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Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Software Executive Skilled in Building and Scaling New ProductsCTO with powerful blend of technology vision and business acumen. Experienced managing domestic and international teams on complex projects and key initiatives. Focused on identifying technology and creating new products to spark growth and profitability. Comfortable playing many roles in a start-up environment. Builds team capabilities and a solid IT infrastructure to support operations. Expertise centers on software development, network architecture, compliance, processes, and infrastructure design. Leads with a collaborative spirit matched by entrepreneurial talents.I welcome the opportunity to serve you as a Partner of Fortium Partners, the #1 provider of technology leadership. Find out more at https://www.linkedin.com/company/fortiumpartners or https://www.FortiumPartners.com.

As Chief Technologist I created technologies focused on victim, veteran, and patient advocacy.Created unique systems for technology-based digital identity management, coordinating with law firms to aid clients in protecting themselves from stalking, domestic abuse, and witness intimidation.Provided a voice for consumers by creating systems to collect, classify and normalize large datasets for business and consumer intelligence.Developed the software, hardware systems, processes and procedures to support securely storing and analyzing accumulated and aggregated data.Created responsive apps for many devices including desktop, Android and iOS to assist in accomplishing these goals.Designed and implemented full stack applications using SQL for PostgreSQL for aggregating and storing geo information, Java for API and middleware, Flutter and Dart for mobile and web applications.

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Created secure processes for campaign outreach through texting and email, employing big data and AI to appropriately target voters. Trained political candidates and their campaigns in all aspects requiredfor securely and successfully running for office. Provided security training for candidates, staff, and volunteers.Created and maintained secure systems for internal campaign communications and protection of campaign assets and personal data of voters. Created and enforced processes and procedures for tracking,encrypting, and filing campaign finance information from local to Federal compliance. Created commercials, social media shorts, editorials, website content, email campaigns and monitored and secured public-facing communications.

Architected and developed the technology used within the corporation that allowed multiple products to come to market. Designed and articulated the vision to the senior team, and then guided the development team to bring to life the customer solution. Architected and developed best practices and “best of breed” security and web applications technologies. * Oversaw all aspects of the information systems and technology infrastructure. * Architected and managed development of multi-language 360 survey software and sustainment/goal-tracking web applications.* Adept at managing large-scale training projects designed to improve employee performance. * Trusted member of senior executive team, serving as the corporate ombudsman. * Developed and maintained security committee and client-driven processes, procedures and documentation.* Interacted with clients at the executive level for systems integration, security consultation and sales purposes.

Provo, Utah Area

Managed the Administration, Engine, and Monitor teams through the production and shipment of GroupWise 6.5. Concurrently, was a member of the Novell Security Review Board and the Novell Web Services Architecture Group. In the same timeframe was a key architect in the discovery, articulation and architecture of the Novell Collaboration vision. Coordinated efforts between U.S., India, Germany and Ukraine-based teams to develop and ship the GroupWise Cross-Platform Client. Introduced Extreme Programming methodologies in the Engine and Administration teams and was instrumental in their adoption by GroupWise and other divisions.

Provo, Utah Area

Led the development effort to construct a popular, profitable vertical built on WhizBang! Labs’ machine learning technology. Delivered an award-winning job hunting website. The site was brought to profitability and eventually sold to Monster.com (owned by TMP Worldwide).

Provo, Utah Area

In the role of Senior Engineer at WhizBang! Labs helped develop machine learning code necessary to crawl the web, classify pages and extract relevant data. The data was used by FlipDog.com as well as other partners and customers both in the public and private sectors.

Provo, Utah Area

Key developer / chief architect for the digitalme client. Led the development effort to productize Internet identity/community concepts nurtured in the New Product Initiatives group.* Received Novell Engineering Employee of the Year award for the project. New Product Initiatives — Research and Development GroupReported directly to the CTO researching and developing concepts in the Internet identity/community space based around NDS (Novell Directory Services). * Research resulted in twenty-six patents pending in the Internet identity/community space. GroupWise Java ClientLead developer for the GroupWise Java client. Responsible for developing cross-platform desktop applications for Intranet and workgroup applications.