In my role as Senior Vice President of Global Technology Consulting at Denali AI, I am dedicated to:• Expanding Denali AI's consulting capabilities to tackle critical business transformation and modernization topics, utilizing our distinctive expertise to guide clients through complex challenges.• Leading strategy and implementation initiatives, prioritizing practical solutions and integrating practices and technologies that improve performance, security, and operational efficiency.• Drive state-of-the-art approaches within critical technical areas, including ML/AI, DevSecOps, Cloud-native adoption, and scaled enterprise architectures.• Developing and executing forward-thinking strategies that use technology to position clients for future market challenges and competition.• Advising executives on adopting lean-agile practices for effective business operation transformation.

Provide senior-level technology, digital transformation, and organizational development expertise to CxO-level leaders in consulting or interim assignment, helping them identify and address key technical issues, risks, and opportunities within their organizations.• Lead engagements with numerous Fortune 200 clients in the technology, healthcare, financial services, automotive, manufacturing, and transportation/logistics sectors -- collaborating with senior leadership teams and CIO/CTO sponsors to drive enterprise-wide digital IT initiatives and elevate enterprise IT maturity, productivity, and security• Champion the adoption of enterprise architecture best practices and Lean, Agile, and DevSecOps methodology to meet emerging compliance needs and raise the bar on operational efficiency• Developed a unique “at-rest in-motion” methodology to increase the effectiveness of lean-agile process transformations, in addition to authoring/deploying a powerful DevSecOps transformation framework (CAALMS) used by numerous Fortune 100 clients• Cultivate and maintain top-tier corporate partnerships with third-party service providers such as Scaled Agile, The Feld Group Institute, Amazon AWS, and Microsoft to support project delivery

Lead product development and management functions for this innovative early-stage startup focused on development of a cutting-edge SaaS platform leveraging ML/AI technology to enhance employee well-being, increase staff retention, and foster positive organizational culture. The product facilitates employee exploration of “purpose at work” within a facilitated experience. The platform combines behavioral science, peer-learning, and guided conversation techniques to enable meaningful employee conversations and connections within medium and large enterprises —providing organizations with breakthrough new capabilities in terms of measuring employee engagement and promoting social connection/learning.Highlighted Projects & Contributions:• Revamped Imperative's product vision, strategy, and development roadmap within a series of critical new potential market areas—in addition to reengineering the GTM approach and target customer profile to reflect a significant pivot in product direction• Provide key product and technology insights to investors and the Board of Directors• Implement state-of-the-art product design and experience practices to improve usability, accessibility, and product experience• Drive a rapid cadence of product R&D and enhancement effort, including overseeing successful delivery of 38 impactful features in a single year, as well as the full implementation of an Azure-based platform utilizing PaaS and serverless components to accelerate development• Ensure platform security and privacy configuration complies with all applicable standards, leading SOC 2, GDPR and information security feature development aimed at maximizing confidentiality• Designed/deployed cutting-edge product features to further the application of Organizational and Social Network Analysis in the product, addressing both cultural and information-seeking networks• Researched applications of Large Language Models and other AI techniques supporting more dynamic customer engagement

Managed high-level strategic engagements related to technical strategy, architecture, and development—providing clients with subject matter expertise in digital channel solutions, enterprise architecture, scaling agile practices, applications security, DevOps, and cloud adoption/migration.• Established a three-year transformational roadmap for a large corporate bank’s PCI information security compliance program, minimizing vulnerability exposure by more than 50% within the first year alone• Resolved complex technical/operational barriers related to an FDA-regulated order management system, implementing a new customer-focused solution in less than a year that expanded the market for a startup immunotherapy pharmaceutical manufacturer and doubled their order processing efficiency/throughput• Developed/implemented best practices within the Business Systems Model and Technical Systems Model of Feld Group Institute’s iCap Business and Technology transformation framework—used by numerous Fortune 1000 firms.• Advised clients on key technology investment and modernization decisions, including created successful strategic IT investment and transformation priorities for a defense manufacturing client, in addition to supplying key insights leading to a multi-year modernization roadmap for a transportation/logistics client

Held P&L responsibility and directed all operations/technology functions for this cloud-based mobile application in the EdTech space, offering productivity, analytics, and engagement tools to students/educators.• Led all business startup and product development activities, successfully achieving a beta release of the application in <6 months and handling all related sales, business development, and equity raise activities• Designed a scalable, cost-effective cloud deployment approach (Azure/AWS), developing all back-end and administrative applications, in addition to overseeing additional product development by 3rd party developers

Advisor and contingent technology leader (CTO, CIO, VP of Product), focused on accelerating technology-driven capabilities, enterprise product delivery, agile process implementation, and new technology innovation and adoption. Advises and supports start-up entrepreneurs bringing new ideas to the market.

Led Regional R&D, Product Management, Product Development and Technical Support activities for FTI Technology e-discovery software products. Led post acquisition integration activities, managed cross-functional teams. Provided technical support for e-discovery hosted and shrink-wrap products. Sponsored and evaluated new technology product initiatives, led development of associated market/functional strategy and analysis.

Held series of progressive technology and product leadership roles with Attenex/FTI including SVP of Product Management & Development and Senior Managing Director, Concept Analytics Products. Key areas of responsibility included product management/development, customer technical support, process improvement, governance, R&D, and product search efficiency optimization.Highlighted Projects & Contributions:• Drove fundamental cultural transformation within the product management and product development organizations, implementing a complete shift to lean-agile practices within a single year and realigning the groups in a manner that doubled feature release velocity within six months• Led integration of Attenex products into the FTI product portfolio following the 2008 acquisition of Attenex by FTI Consulting—ensuring a smooth, seamless transition with minimal customer disruption• Doubled product performance and expanded releases by 33% within first year of tenure alone, increasing revenues by 30% YOY and significantly improving customer retention rates

Gained extensive experience in enterprise technology leadership, service delivery, team leadership, and operational best practices during multiple C-level roles with this pioneering global systems integrator. Highlighted Projects & Contributions:• Led the regional enterprise architecture practice and drove industry/client technical vision development, operating the US CTO Office and realigning the regional architecture practice to meet changing market needs• Managed a 200-member global team responsible for over $7B in annual project delivery focused on strategy, architecture, design, development, and support of application solutions• Implemented reusable application architecture “starter kits” to accelerate field client adoption of contemporary development practices, including Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) • Created one of the industry’s first web services consulting offerings, leading to EDS achieving formal and extremely valuable recognition by Gartner as a leading player in the emerging web service solutions market• Championed global adoption of Open Source Software within EDS.

Responsible for the technical strategy, architecture, design, development, support and R&D for global service related product offerings of the Applications Portfolio, comprising $6B in annual revenue. Developed strategy for reusable application delivery (Agile Application Architecture), led multi-tenant BPO technical initiatives.

Responsible for software product management and strategy, delivered management consulting services to the Feld Group's Fortune 100 clients. Acquired by EDS in 2004.

Member of turn-around team responsible for technical offering development and operations activity for a telephony Application Service Provider (ASP) -- providing “converged network” facilities-based Voice over IP (VoIP) solutions.

Responsible for startup, operations, and growth of a pioneering internet services company, including presentation to capital sources, executive customer presentations, and sales/business development.

Responsible for all technical and solution development activities for Computer Based Learning services and products. Innovated early Web based applications, and Web-based training solutions. Developer of KnowledgeTool, a NeXTSTEP based multimedia authoring tool.

Chief Architect, Software AG Natural Unix Product Development. Lead architect and developer for the Unix platform GUI version of Natural. Developed Unix/X11 platform implementation.

P&L responsibilities in the creation and growth of a strategic business area within the Company’s core business unit. Led the software design and development of a large-scale, network distributed real-time data collection system. Managed large development team, and multimillion-dollar budgets.

Led the design and development of a real-time distributed Cryptographic system using the Ada Language.