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Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Leading the Time Management team building internal tools for Meta employees to enhance productivity, boost efficiency, and make work easier.

B2B strategy and technology advisor leveraging 25 years in tech to serve Fortune 500 clients including Microsoft, Intuit, and Amazon. Services include business and AI technology strategy consulting, market positioning proposals, executive action plans, white papers, user experience audits, and C-suite sales pitch decks.- Client: Microsoft DPS Azure - June 2024Advised Microsoft DPS executive client on market positioning for confidential pre-GA Azure technology product with AI capabilities. Responsible for presentation and delivery of executive action plan with integrated marketing strategy, white paper, and pitch deck tailored for C-Suite audience.- Client: Intuit QuickBooks App Store - May 2024Performed user experience audit and delivered technology roadmap for QuickBooks Online app marketplace web application. Responsible for market research and delivery of strategy blueprint with user experience proposal including wireframes and video simulation. Presented to the Intuit QuickBooks online app store senior technical team at the Partner Marketing Offsite on May 8th in Plano, Texas.- Client: Microsoft M365 - April 2024Created technology and business GTM plan for Microsoft M365 executive client seeking repositioning for M365 Business Standard offering when resold by device partner account managers factoring in AI capabilities. Responsible for market research, re-architecture proposal, and field sales guide tailored for C-Suite audience.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Head of Capacity Planning and Analysis, two teams responsible for 80+ software services managing logistics and orchestration of Amazon’s worldwide network of fulfillment centers. Responsible for an ecosystem of services that increase the speed and reliability of package delivery to doorsteps.- Reduced fulfillment transportation costs by $575M annually by developing, testing, and deploying linear-equation-based algorithms for orchestration and synchronization of picking systems with truck departure schedules.- Created 7% improvement in worldwide reliability of on-time package delivery by rolling out machine learning load-balancing algorithms for order assignment across worldwide network of Amazon fulfillment centers.- Drove $340M increase in annual revenue via execution of cross-org initiative to bring sub-same-day package delivery capabilities to North American and European fulfillment centers.

Real estate investor and portfolio manager of rental properties across Arizona and Washington state- Year-one positive NOI for all properties achieved through custom development of proprietary analytics- Perfect 5 Star Airbnb Superhost with over 100 reviews- Experienced in real estate assessment, valuation, contracts, partnerships, and holding strategies

Seattle, Us

Led TUNE's Reporting division responsible for analytics platform. TUNE provides SaaS solutions for managing marketing partnerships across mobile and web.- Drove $6M in new customer acquisition through development of new reporting platform offerings.- Developed engineering leads into managers by spearheading leadership training programs, then collaborated with HR to define and deploy technical and management career tracks.- Increased Agile velocity by 35% through reduction of technical debt; achieved by organizing and empowering key engineers to help lead cross-org initiative to reduce micro-service sprawl.

Co-Founder and CTO of Nicer Foods, a specialty food startup to bring restricted dietary options to the underserved GI sensitivities market. Launched five products and tripled revenues within 10 months. Exited via successful acquisition to Fody foods; products now in grocery stores worldwide- Analyzed market via ad-based testing to validate $10M opportunity.- Partnered with food scientist consultants to develop initial product offerings.- Growth-hacked 9K email list and 20K twitter via Kickstarter in less than three months.- Profitable when successfully acquired by Fody foods in 2016

Fort Collins, Co, Us

Reported directly to CEO, tasked with research and development in special projects. Sponsor and principal developer of new minimal viable product in emerging market space of SaaS-based Sales and Operation Planning (S&OP) platforms. Implemented what soon became a new core product for RockySoft, and a competitive differentiator in the field of Inventory Forecasting and Replenishment. Technologies employed included C#.NET, SQL Server, WPF, Excel VSTO, COM, and many others.Accomplishments:• Champion and owner for new product line – RockySoft’s first entry into S&OP Business Intelligence space• Architecture enabled plug-and-play API integrations to over a dozen ERP systems including Great Plains, Epicor, Axapta, Navision, SAP, Oracle, and Dynamics AX• Included new data analytics platform enabling executives to instantly visualize cross-functional inventory data• Responsible for entire product launch and delivery, including market positioning, sales, integration, development, and support

Reported to the VP of Engineering as Engineering manager in charge of product offerings at Varolli Corporation, which provides SaaS based outbound telephony notifications for customer care and employee communications. Responsibilities include:• Engineering Management –Team of seven direct reports ranging from senior to junior software engineers. Responsible for hiring, interviewing, performance review, salary adjustments, and career development / mentoring. Other responsibilities include technology leadership, architecture design, roadmap planning, budgeting, and full project ownership.• Product Direction – Seat on Technical Architecture Committee reporting to CTO. Responsible for high-level product direction, new product incubation, architecture decisions, and patent / intellectual property identification• Custom-to-Configurable Initiative – Directly responsible for Custom-to-Configurable corporate initiative, ensuring scalability of Varolii’s implementation footprint via the migration of best-practices (residing in custom code) to core product functionality.

Seed member of initial 4-person engineering team. Responsible for all user-facing aspects of Varolii's technology stack during growth period from 11 to 300+ employees. Contributions include X-Builder, Varolii's Java-based application application authoring environment. Built as a generalized XML authoring platform, X-Builder received "Product of the Year" award from Communications Convergence magazine.

One of three founders and part owner of Imikimi, LLC. Imikimi.com is a custom comments website for social networking that reaches over 1.8 million people monthly, and is ranked in top 5,000 websites - QuantCast). Acted as a business architect and was instrumental in design of core business model and user value proposition. Rapidly mastered and employed Ruby on Rails and AJAX technology to contribute 80% of the website code while working contemporaneous to Varolii. Ownership stake sold in 2007.

Developed web-based applications for New Media's clients, including Sun Microsystems, Audio Engineering Society, and many long-gone web-based businesses. Led small teams of developers in requirements, design, specification, implementation, and testing.

Fort Collins, Co, Us

Developed project website for Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory. Developed Java AWT front-end for existing weather simulation software. Wrote Perl scripts for weather data conversion and scrubbing.