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Lafayette, In, Us

Lafayette, Us

Currently working with: Nexus.ge - Fractinal CTO since Sept, 2023Confidential CTO Coaching - since Jan, 2022Confidential CTO Mentoring and Coaching - since March 2022Previous clients:Confidential medical startup - Fractional CTO Dec 2021 - Jan 2023• Provided full service virtual fractional CTO services for companies across the globe. • Defined software engineering structure and performed people management.• Provided Software Engineering Leadership consultation to all levels of leaders up to and including CTO.• Developed IT/Software Engineering strategies, practices, policies, and standards.• Developed procedures to ensure quality standards get met and maintained.• Developed a culture of trust, inclusion, open-mindedness, and fairness using Servant Leadership. • Developed and executed strategies to recruit and retain top engineering talent.• Development of roadmaps, maturation plans, and metrics.• Defined and managed operating budgets.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

• Led effort to introduce agile methodologies and frameworks. • Created processes and metrics that enabled the tracking of velocity, allowing for improved prediction of time to deliver. • Led effort to improve hiring practices company wide.• Coached, mentored, and assisted Partnership Director in redefining strategic partnerships.• Defined, trained, and coached the roles required for successful agile software development, including a Product Owner and Manager role.• Created standards and procedures to guarantee meeting and maintaining quality standards.• Understood and collaborated on the complete product lifecycle from concept to execution.• Researched and recommended new technology and ideas to improve processes and efficiency.• Spearheaded initiatives to modernize IT capabilities including planning, redesigning, and building implementation strategies for transitioning existing solutions.• Managed and directed a geographically dispersed Product Engineering team made up of onshore/offshore individuals.• Provided leadership and strategic vision to ensure business priorities were delivered based on agreed-upon time frames and standards.• Developed practices to increase and sustain remote employee engagement.• Built a culture of trust, inclusion, open-mindedness, and fairness using Servant Leadership including coaching introverts, to be major contributors while improving the overall quality and culture of the teams.

Lake Oswego, Or, Us

• Spearheaded expansion into AWS to modernize a legacy system.• Guided partnership with a strategic vendor to perform predictive analytics using AI/ML.• Increased YoY team output by 170% by fostering a cohesive team environment, articulating team vision, and creating open communication channels among international remote teams.• Acted as highest-level leadership over Product Engineering for the NetClaim line of business.• Oversaw hiring, onboarding, training, assigning workflows, and performance reviews for 23-35 onshore/offshore developers in 3-4 remote teams. This included managing engineering managers and technology leads. • Led the defining of modern AWS architecture, architecture approach, and SLDC processes.• Provided leadership and strategic vision to ensure business priorities got delivered based on agreed-upon time frames and standards.• Developed practices to increase and sustain remote employee engagement.• Recruited and developed engineering staff and contracted new offshore team engineering team.• Functioned as both a business and product engineering leader.• Collaborated with product management, sales, customer success and customer support to ensure progress and guide business and IT direction.• Implemented practices to ensure continuous improvement. • Built a culture of trust, inclusion, open-mindedness, and fairness using Servant Leadership.• Coached and mentored staff to improve the overall quality and culture of the teams.

Tumwater, Wa, Us

• Increased architecture quality and maturity by 200% in less than one year.• Orchestrated transformation of cloud application architecture to API-based cloud system that is projected to reduce expenses by $20M over 10 years. • Managed a team of 2 Senior IT Associates and 5 contracted Solution Architects with control of a $4M budget.• Provided architectural guidance for all IT application investments, including COTS, SaaS, and custom-developed solutions.• Created and managed IT policy, standards, and strategic plans.• Responsible for defining, staffing, and managing the Enterprise Solution Architecture Center of Excellence.• Set strategic direction for the agency, and in some circumstances, for all state agencies. • Mentored and provided leadership to enterprise and solution architects.• Led Agency Application Steering Committee. • Represented the agency on conference panels, advisory committees, and communities of interest at both the Agency and Statewide level.• Recognized as an expert in solution and enterprise architecture.

Olympia, Wa, Us

• Partnered with multiple sovereign governments (tribal nations, first nations) to standardize methods of tracking and identifying tribal members across dozens of departmental programs and software that helped yield over $6M in annual ongoing funding. • Emerged as a statewide resource for Enterprise Architects, admired and trusted by architects from all state agencies. • Served as lead for cross-divisional Application and Data Customer Review Board.• Served as an expert advisor to the Executive Leadership Team and Information Technology Steering Committee.• Administered Enterprise Data Architecture Program for the organization.• Acted as Interim Chief Architect and performed the roles of the all the Enterprise Architecture functions.• Performed training for multiple new Chief Architects and peer Enterprise Architects. • Set strategic direction for the agency and, as needed, for all state agencies. • Represented Agency on panels, advisory committees, and communities of interest at Agency and Statewide level.• Developed statewide IT Policy, principles, models, and standards.• Directed cross-divisional action committees, governance panels, and communities of interest.

Olympia, Wa, Us

• Led modernization efforts that resulted in millions of dollars in yearly ongoing savings.• Promoted continual evolution of software practices.• Developed IT policy and business plans for engineering.• Defined technical architecture that aligns with industry, federal, state, and agency standards.• Established configuration management infrastructure and environment.• Designed release and deployment management processes and tools.• Directed 2 teams through initiatives to fully modernize business solution.• Developed and managed continuous integration solution.• Led application and database system development.• Performed code reviews and ensured compliance with standards.• Developed and maintained software development standards.• Owned the engineering technical architecture. • Evaluated industry trends to incorporate modern tools and practices for improvement and performance goals.• Fostered a culture of continues improvement.• Represented Department on panels, advisory committees, and communities of interest at Agency and Statewide level.• Managed a multi-disciplined software engineering team of FTE’s and contractors.• Re-wrote the Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration legacy case management system to service-oriented architecture and modern development platforms.

Tumwater, Wa, Us

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