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San Mateo, California, US

Redmond, Washington, US

• Lead ~190 person engineering and data science org in US, Canada and India for Microsoft Family team. Microsoft Family produces child digital safety, physical safety and Family productivity solutions across Microsoft’s.
• Chart strategic and tactical product roadmap with Product and Design leaders
• Lead combined Family engineering & data teams after reorg of existing Redmond and Bay Area teams.
• Staffed new 40+ engineer team and leadership in Hyderabad, India.
• Staffed new 35+ engineer team and leadership in Vancouver, Canada.
• Created charter and resource investment strategies through rapid team growth.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Lead ~60 person engineering and data science org in US and India for MileIQ team in Microsoft post acquisition. Microsoft acquired MileIQ as a key element in making Office a better fit for SMB. MileIQ remained one of.
• Integrate MileIQ with Office app suite including port from AWS to Azure, AAD integration and enterprise and GDPR compliance.
• Expanded engineering team from 30 to 60+. Hire 30+ team in Bangalore, India.
• Executed spinout after Microsoft’s SMB strategy changed.

San Francisco, CA, US

• One of the highest grossing finance apps in iOS and Android app stores. Hands on CTO for MileIQ driving technical and helping to drive product directions for innovative revenue generating automatic mileage tracking.
• Increased backend scale from 100K’s drives per day to over 5M drives per day.
• Staff engineering team.
• Managed technical aspects of company acquisition by Microsoft.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Founder and CEO of Mynd Smart Calendar, an award winning intelligent calendaring app. Acquired by MileIQ.
• Raised $2M Angel round from angels and VC
• Grew to over 100K MAU with scrappy marketing and viral capabilities.
• Developed backend including all intelligent location-based algorithms.

Sun Valley, ID, US

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Built and managed Motorola's mobile cloud services team. This team is responsible for all service-backed functionality for Android-based phones and tablets.
• Build team from 3 to 300 in 3 years, combination of internal staffing and external hiring
• Distributed team including sites in Chicago, Beijing, London, Munich and India
• Built out co-located data centers in North America (4) and Beijing (1)
• Big Data systems ingesting multiple 100's of GB of data daily
• Grew MOTOBlur subscriber base from start to over 7M subscribers in one year in over 100 wireless carriers

Manage several development and QA teams responsible for the service aspects of Good's enterprise mobile messaging product. Developed as custom C++ servers running on Sun hardware this system supported over 400,000 active subscribers with very high up-time and low cost. During my tenure major improvements were made in the areas of reliability, scalability.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Managed the team of engineers producing server software installed at Good Technology customer sites. The primary server product is a Microsoft Exchange synchronization engine for Good's GoodLink enterprise wireless messaging service. Led the product through major robustness and scalability improvements. Currently deployed at over 10,000 customer sites.

Managed a team of 14 senior engineers to architect and develop the core synchronization engine and supporting infrastructure for fusionOne's carrier-class sync solution. This is a distributed multi-point sync solution that is one of the few in the industry capable of scaling to millions of users. It can keep contacts, calendar, tasks, email, and files.

Developed state-of-the-art technology allowing mobile access to enterprise applications such as messaging, CRM, ERP, and EIP. LEVIENT's servers are the bridge between web enabled mobile devices such as WAP phones, wireless PDAs, and laptops. Responsible for much of the high and low-level design of the system. Led team of 7 software engineers and 2 QA.

Took responsibility for managing Internet development tasks for eFax's Unified Messaging service. Directly managed development team of 6 engineers and coordinated development and QA with teams in three other locations. Responsible for technical requirements, specification and implementation for eFax's strategic partnerships. Projects included: complete web.

eFax.com (then JetFax, Inc) acquired DocuMagix in December 1997. Continued to be responsible for the design and development of the PaperMaster product line. Was instrumental in securing two OEM bundling deals with Hewlett-Packard worth several million dollars. PaperMaster 98 and a follow-on product, FilingCentral 1.0, were bundled with HP's CD-Writer.

Acted as overall technical manager of software development and other technical projects undertaken by DocuMagix. Responsibilities included managing 6 software engineers, 5 quality assurance engineers, and 2 customer support technicians. Projects included PaperMaster Live 3.0 and derivatives for various OEM customers. Also directed design and customer.

Core member of small engineering team responsible for design and development of all DocuMagix software products. Used the latest development tools from Microsoft and other companies to produce best-of-class Windows products. Became Project Lead for PaperMaster Live 3.0. In addition to design and development work for PaperMaster Live 3.0, was responsible.

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Member of the team that designed and developed several retail Windows applications including: OmniPage Professional 1.0, 2.0, 5.0, OmniPage Direct 1.0, and FaxMaster 1.0. OmniPage Professional 5.0 outsold all other Windows based OCR products. Lead engineer for Direct, FaxMaster, and OmniPage Professional 5.0; was responsible for coordinating the efforts of.