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Berlin, De

Francisco Partners acquired iZotope, Native Instruments and Plugin Alliance/Brainworx in 2021, and reestablished under the company name of Native Instruments in June, 2023. In addition to the Boston iZotope team, added Brainworx engineering team in Langenfeld Germany to management scope after founder and GM exited daily operations, as well as Shared Experiences team responsible for CI/Build Systems and customer facing Native Access installation management tool. Overall, responsible for engineering team of ~70 people. Also responsible for many cross-organization initiatives such as: migrating 3 sites to unified Github Enterprise version control platform, organizing the company-wide NI Open hackathon, participating in the cross-functional product creation leadership team responsible for roadmap planning and strategy, and Technology onboarding training.Acted as Interim CTO and Executive Team member representing Engineering for 4+ months during search for new CTO. Oversaw combined global Technology team of 200+ including software engineering, hardware engineering and supply chain management, and applied research, spanning Boston, Berlin, Langenfeld (Germany) and London - including delivery of annual product roadmap, with software and hardware flagships.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Promoted after acquisition by Francisco Partners. Reported directly to CTO. In addition to being accountable for delivery of product roadmap and success of iZotope business, expanded management scope to include the cross-geo applied Research Team, the strategic Cloud Team, and contributed to formation of cross-org initiatives and platform teams for DevOps, installation and authorization, a unified product analytics platform, and to expanding iZotope's rotating maintenance team model to other parts of the business.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Managed and developed the innovative Engineering organization responsible for the award-winning core audio plug-in business, including the market leading Ozone mastering plug-in and the Emmy and Oscar winning RX audio repair product. Reported directly to the CTO. Business grew 2.5x and funded the emerging Spire part of the business. Launched the inaugural subscription offering.

San Jose, California, Us

NetApp provides storage and data management solutions for enterprises across a variety of industries. The Manageability Engineering Group develops the OnCommand product suite used by a Storage Administrator to manage, monitor and troubleshoot the health and performance of their critical assets and big data stored in a NetApp storage environment.Managed Java web developers and QA engineers responsible for common application platform (J2EE, mySQL, AngularJS) used by the OnCommand Family of products supported on Linux (Debian, Red Hat) and Windows. Responsible for the OnCommand Performance Manager (OPM) scalability initiative.

Saint Louis, Missouri, Us

Aclara Software’s Consumer Engagement product family provides electric, gas and water utilities with analytics and software solutions that leverage their smart grid investment, by presenting billing, energy use and analysis tools to their consumers to build awareness and to motivate behavior change around energy consumption.Manage a team of .NET and C# web developers that brought a family of consumer presentment and engagement web applications to market, and integrated them with client sites, on 24x7 multi-tenant SaaS platform.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Responsible for managing the multi-Scrum team implementation plan to phase into production a newly developed SOA architecture and new health care platform and claims adjudication system with Oracle backend to replace existing legacy single-box solution.

Boston, Ma, Us

Carbonite provides a secure automatic online computer backup service for consumers and small businesses that is supported on Windows and Mac. Managed team that builds intelligent cross-platform desktop Client that backs up/restores files to secure server. Carbonite is now part of the OpenText family.

Natick, Ma, Us

Program management for a diverse portfolio of technical teams, products and cross-functional programs in the MATLAB division to facilitate product design, development and delivery. Managed a team of 5 Program Managers.

Burlington, Ma, Us

Technical people management for teams responsible for a variety of technologies, including: video effects, programming video hardware, interoperability, 3rd party public APIs, file formats, workflow solutions and low-cost video editor products.Project/release management for a variety of projects and video editor product releases for the post production and broadcast news industries. Hired, built and developed teams from ground up and managed products from concept through first customer ship using traditional and Agile development methodologies. Responsible for large cross-platform multi-product releases.

Burlington, Ma, Us

Principal Engineer and Technical Lead for video effect plug-in format (AVX) and multimedia file format (OMF/AAF) initiatives written in C/C++. Supported 3rd party developer partners, managed 3rd party supplier relationships and participated in standards organizations.

Technical Lead and developer with experience in distributed computing using OSF/DCE, OMG/CORBA interoperability and 3rd party application porting.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Master Of Science (Ms), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Music, Piano Performance

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