• Strategizing with executive teams on how to rapidly and effectively roll out Generative AI within their organizations in a responsible and ethical manner.• Reviewing existing software products as well as newly proposed projects and advising how to incorporate best practices for modern SaaS offerings.• Collaborating with teams to uncover transformative opportunities to leverage Generative AI with a high ROI through productivity enhancements and new product offerings.• Supervising a development team that rapidly prototypes real-world Generative AI solutions across multiple businesses, accelerating time to market and fostering a culture of innovation.• Working with key vendors in the space to clarify their generative AI capabilities, identify how to leverage them most efficiently, and provide feedback to tune their offerings.• Coordinating the development of training materials aimed at developers across the company and its subsidiaries to enhance their ability to rapidly, efficiently, and effectively build generative AI applications.• Co-authored content for generative AI training intended for non-technical employees, to enable them to best apply these tools in their roles.• Headed up the development and launch of HearstChat, the company's internal GPT-4 based chatbot.

• Advised companies on major technology issues including generative AI, evolving legacy systems, and transitioning businesses to SaaS.• Lead discussions at industry conferences (Collision, Evanta Global CIO Executive Summit, Fortune CEO Initiative) on developing talent and technology in a world being transformed by Generative AI• Educated executives and teams as to the potential applications of generative AI and helping identify areas where generative AI can quickly be applied to improve productivity or enable new product capabilities.• Launched and oversaw a Minimum Viable Experiment program within an organization to accelerate generative AI initiatives by augmenting teams with consulting developers and experts.• Documented product architectures across a conglomerate's business units, identifying areas with significant technical debt and working with teams to develop resolution plans.• Presented to a Fortune 100 company's Board of Directors on the potential impact of generative AI on the company's products and businesses, including opportunities and risks.

• Conceived of and founded a successful SaaS email cybersecurity business based on a newly conceived innovative approach to email authentication. Closed marquee customers and reached $1MM+ ARR in the first year of operations with on-going year-over-year growth of more than 100%. Raised over $85MM in VC funding.• Developed and productized multiple patented technologies that transformed email authentication and drove the wider industry. Designed and implemented the core of Valimail’s application and production infrastructure.• Provided strategic direction for the company – analyzed markets and the wider ecosystem, defined product direction and contributed to GTM strategy, worked with industry partners, and helped formulate internal and external messaging and processes.• Recruited the product and engineering teams. Set technical and process standards for the teams, to ensure high levels of product quality, service reliability, and development velocity. Ensured the service received SOC2 and FedRAMP LI-SaaS certifications.• Designed and implemented additional service features - including a global-scale DNS record scanner, high reliability/throughput data pipelines for email message scanning, support for new email RFC standards, and a resource authorization framework.

Took a few months break after leaving the startup I had founded six years earlier.Spent more time with my family. Became a den leader for my son's Webelos den. Worked with my children on their academics and extracurriculars. Took time to travel with my wife and kids.

• Educated the messaging, email, and ISP community on security and abuse issues by organizing dozens of sessions over 10+ conferences.• Influenced the evolution of internet standards by collaborating with industry experts and co-authoring proposals and presentations.• Secured participation from group members, screened and edited proposals, and collaborated with presenters to prepare for conferences.

• Revitalized the product by assuming the CTO role of an early-stage real-estate startup and addressing product and technical defects, allowing us to present to potential investors and partners. • Overhauled the existing ETL pipeline, achieving a throughput increase of over 100x and enabling the product to deliver its primary value propositions.• Collaborated with the founders and provided advice on securing partnerships and soliciting investments.

• Executed on projects with multiple clients in a "CTO for hire" role, hired by the CEO, and focused on product engineering issues, including system architecture, design and development practices, and team management and composition.• Revitalized a struggling project to build an eCommerce platform for a luxury consignment company. Resolved major project management and technical issues, allowing the team to deliver a functional application in a few months. The resulting platform served as the basis of the business through its eventual IPO.• Advised a behind-the-scenes video startup on strategic and technical issues. Determined strategy and integrated with third party service providers to support video delivery on web, mobile, and TV platforms. Took over all site operations functions, including monitoring, backup, and troubleshooting. • Executed on multiple projects within a large (~$100MM+) web chat company to improve several aspects of their operations including video encoding, video delivery, systems monitoring, reporting, and advertising. Made a variety of specific recommendations for improvements, most of which were implemented. Directly advised the CEO on technology.

• Rewrote the company’s initial prototype API in less than one month for vastly improved functionality, robustness, request latency, and scalability.• Assumed the CTO role to ensure the company’s sports engagement product met all requirements for an initial set of partnerships with professional sports teams, venues, and vendors. • Collaborated with the VP of product, external contractors, and a small internal team to define and deliver the company’s v2 mobile products based on the API.• Contributed to defining and executing a data ingestion strategy that collected and processed information on 10,000+ sports teams and venues and 1,000,000+ games and results worldwide.• Left the company because of a major change in the company’s funding situation

• Provided architect-level guidance to the team, with special emphasis in the areas of video processing and delivery, performance tuning, and systems. Designed and built the video transcoding and delivery pipeline.• Managed feature delivery across a number of different platforms (web, iPhone, etc.), using an agile process in tight partnership with Product Management. • Authored code for several platform components, including the Ruby on Rails web application, the Android app, and the iPhone app. Served as the company‘s technical expert in a number of areas, including OAuth 2.0 and Facebook timeline integration.• Strongly promoted internationalization (i18n) and pushed the process to localize all parts of the application in a variety of European and Asian languages, enabling the company to pursue and sign deals with international companies.• Drove the project to implement the company’s public API, from choice of underlying technologies to project management of the implementation phase.

• Served as a core member of the executive team for a profitable company with revenues in the $5MM-$30MM range during a period of rapid growth (200% over 2 years). Had an active voice in defining overall corporate strategy, setting company policy, and responding to high-level challenges.• Managed the technical infrastructure required to support the operations of a high volume, 3MM+ pageview per day video website serving up multiple Gbps of video 24/7, at an average per-use rate of more than 3Mbps.• Grew the department from 2 people to 15 engineers by recruiting a talented team of software developers, system administrators, network engineers, and UI specialists.• Solved various difficult technical problems related to the operation of this website in a number of areas – including network operations, system performance, video encoding, site display and behavior.• Owned the Engineering department budget which included expenditures for hardware and software, department personnel expenses, and the collocation and ISP connectivity costs. Contained system-related CapEx and expenses to less than 10% of revenues through the efficient use and re-use of hardware, innovative cost-cutting system design, and aggressive negotiation with ISP providers.• Managed several software development and system enhancement projects to add features to the system, address scalability concerns, and improve the overall user experience.

• Early participant in a stealth-mode technology startup.• Primary responsibility for the company's technology strategy, including choice of product architecture and budget for the technology group.• Major contributor to the business plan and VC presentation. Authored the company's financial model.• Lead software engineer on the development team.

• Served as a hands-on development manager, performing both management and individual contributor roles.• Increased the size of the reporting and systems integration development team from two to six developers.• Reduced overall system defect count from 600 to 310 in a six month period – a decline of almost 50%.• Dramatically improved the performance of the primary data integration path by redesigning and reimplementing the core matching engine. Performance was increased by an average of 30 times, resulting in an annual savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars.• Streamlined development processes to enable more rapid feature development as well as more effective response to high-priority, short time frame customer needs.

• Served as an onsite IT and software development consultant for Triton Container, a shipping container leasing company. Worked to design, implement, and maintain software to support Triton’s billing, reporting, and operational needs. • Specialized in core infrastructure and security design. Ensured that the code met appropriate specifications (Java, J2EE, Struts), an effort involving substantial development effort. Contributed to third-party supporting software usage decisions. Responsible for an overhaul of the system’s encryption infrastructure. Was a major contributor to decisions on issues of application build and deployment.• Troubleshot issues in a production 24/7 system. Quickly resolved a number of critical production issues to ensure system functionality and uptime.• Recommended training regimens for several developers to bolster the skills of the development team. Advised management in a number of hiring and organizational decisions.

• Committer on an open source mail server that provides POP3, SMTP, IMAP4, and NNTP services. Contributions were wide ranging, including bug fixes, new features, and extensive internal and external documentation. Was an active participant on the mailing list.• Implemented several new product features, including an entirely new internal object pooling model. Improved product scalability and robustness so that POP3 and SMTP could scale to hundreds of concurrent connections on a standard server with substantially better throughput.• Resolved a large number of outstanding product bugs. Corrected major flaws in the NNTP implementation and server authentication mechanism.• Wrote the entirety of the version 2.1 user documentation. Extensively extended and rewrote the internal Javadocs.• Served as release manager for the James 2.1 release.

• Determined company monthly expenses, established revenue targets and price structures, normalized company payroll, and took over all financial record keeping for the company. • Reconciled bank and credit card accounts with bank records for fiscal year 2002 and Q1 2003. Handled all tax issues, including issuing 1099s and filing of returns.• Collected substantial outstanding accounts receivable, bringing collection time down from an average of over 45 days to less than 30 days. Put in place policies to more effectively collect revenue from clients.

• Established an internal set of policies for company operation, including processes for handling new customers, carrying out projects for pre-existing clients, and interacting with contractors. • Wrote numerous contracts to formalize relationships with company clients and clarify obligations and revenues.• Dealt extensively with clients to resolve assorted customer issues.

• Designed and implemented the technical infrastructure that allowed the company to carry out its primary goal of providing digital marketing services to its customers. • Contributed to corporate strategic decisions in all areas, including designing customer profiles computing revenue and expense targets, determining tactics for managing customers, and laying out overall budgets. • Maintained a database of customer information along with the supporting software to provide bulk-mailing capabilities for clients.• Created a variety of custom web forms and utilities to provide a variety of data collection tools to clients.

• Managed a group of software developers addressing defects in post-GA versions of an enterprise software product. • Responsibilities included personnel management, project scheduling, making technical decisions, and interfacing with customers. Contributed in both a technical and managerial role. Worked closely with other departments, including customer support and the sales and professional services groups. • Developed a process for managing simultaneous repair of multiple defects and delivering individual hot fixes to clients.• Laid out agendas for resolving customer issues, often involving creative and innovative solutions to customer problems. Worked with my team to carry out these sometimes complex and often aggressive schedules for resolution of client issues.• Extensive communication with customers, often in high-stress, high-pressure conditions. Clients included large, multi-million companies in the financial, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and consulting sectors.

• Led a group of software developers delivering custom modified versions of an enterprise security software suite. Modifications were designed and implemented in such a way as to be included in future general releases.• Projects were characterized by tight deadlines. Provided technical leadership, project management, and personnel management. • Role involved substantial interaction with clients, including frequent onsite visits for meetings to discuss product requirements and project progress. Clients were typically large corporations, distributed over a variety of market sectors.

• Contributed in a technical role to the development of an enterprise security software product. Worked both individually and in groups designing and implementing new product features. • Repaired customer reported defects. Work involved software development in both Java and C, and integration work with a number of a web server and database technologies.