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Mckinney, TX, US

Aviation Data Group is a provider of cloud software ("SaaS") tools to the General Aviation (GA) community. Thousands of operators, maintainers, schools, and FBO's use our tools to stay airworthy, compliant, and streamline their business operations.

Emberline selectively partners with closely held firms to provide capital, expertise and resources for growth and ownership succession.I provide technical guidance with Emberline portfolio companies as well as technical due diligence.

WinningTack provides coaching and training programs to help tech leaders with their leadership challenges.

San Francisco, California, US

A “Top Tier” mentor with Plato with performance scores in the top 5% Plato mentors. I've assisted dozens of technical executives in hundreds of sessions, coaching them to find solutions to their most important challenges.

Frisco, TX, US

Built and led a SaaS team of software developers, DevOps, QA and Corporate IT professionals in building, restoring and extending key software systems as the company grew year-over-year revenues and EBITDA by over 30%. This led to a successful exit with high multiples from one PE firm (Riverside) to another (GTCR).The technical challenges we conquered.

Co-founded this SaaS, angel funded startup. We successfully employed methods for producing high product value with short schedules, using a small team and small capital outlay. We completed the first production release of the product, before shuttering the company when the angel funding was exhausted.I was responsible for leading Product Management.

Wallingford, CT, US

• As an officer reporting to the CEO, brought in to address issues with product development and producing a sellable product. Mutualink produced an embedded communications system that provided radio and video.
• Responsible for revolutionizing the main product of the company from a hardware centric embedded system to a secure, private cloud based, mobility, SaaS product. This included product managing and leading the.
• Introduced Agile, Scrum and Theory of Constraints.
• Supported exponential growth in end points sold and delivered. From 250 to greater than 10,000.
• Responsibility included Software Development, Product Management, Project Management, New Product Introduction, Quality Assurance, Customer Support, Data Center Management, Network Management and DevOps.
• Multi-locational R&D and product leadership, including outsourced development teams.

Richardson, TX, US

• An officer reporting to the CEO.
• Supported the growth of revenue from $4M/year to $17M/year in less than three years.
• Led R&D, Customer Support, Order Realization, Program Management and Manufacturing.
• Led R&D through the creation of Wireless Backhaul and the Wireless media gateway products as well as the acquisition of the Tatara Systems.
• Grew the staff from 12 to 50 over the course of 5 years, while managing an $8M budget.
• Opened the Toronto R&D center, Acton R&D center, adding to the Hyannis and Richardson R&D and Richardson warehouse locations.

Morrisville, NC, US

• Responsible for R&D for all soft-switch development at Tekelec. I reported to the Business Unit General Manager.
• Led a worldwide team of 7 directors and 170 engineers in systems engineering, software development, hardware development and system test.
• Introduced Theory of Constraints across all organizations within the business unit.
• Supported over $150M in revenue.
• Managed a $30M budget.
• Major technologies: C++ on Unix

Richardson, TX, US

• Led the R&D team to turnaround the T7000 product; creating features and solving product scaling/reliability issues.
• Partnered with the VP of Sales, while product managing and leading the R&D team in turning around the product quality on feature content.
• Introduced Theory of Constraints across the company for our product delivery process.
• Led 5 direct report managers (and 70 software developers) in Richardson and Hyannis.
• Grew revenue from less than $1M in 2001 to $20M in 2004.
• Sold the business to Tekelec for $100M after only two years after recap and $40M invested.

Led a worldwide team of 6 managers and 80 software professionals supporting software development quality and tools. Managed all development processes, statistical process/quality control, quality auditing, process/quality improvements and software engineering tools used within the business unit. Oversaw a $29M budget, supporting $5B in switching revenue.

Developed and directed a worldwide team of 7 managers and 150 IT professionals, providing the information technology needs for the five Lucent Wireless manufacturing centers supporting $4.6B in revenue and managing a budget of $18M.

Developed a leading-edge software development team for the Connectivity Solutions Manufacturing Unit, leading 24 software developers, supporting a $1B revenue stream, providing 24x7 application support and managing a $2.5M budget.

Excelled at providing technical sales support, as a member of the Midwest region team, selling Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools. Provided consulting and training in software development methodologies (object oriented and structured), development processes and the use of CASE tools.

Holmdel, New Jersey, US

Software engineer for intelligent network, call processing and database telephony applications in C on Unix RTR for the 5ESS Switch. Led software design process improvement teams.

Mba, Executive Mba

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science