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Chapel Hill, NC, US

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

A strategy consultancy with global reach, headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with representation in the US and the UAE. We guide organizational design, ensuring cultural alignment, innovation and resilience, for the seamless execution of your strategic goals and critical milestones. Our Mission: Empowering resilience and Innovation through AI.

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San Francisco, California, US

• Responsible for all aspects of a 200-person, fully remote, cross-continent engineering team/organization:
• Increased ARR by over 400% in the first 18 months and over 40% during the economic downturn
• Supported a value proposition shift from Storage to Data Services - focusing on the right product partnerships(AWS), structure and culture
• Developed and delivered a ML based Ransomware Detection product that is the bedrock for Panzura's growth into the Data Services market.
• Successful management of specific measures to address the economic downturn while ensuring focus on people and culture

San Francisco, California, US

• Responsible for all aspects of a 160-person, fully remote, engineering organization:
• Increased ARR by over 400% in the first two years by increasing product quality and decreasing time to deliver new features.
• Adopted an Agile development process to increase transparency and promote an environment where customers can provide quick feedback on new functionality and provide a path to quicker customer value.
• Retooled the Engineering organization to increase quality, security, performance, and safety for Panzura. Led building a toolset of GitLab, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, Observe, SonarQube, Laceworks, backed by both AWS and.
• Started operations in Mexico, based in Guadalajara, to give Panzura a low-cost engineering center. Started 2023 with 47 people in region.
• Enhanced visibility for the business by adopting a Data Driven model. Leveraged PowerBI to create exhaustive reporting infrastructure which gave Panzura the ability to easily measure how we are doing from both a.

Melville, New York, US

• Responsible for multiple aspects of a 1000-person global engineering organization distributed over 8 countries:
• Increased the speed at which Verint released software by creating a Common Operations Org with the charter of increasing innovation, increasing speed and quality by moving the engineering org to an automated DevOps.
• Turned customer sentiment positive at multiple high-level customers by engaging with the leadership teams of our customers, understanding the source of frustrations, and creating focused and flexible teams to resolve.
• Enhanced visibility for the business by adopting a Data Driven model. This project eliminated the historic he said/she said environment and focused the teams on agreed upon metrics to drive the business forward.
• Also responsible for our Common Code Development organization, PMO, Agile processes and our L3Support organizations.Tools and Technologies:Source Control Systems: Git, GitHubCase/Defect Tracking Systems: MS Dynamics.

Burlington, Massachusetts, US

• Responsible for all aspects of the world-wide DataDirect engineering organization consisting of 100+ people in a hybrid environment with a $13M budget, 8 product lines with teams in two countries.
• Drove revenue growth by 15% in 2015 and 27% in 2016 achieving nearly $50M in revenue.
• Built a new product by leading the development and release of DataDirect Hybrid Data Pipeline, a SaaSdata connectivity product, which had bookings of $3M in the first 4 months.
• Setup the organization for future growth by architecting and investing in frameworks that reduced thetime for building new connectivity from 3 months to two weeks.
• Built DataDirect's first SaaS product by leading a group of 15 people in the creation and launch of a newconnectivity product, DataDirect Cloud. Product was in beta within 9 months and was GA in 14 months.

Burlington, Massachusetts, US

Responsible for all aspects of the DataDirect Connect and DataDirect Cloud product lines consisting of 50+ people with a $9M budget, 3 product lines with teams in 2 countries.

Burlington, Massachusetts, US

Responsible for leading the Testing efforts for the DataDirect Connect and DataDirect Shadow product lines. These products had annual revenues of approximately $85M. Responsible for 14 people as well as coordination with an outsourced testing organization based in India (Aspire Technologies).

Responsible for requirements analysis and functional requirements for the DataDirect Connect Series for ODBC and Connect64 for SSIS product lines.

Responsible for the Connect for ODBC, Connect for JDBC, Connect for ADO.NET, and Connect for ADO products totaling 19 developers.

Responsible for the Connect for ODBC product line.

Responsible for New Development and maintenance of the Sybase and MS SQL Server database ODBC drivers on Windows and several Unix platforms. Created DataDirect's first Wire Protocol ODBC Driver, the core technology for DataDirect's future connectivity.

San Mateo, CA, US

• Duties included testing, verifying, and teaching the above listed products to other support representatives inside INTERSOLV.
• Included programming in VisualBasic and working with databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, dBase, etc.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Navigating Transitions

Duke Leadership Program