Building cloud, data and AI services for Ford Pro, Ford's new global commercial services business.

Leading the data & analytics teams within Ford's new Autonomous Vehicles group

Established Ford's Platform Engineering organization, leading global API platforms for range of new cloud services for connected, electric and autonomous vehicles.

Leading US and global teams on variety of new mobility business opportunities: moving goods, moving people, transportation-as-a-service, autonomous vehicles, fleet management, telematics, data services, electric vehicles, smart cities

Acquired by APImetrics. API product and services company specializing in API strategy, implementation, and tools.• Consulting clients include Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, AT&T, Disney. Services including API strategy, business models, technology selection and implementation.• APIScience.com - global API monitoring service with powerful features to intelligently monitor your APIs. Find issues before your customers, developers and partners do.• API Dashboard - Online resource created for the World Bank and Gates Foundation to help address financial inclusion in developing countries via APIs. See http://cgap.apidashboard.io

Building Riak, the open source NoSQL database used by 1/3 of the Fortune 500, and Riak TS, a next generation distributed systems time series database for big data, APIs and IoT. Riak is used in massive scale use cases by companies including Uber, Goldman Sachs, BestBuy, Comcast, NHS, IBM, and Cisco.• Lead all engineering functions: development, devops, test, clients, integrations, performance • Tech stack/teams: Erlang, C++, Java, Python, Scala, Go, Node.js, Ruby, Docker, AWS• Lead integrations with big data ecosystem partners Apache Spark, Mesos, Kafka and Redis• Lead IoT pilots: MQTT support, edge computing scenarios, Riak on Raspberry Pi's• Represented company at conferences, media, partnerships and key customer engagements

• Founder of ProgrammableWeb, the web's leading online resource for open APIs• Grew from bootstrapped startup to acquisition by Alcatel-Lucent (later acq. by MuleSoft)• Built and recruited all core teams: development, design, editorial and sales• Drove consistent business and revenue growth, site traffic and brand reputation• PW content has been used worldwide in 1000's of API-related presentations, news reports, research papers, media outlets• Key customers: Twilio, Salesforce, Microsoft, Intel, Adobe, BT, Mashery, Apigee, IBM• Consulting clients: Google, Microsoft, DocuSign, Autodesk, others• Quoted or featured as API expert in 100+ media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, CBS, Wired, Inc., BusinessWeek, MIT Technology Review, Der Spiegel, New Scientist, CIO• As company's CTO: developed original web site, setup infrastructure, tools and processes. Later hired, mentored and grew technology teams for development, design, operations• Conceived and lead development of subscription-based SaaS service - API Pulse: a globally distributed, scalable, high availability cloud service to continuously track and monitor health of hundreds of APIs. Pingdom for APIs. Early customers included NPR and Mashery.

Author of Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices with Tim O'Reilly, a premium priced 100 page report. Successful run with sales exceeding forecasts.

• Won InfoWorld Magazine’s “100 Best IT Projects” award for client NYK Line -- conceived, designed and managed development of new ITIL-based Global IT Operations Portal• Technology consulting for various Fortune 1000 clients and advisor for startup ventures including technology reviews and due diligence

• Designed new curriculum, lectures, exams: traditional and agile PM & SDLC methods, PMI PMP, risk mgmt, PM tools, ROI, and requirements• Created and maintain the highly rated Columbia Project Management Resource Center (now at www.projectreference.com)

• Built & led 40 person technology staff for ASP of eCRM chat and email solutions with clients including eBay, Microsoft and Intuit• Scaled to meet pre and post-IPO growth from 35 to 850 corporate clients millions of real-time messages/day• Established processes & architecture for development and operations. Managed alliances, outsourcing, and technical strategy

Consulting architect on PrimeTrade, fixed income’s award-winning global real-time trading system (480 traders, 4000 clients): futures, options, Eurobonds, and FX. Delivery from requirements to production in 11 months. See www.credit-suisse.com/primetrade

Lead technology and operations for mtv.com, the web’s highest trafficked music site. Scaled staff and infrastructure to handle 2x traffic in 10 months. Managed technology budget and initiatives. Primary technical liaison to all major partners (Microsoft, Intel and AOL). Reduced costs through partnerships with other Viacom business units such as Nickelodeon and VH1.

Lead development of early large-scale web sites: Sony, AutoByTel, Newsweek and others. Technical lead on AT&T Downtown Digital, winner of Internet Magazines Best Web Site of 1995. Managed R&D teams for interactive agencies. Developed award-winning CD-ROM titles including Simon & Shuster's Star Trek Interactive Encyclopedia (250K+ units sold).

Built and led technology team building CD-ROM games published by Electronic Arts. First major product, Millennium Auction won numerous 1994 Top-10 awards

Architected global distributed network management infrastructure and fixed income trade capture systems