I am known as a technology and engineering visionary with demonstrated success aligning strategic corporate initiatives and digital transformation plans to support the success of growing organizations. I have experience leading technology and engineering strategy and teams across industries including Publishing, EdTech, Telecommunications, Digital Advertising, Consulting, Healthcare, Outsourcing, and eCommerce. Recognized by key stakeholders, I am skilled in designing and implementing enterprise technical architectures, managing and scaling high-performance technical and engineering systems and teams during periods of significant change and most frequently during mergers and acquisitions when infrastructure needed to be evaluated by an experienced expert. I am known for establishing executive partnerships, gaining consensus, and leading enterprise-wide transformation initiatives.Career Highlights:• As an integral member of Riverside Assessments (HMH) management team, prepared documentation and represented engineering and technology as part of sales and due diligence process to prepare and market company to 8 different private equity firms. Successfully sold to Alpine Investors for $140M.• In under 7 months, strategically led, established, and migrated back office, implementing mission critical ERP/CRM platform, following acquisition of newly formed Riverside Insights LLC, a company with $80M in revenue and 350 employees.• Built DevOps practice and cloud-based distributed computing environment for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a top publishing and curriculum development company, enabling migration away from physical data centers to AWS’ platform and infrastructure services. Delivered 60% annual cost reduction in computing resources.Areas of Expertise:Executive Leadership | Technical Leadership | Team Management | Performance ManagementDigital Technology | Product Engineering | Technology Infrastructure | Technical ArchitectureComplex Problem Solving | Root/Cause Analysis | Cloud Technology | Platform Services
