Navigating the switchbacks of change with leaders of organizations - as a Fractional or Interim CTO/CPO/CEO, Business Advisor or Product Engineering Leader - Mentor, Coach and/or Consultant. I've worked with Startups that range from pre-revenue to $100 million.+ Software Engineering & Management + LeanUX Product Strategy + Product Framing and Shaping+ Data Architecture and Analysis + System Infrastructure and Administration + Domain-Driven Design (DDD) refactoring+ Team Recruitment and Growth + Acquisition Due Diligence and Integration+ Strengths Coaching and Organizational Health+ Workshop Facilitation in Design Thinking + Agile Product Innovation+ Agile and Shapeup Process Optimization + Scaling People and Communication Inside Startups+ Executive and Organizational Transitions+ Technology Consultation

A run, a ride, a hike, an hour of yoga, or a day of skiing can change everything - and it all starts with Outside : the world’s home for inspiring over 250M unique, active lifestyles every year. + Led growth from 2 to 100 engineers in <12 months, through deliberate recruitment and acquisitions; + Adapted domain driven design (DDD) framework while integrating 15+ acquisitions+ Cultivated a value centric culture that that focuses on individual energy and collective strengths+ Stabilized career growth expectations and compensation during unprecedented market surges+ Navigated balance between complexity and necessity for federated architecture designs, including Apollo GraphQL Federation, micro-frontends (Expo, bit.dev) and edge BFF to IDP auth+ Partnered with Product and Design leaders to rapidly evolve the SDLC, Product Management processes and Design Systems+ Coordinated collaboration with external partners for software engineering, devops, IT & cybersecurity+ [Greenfield] Teams launched cross-platform subscription and authentication, Wordpress Headless applications (NextJS), Mobile app (Reach Native), BI and Data lake (Snowflake), Recommendation and Search services (miso.ai), Web3 NFT's (Solana), Media Access Management (Iconik), E-Commerce Shop (Shopify), 3rd Party PKCE Auth, CyberSecurity advancement towards SOC3 (Lacework, SYNK)+ [Nurtured] Teams added amazing new mapping tools(IOS, Android, Carplay), combined technical redundancies i.e. GIS tile generation, expanded partner experiences (adtech), migrated off EOL servers to AWS, consolidated and normalized CMS for over 25 publications, evolved subscription management systems, integrated both custom and 3rd party paywall solutions (Piano)With 25,000+ content creators at its core, Outside improves knowledge, training, and motivation by understanding members better than any other platform in the world.

+ Led Product, Engineering Design and AdOperations Teams, while facilitating the creation of an R&D and Marketplace Quality team. + Improved organizational health through domain driven design and created an apprenticeship foundation for career development. + Reorganized product workflows to follow the "shape up" methodology, increasing delivery by more than three-fold and re-platformed the entire product. + Launched a purpose built, group up DMP (Data Management Platform) to create a real time, Kafka based decisioning engine.+ Scaled the impact of our ad campaign management more than double to over 5 billion impressions annually for the medium to small business market. Choozle provides a programmatic real time bidding platform that leverages detailed consumer data to power advertising campaigns across display, mobile, social & video mediums - all from a single, simple interface.

As the Director of Community and Brand, and entrepreneur in residence (EIR), I worked with founders to grow the world's most respected accelerator community, with programs in 125 cities that support over 1,100 startups every year!Notable highlights:+ Directly mentored 250+ companies as a Founder Advocate+ Global founder meetups in MeNa, Europe, Asia, Mexico, and Canada+ US founder meetups in nine different states+ Organized the first Denver Founder Rally, which included 100+ founders from five continents+ Launched a new event series called “Founder Shifts” - in Helsinki matching 10 startups with more than 70 investors, and in Paris hosting 15 startups from 8 countries to focus on growth and scaling their business.

CEO and Co-Founder of digital health app company that combines wearable data, health coaches and predictive analysis for diabetes prevention.NextStep.io is a Nike+ Accelerator powered by Techstars company.

CEO and Co-Founder of social app company for adult recreational sports organizations - originally pitched at Startup Weekend Iowa City and subsequently grew a team to launch Facebook, web and mobile web apps.During participation in the Nike+ Accelerator powered by Techstars, the RecBob team changed direction and began focusing on an entirely new product, NextStep.io

Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder of nationwide leader in hospitality wi-fi.Supporting over 20 million wireless users every year, I led every technical aspect of the company from customer support to system administration to new product development. Developed products that ranged from WiFi network management software to a patented energy management solution.

Cisco Network Engineer at Fortune 500 aerospace company - included data modeling, configuration management and network design.

Network Engineer for a telecom cable over-builder(20,000+ customers), supporting voice, video and data networks - developed custom software tools for analysis and automation. (Everest Connections was a subsidiary of Aquila, Inc)

Analyst at Fortune 500 power generation, electricity and gas distribution company with over 200 facilities worldwide - developed automated data collection and reporting tools, correlating large datasets for early problem identification.

Technology Solutions for Small Business- Machine procurement- Helpdesk- System administration- Custom software- Cybersecurity audits

Cisco Network Technician at Fortune 500 aerospace company - projects ranged from automating data collection and software updates, to implementing infrastructure upgrades.