Working to address the outcomes gap for non-degree credentials.

Meltek is a climate-tech startup that helps consumers reduce their carbon footprint by providing rewards for reducing energy use. Our mission is to enable all people to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and maximize their environmental impact through consumer-focused energy efficiency and demand reduction programs.

Strategic Advisory & Fractional CTO, CIO, & CISO services.

• Initially recruited to build out enterprise engineering, role expanded quickly to include Product Management, Support, Implementation & IT teams• Managed circa $10M technology operating budget on behalf of the 550-person organization along with third-party vendor management• Successfully restructured legacy SaaS portfolio to support 30% annual revenue growth, >90% gross margins & retention. Released multiple new-to-market products including a JavaScript-based analytics platform and a dynamic DOM-remediation platform that handled more than 10B queries annually• Led technical integration of two acquisitions ( Simple Accessible & Tenon.io ) into the business, the latter forming the core of our Community Strategy• Expanded engineering to 6 scrum teams. Built out IT operations, platform infrastructure, and information security. Built and optimized Secure SDLC with a high-degree of automation. Championed ongoing refinement from quarterly releases towards continuous deployment. • Led all technology workstreams during the 2022 merger with Essential Accessibility which resulted in the creation of the de-facto category leader, driving the complete re-platforming of disparate IT, engineering, and security operations into the new business, fostering alignment & cultural transformation. Focus on minimizing business disruption & post-merger workflow challenges • Led technical DD during investment / recap processes including JMI in 2017 and JMI/KKR in 2022.• Sponsored & led cyber-security programs to include monitoring and sustaining Level Access’s information security management systems (ISMS)—establishing enterprise-wide policies before securing an ISO-27001 certification, FedRAMP ATO, & SOC 2 • Exec sponsor and relationship lead on high-profile engagements with top-3 US bank and multiple government agencies.

Promoted & remit expanded to include Product Management & IT Functions within the business. Created a combined unit called, surprisingly Product & Technology. Focus for this year was around alignment of Product process, building more user/ux research, customer feedback programs, to focus on the experience of the new platform we were building.

Joined Level Access to lead the core engineering function. Highlights included:- Led technical DD during 2017 JMI Investment- Stabilized platforms and migrated to ecs/Fargate on AWS- Launched new Javascript remediation product- Established new CI/CD processes- Built out engineering organization, establish security team, award ISO 27001 certification- Inherited & ran customer facing implementation and support functions

Responsible for all technology globally, including R&D across 3 continents, Services and Support Orgs in NA and EMEA, Security and Compliance, including SOX, IT & Cloud support for 500+ users.• Designed and led the creation of SmartXchange®, a consumer-facing SaaS platform with deep logistics and reward partner integration—efforts established multi-million dollar subscription revenue streams with great margin profiles and increased exposure into other client business opportunities• Expanded oversight across all internal and external-facing technology, strategically growing the technology and innovation team to more than 100+ FTE across three development centers—proactively identifying technology-centric customer needs to design capable, proven solutions that delivered measurable results • Drove sales and business development strategy while supporting sales initiatives into Tier 1 North American service providers including AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast through client-facing thought leadership and consulting as well as post-delivery hosted service offerings • Aligned security functions with ISO27001 and both deployment and support functions with a hybrid blend of formal ITIL processes and DevOps-style methodologies—establishing roadmaps to improve continuity, consistency, and compliance• Facilitated and managed the end-to-end implementation of internal process improvements that supported business functionality and performance including the realization of multiple vertical-specific applications that bolstered analytics, loyalty, churn, and network optimization functions • Led a major IT infrastructure transformation and modernization initiative to shift all new and existing hosted services to a new, secure cloud platform—overhauling legacy systems, stripping them down to their basic components, and building tools that automated deployment and management to reduce TTV to days, minimizing total cost of ownership (TCO), and streamlining the manual workload

Co-Founder and CTO of European consulting and software firm focussing on telecommunications industry.• Jointly founded & led Cartesian from a self-funded startup in 1996 to its sale in 2007, taking responsibility for all internal and external technology activities including product design, R&D, delivery, and client-facing support functions of Cartesian’s award-winning Ascertain® assurance and activation platform which generated $75M+ in revenue in 10 years and won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Innovation in 2009 • Built a team of 100 technology specialists tasked with building & hosting self-hosted and ASP/SaaS platforms with stringent service level agreements (SLAs) combining operations, deep network, compute & security knowledge, & customer alignment to secure and optimize client deliverables• Demonstrated a robust and results-oriented leadership style while leading B2B business development; spent two years driving account growth across blue-chip global client accounts to capture maximum value during earn-out. • Successfully led multiple customer engagements personally, including major transformation projects and two full-scale telco client launches (Netherlands). Delivered system implementations across a global customer base for clients including Vodafone Group, Liberty Global, T-Mobile (Globally), Telefonica (Spain), Maxis (Malaysia), & Bell Canada

Investments in local food/drink businesses in the Washington, DC area

Early-stage restaurant loyalty program - lost traction to the big players in delivery.

Developed & implemented encryption software (Windows 3.11 DLLs) and high-performance pricing engines for telecom (Dec Alpha C & Assembler), leaned into customer-facing role and built lifelong relationships.