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MetaTechX aims to accelerate business delivery velocity and platform scale via a portfolio of Business-Technology and Operational-Leadership solutions with coaching applied to accelerate your business (value), platform (scale), & people (talent). MetaTechX leverages a 7P strategic framework of highly optimized solutions with success spanning industries and companies from Series-A startups to Fortune-100 enterprises. The framework includes leadership playbooks w/ coaching that scales from individuals (innovators) to team-leaders (rising stars) to established-executives (industry influencers). The MetaTechX mission is to accelerate your business, your operations, your talent to the next level. Our approach is to listen-learn-optimize behind a continuously growing network of creative solutions & inspired talent, creating a wake of impact & goodwill.What's your challenge (opportunity) ?

Baltimore, Maryland, Us

b.well is rapidly rising Startup with focus on THE HEART OF YOUR HEALTHCARE Integrating data, insights, and partners into a single customized solution that helps people take control of their healthcare experience. The b.well Platform is an industry-leading solution that empowers Healthcare providers to delight consumers with the Value & Care that matters most. With disciplined 1-team focus the Product, Technology, & Operational teams have transformed the business from Early-Seed-Startup to Lean-Enterprise scale serving millions of consumers. Our TechX mission is to continuously deliver customer Value with Speed, Quality, and Efficiency, with Real-time data for Healthcare insight & innovation.

Seattle, Wa, Us

CTO / SVP Technology leader for Product delivery, Technology innovation, and 24x7 Operations of high-scale vacation rental platform fueling the multi-billion dollar Vrbo.com & Expedia lodging businesses. Partnered with talented cross-functional executive C-team to transform business operations into high-growth VR marketplace serving travelers, property owners, and technology providers. Transformed a complex platform into an efficient business-oriented architecture enabling 1000+ product engineers and scientists to rapidly deliver & innovate. Evolved engineering culture and technology stack to a modernized high-scale, cloud-enabled, global, mobile, and machine-learning E-commerce platform. Inspired a Continuous-learning & trusting team culture, with bias for Lean, Agile, and Excellence in Execution.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Technology leader for innovation, delivery, and operations for Expedia’s Lodging platform including Expedia.com consumer experience, Lodging partner supply solutions, and marketing channels. All delivered globally through Mobile, Web, and Web Service API channels. Transformed Product delivery from an anchor into an engine for the company with relentless team focus on rapid delivery & continuous learning with heavy investments in ab-testing, data-science, and lean-agile pipelines and culture. Transformed Technology platform into high scale distributed service-oriented architecture and modern technology stack enabling increases in business delivery Speed, operational Quality & Efficiency, and real-time Learning. Increasing global business scale, transactions, revenues, and cash flow. Managed 24x7 high-scale resilient operating environment based in the elastic cloud and maintained by a disciplined engineering organization with bias for continuous 24x7 dev-operations. Delivery success reflected the power of talented people (teams), inspired by a culture of continuous delivery, learning, collaboration, leverage, and open & empowered communications.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Product & Engineering leader for Amazon’s ECP (E-commerce Platform) for 3rd party partner business.Evolved Amazon's Web Services for E-Commerce business, providing 3rd party partners access to Amazon's best of breed services (APIs) for Product Search, Shopping Cart, Order Management, Payments, User Accounts, Personalization, Checkout, and Fulfillment. Aligned platform strategy for Amazon’s Ecommerce business portfolio spanning Amazon.com (core), Webstore (small biz), Merchant (large biz), and APIs (3rd party dev eco-system). Incubated Amazon's 3rd party seller marketplace for AWS.Advanced team adoption of Lean-Agile delivery processes including Alpha/Beta trials with early strategic partners, enabling both business & technical feasibility assessment via rapid and iterative insights.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Platform Engineering and Product LeadershipWINDOWS LIVE - Mobile Business UnitProduct Unit Leader (GM) for product, engineering, and operations of Windows Live for Mobile services & platforms. The Windows Live offer enabled customers to access services anytime, anywhere from their mobile device, and enabled technology partners to leverage and distribute apps and services leveraging the Microsoft (live) services platform via SDK. The rich Portfolio included MS Search, Messenger, Mail, Finance, Sports, News, Xbox Live, and more. Led product & engineering efforts to rapidly grow an early stage (startup) investment into a profitable business unit enabling Microsoft expansion into the rapidly growing Mobile services industry, world-wide. Led disciplined operations of a massive 24x7 platform servicing millions of customers & billions of transactions across a complex eco-system of mobile networks & device platforms. Industry innovations included mobile voice search, web services protocols, network compression & security, and simplified billing solutions. COMMERCE SERVER - Internet Platforms BusinessEngineering Leader for design, development, and delivery of core capabilities of the Microsoft Internet & Commerce Server platforms amidst the early and exciting evolution of the .COM era. Delivered through multiple release cycles including direct support of alpha, beta, and strategic customer deployments including Dell.com, Barnes Noble, Meryl Lynch, Usaa.com, and more.

Snoqualmie, Wa, Us

Director of Engineering for Medical platform solutions including embedded patient-monitoring system (PMS) and distributed patient-recording systems (PRS) for surgical, critical care, & general hospital units. The turn-key platform enabled hospitals to monitor patients real-time, while recording vitals & medical charts into a centralized electronic patient record system (certified).

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Development Lead for the 777 aircraft onboard avionics diagnostics system, leveraging state of the art machine-learning techniques in mission-critical real-time (aircraft) environment. The innovative solution provided additional safety (accuracy) and efficiency (cost) in aircraft operations and maintenance. The solution leveraged Bayesian/Inferencing strategies to diagnose & alert issues in a real-time cockpit environment (certified). Received Corporate Technical Achievement Award.

Arlington, Va, Us

Digital Systems (expert) Engineer on 747-400 Avionics team that certified & delivered Boeing’s first fully digital aircraft. Responsible for design, development, integration, and test of the real-time expert-based central maintenance computer. Nominated as member of the flight-test & customer #1 delivery crew.

Mba, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Investment, Finance, Operations, And Leading With Purpose

Bsee, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Digital Processing

Executive Leadership Program (Microsoft Sponsored Program)

Leadership Amidst A Platform Hub Economy (Expedia Sponsored Program)

Machine Learning A-Z™: Hands-On Python & R In Data Science

Masters Computer Science (Via Honeywell Phoenix)