Strategic consulting in Cloud and Systems Infrastructure solutions including business plan and delivery team management.

Development Manager for the core transformation and workflow service of Commerce Engine.

Software Developer for API management and protection of bestbuy.com. - Implemented an API gateway to provide rate limiting capabilities to protect backend services- Implemented 3-legged authentication using a Json Web Token (JWT) for accessing REST services- Implemented symmetric and asymmetric encryption algorithms for the purposes of signing a JWT- Deployed APIs and developer applications using the API management product Apigee - Use Java, Groovy, Gradle, Spring, Jetty… Show more Software Developer for API management and protection of bestbuy.com. - Implemented an API gateway to provide rate limiting capabilities to protect backend services- Implemented 3-legged authentication using a Json Web Token (JWT) for accessing REST services- Implemented symmetric and asymmetric encryption algorithms for the purposes of signing a JWT- Deployed APIs and developer applications using the API management product Apigee - Use Java, Groovy, Gradle, Spring, Jetty, Junit and Spock to write java applications- Development environment includes macbook pros, Openstack VMs running Centos, Jenkins, VirtualBox, Vagrant, Kitchen, IntelliJ, Git(Stash), Sourcetree and Docker- Development Support – Atlassian (Confluence, Jira, Hipchat, Stash)- Development practices – pair programming, agile with Scrum board and daily stand up, 12factor.net, INVEST principle, TDD Show less

Motivating factors were an international cultural experience, the ability to give the gift of bilingualism to our children, and to achieve personal goals.

People manager for the development and integration of OpenStack with IBM's SmartCloud Entry product with all IBM hardware platforms. • Responsible for the final release packaging and testing for the SmartCloud Entry product that had $150M of revenue in the first year and $400M of revenue the second year.• Coordination and direction of automated build, triage, test driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing of the cloud stack though tools such as DevOps and Jenkins… Show more People manager for the development and integration of OpenStack with IBM's SmartCloud Entry product with all IBM hardware platforms. • Responsible for the final release packaging and testing for the SmartCloud Entry product that had $150M of revenue in the first year and $400M of revenue the second year.• Coordination and direction of automated build, triage, test driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing of the cloud stack though tools such as DevOps and Jenkins with our peer development lab in China• Development of the SmartCloud Entry installer and x86 appliance primarily using Java and REST API's• All documentation and translation• Owned the $6M capital budget and responsible for expenditures, ordering, and tracking of all cloud capital purchases for the development organization including China Labs.• Quickly staffed up a cloud development team while ensuring each individual understood their role and had the resources to be successful• Worked very closely with my key leaders to keep them motivated and focused on the objectives, often keeping them out of the churn of upper management.• Effectively worked with many groups and executives to get the only IBM corporate approval for use of the open source code repository Git for active development with the Openstack community• Successfully negotiated the move of System Test to another division within IBM• Lead a mentoring group and had several technical and non-technical individual mentees Show less

People manager for the Blue Gene/Q (HPC) control system, performance and test team.• Developed a very strong working partnership with IBM Research• Project Management responsibilities for the Sequoia Go/NoGo decision. This is the $200 million decision by the Dept of Energy to move forward with the Sequoia program. • Responsible for delivery of the Blue Gene/Q control system, performance and test• Effectively managed dotted line employees in India and China • Managed and… Show more People manager for the Blue Gene/Q (HPC) control system, performance and test team.• Developed a very strong working partnership with IBM Research• Project Management responsibilities for the Sequoia Go/NoGo decision. This is the $200 million decision by the Dept of Energy to move forward with the Sequoia program. • Responsible for delivery of the Blue Gene/Q control system, performance and test• Effectively managed dotted line employees in India and China • Managed and ensured compliance of all Blue Gene/Q export control requirements Show less

• Managed the budget and partnership with IBM Research• Coordinated release schedules and work items with the technical leads• Facilitated project meetings with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

• Developer on the Blue Gene Messaging (MPI) team writing collective protocols• Primarily used C/C++ with the CVS and SVN code repositories all on Linux• First filed patent in October 2007 – “Line-plane broadcasting in a data communications network of a parallel computer(Link)”• Extensive use of Perl for automation and scripting.

• Worked on the Serial Attached Storage team responsible for providing Raid Manager support for the Feb 2007 GA of AIX

• Wrote device drivers for gigabit Ethernet adapters using C/C++ extensively.• Included both project management and device driver development• Focal point for all testing and responsible for resolution of all defects and problems