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Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Led a global engineering organization, defined strategy and developed edge, cloud, data and machine learning products. Responsible for teams in the U.S., India, Poland and Colombia.• Grew nascent Edge product line with three new products, improving company’s competitive position in the emerging industrial edge market space. Products provide device and workload orchestration, connectivity and analytics. SaaS, built on cloud microservices, REST, partner’s edge platform, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Docker and industrial hardware.• Integrated M&A acquired “smart factory” product, improving company’s competitive position in the emerging industrial edge, data and analytics platform market spaces. Product is a complete “manufacturing brain” with edge management, industrial data hub and ML analytics. It is built on Python, microservices, REST and Microsoft Azure.• Delivered new machine learning product, improving company’s competitive position in the emerging industrial AI market space. Received corporate recognition for outstanding cross-functional innovation. Product performs condition monitoring on electrical motors, gearboxes and related equipment. Built with C# and containers.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Us

Led consulting services in robotics, Industry 4.0/5.0, IoT, AI/ML and Enterprise Data/Information Management (EDM/EIM). Responsible for teams spanning the U.S., Canada and Mexico.• Initiated new robotics program and partnership with Boston Dynamics, creating new services and a significant new revenue stream. Received advanced training at Boston Dynamics headquarters and participated in Spot early adopter program.• Initiated new EIM program to provide guidance on data management, data engineering and data governance for AI/ML, IoT and PLM consulting services.• Led consulting services for a major U.S. gas and electric utility provider saving $7M in asset capital costs over three years. Solution consisted of Boston Dynamics Spot robots, RFID equipment, IoT devices, Python, C++ and Oracle Cloud (OCI) IoT services.

Rueil Malmaison, Paris, Fr

Led a new “Smart Connected Products” strategic initiative to add IoT capabilities and SaaS cloud services to Pelco surveillance hardware and enterprise software. General manager for acquired SaaS commercial video security product.• Introduced new SaaS/IoT product: business strategy, budget, architecture and development, started product management, supported marketing and branding, built a positive team culture. Revenue estimated at millions/year. Java and Angular solution that ran on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS).• Served as delegate on Strategy Committee of the Open Security and Safety Alliance, an international group founded to foster innovation and trust across the industry. Worked with leaders from Germany, the U.S., Denmark, the Netherlands, Korea and Taiwan encouraging ethical surveillance practices through technical, marketing, and financial incentives.

Lincoln, Nebraska, Us

Led engineering for enterprise and desktop software and “smart” server rack hardware products. Solutions provide data center building automation, efficiency, reliability, analytics, security, power, cooling, floor space, rack utilization and asset monitoring.• Achieved $X00,000/year in operating cost optimization by restructuring engineering department to better meet growing needs; redefining SDLC, DevOps and KPIs using Agile, ToC and Lean; and revising R&D accounting within GAAP guidelines.• Improved customer retention and lifetime value, enabled faster delivery of software services, and extended the life of a key product by modernized Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) product architecture and software stack, moving from Java Applets to a REST API and AngularJS user interface.• Delivered new desktop product for management of intelligent hardware which reduces setup and configuration time, improving sales conversion rates, overall customer satisfaction and customer lifetime value by 20% for related products. Built with Java, C# and AngularJS.

Austin, Texas, Us

Responsible for Oracle Cloud components as a member of the Oracle Fusion Middleware team. Technical lead for WebCenter Personalization Server. Scrum Master for AI recommendations module.• Refactored core component, reduced lines of code by 35% (from 74k to 48k LOC) through improvements in design and engineering practices. Built on Java ecosystem.

Fort Collins, Co, Us

Defined technology strategy to support business strategy for company of 150+ U.S. employees plus offshore talent. Led innovation across product development and consulting divisions, advised executive team on technology matters.• Improved project estimating accuracy by over 20% using predictive modeling of effort estimation and change impact assessment indicators, in collaboration with CSU College of Business, CIS Department.• Improved developer efficiency 10x using Model Driven Engineering (MDE/MDA) via a custom desktop IDE, reducing weeks of boilerplate work to a few hours for every project. Built using Java and Eclipse SWT.• Virtualized server infrastructure into 67 Windows, Linux and HP-UX VMs, optimized network storage; reduced energy footprint, capital expense and maintenance efforts while increasing responsiveness and availability.

Fort Collins, Co, Us

Launched R&D department within a rapidly growing life sciences product lifecycle management consulting company. Managed cross-functional teams, developed partner and vendor relationships, managed finances, defined processes and continuous improvement, designed products and wrote code on occasion when needed.• Saved 36% of budgeted first-year costs, contributing to being profitable after the first year.• Delivered six products spanning data management, quality management and regulatory compliance. Intellectual property rights were sold to a partner for a significant profit plus continued development of the products.

Fort Collins, Co, Us

Consultant to Fortune 100 medical device manufacturers, delivering Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Quality Management Systems (QMS) enterprise software solutions to meet their specific needs. Involved in all aspects of the project lifecycle: technical sales, statement of work (SOW), requirements gathering, solution design, software engineering, testing, deployment and support.• Led delivery of $1.4M in services for a major medical device manufacturer to nine countries and several thousand users speaking five languages. Solutions included Document Management, Engineering Change Control, Design Control, Quality Systems and Project Management; some were integrated with their ERP, R&D laboratory and quality systems. Built on ENOVIA/MatrixOne, Java EE.• Led delivery of $1.2M in services for a major medical device manufacturer across three divisions and several thousand users. The solution was a global, cross-divisional complaints management system integrated with other enterprise applications. Built on ENOVIA/MatrixOne, Java EE.• Creator or substantial contributor of packaged services for CAPA, Manufacturing Nonconformance, Complaints Management, Stage Gate Project Management, Engineering Change Control, Document Management and Risk Management. Built on ENOVIA/MatrixOne, Java EE.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science

Aas (Equiv.), Electricity And Electronics Technology