Kyle Faulkner Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

Assumed leadership of the Engineering team . Scaled the team and brought in people, process and technology. Formalized our SDLC, adding industry standard automation around built, test and quality metrics. Upgraded Architecture to Docker containers with scaling and self healing. Released a new Analytics product on Tableau and Redshift. Infrastructure as code with Terraform. Did a SOC 2Type 1 audit on new policy documents and implemented Vanta to automate evidence collection for our compliance audits.I provide ongoing strategic consulting as needed.

My consulting company was founded with the mission to partner with customers to create success. 20 years and many high profile clients later, I still have a passion for solving business problems. I listen to what the customer needs and devise creative solutions that are innovative and cost effective. My goal is to provide top tier consulting services and customer satisfaction, on budget and on time. Some of my clients and projects are listed below.

I provided a series of services to a startup in the indoor agriculture space. They had a custom sensor which I help prepare for market as well as advised on product discovery and development.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Executive Impact: Drove transformation across People, Process and Technology. ● Guided them to a clean SOC II Type 2 audit report while implementing significant operational and security improvements.● Recruited and hired a full time Vice President of Engineering to assume oversight of team and its strategic direction.● Transformed the SDLC process yielding improved visibility and predictability from concept to delivery.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Executive Impact: Delivered solutions to name brand companies with verticals in medical, fintech, and retail. ● Scaled a team to over 50 without venture capital investments.● Led software development, DevOps, QA, and client engagement for companies with large amounts of unstructured data.● Enabled injection of affordable cognitive algorithms into a current mainframe claims processing flow.● Configured a pipeline for consistently extracting medical chart information for analysis and aggregation.● Empowered ranking of retail locations against sold planogram configurations for a large consumer retail client. ● Engaged post hospitalization patients with virtual assistant for personalized care experience.

Executive Impact: Transformed a failed MVP with wrong technology stack and quickly launched multiple strategic client engagements. ● Advocated for, and deployed, an application of cognitive technologies for this use case and sourced an investor for funding.● Executed a platform to predict project outcomes measuring client, system integrator, and product vendor teamwork.● Launched programs with SAP and other large system integrators.

Executive Impact: Scaled team to fit identified product market, launched mobile first initiatives, built data warehouse.● Scaled team from 3 to 20 to rapidly deliver new product offerings aligned with customer needs. ● Completed robust DevOps automation best practices for HIPAA compliance and passed client SecOps audits.

Executive Impact: Co-founded a brand engagement platform and operated a flawless large trial. ● Brought in an investor to fund seed round and assembled a team to build out a brand engagement platform. ● Helped close and execute a successful trial with a top 25 content site and a top 3 advertiser.

Westminster, Co, Us

Executive Impact: Built and evangelized a common UI Framework and achieved adoption by multiple business units. ● Worked with business verticals to implement a consistent stack for future UI development on top of reusable blocks. ● Delivered a consistent UX for clients to inspire loyalty and high levels of customer satisfaction.

New York, Ny, Us

Executive Impact: Inserted new people, process, and technology to improve morale, communication, planning, and quality. ● Reinvigorated the engineering tools and product process for a 100-person business intelligence (BI) company. ● Reorganized teams, provided consistent executive updates, and hired my replacement as VPE.● Upgraded to Git and JIRA, connected client portal for support, and introduced CICD and automation best practices.● Created enhanced visibility and predictability across Product and Development.

Santa Rosa, Ca, Us

Executive Impact: Reinvented a 20-year-old public company as a social networking company and won multiple awards.● Developed 4 crowd-sourcing software offerings on a common proprietary platform.● Directed the engineering, UI/UX, product management, QA, support, and IT operations. ● Managed 4 employees and up to 30 consultants to develop and deliver high-quality products at a competitive price point. ● Partnered with the executive team to coordinate resources and balance strategic and tactical goals. ● Drove an IP patent protection strategy that delivered investor returns.● Built a cloud-based SaaS collaboration platform and delivered the first product within 6 months.● Led the development of 4 social collaboration products, including award-winning Collaborize Classroom for 80K teachers.

Leadership Impact: Reengineered processes, streamlined architecture, and revitalized the software development life cycle.● Consulted on value propositions, technical standards, application architecture, and internal development processes. ● Resolved architectural logjams, devised a buy-versus-build process, and addressed infrastructure issues to reverse debt.● Rolled-out open-source solutions to realize a 300% code size reduction and 100% increase in UI developer productivity.● Championed an end-to-end transition from waterfall development process to agile methodology.

San Francisco, California, Us

Leadership Impact: Transformed software anti-tamper application company from a COE startup to a serious market contender. ● Evangelized products to establish credibility and source through government and corporate contracts. ● Led the recruiting and training of a technical team and the development of key product architecture components.● Triggered 400% growth in 3 years through effective capital acquisition, client prospecting/negotiation, and recruiting. ● Contributed to the capture of a $10M contract by extending product offerings from Windows to other platforms. ● Played a key role in achieving DOD’s top rating for anti-tamper software.