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Portland, Or, Us

Portland, Oregon, United States

Portland, Oregon Area

Leading a team of cloud engineers and analysts to accelerate Columbia’s digital transformation by delivering the global technology strategy and architecture for integrations and by implementing modern cloud-first, high-scale, services and integrations.Transformed integration landscape from batch, point-to-point connections to robust, capability-driven, real-time, reusable services that process 250+ million transactions per month with an ~0.005% failure rate.Delivered modern eCommerce architecture that bridged AWS and Azure clouds and that improved business agility and resiliency by introducing auto-scaling, large scale performance testing, and real-time metrics and traceability.

Portland, Oregon Area

Led team of 50+ engineers, QA, DevOps, SRE, Analysts, and Architects in the building and maintenance of Jama’s flagship products using Java and Ruby-on-rails technologies.Implemented process improvements to eliminate interruptions and increase engineer coding time by 20% resulting in more capacity for feature development and increased efficiency.Ensured all product releases met functional safety certification requirements and passed an audit with TÜV SÜD which enabled customers to use Jama’s products in safety critical processes including aviation.

Portland, Oregon Area

Directed technology team of 15 including QA, Engineering, Architecture, DevOps and IT in the building of software to manage commercial drone operations using Java and Open Source Technologies.Executed successful technical due diligence for Verizon acquisition including resolution of open source and security concerns impacting acquisition.

Portland, Oregon Area

Directed staff of 40 -110+ in the architecture and implementation of healthcare data services and solutions for internal and external customers using Agile Scrum practices. Served as interim CTO for 9 months. Led the first implementation of an AWS cloud data solution and drove the adoption of Cloud as a strategy for the Data Organization while remaining compliant with security and HIPAA.Created the first Consumer 360 health members that enabled robust & predictive data insights, operational efficiency, and quicker business decisions.

Portland, Oregon Area

Led teams of software engineers through all phases of the product life-cycle from inception to end-of-life for 4 mission-critical, high-transaction SaaS and on-premise financial applications while maintaining high customer satisfaction, quick turnaround of defects, and providing support to over 250 worldwide fortune 500 corporations.I drove product management, architecture, development, and operational readiness of a next-generation reporting product resulting in a product with a high adoption rate and solid customer satisfaction while also allowing for the retirement of the prior legacy product. This included the adoption of 3rd party tools which was a paradigm shift for an organization which preferred only homed-built technology.

Portland, Oregon Area

Led all aspects of a distributed team of software and quality engineers including product management, design, development and support of web-based Requirements Management application used by over 600 major international corporations.I Introduced Agile Scrum practices including rapid sprints focused on deliverables, integrated quality and development teams, lightweight processes, and customer participation resulting in a 25% reduction in open backlog, higher quality, and improved customer satisfaction.

Reno, Nevada Area

Managed 20+ engineers in cross-functional teams supporting over 100,000 employees at multiple corporations. Designed, modeled, built, tested, deployed, implemented, and supported high-volume payroll processing for enterprise customers.I maintained a 97% customer satisfaction rate by establishing and directing cross-departmental teams to resolve critical customer escalations using root-cause analysis and rapid correction strategies. This process became the model for problem solving.

San Francisco Bay Area

Managed 20+ engineers in cross-functional teams supporting over 100,000 employees. Architected, modeled, built, tested, deployed, and supported high-volume payroll processing for enterprise customers.I maintained a 97% customer satisfaction rate by establishing and directing cross-departmental teams to resolve critical customer escalations using root-cause analysis and rapid correction strategies. This process became the model for problem solving.

San Francisco Bay Area

Directed the worldwide development of the Accounts Payable product including all project management, development, support, and staffing for a team of 30+ during the full life cycle for the Accounts Payable product.Increased the customer base from 100 companies primarily in North America to over 1200 worldwide by providing sales and pre-sales support and participating in customer implementations. Within 2 years Accounts Payable became the sales leader for the international market and was used to cross-sell other products.

San Francisco Bay Area

Project lead for two corporate-wide Finance applications responsible for tax compliance and payments.