Proven senior engineering leader (HW & SW) with a passion to deliver for customers, to take teams on a journey of innovation & continuous improvement, and to lead projects where the organization wants to do something significantly new. Specialties: Leading change that produces dramatic improvements (for example: offerings that leverage new technologies, improving offering quality, and leveraging core/context analysis to free up the resource to focus on customer differentiation), disruptive innovation, software architecture, software design, software engineering process, innovative solutions to customer problems, developing reusable components, software product lines, Six Sigma as a management tool, designing computer systems, real time.Recipient of the Townsend Harris Medal (www.ccnyalumni.org/about/townsend) and the Marquis Who's Who Lifetime Achievement Award (www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/470481/miles-lewitt-presented-with-the-albert-nelson-marquis-lifetime-achievement-award-by-marquis-whos-who). Awarded by Steve Bennett the CEO Excellence in Leadership Award.Mr. Lewitt has organized and presented at multiple company sponsored conferences, spoken at professional conferences and published in technical magazines. Mr. Lewitt and Watts Humphrey were both keynote presenters at a conference in 2005 sponsored by the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. Other conference presentations include the Workshop on Performance and Reliability and STAREAST, a software testing and quality assurance conference. Experienced presenting to engineers, customers, CEO staff, and the Board of Directors. Performed technical due diligence of potential acquisitions for Intuit and ADP.Successful with leadership positions at both large and small organizations. Career spans web offerings, commercial software products, tools for software engineers, HW/SW for real time applications, microprocessors and mainframes. Managed development efforts utilizing current technologies (e.g. XML, SOAP, Web Services, SOA, Flex, Java, J2EE, C#, .NET, C++, C, SQL and Linux, Unix, and Windows).Earned a Masters in C.S. from Arizona State University and a Bachelors in C.S. from the City College of New York Grove School of Engineering (summa cum laude). Senior member of the IEEE and the American Society for Quality. Member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. Taught college-level computer courses and was on the executive committee of the American Electronics Association Oregon Council.