Every Product has its own Journey. As a well-traveled sojourner, I enjoy connecting with folks on focused Production Excursions, leverage my experience and the best practices of many others to help Product Leaders reach their next goal.

Helping the founding leadership team of Conduit Network architect and launch the ecosystem to provide a hardware-based Layer 0 DePIN that facilitates the next generation of real-world asset tokenization.

Define product strategy and roadmap. Analyze market trends and customer needs with respect to issuing securities and manage investments via blockchain technology. Guide implementation of new features and integrations to meet customer and industry needs.

Analyze current blockchain technologies to determine application across multiple industries and applications. Define strategic architecture for incorporating core blockchain capabilities into a wholistic architecture. Develop product strategy for product development, team growth, and management of in house staff and outsourced labor. Assist in business development based on both business management and technical development backgrounds.

Primary responsibilities include technical strategy and implementation of platform, product management and strategy. Drive development of MVP and product evolution. Assist in development of operations, leverage background in dispatch applications.

Growing a SaaS Business is exciting and daunting. Founders, investors, and owners want to know their SaaS platform can scale to serve new customers while retaining existing customers. And, of course, do so profitably.We work with businesses to evaluate their current Platform, and align People and Process to grow the platform and team together, while ensuring Profit grows with the business.

Developed the target state architecture, development process and practices to move from per client, per project deliveries to a platform approach. The platform included data acquisition (surveys, social media and other voice of the customer sources), ETL, Data Engineering, and Data Exploration and Reporting through Custom Portals. Technical approach was Services and Microservices architecture, MVC/MVP, and leveraging of cloud capabilities.

Primary responsibilities included technical strategy and implementation of platform, product management and strategy. Marketing responsibilities included copy writing, digital market planning and execution and brand voice for Small Business customers. Also responsible for development of financial models.

Designed and developed web application for customer acquisition and business process automation, with emphasis on connecting sales activity with fulfillment systems to make both areas more effective. Salesforce is the CRM platform and internally built platforms are used for web portals to acquire customers directly and through supporting partners as well as an underwriting system used to evaluate and managing funding transactions.Projects have included integrating with Financial Information service providers, architecting AWS for horizontal scalability of web properties, developing a publish / subscribe mechanism for basic EAI, and integrating Salesforce, portal and underwriting systems to share information throughout Opportunity to Close lifecycle.Majority of work was built in CakePHP (1.3, 2.x and 3.x), PHP, Mysql with elements of Java and Amazon services (SNS, SQS).

Developed internal applications using PHP, CakePHP, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery and MySQL for The Business Backer.

Educated tomorrow's IT Professionals by teaching IT infrastructure - hardware, software, client, server, networking, etc. as a member of the IT Academy. The classroom focus is learning by hands-on practice, simulation and real-world scenarios. Courses also prepare students for CompTIA A+, Network+, and Linux and Microsoft Technology Associate certification.

Developed and delivered robotics and programming classes for 4th to 8th grade students, including an robotics course funded by a NASA grant that I authored.

Taught courses covering physical cabling and networking, general networking, and introduction to Windows 2008 and 7 client / server environments.

Defined solutions working directly with business customers to meet needs. Analyzed business need and developed business requirements for infrastructure solutions. Designed, implemented and integrated technology solutions combining phone systems, data networks and computer infrastructure. Managed and administered Windows Server environments using Active Directory, Exchange, SQL Server and software systems. .

Founded company to provide on-site IT and telecommunications services for small businesses in region. Analyzed business need and developed business requirements for infrastructure solutions. Designed and implemented solutions for server, network and phone environments across several companies. Directed customers on compliance issues, e.g. PCI-DSS, HIPAA. Built web sites and custom software for customers. Guided companies in adoption and use of technology as virtual CIO. Closed business due to health of business partner..

Managed all business functions of a small network of Physical Therapy clinics with Revenues of $1.7M. Recorded accounts payable and receivables in accounting system. Managed billing team responsible for processing charges across three clinics. Supported IT infrastructure, including medical billing software and electronic health records across four locations. Developed business case and business requirements for outsourcing business units to service providers.

Created functional requirements in conjunction with business users for work force management and finance applications. Defined technical requirements based on enterprise standards and functional requirements for work force management and finance applications. Architected and designed software system and integration with other systems for engineering, work force management and finance applications. Developed unit tested code in Smalltalk and Java languages on Unix and Windows environments for engineering, work force management and finance applications. Defined build process for work force management system using Korn shell, sed, awk and Make.Defined enterprise architecture standards for web portals and business intelligence reporting. Managed multiple teams developing on engineering, finance and business performance management. Adapted enterprise development process to utilize Agile concepts for smaller, rapid delivery. Defined organizational performance metrics as part of operational and strategic planning. Program managed budget and implementation of application stability program.

Mentored client staff in object-oriented design and development using Smalltalk and Versant database. Trained staff on usage of source code management system.

Mentored client staff in object-oriented design and development using Smalltalk, Gemstone database and Versant database. Design, architected systems and developed unit tested code for client projects in Smalltalk. Provided guidance in functional and system testing.

Designed, architected systems and developed unit tested code for Operational Support System using Smalltalk and Gemstone database. Lead effort for database implementation on the User Interface team.

Desgined and developer user interface prototype for Netview/6000 SNMP network management platform on AIX system using C, C++, Motif and XWindows. Designed and developed multiprocess communication for RMON/6000 network management tool using C on AIX. Developed build process using Korn Shell, C Shell, awk, sed and make systems. Administered development and demonstration AIX servers. Consulted with products across IBM on best methods to integrate with Netview/6000 platforms using APIs.