Responsible for all things SmartThings US including Product Management, Marketing, BD, Engineering, Security, and People Operations.

Responsible for business strategy, product vision, and product management for the SmartThings platform, edge technologies, partner tools, user experience, and design.Responsible for hiring, growing, and retaining world-class talent that is inspired, empowered, and organized into small high-impact autonomous teams that are customer-obsessed and tightly aligned to achieving business outcomes.Responsible for the strategic direction of the engineering organization including the definition and measurement of business outcomes, quarterly goals, annual objectives, and multi-year initiatives.Responsible for the financial performance of the SmartThings platform as well as expenses for direct labor, contractors, software costs, and management of external vendors.Responsible for the organization's intellectual property portfolio, including patent prosecution, trademarks, and software license terms, and contracts.

Responsible for the strategic direction of the engineering organization including the definition and measurement of business outcomes, quarterly goals, annual objectives, and multi-year initiatives.Responsible for the architecture and delivery of a globally-available and distributed device/cloud/mobile/ecosystem platform that is reliable, scalable, secure, and performant while adhering to regional latency targets and privacy regulations.Responsible for creating and improving engineering processes for defining, designing, developing, delivering, and operating services and offerings with strong engineering hygiene while remaining flexible enough meet the needs of the business.Responsible for the engineering budget including labor costs, optimization of direct/insource/outsource spending, infrastructure cost management, capacity planning, and software vendor contracts and partnerships.

Responsible for attracting, retaining, and growing top software engineering talent for cloud engineering teams including core IoT primitives, rules & behaviors, eventing, security management, release engineering, and developer enablement services.Responsible for structuring, measuring, and improving all aspects of the software development process and related activities to improve agility, speed, performance, and quality in a way that aligns and empowers autonomous teams.Responsible for delivering a globally-available and distributed software platform that is reliable, scalable, and secure while meeting regional latency and performance requirements.Key leadership role in annual and quarterly strategic planning initiatives for the engineering organization to ensure that all teams and units are aligned with business objectives and operate as a cohesive unit.

Responsible for 5-year technology roadmap for the company to ensure long-term stability and position in the emerging Industrial Internet of Things market.Responsible for technical talent for information technology, engineering, product management, technical communications, quality assurance, information security, and support services, including recruitment, hiring, career development, performance management, and retention for positions ranging from Vice Presidents to Directors to Managers to engineers and other administrative staff.Frequent speaker at community and professional events as an industry thought-leader and communicator to further the enterprise IoT industry, and grow Exosite brand strength in the marketplace.Responsible for the company's intellectual property portfolio, including patent prosecution, trademarks, and software license terms, and contracts.Responsible for competitive strategy and intelligence including win/loss analysis, competitive dimensions, competitive forces, competitive landscape predictions, and the strategy for developing symbiotic ecosystem partnerships.Responsible for corporate metrics and dashboards to give insight into business performance and to drive the leadership team to action-oriented, data-driven decisions and results.

Direct product software development activities and engineering talent, including recruitment, offers, reviews, training, career development, and mentoring to attract and retain top talent.Develop and communicate corporate software strategy by analyzing, identifying, and pursuing technologies and partnerships that enhance and defend Logic PD's long-term stability and brand position in the marketplace.Co-lead the Technology Roadmap Development program to identify and cultivate technologies that augment the company’s IP portfolio through a structured process that solicits and empowers innovation throughout all levels of the company.Created and launched the 3rd Party Partner Program to select and grow business relationships that offer value-added options to customers, furthering Logic PD’s brand as a well-connected trusted technology advisor.Established Logic PD’s Early Adopter Program (EAP) to provide key customers early access to Logic PD products hardware and software artifacts prior to general availability through distribution.

Directed service software development engineering talent, including recruitment, offers, reviews, training, career development, and mentoring to achieve $2.2M annual revenue with a $.9M gross margin contribution at 14% CAGR.Developed business by presenting product development products and services to potential clients via project plans, statements of work, terms and conditions, and face-to-face consultative selling techniques.Managed design service resource staffing issues by assigning personnel to product development projects using sales forecasts, yield projections, and resource modeling techniques.Introduced Monte Carlo methods, tools, and processes to the business development team for quantitatively assessing design service program risk to aid in the pricing process for fixed-bid programs.Acted as program manager for an ITAR-rated soldier vision system yielding $1.8M in design services revenue with 30+ team members over 18 months.

Led a team of managers and executives to design, implement, and roll out an ISO13485-compliant Quality Management System and associated processes and tool for 125 employees under an aggressive schedule. Led a geographically-distributed team to design a Linux and TI-OMAP-based next-generation portable video borescope.Facilitated a software study group for 30 highly-motivated software engineers, senior software engineers, and principal systems engineers.Led the Project Management Improvement Group to create a project management process and provide training and mentoring on that process.Led a multi-discipline team of engineers to develop an Engine Trend Monitoring device for Turbo-Prop Commuter Planes and Homebuilt aircraft.Participated in the Medical Practice Team to develop Logic's capabilities in the medical field, and to increase its brand awareness in the industry.Led the Software Process Improvement Group to refine the software development process and provide training and mentoring on that process.Developed an MFC application to control a heart lung machine (HLM) bio-pump using an XScale PXA255 Windows CE 4.20 hardware platform.

Led a team of four (4) Senior Software Engineers to develop Logic's Software Development Process and associated templates and forms.Wrote a U-Boot extension for managing a BoP (Broadband over Powerline) chipset for a traffic camera system.Developed an inventory scanner system for bicycle shops using Windows CE, C++, and a PXA270-based Symbol Scanner device.Managed a distributed team of engineers to develop the platform for a handheld wireless voice-controlled music and information system.Developed a user-mode Linux application in C to read and write an Analog Devices 5245 digital potentiometer using I2C.Developed a Linux Board Support Package (BSP) using C, gcc, binutils, and glibc for a brain-state assessment device based on a TI OMAP 5910.Developed a Windows CE DLL to communicate over Microsoft ActiveSync RAPI (Remote API) to an automobile engine-analysis scope.Led 7 engineers over 2 years to port pacemaker and defibrillator software applications written in C for the QNX RTOS to a new platform.Developed a mapping application using Microsoft .NET, C#, C++, and GDI+ to manage an array of infrared laser radar devices and night-vision cameras.Developed an application to streamline drug testing and associated chain-of-custody forms using Microsoft .NET, COM+, and Microsoft SQL Server.Developed and executed automated and manual tests using an oscilloscope and signal generator to verify a safety-critical fiber-optic safety sensor.Developed an application with a dynamic GUI that could be described in XML using MFC and C++ to program a family of industrial safety sensors.