Strategic Account Executive for Cruise and GM Financial. Focused on helping Cruise deliver world-changing AV technology and helping GM Financial digitally transform their modern finance platforms.

Partnering with General Motors as they digitally transform to build a next generation hybrid cloud that will enable them to achieve their aggressive growth targets while realizing their vision of Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions, and Zero Congestion.

Working with strategic customers to adopt Azure as a key component of their digital transformation.

I work with Microsoft's strategic accounts in Michigan to help them transform their business with leading solutions for large-scale analytics, business intelligence, artificial intelligence, and IoT.

My mission was help large financial organizations in the Chicagoland are transform their businesses to more effectively engage with their customers, empower their employees, transform their products, and optimize their operations.My particular focus on our team is Data & AI Solutions. These include solutions from Microsoft (SQL / NoSQL, Hadoop, AI and IoT), as well as solutions from our partners.

Responsible for interacting with customer technology teams to help them envision, architect, and deploy data platforms on Microsoft Azure.Expert in the following Microsoft Azure technologies: Azure Machine Learning, Azure HDInsight, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Store & Analytics, Azure SQL Database, Azure DocumentDB and Azure SQL Data Warehouse.Also familiar with partner ISV solutions: MapR / Cloudera / Hortonworks (Hadoop), Datastax (Cassandra), and Datameer.

Advising this hot, high-growth startup in the native / embedded mobile ad space. Native ads and sponsorships outperform mobile banner ads 5-to-1. The AdAdapted platform makes finding, serving, and managing these in-app opportunities easy and efficient. The company currentlyreaches 20 Million+ MAU's in both the 'Mobile Mom' and 'Teens' categories. Their campaigns are generating 5%+ CTR's and we handle all ad production, management and reporting.If you are interested in AdAdapted, as an investor, potential customer, or partner, let me know and I will connect you with the founders.

BIOVIGIL is the leading provider of electronic hand hygiene monitoring systems. We help hospitals decrease infection rates by improving their hand hygiene compliance.I manage the Big Data team responsible for extracting data from thousands of devices deployed to customers across the world, analyzing it, and providing insights back to clients.

Led the technical effort to develop an innovative new online and mobile platforms for qualitative research and co-creation. The platform is being used by Global 2000 brands on hundreds of research projects in multiple languages to get deep insights into consumer behavior.

My role at the HFii was to help with the early stage commercialization of innovations that come out of the Henry Ford Health System.

Responsible for all aspects of operations at Amplifinity, a leading referral marketing firm. Amplifinity uses a combination of technology and expertise to deliver turn-key referral programs that are an order of magnitude more effective than traditional programs. Clients include DIRECTV, ADP, ADT, TXU and more.

Founded company that built SaaS platform for custom business applications. Managed all aspects of the business, including developing business plan, raising angel investment, recruiting the initial team, and shipping the product.

Director of marketing for Compuware's distributed Application Delivery Management Solutions, which includes all of Compuware's ALM products. Responsible for go-to-market strategy and marketing execution for these solutions.

Responsible for formulating and executing the go-to-market stategy for one of Compuware's strategic initiatives: Compuware OptimalJ

Product Manager for a new commercial software product. Helped write product requirements, develop sales materials, and train sales engineers.

On the product management team for Sun's Application Server product group. Helped develop technical marketing materials, briefed technical press, and helped troubleshoot on large customer deployments.

Managed a practice of up to 20 software developers for the eBusiness unit of this consulting practice.

Commissioned as a US Army Infantry Officer. Proud graduate of US Army Ranger School and US Army Airborne School. Held various leadership positions in 3/325 Airborne Battalion Combat Team (re-flagged as 1-508), stationed in Vicenza, Italy. Led airborne rifle platoon comprised of 30+ infantrymen in Task Force Eagle in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Later became supply platoon leader and eventually selected as Aide-de-Camp for the Commanding General of the Southern European Task Force. Received Army Commendation Medal for service and was honorably discharged upon completion of service agreement.