As Chief Technology Officer, I spearhead the technological vision and strategy across Product, Engineering, and Support departments, guiding a talented team of 45 professionals in a fully remote, global organization. My role is pivotal in ensuring product development aligns seamlessly with our business goals and product vision. I'm entrusted with overseeing departmental budgets, formulating hiring strategies, and designing career development pathways, ensuring our teams are well-equipped to drive innovation and excellence. In addition to these responsibilities, I take a hands-on approach in mentoring product managers and coaching team leads, fostering leadership skills and ensuring alignment with our strategic objectives. I actively engage with customers, listening to their feedback and understanding their challenges to better inform our product development and innovation efforts. This direct interaction not only enriches our customer-centric approach but also ensures that our products and services are finely tuned to meet the evolving demands of the market.My collaboration with product marketing is essential in positioning our products effectively in the market, leveraging my deep understanding of customer data and analytics challenges to tailor our solutions to their needs. These responsibilities extend to nurturing strategic technical partnerships and aligning our product and engineering efforts with joint market opportunities, amplifying our competitive edge.Reporting directly to the CEO and providing monthly updates to the board, I play a crucial role in steering our company towards its strategic objectives. I'm deeply committed to cultivating a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and mutual respect, ensuring our teams are not just prepared for the future but are instrumental in shaping it.

As Chief Technology Officer, I led the technological vision and strategy across the Engineering department, guiding a talented team of 35 professionals in a fully remote, global organization. My role is pivotal in ensuring product development aligns seamlessly with our business goals and vision, fostering strategic alignment across four cross-functional product engineering teams.I'm entrusted with overseeing departmental budgets, formulating hiring strategies, and designing career development pathways, ensuring our teams are well-equipped to drive innovation and excellence. In addition to these responsibilities, I take a hands-on approach in coaching team leads, fostering leadership skills and ensuring alignment with our strategic objectives. Reporting directly to the CEO and providing monthly updates to the board, I play a crucial role in steering our company towards its strategic objectives. I'm deeply committed to cultivating a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and mutual respect, ensuring our teams are not just prepared for the future but are instrumental in shaping it.

As Vice President of Engineering, I led a global, remote-first team of 35 talented professionals across four cross-functional product engineering teams, ensuring our technical strategies were aligned with our overarching product vision and business goals. My role was central to driving strategic alignment, enhancing product development processes, and ensuring our technology stack met the evolving needs of our business and customers.Key responsibilities included:- Conducting design and architectural reviews to maintain high standards of engineering excellence.- Managing the engineering budget, optimizing cloud spend and capacity planning to ensure efficient resource allocation.- Overseeing hiring strategies and developing career ladders to attract, retain, and nurture top engineering talent.- Fostering a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and mutual respect within a fully remote organization.Reporting directly to the CEO and closely collaborating with the office of the CTO, I played a pivotal role in steering our engineering efforts to support strategic objectives, driving technological innovation, and ensuring our engineering practices contributed to our mission and business success.

As Director of Platform Engineering, I led the strategic direction and operational excellence of our Engineering, QA, and Infrastructure teams, reporting directly to the CTO. My leadership was instrumental in driving a DevOps culture, enhancing our operational efficiencies, and optimizing product performance across the board. I spearheaded technology evaluations and the adoption of advanced big data systems, including Hadoop, Spark, Amazon Redshift, and IBM Netezza, as well as cloud platforms like AWS and Azure, ensuring our architecture met both current and future needs.Key achievements included:- Championing DevOps practices and methodologies to improve collaboration and efficiency within cross-functional teams.- Leading product performance optimizations and strategic technology evaluations to streamline application delivery.- Guiding design reviews and strategic planning sessions, aligning engineering efforts seamlessly with overarching business objectives.- Promoting a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration, fostering team development, and refining product strategy to meet market demands.- Specializing in enterprise architecture for big data and cloud environments, driving innovation and enhancing our competitive edge in the market.My tenure as Director of Platform Engineering was defined by a commitment to technological excellence, strategic foresight, and fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.

Responsible for overseeing the operations of all technical infrastructure and information systems at Aginity, including leading a distributed infrastructure team. Developed standard operating procedures, technology and security policies, and disaster recovery plans. Successfully architected and implemented a managed services environment that utilized server virtualization and multi-tenant use of IBM’s Pure Data for Analytics MPP database appliance, generating $100K revenue monthly in the first year. Also designed and supported a hosted lab for the Northwestern University Master of Science in Analytics program, supporting 90 students annually.

Teaching Formal Logic, Critical Thinking, Epistemology, Introduction to Philosophy, and Modern Philosophy. Including teaching full courses in the School of Continuing Studies.

Principle instructor for two course in Formal Logic

Spearheaded the full SDLC for both internal and external web applications, enhancing operational efficiency and user experience.Introduced and implemented the Fusebox framework for ColdFusion, significantly improving application scalability and maintainability.Managed Informix databases, overseeing maintenance, optimization, and reporting, which supported key decision-making processes.Led the successful implementation of the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system, ensuring secure and compliant access to federal court records.

Primarily responsible for desktop lifecycle management including procurement, asset management, software distribution, and service desk.Standardized the district desktop platform yielding a reduction in maintenance requirements and overall upgrade costs.Management of Microsoft servers, Active Directory, Solaris, Linux systems and LAN.