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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

United States

Managed Wind River Cloud Analytics, a suite of tools for analyzing the performance of cellular carrier networks built on the ELK (Elastic, Logstash, and Kibana) stack. Led teams in Seattle and Bangalore. Coordinated all aspects of the software development lifecycle, including architecture, specification development, agile project management, scheduling, and people management. • Delighted customers with operational cost savings through a 53% performance improvement. • Drove the team… Show more Managed Wind River Cloud Analytics, a suite of tools for analyzing the performance of cellular carrier networks built on the ELK (Elastic, Logstash, and Kibana) stack. Led teams in Seattle and Bangalore. Coordinated all aspects of the software development lifecycle, including architecture, specification development, agile project management, scheduling, and people management. • Delighted customers with operational cost savings through a 53% performance improvement. • Drove the team to meet customer commitments, delivering three releases on budget and on schedule, through a transition from waterfall to lean agile.• Made engineering planning more trustworthy by designing and rolling out a new capacity planning methodology. Show less

Greater Seattle Area

Led the Alexa Smart Home Core Components teams, handling 100 million Alexa requests daily. Managed three software development teams (31 engineers and managers), with a $5M operating budget. • Improved global customer-perceived latency by 19% by leading a detailed engineering review of the microservice architecture. • Decreased headcount costs by reducing sustained engineering from 4 to 1.5 FTE through improved code quality and documentation. • Reduced new feature roll-out time by… Show more Led the Alexa Smart Home Core Components teams, handling 100 million Alexa requests daily. Managed three software development teams (31 engineers and managers), with a $5M operating budget. • Improved global customer-perceived latency by 19% by leading a detailed engineering review of the microservice architecture. • Decreased headcount costs by reducing sustained engineering from 4 to 1.5 FTE through improved code quality and documentation. • Reduced new feature roll-out time by 70% (from ten to three days) by simplifying the call chain and improving the automated test suite. Show less

Seattle

Responsible for the design, development and operations of data warehouses and data analytics tools for an employee base of greater than 1 million people. Led a team of 36 software engineers and engineering managers in Seattle, Vancouver, Dublin, and Hyderabad.• Replaced the existing Oracle data warehouse with AWS technologies (S3, RedShift, QuickSight), reducing time to fulfill customer requests by 65% while decreasing data latency by 12 hours. • Built and managed a machine learning… Show more Responsible for the design, development and operations of data warehouses and data analytics tools for an employee base of greater than 1 million people. Led a team of 36 software engineers and engineering managers in Seattle, Vancouver, Dublin, and Hyderabad.• Replaced the existing Oracle data warehouse with AWS technologies (S3, RedShift, QuickSight), reducing time to fulfill customer requests by 65% while decreasing data latency by 12 hours. • Built and managed a machine learning team focused on recruiting and candidate success tracking.• Built and managed a remote development team focused on data acquisition, based in Dublin, Ireland. Show less

Snoqualmie, Washington, United States

Responsible for the development of patient-monitoring embedded systems (FDA Class II medical devices). Led an organization of 64 software engineers, program managers, clinicians, and test engineers across eight teams.• Overhauled software development practices across the organization, moving from waterfall to Agile/Scrum. Reduced the time between product updates from 2.5 years to 6 months.• Developed and brought to market a new approach to ICU & ER monitoring which included improved… Show more Responsible for the development of patient-monitoring embedded systems (FDA Class II medical devices). Led an organization of 64 software engineers, program managers, clinicians, and test engineers across eight teams.• Overhauled software development practices across the organization, moving from waterfall to Agile/Scrum. Reduced the time between product updates from 2.5 years to 6 months.• Developed and brought to market a new approach to ICU & ER monitoring which included improved cardiac arrhythmia detection. This product had zero recalls in its first year of service.• Brought a telemetry monitoring solution to market to replace aging products. This solution provided better arrythmia analysis in a simpler product that could be upgraded easily. Show less

Issaquah, Washington, United States

Owned the development of patient monitoring software for hospitals and health care professionals. Completely overhauled software development methodology across the company, attracting new talent and reducing software defects through new testing systems and integration of dev and test teams.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Ran the technology side of a virtual internet communications company with approximately 15,000 subscribers. Responsible for a team of 6 engineers and designers building this new product. • Rebuilt entire tech stack, including a new IDE, issue tracking across offices, and enforcing code check-in rules. • Moved operations from on-prem to hosted datacenter servers.• Reorganized the software and the corporate policies to make the whole platform PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data… Show more Ran the technology side of a virtual internet communications company with approximately 15,000 subscribers. Responsible for a team of 6 engineers and designers building this new product. • Rebuilt entire tech stack, including a new IDE, issue tracking across offices, and enforcing code check-in rules. • Moved operations from on-prem to hosted datacenter servers.• Reorganized the software and the corporate policies to make the whole platform PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) and COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act) compliant. Show less

Managed the program management org for the backend store powering Windows Phone. Managed a team of 10 program managers responsible for project management, scheduling, budgets, and feature development.• Owned the development and rollout of Windows Live Domains, a custom domain naming service for email users. • Coordinated with hardware teams for product and feature rollouts around the new Windows Phones.

Led the Microsoft Solutions for Security and Compliance (2002-2007) and the Microsoft Solutions for Management and Infrastructure (2007-2009) product units.• Working with the NSA and NIST, built and deployed secure Windows client and server specifications for non-classified government systems.• Improved worldwide customer confidence in Windows Server as a secure operating system by 12 points over two years.

Professional services management: Led a team of expert consultants responsible for information security consulting with Microsoft's largest U.S. and international customers.

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Professional services management: led a team of 10 expert consultants working with Microsoft's largest worldwide customers on electronic messaging and directory services architecture and troubleshooting. Was responsible for business development, execution and consultant professional development.