Backstop provides tools for institutional investors. Joined from Cogency acquisition. Current role is Director of Engineering, managing the teams developing Backstop's core product, CRM.Previous role was principal engineer on special projects, especially security, performance, and architecture. Before that, part of the team integrating Cogency and Backstop, including strategic planning

Cogency provides an accounting and portfolio management suite for investors with mixed portfolios of hedge funds, private equity funds, and daily priced instruments. Customers include funds-of-funds, endowments, outsourced CIOs, and family offices.Split role of software development and delivery team management.Design platform and application features. Document everything.Coding: Java, SQL. Cogency has its own platform called Wisdom. It includes a patented visual development tool. Applications are written in a mix of Wisdom and Java. Delivery: Lead the QA team. Ensure delivery process compliance.Part of the management team that lead to a successful exit, acquisition by a larger competitor, Backstop Solutions.

Product Manager of Visibility and Analysis Solutions, Ariba's big data and business intelligence product:• Manage full product lifecycle, own product road maps• Gather, analyze, and document product requirements.• Analyze technology, industry directions, and competitors.• Work with engineering in the US and offshore to design, schedule, and build releases.• The solution consistently met revenue and margin goals.

Lead engineer at a boot-strapped startup. Serus' products optimize the supply chain for electronics manufacturers.• Architect Serus’ products.• Enforce a software development process in a small startup.• Hire and mentor junior engineers.• Lots of coding. Tools: Java, Oracle, Tomcat, JavaScript, html, Eclipse, Excel for algorithm development.• Deliver products and services on time to key customers: Cisco, AMD, Solectron.

Time spent with family, and managing major house renovations.• Demolished and rebuilt 1/3 of house – while living in it with two toddlers.• Finished on time and under budget.

Product manager of a technology platform used by many consumer facing web applications.• Gather, analyze, and document features and requirements.• Write detailed specifications.• Work with marketing to position and launch products.• Train and assist the sales force.

Professional Services Manager:• Work with customers to design, architect, develop, and deploy large consumer facing web sites. Projects were large, mission-critical sites requiring top levels of quality, scalability, security, and performance. • Coding. Tools: C++, SQL, Java, JavaScript, html, shell scripts.• Hired and led a team of consultants. Responsible for training, scheduling, and utilization.• Pre and post sales consulting.• Customer projects include Home Depot, General Electric, Electronic Arts, Standard Chartered Bank, Development Bank of Singapore, Lloyds TSB, Macromedia, and Mercata.Started as consultant, moved up through several management roles.The company grew from 50 employees to 2,000 during my stay. Annual revenue grew from a few million dollars to almost a billion.

Tele-TV was a startup that developed an interactive TV network.My role was integrating the back end systems and the video network.Designed the video app demo system by integrating off the shelf hardware and software.Built and presented many demos to investors and potential customers.Met with an uncountable number of potential technology vendors, both back-end and video systems.

Interactive Television Company was a small company conducting research for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and other US government agencies.Designed and wrote gigantic amounts of C on platforms that no longer exist. I also did just about everything else technical, including basic research.Managed a small team of developers.

Vitro was a government contractor, primarily for the US NavyData analysis and software development for undersea warfare simulations.Navigation software design and development.