Managed the development and release of cloud services for mobile and web applications. The Azure Infrastructure provides services for over 15M mobile applications and ability to support commerce website ramp-up of 100M monthly users. Directed and managed development and quality assurance teams to develop, define and prioritize platform services roadmap to achieve business revenue goals of $4.4M for ship-to-home. Managed $10M annual budget.

Established and led development of new commerce web site hosted in Azure with auto-scaling. Worked with cross-functional team (marketing, development, operations, service, IT and QA), on and off-shore development teams to set product priorities and requirements to achieve strategic business goals. Responsible for development and delivery of Kodak Moments Android application deployed across the world supporting twenty-six languages working with off-shore development teams in Shanghai, China and Netherlands. Worked with partners to establish SOW’s, test plans and acceptance criteria for the program, as well as managing Google Play store releases.

Directed a team of over 60 engineers, scientists, and technicians that developed comprehensive photo system solutions across a worldwide install base.Managed R&D budgets of $10M - $15M annually and met all budget goals for the business.Successfully developed and executed an aggressive recruitment plan to attract technical talent in a highly competitive job market. Created a mobile development team, delivering a world-class Mobile App (iOS & Android) for Social Sharing, Curation, Product Creation & Commerce services with a scalable set of back-end cloud services. Implemented a platform approach for developing products and components that were leveraged across different systems and product groups, saving over $10M/year in development costs and enabling rapid integration. Championed and drove development of world-class image analysis and curation technologies based on artificial intelligence with initial offering in less than 3 months and increasing order revenue by over 5X.Created global security policies and practices, working with CIO and IT, for our digital products to protect our consumer’s information and privacy. R&D liaison for reviewing and refining corporate policies and procedures to balance between engineering efficiency and corporate security. Effectively transitioned the organization to an Agile development process, improving team effectiveness and efficiency by reducing team rework and redesign by over 50%. Drove Advanced Development of Image Science and Software technologies, effectively streamlining the research and delivery of new technologies into commercialization, reducing cycle time by 8 months.Established research agreement with RIT's Center of Image Science to develop technology, IP, and algorithmic solutions in the areas of image aesthetics and video segmentation for inclusion future releases our image understanding system solution.

Directed and managed team of 120 software developers to deliver a family of imaging products for the consumer and professional photographic markets, releasing new versions every six months. Saved over one million dollars annually through the development and use of a common imaging platform.Negotiated off-shore development contracts and successfully integrated off-shore teams into our development process saving the company $350K annually.Initiated and drove effort to improve department efficiency by 30% through the development and use of automated test suites and test emulators that reduced labor costs by $6M annually. Developed technology roadmaps to identify and assess new technologies that could improve and advantage our product and service offerings. Championed efforts to improve imaging platform development schedule predictability with the adoption of CMM. The team received CMM L3 certification verified through an external audit.

Designed and developed Kodak Ektascan Laser Printer 100 (X-ray Laser Printer) embedded medical imaging software using PSOS (Plug-in Silicon Operating System), C and 68020 Motorola Assembler.Resolved software product issues impacting shipping approval by leading the integration and debugging efforts for ten major issues, receiving a recognition award for my efforts. Responsible for building and integration testing the product software release before delivering it to Quality Assurance Group.

Developed telecom communication software for the Gateway product using C running SunOS/PERPOS (PERpetual Processing Operating System).Designed and implemented product databases, including creating a shared memory representation to achieve real-time performance.Created and taught shared memory and semaphore classes to inexperienced developers.