Co-Founded Detroit Labs and joined as employee #1, defined and held the vision, mission, and values of the company, and helped build all business and service operations. Held roles as VP of Development, Chief People Officer, and Chief Operating Officer (current). Strategy, Technology, Delivery, Sales, Operations, and Organizational Leadership responsibilities.

Senior leader of all technology groups at ePrize including Software Development, Hosting, Flash Development, Product Engineering, and HTML Development. Delivery focused, with over 500 successful client launches and a bi-weekly engineering release cadence over the past two years. Designed and executed improvement programs to turn software, interface development, and engineering silos into productive and collaborative teams. Selected and developed new senior leaders, coaching them into positions of higher responsibility and influence within the organization. Lead the reengineering of core technology from an assembly line model into a rapid customization and development platform. Introduced change management, requirements gathering, and unit testing processes that allow rapid development of custom client driven applications. Exceeded quality, uptime, and team performance compensation goals while rightsizing teams and leading through corporate restructuring and downsizing. Coached teams and individuals to improve delivery results, improve technical skills, and manage workflow.

Project Lead and Senior Developer for a variety of clients including Delphi, Buick, NIEHS, and Wayne State University. Contributed to large-scale architecture design and implementation for content management and workflow systems. Reliably delivered quality software against tight deadlines. Contributed to all areas of the company’s software development process, from user interaction, information architecture, and front-end design, to application coding, database development and tuning, and back-end server administration.

Commerce One Detroit was acquired by i33 Communications.

AppNet was acquired by Commerce One.

Oracle Database Administrator and Oracle ERP Administrator. Installed and managed Y2K testing databases for Y2K testing team. Supported Oracle HRMS and Payroll ERP systems.

Provide database administration and programming consultation for Oracle ERP installations.

Responsible for the creation, implementation, and administration of mission-critical Oracle databases used for running SCT BANNER Student Information System. Consulted with implementation and operations teams on database technologies including security administration, data integrity, backup and recovery, performance tuning, code base and version control. Managed technical staff, maintained computer laboratories, and provided technical support to faculty and staff.

Various technical service roles, up to manager of technical support services for the Liberal Arts college.