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United States

Providing consulting services for applications requirements, software architecture, business process analysis and information data services.

Boulder, Co

Edge Computing and networking with involvement in 5G wireless and CBRS solutions.

Longmont Colorado

Recruited as the CTO for a small, 20-person venture capital company. Played key role in restructuring the corporate infrastructure, establishing improved processes, revamping a 10-year-old product, and developing new products. Initiated development of cloud-based applications using DevOps services (Azure, Microsoft Team Services, ASP.Net Core) and practiced corporate oversight using the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) methodology.• Oversaw all systems engineering, software development, and management operations for cloud-based Application as a Service (AaaS) products.• Championed enhanced team performance and process improvement, tracking problems, prioritizing work, scrums and sprints, and implementing incremental delivery models.• Led implementation of innovative Android/Apple iOS mobile application for emergency operations centers following FEMA NIMS framework; integrated via portfolio of REST APIs (RESTful).• Directed development of new web-based products, including volunteer management services aligned with ESAR-VHP federal program guidelines; prepared requirements, user interface designs and project plans.

Longmont Colorado

Drove the creation of a next generation 9-1-1 product (ESInet - a geographically distributed architecture using VoIP technology and delivering additional data) from inception to implementation. Prepared technical overviews that resulted in corporate adoption by an industry leader as their nation wide solution.• Coordinated large portfolio of software products including: defining requirements, architecture, and software development. • Actively participated in industry forums, authored numerous white papers, prepared and delivered industry forum and customer presentations and worked to establish ANSI standard protocols (through ATIS and NENA) related to company initiatives. • Defined software development life cycle processes, introduced Agile/scrum methodologies, achieved ISO 9001 certification and CMMI introduction.• Managed geographically diverse project development between Denver, Chicago, and India; oversaw portfolio of 30 million lines of code.

Greater Denver Area

Managed specification and development of a GIS based outside plant facilities management (OSP-FM) application. Supported a user community of 2,000 network design engineers, and managed in-house and outsourced (India) development projects.• Revitalized failing strategic effort and created a success story. • Achieved Software Capability Maturity Model (SEI CMMI) level two certification.

Led the development of interactive voice response applications, speech recognition, and a fault tolerant E9-1-1 call routing application using Unix, C, C++, and Informix databases.

Greater Denver Area

Developed software applications using UNIX, C, various database technologies and real time messaging architectures.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science