from Dev and DevOps in complex component selection with a sharp focus on System Design Thinking leading several buy versus build decisions in the context of AWS Cloud.Recruiting and retaining high-end talent as well as mentoring engineers at all levels to improve their design and problem solving skills.

Austin, Tx, Us

Develop innovative products and technical solutions to Cyber and Healthcare business problems that grow with the business and bring value to our customers (including the patent portfolio).Providing the technology vision, product roadmap, and architecture for the flagship product line Torch. Highlights include: risk scoring frameworks, high scale user interfaces, advanced analytics, etc.Attract and retain top technical talent via one-on-one mentoring, leading design sessions and reviews, and providing opportunities to grow career aspirations.Successful product exit for LYNXeon Cyber by setting the engineering team goals and technology vision that dramatically reduced the TCO while improving performance and scalability.

Austin, Tx, Us

Attract and retain top technical talent via one-on-one mentoring, leading design sessions and reviews, and providing opportunities to grow career aspirations.Successful product exit for LYNXeon Cyber by setting the engineering team goals and technology vision that dramatically reduced the TCO while improving performance and scalability by 20x.

Austin, Tx, Us

Engineering report to the Chief Product Officer. Responsible for Development, QA, Technical Writing, Maintenance, and Level 3 Product Support, Engineering Contract Review, Open Source Compliance, Recruiting, and IP Portfolio development.Primary engineering contact with our NEP partner Alcatel-Lucent. Coordinated with other executives across the company to keep the business and engineering efforts in alignment with overall business goals which led to successful partnership renewals.Grew the engineering team in size and efficiency including: improved recruiting practices, automated continuous build and deployment, agile iteration practices, SDLC, automated test harness, automated software escrow.

Austin, Tx, Us

Developer on the Directory Services Product line. Added several capabilities to the product including a variety of system logging (e.g. RDBMS, syslog, etc.). Refactored web-based products to current frameworks. Adopted use of Maven for automated build. Deep-dive architecture analysis on the native replication algorithms to recommend short-term and long-term improvements.Developed subscriber data caching services for our NEP partner Alcatel-Lucent which is in use by a major wireless provider.

Austin, Tx, Us

Successful software exit by acquisition from SolarWinds.Architect and designer of the core technology stack for the Hyper9 Virtual Systems Management Platform product offering including: Data Collection (asynchronous messaging), Data Storage (historical configuration and performance metric data), Analytic Services, Domain Models.Trained and mentored team members in effective use of: build systems, configuration management, test case design and implementation, issue tracking, and software engineering techniques.

Austin, Tx, Us

Chief Architect and Development Manager for the Lynxeon Intelligence Analytics Platform. Led the transition from a research software development effort to a commercial effort including contributions to the IP portfolio. Chief Architect and principal developer for 6 release cycles of the Wolverine Analytics Platform which transitioned and combined several research and open-source technologies into a comprehensive enterprise platform for research applications.Led and implemented a sustained effort for software process improvement including: automated builds, Configuration Management, source control, and Architecture-Centric project management.Technical Team Lead: Responsible for research and development of technology solutions.Lead researcher and principal developer of a scalable Graph Pattern Matching engine including query processing and data modeling compiler technology. Sponsored by Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security.

Responsible for the architecture of the analytics platform that leverage our active data warehouse. This platform simultaneously enabled multiple analytic applications and mass client customization deployment on a single deployment.Developed a patented and innovative approach to Product Line Engineering for Software as a Service (SaaS) deployments that reduced maintenance windows from weeks to hours. Client Services continuously introduced highly profitable customizations without downtime and were enabled via user-friendly tooling.Led 3 buy versus build technical analysis for our analytics applications and data warehouse platforms where we evaluated and tested an extensive set of Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools for suitability to our problem space.

Austin, Tx, Us

Tech Lead and a principal architect for the MCC ConfigViews and MCC TraderService products. Designed and developed an N-tier, scalable, fault tolerant and customizable software architecture that provided product configuration users a highly interactive application in a web-based environment. Led a team of 5 developers with several successful customer deployments (including multiple product releases) that led to repeat and new business in several business units.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Principal Investigator for the Army Research Laboratories ATIRP program. Duties included managing a federated collaboration team, setting a team research agenda, and conducting research in dynamic data distribution techniques for information modeling environments.Principal Investigator and team leader for the Conceptual Modeling Environments internal research and development program.Software architecture consultant and design team facilitator for an internal development effort of a real-time, object-oriented weapons control software system.

Founding member of InterSpec start up that created SaaS software to deliver automated building specifications given a set of CAD drawings. Developed business plan and service delivery structures (https://www.deltek.com/en/products/specification-solutions/e-specs). Company was acquired by Deltek via Arcom.

Phd, Computational Design

Ms, Computational Design

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science