I am a hands-on product and engineering executive who loves to drive companies and products to the next growth stage. I have worked with a lot of start-ups, from seed through multi-rounds of funding, and on to IPO, Exit, and occasionally, total failure :-(Recently, I have had the pleasure of working effectively as a fractional CTO for ESW Capital (who owns Crossover and DevFactory, and another 80+ SaaS companies) in purchasing SaaS companies and reworking their tech stacks in 90 days or less so we can operate them for a profit. Our typical candidate has a great product, and an established revenue and customer base, but operational costs that are too high, or a tech stack that can't scale to the next growth stage.My skill set is highly focused on clearly identifying what works, what doesn't, and how to take decisive steps to get to the next level. I realign teams by teaching what they need to know to get out tech stack smaller, so we can scale, and how to shrink our process and code so we can deliver faster.