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St Paul, Mn, Us

St Paul, Mn, Us

Houston, Tx, Us

Employee #41, served as the CTO's Strategic Advisor, transforming the product and engineering organization from a single, small acquisition through the 8th global acquisition, creating the fastest growing startup in the world for 2021, growing to 1,600 employees achieving $360M in revenue seeking 70% year-over-year growth to $600M.• Leveraged expertise to scale the product and engineering organizations, strategically growing from 20 to over 175 people within 14 months and establishing the operational model supporting top organizational performance.• Crafted the 28-team SaaS business unit, creating, scaling and transforming an operating model new to most, leading mass hiring initiative, establishing career ladder role expectations, championing engineering transformation.• Developed and cultivated relationships with all 3rd party vendors and contractors throughout the US, Mexico, and Vietnam, building various teams onshore, nearshore, and offshore, vetting, performing PoCs, and working out legalities.• Partnered cross-domain guiding and monitoring operations as all business units rapidly scaled, driving change to align with enterprise goals and objectives.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Directly responsible for the technology roadmap, architecture, go-to-market, and go-live planning for a $29M investment seeking $120M in new revenue across multiple business units, becoming the first cross-business unit funded project in company history. Led an organization of 3 Managers and Sr. Managers, 4 Lead Engineers, and 65 total reports.• In addition, exceeded pre-COVID revenue growth targets during COVID onset and subsequent market disruptions through carefully change-managed pivots, and rapid ingestion of economic and market data for product family reconfigurations, on a product portfolio with existing $80M products in the automotive used-car purchasing and reconditioning markets.• Led teams overcoming complex scaling of computationally extreme, near real-time pricing intelligence algorithms. • Provided leadership to a mass hiring initiative program, in 90 days driving a hiring pace increase from 8 to 33 per month.• Expanded a single-team organization into an 11-team multi-product investment-led release train, a 10x headcount expansion in part accomplished by establishing a new partnership with a Vietnam-based flex staffing partner.

Cedar Park, Texas, Us

The Best Little Donut Shop in Texas was a high concept specialty snack shop" serving made-to-order "little donuts" (small, cake only, over 60 toppings, similar to froyo assembly), made-on-premises ice pops (both fruity based and creamy), and "Thai rolled ice cream." This cozy little spot was not at all like a typical "donut shop," but rather a high-end experience with table seating, not open early but always open late to service the growing after-dinner dessert and snack market, and serving Austin's busy business community with 36 little donuts delivered in a pizza box, smiles inside!Opened Fall 2019Permanently Closed March 2020

Westlake, Texas, Us

Functioned as the Technical Director for Web Solutions Technology, delivering strategic inter-organizational technical leadership for Schwab web properties, including multiple public-facing highly scalable websites with industry-leading performance and operational service levels, such as www.schwab.com and various private client advisor sites.• Led redesign, architecture and roll-out for second generation datacenter for all schwab.com web properties, over 1K servers on premise, and all aspects of DevOps for both on premise and cloud based highly availability systems.• Championed CI / CD technology and practices through 5 generations over 6 years, resulting in multi-host, multi-language, multi-team automation and an internal “open source” community culture with 1000s of contributors.• Partnered with Microsoft to introduce off-premise Azure to the Schwab development ecosystem; led R&D, PoC efforts.• Responsible for providing strategic architectural, design and development leadership, supporting the implementation of web applications, mobile platforms, and various supporting systems, services, and processes, for numerous $MM projects.• Driving technology direction of 500+ on and offshore engineers on 28 teams, driving IaaS and PaaS innovation, Azure and PCF cloud migration, created enterprise open-source culture, led vision, strategy and execution of enterprise search and content management (CMS) transformations.• Enterprise level business ownership of Continuous Integration and cross-business unit agile framework supporting tools & technologies.• Envisioned and created an internal “open source” community platform called CodeHub, which become the nexus of shared code evolving to 100s of sharable components with 1000s of contributors.• Collaborated with Microsoft to launch off-premise Azure to the Schwab ecosystem, directing R&D and PoC efforts.• Spearheaded the efforts to streamline ALM, resulting in shrinking the schwab.com release cycle by more than 85%.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Recruited as the company’s 1st hired employee for a new product line and stood up a team from scratch, establishing hiring practices and assembling a worldwide team, introducing agile practices, managing the relationship with Microsoft for a complex Visual Studio integration and CUDA debugger for NVIDIA’s Parallel Nsight product line.• Successfully lead creation and release of a greenfield project that many thought couldn’t be done, the world’s first visual debugger for the GPU.• Directly led the product from conception through the initial July 2010 and subsequent September 2010 launches, surpassing 10,000 registered developers during the launch event.• Established cross-functional collaboration with multiple teams, creating and releasing a greenfield project that many thought could not be done, resulting in the world’s first visual debugger for the GPU.U. S. PATENT #8782611 “Visual inspection and debugging of threads in parallel computing systems.” Filed Aug. 24, 2009Awarded July 15, 2014, subsequently cited by IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Honeywell, ARM et. al.Author of the book MSBuild Trickery: 99 Ways to Bend the Build Engine to your Will, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-615-50907-5 outlining skills and techniques needed for real-world problem solving and DevOps with Microsoft’s build engine.Technical Editor, Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build, 1st Ed., Microsoft Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-7356-2628-7

Austin, Texas, Us

Envisioned, championed and led a multi-year project to create the Radix framework, a new architecture on which Nintendo’s Wii development tools were built. Technical owner of the CodeWarrior product, owned product and engineering functions.• Led a team of ten to twelve very senior developers in the U.S. and Japan, creating new build processes and internal tooling, designing highly structured code repositories, pioneering the use of new toolchains, and introducing agile scrum practices.• Principal Architect and manager for the team that had the first prototype Sony PlayStation 3 and the first Nintendo Wii in North America.• Spearheaded a project to create a cross-platform Visual Studio clone for use in game console software development.• Liaised with top software ISVs, extensive customer-facing product validation, strategic technical sales and marketing support and business development expertise.• The multi-platform Radix framework was written in modern C++, XML and C#, supporting arbitrary scripting languages.• Recognized by Freescale as the technical foundation for next-generation CodeWarrior products, Radix unleashed a multi-year feature backlog—development under Radix was an order of magnitude faster and far less expensive to maintain.• Authored a 450-page book describing the design philosophy through a step-by-step approach to creating new extensions for Radix.• Led worldwide product definition and customer requirements exploration for CodeWarrier, ARM in UK, Nintendo and Sony in Japan, Nokia in Finland, GM, Microsoft, Cisco in USA. Formal architectural validation included extensive interviews with 32 customers in four US states and six countries.

Austin, Texas, Us

Moved from a Core Technology team to the Games Team. We make the development tools for PlayStation2, GameCube, DS & Wii.

Austin, Texas, Us

Metrowerks, owned by Motorola, spun out in IPO as part of Freescale. The employment is continuous, only the names have changed.

Jamesville, Ny, Us

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